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The Oxford handbook of early Christian studies /

Other Authors: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook., Hunter, David G.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series: Oxford handbooks.
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Online Access: Book jacket
Table of Contents:
  • Prolegomena. From patristics to early Christian studies / Elizabeth A. Clark
  • Literature, patristics, early Christian writing / Mark Vessey
  • Which early Christianity? / Karen L. King
  • Evidence : material and textual. Material evidence (1) : archaeology / Mark Humphries
  • Material evidence (2) : visual culture / Robin M. Jensen
  • Epigraphy / William Tabbernee
  • Paleography and codicology / Ralph W. Mathisen
  • Identities. Jews and Christians / Andrew S. Jacobs
  • Pagans and Christians / Michele R. Salzman
  • 'Gnosticism' / Antti Marjanen
  • Manichaeism / Samuel N.C. Lieu
  • Arius and Arians / J. Rebecca Lyman
  • Pelagius and Pelagians / Mathijs Lamberigts
  • Regions
  • The West (1) : Italy, Gaul, and Spain / Mark Humphries
  • The West (2) : North Africa / Éric Rebillard
  • The East (1) : Greece and Asia Minor / Raymond Van Dam
  • The East (2) : Egypt and Palestine / David Brakke
  • The East (3) : Syria and Mesopotamia / Lucas Van Rompay
  • Structures and authorities. Clergy and laity / Karen Jo Torjesen
  • The biblical canon / Michael W. Holmes
  • Creeds, councils, and canons / Everett Ferguson
  • Church and empire / Harold A. Drake
  • Women and gender / Ross Shepard Kraemer
  • Monasticism / J. William Harmless
  • Expressions of Christian culture. Early Christian apocryphal literature / Stephen J. Shoemaker
  • Apologetics / Mark Edwards
  • Homiletics / Wendy Mayer
  • Early Christian historians and historiography / William Adler
  • Martyr passions and hagiography / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • Poetry and hymnography (1) : Christian Latin poetry / Michael J. Roberts
  • Poetry and hymnography (2) : the Greek world / John A. McGuckin
  • Poetry and hymnography (3) : Syriac / Sebastian P. Brock
  • Christian philosophy / Hubertus R. Drobner
  • Ritual, piety, and practice. Christian initiation / Maxwell E. Johnson
  • Eucharistic liturgy / Daniel Sheerin
  • Prayer / Columba Stewart
  • Asceticism / Rebecca Krawiec
  • Penance / Allan D. Fitzgerald
  • Martyrdom and the cult of the saints / Richard M. Price
  • Pilgrimage / Georgia Frank
  • Theological themes. Interpretation of Scripture / Frances M. Young
  • Doctrine of God / Lewis Ayres, Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
  • Christ and christologies / Brian E. Daley
  • Doctrine of creation / Paul M. Blowers
  • Early Christian ethics / Francine Cardman
  • Instrumenta studiorum : tools of the trade / Joseph F. Kelly, Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent.