N.-Y.: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2014. — 215 p. See How to Use Statistics for New Testament Interpretation The Synoptic Problem and Statistics lays the foundations for a new area of interdisciplinary research that uses statistical techniques to investigate the synoptic problem in New Testament studies, which concerns the relationships between the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke....
Brill, 2010 — xviii, 342 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-18309-4 Recent research has made a strong case for the view that Early Christian communities, sociologically considered, functioned as voluntary religious associations. This is similar to the practice of many other cultic associations in the Greco-Roman world of the first century CE. Building upon this new approach, along with a...
London: University of London, King's College, 2001. — 331 p. This book is a literary study of the curious phenomenon of celibate marriage as depicted in the Greek vitae of saints Julian and Basilissa, Andronikos and Athanasia and Galaktion and Episteme. Three anonymous authors tell us that Julian and Basilissa and Galaktion and Episteme never consummated their union, while...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — xviii + 296 p. How did Christianity make its remarkable voyage from the Roman Mediterranean to the Indian subcontinent? By examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antique Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, central Asia, and Iran, this book contemplates the social relations that made such movement possible. It also...
Carte apocrifă - traducere în limba română, 31 de pagini Apocalipsa lui Avraam descrie intalnirea sa cu Yahweh/Anu. Impreuna cu cererea de a-si parasi familia, vom afla si motivul: Terah, tatăl lui Avraam, era un idolatru care se inchina zeilor condusi de Enki/Azazel. Acţiunile lor (experientele genetice interzise utilizate in crearea de uriasi, initierea acestora in folosirea...
De Gruyter, 2009. - 408 p. How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and practices of becoming ""a new being"" were shaped. It also explores the analogies and parameters by which transformation was being...
67 p. Sankta Antonio (251? - 356), dirita abato, aŭ la granda, por lin distingi de tiu, nun pli fama en Okcidento, dirita el Padovo, naskiĝis en Egiptio kaj iniciatis ermitan monaĥan vivsistemon. En la dezerto li vivis solece (soleculo), poste imitita de multaj viroj kaj virinoj. En la dezerto li preĝis, kontemplis kaj penitencis, fariĝis konsilanto de multaj, defendanto kaj...
Brill Academic Pub, 2007. — 318 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 125). Astutely reading the writings of early Christianity as part of the lively conversation of the Graeco-Roman world, Robert M. Grant helped reshape the study of the New Testament and early Christianity for scholars in the United States and Europe. Reading Religions in the Ancient World honors his work...
3rd edition. — Baker Publishing Group, 2019. — 240 p. This highly readable investigation of the early church explores the revolutionary nature, dynamics, and effects of the earliest Christian communities. It introduces readers to the cultural setting of the house churches of biblical times, examines the apostle Paul's vision of life in the Christian church, and explores how the...
3rd edition. — Baker Publishing Group, 2019. — 240 p. This highly readable investigation of the early church explores the revolutionary nature, dynamics, and effects of the earliest Christian communities. It introduces readers to the cultural setting of the house churches of biblical times, examines the apostle Paul's vision of life in the Christian church, and explores how the...
HarperCollins, 2007. — 194 p. Judas Iscariot has been demonized as the quintessential traitor, the disciple who betrayed his master for the infamous thirty pieces of silver. But the recent sensational discovery and publication of the long lost Gospel of Judas, with its remarkable portrayal of Judas Iscariot as the disciple closest to Jesus, raises serious new questions. Was...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — xiv + 232 p. Acts of the Apostles is normally understood as a historical report of events of the early church and serves as the organizing centerpiece of the New Testament canon. In this book, Drew W. Billings demonstrates that Acts was written in conformity with broader representational trends and standards found on imperial monuments and in...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. - 269 p. - (Jewish and Christian Perspectives 22) This work studies and compares systematically the text of Tertullian, an African Church Father of the third century CE, on idolatry with the rabbinic Mishnah Avodah Zarah, on the same subject, dating roughly from the same period. Similarities and differences between the Jewish and Christian...
The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. - 304 p. Origen of Alexandria (c. 185-245), a catechist, presbyter, and confessor of the ancient Church was a foundational figure in the establishment of early Christian theology. Today he is commonly referred to as "the first Christian theologian" and is widely known as a master of biblical exegesis, rational inquiry, and...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 448 p. The theology of creation interconnected with virtually every aspect of early Christian thought, from Trinitarian doctrine to salvation to ethics. Paul M. Blowers provides an advanced introduction to the multiplex relation between Creator and creation as an object both of theological construction and religious devotion in the early church....
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 784 p. The Bible was the essence of virtually every aspect of the life of the early churches. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation explores a wide array of themes related to the reception, canonization, interpretation, uses, and legacies of the Bible in early Christianity. Each section contains overviews and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. - 214 p. Council texts from the eastern and western Mediterranean allow us to see how close relations were between Christians and Jews in late antiquity. These texts give precise descriptions of the continuing close relations between the ordinary faithful Christia
UCLA Press, 1994. — 253 p. This book is the record of an encounter with some of the most remarkable texts in the canon of western literature, the letters of Paul. If one measure of the greatness of a work of literature isits ability to support many interpretations, then certainly these texts must rank among the very greatest of literature, for they have spawned and continue to...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — 392 p. — (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion). The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid...
Stanford University Press, 1999. — 268 p. Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than that. In the Jewish world of the first century, many sects competed for the name of the true Israel and the true interpreter of the Torah — the Talmud itself...
Collected Essays I. — Mohr Siebeck, 2017. — XVIII, 501. — (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 379). In this work, Jan N. Bremmer aims to bring together the worlds of early Christianity and those of ancient history and classical literature – worlds that still all too rarely interlock. Contextualising the life and literature of the early Christians in their...
Brill Academic Pub, 2010. — 383 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 135). How did the first Christians interpret the death of Christ? The answer lies within the earliest Christian documents, primarily within the Pauline letters. Before the users of a modern language could hope to come near an adequate description of what was expressed in these Greek texts of the first...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. — 389 p. — (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 81). Reflections on the Early Christian History of Religion documents the results of two recent workshops on Martin Hengel's and Maria Schwemer's first volume of first volume of Geschichte des frühen Christentums (Jesus und das Judentum [title of vol. 1], Tübingen 2007) and Larry Hurtado's Lord Jesus...
Brill Academic Pub, 2004. — 248 p. This volume deals with the encounter of Early Christianity with Hellenistic culture, particularly with the question of ancient rhetorical influence on the First Letter of Clement. It contains reprints of two classical studies by A. von Harnack and W. Jaeger, which were seminal for the understanding the letter against a Hellenistic background,...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 320 p. Irenaeus' theology of the Holy Spirit is often highly regarded amongst theologians today, but that regard is not universal, nor has an adequate volume of literature supported it. This study provides a detailed examination of certain principal, often distinctive, aspects of Irenaeus' pneumatology. In contrast to those who have suggested...
Macmillan, 1988. — 253 p. Gathers personal prayers from the early Church fathers up through St. Augustine, and includes prayers from the Apocrypha and the Gnostic Nag Hammadi archives, as well as prayers by early churchwomen
Michael Glazier, 2013. — 296 p. What light does the New Testament shed on the practice of celibacy for the sake of the kingdom? In his newest work, renowned Scripture scholar Raymond F. Collins turns his attention to the question, which, of course, has important implications for the church in our own day. Though the answer is not a simple one, and it does not necessarily...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 320 p. — (Synkrisis). Cavan W. Concannon makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the Corinthians to Paul’s letters. Based on surviving written materials and archaeological research, this book offers a textured portrait of the ancient Corinthians with whom Paul conversed, argued, debated, and partnered,...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 267 p. In this book, Colleen Conway looks at the construction of masculinity in New Testament depictions of Jesus. She argues that the New Testament writers necessarily engaged the predominant gender ideology of the Roman Empire, whether consciously or unconsciously. Although the notion of what constituted ideal masculinity in Greek and Roman...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 200 p. This literate and accessible study examines the profound impact Paulinus had on Christian thought during a crucial period of its development. The letters of Paulinus and his correspondents portray an early Christian 'web' of shared concepts, intellectual discussion, and group development. Catherine Conybeare examines how the very process...
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. — 453 p. How did the visual, the oral, and the written interrelate in antiquity? The essays in this collection address the competing and complementary roles of visual media, forms of memory, oral performance, and literacy and popular culture in the ancient Mediterranean world. Incorporating both customary and innovative perspectives, the essays...
Routledge, 2014. - 240 p. Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Christian literature was shaped by the discourse around and imagery of the human body. This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and...
Routledge, 2014. — 240 p. Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Christian literature was shaped by the discourse around and imagery of the human body. This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and...
3rd Revised and Expanded Edition. — CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 416 p. — ISBN13: 978-1484025666; ISBN10: 1484025660. The purpose of Jesus Never Lived! Volume 1: Jesus Christ: A Pagan Myth Part 1 is to show that the Jesus of Mark’s Gospel is a product of the pagan Roman world. In addition, some of Mark is composed of material taken from the Jewish...
3rd expanded edition. — CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 216 p. — ISBN13: 978-1492946588; ISBN10: 1492946583. In our previous book, Jesus Never Lived! Volume 1 Jesus Christ: A Pagan Myth, of this series on the origins of Christianity we dealt with the pagan roots of Christianity. Part one of Volume 2 deals with how the New Testament viewed the salvation of...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. — 242 p. — ISBN10: 1497329515; ISBN13: 978-1497329515. The purpose of this Volume is to show that Christian ethics were derived from the pagan world – from Roman Stoicism. The argument that the "unique" moral teachings of Jesus can be traced back to an historical personage is false. As the reader will see in what follows, the...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 312 p. A compelling comparison of the gospels and Greco-Roman mythology which shows that the gospels were not perceived as myths, but as historical records. Did the early Christians believe their myths? Like most ancient - and modern - people, early Christians made efforts to present their myths in the most believable ways. In this eye-opening...
Yale University Press, 2014. - 417 p. - (Synkrisis). Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. One collection of such tales was the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, known in antiquity as the Paidika or Childhood Deeds” of Jesus. In it, Jesus not only performs miracles while at...
Gorgias Press, 2009. — 48 p. Juliette Day read a fascinating paper on this subject at the SLS Conference in 1998, and has now turned it into a published Study. It is distinguished by her great care about issues of both topography and dating in relation to Palestine, and in the process she both corrects other scholars and gives a notable overview of a special period. The church...
Routledge, 2018. — xvi + 218 p. Scholars across many fields have come to realize that ritual is an integral element of human life and a vital aspect of all human societies. Yet, this realization has been slow to develop among scholars of early Christianity. Early Christian Ritual Life attempts to counteract the undervaluing of ritual by placing it at the forefront of early...
Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source, 2004 — 296 p. Paul is traditionally seen as one of the founders of Christian sexual asceticism. As early as the second century C.E., church leaders looked to him as a model for their lives of abstinence. But is this a correct reading of Paul? What exactly did Paul teach on the subjects of marriage and celibacy? Will Deming here answers these...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 569 p. — (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 134). "The Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry" presents the first in-depth analysis of the origins of the representation of the apostles (the twelve disciples and Paul) in verse and image in the late antique Greco-Roman world (250-400). Especially in the West, the apostles are omnipresent,...
Brill, 2020 — xvi, 342 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-42567-5. The apostle Peter gradually became one of the most famous figures of the ancient world. His almost undisputed reputation made the disciple an exquisite anchor by which new practices within and outside the Church could be established, including innovations in fields as diverse as architecture, art, cult, epigraphy, liturgy,...
Eerdmans, 2020. — 576 p. Originally an ascribed identity that cast non-Jewish Christ-believers as an ethnic other, "gentile" soon evolved into a much more complex aspect of early Christian identity. Gentile Christian Identity from Cornelius to Constantine is a full historical account of this trajectory, showing how, in the context of "the parting of the ways," the early church...
Routledge, 1998. — 404 p. F. Gerald Downing explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the gods and of the ethos of civic society.F. Gerald Downing examines the New Testament writings of Paul, explaining how he would have been seen,...
Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2000. — 270 p. — (The Library of New Testament Studies). The first Christian century must be approached with careful attention to its cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. It should not simply be assumed that this past 'is a different place, they do things differently there'. Downing treats the ways in which early Christians tried to 'make things make...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 411 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 151). Articulate first century Mediterranean society, Jewish and Christian included, expressly favoured harmonious order in society, in individuals, in communication, and in thought. Its common basis was the patriarchal family, the rule of law, rational self-control, and rational thought. Yet there...
Baylor University Press, 2016. - 351 p. Christianity has often understood the death of Jesus on the cross as the sole means for forgiveness of sin. Despite this tradition, David Downs traces the early and sustained presence of yet another means by which Christians imagined atonement for sin: merciful care for the poor. In Alms: Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early...
Jena: Verlegt bei Eugen Diederichs, 1910. – 262 s. Vorwort Der Messiasglaube unter dem Eintlussedes Persenums Die hellenistische Idee des Mittlers (Philo) Jesus als Kaltgott des jüdischen Sektenglaubens Das Leiden des Messias Die Geburt des Messias; die Taufe Das Selbstopfer des Messias; das Abendmahl Die Symbolik des Messias: das Lamm und die Kreuz Der Christliche Jesus Der...
Translated from the third edition (revised and enlarged) by C. Delisle Burns, M.A. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1911 – 304 p. T. Fisher Unwin London: Adelphi Terrace. Leipzig: Inselstrasse. The Christ Myth, first published in 1909, was a book by Arthur Drews on the Christ myth theory. Drews (1865–1935), along with Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) and Albert Kalthoff...
Routledge, 2004. - 167 p. - (The Early Church Fathers) I used Dunn's book to help prepare for my Master's thesis, which is a translation of Tertullian's De anima ("On the Soul"). Dunn's introductory material gives a pretty good introduction to modern thinking on Tertullian. He basically follows T.D. Barnes' somewhat controversial views. There's nothing wrong with that -- Dunn...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 264 p. — (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) The first Christians operated with a hierarchical model of sexual difference common to the ancient Mediterranean, with women considered to be lesser versions of men. Yet sexual difference was not completely stable as a conceptual category across the spectrum of formative Christian...
Copyright 2007 by Plough Publishing House. Pages -293. PDF. What did Christianity look like before it became an institution? In these firsthand accounts of the early church, the spirit of Pentecost burns with prophetic force through the fog that envelops the modern church. A clear and vibrant faith lives on in these writings, providing a guide for Christians today. Its stark...
HarperOne, 2013. — 253 p. — ISBN10: 0062206443, 13 978-0062206442. In Did Jesus Exist? historian and Bible expert Bart Ehrman confronts the question, "Did Jesus exist at all?" Ehrman vigorously defends the historical Jesus, identifies the most historically reliable sources for best understanding Jesus' mission and message, and offers a compelling portrait of the person at the...
New York: HarperCollins, 2011. — 357 p. It is often said, even by critical scholars who should know better, that writing in the name of another was widely accepted in antiquity. But New York Times bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman dares to call it what it was: literary forgery, a practice that was as scandalous then as it is today. In Forged, Ehrman's fresh and original...
Oxford University Press, 1999. - 274 p. In this highly accessible discussion, Bart Ehrman examines the most recent textual and archaeological sources for the life of Jesus, along with the history of first-century Palestine, drawing a fascinating portrait of the man and his teachings. Ehrman shows us what historians have long known about the Gospels and the man who stands behind...
HarperOne, 2005. — 242 p. For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 294 p. The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 437 p. Featuring vibrant full color throughout, the fifth edition of Bart D. Ehrman's highly successful introduction approaches the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Distinctive to this study is its unique focus on the historical,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8122-4358-1. The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly modesty and due submission, hobbling virginity's ancient capacity to...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 229 p. This accessible selection of the most important and significant of the remarkable and often bizarre apocryphal stories surrounding the life of Jesus and the Early Church has established a reputation as an invaluable introduction to the genre of Christian apocryphal literature. J. K. Elliott clearly explains the scholarly importance of the...
Clarendon Press, 1994. — 464 p. Many of the institutions fundamental to the role of men and women in today's society have their origins in late antiquity. This revisionist study offers a comprehensive look at how Christian women of this time initiated alternative, ascetic ways of living, both with and without men. The author studies how these practices were institutionalized,...
Delphi Classics, 2019. — 5029 p. — (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 94). A scholar of the Biblical canon, Eusebius of Caesarea became counsellor of Constantine the Great and is regarded as an extremely learned Christian of the fourth century. Today his fame chiefly rests as a historian, whose pioneer work ‘Ecclesiastical History’ provides a chronological account of the development...
London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1842. – 496 p. An ecclesiastical history to the twentieth year of the reign of Constantine, being the 324th of the Christian aera by Eusebius, surnamed Pamphilus, bishop of Caesarea. The Table of Contents Chronological Table The History. Book I The History. Book II The History. Book III The History. Book IV The History. Book V...
Ed. and trans. L. Kirsopp, J. E. L. Oulton, H. J. Lawlor. 2 vol. London; Cambridge, Mass.; New York: W. Heinemann - G. P. Putnam's Sons - Harvard University Press, 1926-1942. Vol. I. The Church History (Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἱστορία; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica or Historia Ecclesiae) of Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea was a 4th-century pioneer work giving a chronological...
Ed. and trans. L. Kirsopp, J. E. L. Oulton, H. J. Lawlor. 2 vol. London; Cambridge, Mass.; New York: W. Heinemann - G. P. Putnam's Sons - Harvard University Press, 1926-1942. Vol. II. The Church History (Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἱστορία; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica or Historia Ecclesiae) of Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea was a 4th-century pioneer work giving a chronological...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. — 761 p. This volume contains 28 essays in honor of Abraham J. Malherbe, whose work has been especially influential in exploring modes of cultural interaction between early Jews and Christians and their Graeco-Roman neighbours. Following an introductory essay on the problems inherent to such comparative studies in the history of New Testament...
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878. — 360 p. Symeon Ignatius Polycarp Clement of Rome Papias Justin Martyr Irenaeus Hegesippus Hippolytus Clement of Alexandria Tertullian Origen Cyprian Athanasius Basil the Great Ambrose Chrysostom Chrysostom – continued Augustine Augustine – continued
Evanghelia după Toma, Editura Polirom 2003, 72 pagini Acest material conține textele din cartea apărută la editura Polirom (2003), şi cea de la Editura Orfeu 2000 (1998). Ediţia de la Polirom conţine traducerea după textul în coptă (cea mai completă), şi traducerea după versiunea grecească. Cartea de la Editura Orfeu 2000 conţine traducerea lui Vasile Andru după versiuni în...
Routledge, 2006. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0‑415‑97827‑0 Drawing from an equally wide range of sources-sermons, polemical texts, theological treatises, hagiographical and devotional works, and histories-the volume demonstrates the emergence of a profoundly negative image of the Jews that established many of the stereotypes of classic Christian anti-Semitism. The volume, in particular,...
Yale: Yale University Press, 1995. — 352 p. This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian...
Purdue University Press, 2011. — 405 p. There is a general understanding within religious and academic circles that the incarnate Christ of Christian belief lived and died a faithful Jew. This volume addresses Jesus in the context of Judaism. By emphasizing his Jewishness, the authors challenge today’s Jews to reclaim the Nazarene as a proto-rebel rabbi and invite Christians to...
Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichsche Buchhanlung. 1891. — 972 S. Inhaltsverzeichniss: Die Textüberlieferung der Bücher des Origines gegen Celsus. Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Ausgabe, von Paul Kotschau. Der Paulinismus des Ireniius von Johannes Werner. Die gnostischen Quellen Hippolyts in seiner Hauptschrift gegen die Haeretiker von H. Staehelin. Sieben neue Bruchstücke der...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 1000 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 165). In Christus Militans knüpft Gabriella Gelardini an Interpretationen an, die das Markusevangelium im Kontext des jüdisch-römischen Krieges und des Aufstiegs der Flavier interpretieren. Von Interesse sind darin aber nicht nur „ideologische Macht- oder Herrschaftsdiskurse“ und damit „politische...
De Gruyter, 2012. — 260 p. The present volume's focus lies on the formation of a multifaceted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres emerge, e.g., the Lives of Saints (Athanasius on Antony), sermons (the Cappadocians), hymns (Prudentius). Authors like Eusebius of...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 218 p. Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the Gospel teachings of brotherhood and...
Routledge, 1996. - 176 p. - (The Early Church Fathers) During the second century the Christian world was shaken by the Gnostics. Irenaeus came from Asia Minor via Rome to become bishop of Lyons, clarify Christian doctrines and fight the Gnostics with a major, five-volume work. He was a living part of his contemporary culture and his approach filled early Christian thought with...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 473 p. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha addresses issues and themes that arise in the study of early Christian apocryphal literature. It discusses key texts including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Peter, letters attributed to Paul, Peter, and Jesus, and acts and apocalypses written about or attributed to...
Brill Academic Pub, 2015. — 235 p. In Community Building in the Shepherd of Hermas, Mark Grundeken investigates key aspects of Christian community life as reflected upon in the early Christian writing the Shepherd of Hermas (2nd century C.E.). Grundeken’s thematic study deals with various topics: the community’s identity, including its (alleged) ‘Jewish Christianness’, (lack...
The Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 207 p. Jesus of Nazareth is arguably the most famous and influential human being who has ever lived on earth. In the Historical Dictionary of Jesus, author Daniel J. Harrington delves into the ancient literary sources about Jesus, modern methods of approaching these sources, the major events in Jesus' life, persons and places associated with him,...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 1084 p. — ISBN: 978-0199271566 Recent decades have seen an explosion of research in the area of ‘early Christian studies’. This Handbook has been prepared, in large measure, as a response to that development. Early Christian studies examines the history, literature, thought, practices, and material culture of the Christian religion in late...
Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA): Fortress Press, 2017. — xxxiv, 236 p. — (Emerging scholars). — ISBN 978-1-5064-2344-9, 978-1-5064-2039-4, 978-1-5064-2040-0. The influence of an arch-heretic In a period when Christianity was only beginning to form a definitive identity, Marcion played a remarkable and generative role. Andrew Hayes takes the measure of Marcion’s impact on...
Baylor University Press, 2019. — 820 p. The debate over the extent of Jewish influence upon early Christianity rages on. At the heart of this argument lies the question of Jesus: how does the fate of a first-century Galilean Jew inspire and determine the nature, shape, and practices of a distinct religious movement? Vital to this first question is another equally challenging...
InterVarsity Press, 2019. — xxviii, 375 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8308-6669-4, 978-0-8308-5257-4. Since the unexpected popularity of Bart Ehrman's bestselling "Misquoting Jesus", textual criticism has become a staple of Christian apologetics. Ehrman's skepticism about recovering the original text of the New Testament does deserve a response. However, this renewed apologetic interest in...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 1155 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 150). Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the “background” against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse intellectual traditions that interacted within specific social contexts. These essays, spanning...
Macquarie University, 1981. — 164 p. This series seeks to keep New Testament and early church researchers, teachers, and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and papyri that illumine the context in which the Christian church developed. Produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at...
Macquarie University, 1982. — 229 p. This series seeks to keep New Testament and early church researchers, teachers, and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and papyri that illumine the context in which the Christian church developed. Produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at...
Macquarie University, 1983. — 187 p. This series seeks to keep New Testament and early church researchers, teachers, and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and papyri that illumine the context in which the Christian church developed. Produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at...
Macquarie University, 1987. — 303 p. This series seeks to keep New Testament and early church researchers, teachers, and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and papyri that illumine the context in which the Christian church developed. Produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at...
Macquarie University, 1989. — 216 p. This series seeks to keep New Testament and early church researchers, teachers, and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and papyri that illumine the context in which the Christian church developed. Produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at...
Leeds Trinity University College, UK, 2012 — 250 p. Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body, to find it deadening of spiritual life. Hunt considers why...
Oxford University Press, 2007 — 336 p. Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity is the first major study in English of the 'heretic' Jovinian and the Jovinianist controversy. David G. Hunter examines early Christian views on marriage and celibacy in the first three centuries and the development of an anti-heretical tradition. He provides a thorough analysis of the...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0802828957. Much attention has been paid to the words of the earliest Christian texts, yet Larry Hurtado argues that an even more telling story is being overlooked — that of the physical texts themselves. Well known for his nimble scholarship, Hurtado combines his comprehensive knowledge of Christian origins with an...
BAR, 1982. — 185 p. — (BAR International Series 148). Preface. Abbreviations and Conventions. Introduction . The Iconography of St. Peter and St. Paul . Peter and Paul in Roman Catacomb Painting. Peter and Paul on Sarcophagi of Rome and Ravenna. Mosaics and Inscriptions in the Roman Basilicas. Peter and Paul in Ivory and Silver. Peter and Paul in Glass and Bronze. The...
Brill, 2020 — x, 282 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-42615-3 In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition Niko Huttunen challenges the interpretation of early Christian texts as anti-imperial documents. He presents examples of the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. With the concept of “recognition” Huttunen describes a situation...
Gorgias Press, 2013. — 404 p. The early Christians were not of one mind when it came to war, violence and military service. There was a bewildering variety of opinion as to how they understood their place in the world. It seems however that generally they did not stand apart from society. On the contrary, they were happy to integrate and conform and they often accepted war and...
Cranford: American Atheist Press, 2002. — 260 p. Nothing is new or original in Christianity. That is the important thesis demonstrated in Christianity Before Christ. The least important features, as well as the most important components, were all well developed in cultures that flourished before the time that Christ is alleged to have walked the parched paths of Roman...
Augsburg Fortress, 2005. - 254 p. Visual Art, Portraits, and Idolatry Early Christian Views of Visual Art: Historical Analyses Art and Idolatry in the Early Third-Century Christian Writings Jewish Background for Christian Rejection of Visual Art The Earliest Examples and Types of Christian Visual Art: Church Regulation Portraits: A Particular Kind of Problematic Image The First...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 769 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 146 ). In a collection of essays spanning some 35 years, Luke Timothy Johnson takes on some of the most contested issues in the study of Christian Origins and the New Testament --- from the historical Jesus and the Jesus of the Gospels, through exegetical studies of Luke-Acts and Paul, to questions...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 474 p. The question of Christianitys relation to the other religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult today than ever before. While Christianitys historical failure to appreciate or actively engage Judaism is notorious, Christianitys even more shoddy record with respect to pagan religions is less understood. Christians have...
Inter-varsity Press. 2003. ISBN: 0-8308-1488-4 - 444 p. The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture does what very few of today's students of the Bible could do for themselves. With the aid of computer technology, the vast array of writings from the church fathers — including much that is available only in the ancient languages — have been combed for their comment on...
Cascade Books; Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2017. - 105 p. - ISBN: 978-1-4982-7873-7; 978-1-4982-7875-1; 978-1-4982-7874-4. Whose Athens, Which Jerusalem? Neither Damned, Nor Saints The Problem of a Pure Christianity Philosophy Three Questions What do Athens and Jerusalem Have in Common? Euthyphro’s Dilemma Tertullian’s Rationalism Justin’s Logos How Much Wisdom Is There in...
Brill, 1992. — 164 p. — (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 17). This work represents the first independent study of the Jewish-Christian Gospel fragments and of the use of the Jewish-Christian Gospel tradition in early Christian and medieval literature. The author identifies and introduces the Jewish-Christian Gospels and their sources, presents a critical study of genuine...
Brill, 1973. —323 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 36). This book is divided into two parts. The first half is a summation of theories regarding early Jewish-Christian sects. The second part consists of the actual passages from the early Christian literature, and each passage is given not only in English, but in the actual language it was written in. The fact remains,...
Brill, 2003. — 276 p. — (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 17). This is the second edition of a book published as long ago as 1962. The at that time relatively young Dr. A.F.J. Klijn was brought up in the school of W.C. van Unnik and G. Quispel, both in Utrecht. In his book about the Acts of Thomas he tried to demonstrate that this work cannot be reckoned among the Gnostic...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 512 p. A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean. As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a deity, a diasporic identity, or a neighborhood, these associations gathered in small...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 512 p. A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean. As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a deity, a diasporic identity, or a neighborhood, these associations gathered in small...
Profile Books, 2017. — 320 p. Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean world became susceptible to the new religion. Robert Knapp looks for answers in a wide-ranging exploration of religion and everyday life from 200 BC to the end of the first century. Survival, honour and...
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. — XIV, 327 p. — (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe 479) Munib Younan: Foreword Bart J. Koet/Edwina Murphy/Esko Ryökäs: Assessing the Role and Function of an Assistant: The Deacon in the First Two Centuries of Christianity Biblical Sources Peter-Ben Smit: Exegetical Notes on Mark 10:42–45: Who Serves Whom? – John N....
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003. — 544 p. In this pathbreaking study of the rise and shape of the earliest churches in Rome, Lampe integrates history, archaeology, theology, and social analysis. He also takes a close look at the inscriptional evidence to complement the reading of the great literary texts: from Paul's Letter to the Romans to the writings of Clement of Rome,...
Brill Academic Pub, 2014. — 256 p. In Irenaeus on the Trinity, Jackson Lashier provides a fresh reading of Irenaeus' understanding of God, in dialogue with his opponents and sources, which reveals a more developed Trinitarian theology than traditionally thought. Key Trinitarian themes that emerge are the Fatherhood of God, the mutual indwelling relations of Father, Son, and...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 256 p. — (Oxford Early Christian Studies). In Debates over the Resurrection of the Dead, Outi Lehtipuu highlights the striking observation that in many early texts the way that belief in resurrection is formulated is used as a sign of inclusion and exclusion, not only in relation to non-Christians but vis-a-vis other Christians. Those who teach...
Oxford University Press, 2004. - 381 p. 'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the...
Macquarie University, 2002. — 150 p. This series seeks to keep New Testament and early church researchers, teachers, and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and papyri that illumine the context in which the Christian church developed. Produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at...
Macquarie University, 1992. — 238 p. This series seeks to keep New Testament and early church researchers, teachers, and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and papyri that illumine the context in which the Christian church developed. Produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at...
Macquarie University, 1994. — 298 p. This series seeks to keep New Testament and early church researchers, teachers, and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and papyri that illumine the context in which the Christian church developed. Produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at...
Macquarie University, 1998. — 206 p. This series seeks to keep New Testament and early church researchers, teachers, and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and papyri that illumine the context in which the Christian church developed. Produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at...
Fortress Press, 1987. — 132 p. Founding the Christian Community Shaping the Community Nurturing the Community The Christian Community in a Pagan Society Index of Passages
Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1986. — 460 p Since 1963 the seriesPatristische Texte und Studienhas been publishing research findings coordinated by the Patristics Commission, which today is a joint venture of all the German Academies. The series is presenting editions, commentaries and monographs on the writings and teachings of the Church Fathers.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 200 p. — (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. Whether or not they...
Routledge, 2018. — 354 p. Reconceiving Religious Conflict deconstructs instances of religious conflict within the formative centuries of Christianity, the first six centuries CE. It explores the theoretical foundations of religious conflict; the dynamics of religious conflict within the context of persecution and martyrdom; the social and moral intersections that undergird the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 289 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 163 ). In God and Grace in Philo and Paul, Orrey McFarland examines how Philo of Alexandria and the Apostle Paul understood divine grace. While scholars have occasionally observed that Philo and Paul both speak about God’s generosity, such work has often placed the two theologians in either strong...
HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. — 423 p. This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. These remarkable Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless powers" and evil spirits, spells invoking...
Brill, 2018 — x, 324 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-36728-9 In The Gospel of Thomas and Plato, Ivan Miroshnikov contributes to the study of the earliest Christian engagements with philosophy by offering the first systematic discussion of the impact of Platonism on the Gospel of Thomas, one of the most intriguing and cryptic works among the Nag Hammadi writings. Miroshnikov demonstrates...
2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - USA, 338 p. Jesus of Nazareth is one of the most famous men in human history. People have followed him, died for him, prayed to him, and even wondered what kind of car he would drive. But for all the faith that he’s inspired, people still have a lot of questions about who he really was. Those questions began during Jesus’s...
Lanham: Fortress Academic/Lexington Books, 2019. — 299 p. Figures and Diagrams Class Struggle in the New Testament! Jesus, the Temple, and the Crowd: A Way Less Traveled Romans Go Home?: The Military as a Site of Class Struggle in the Roman East and New Testament Peasant Plucking in Mark: Conceptual and Material Issues IVDAEA DEVICTA: The Gospels as Imperial “Captive...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 389 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 163 ). In Public Reading in Early Christianity: Lectors, Manuscripts, and Sound in the Oral Delivery of John 1-4 Dan Nässelqvist investigates the oral delivery of New Testament writings in early Christian communities of the first two centuries C.E. He examines the role of lectors and public reading in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 196 p. — (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) Kissing was one of the most widely practiced early Christian rituals. Kissing Christians presents the first comprehensive study of how ancient controversies concerning this rite became part of larger debates regarding the internal structure of ancient Christian communities and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1997. — 372 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 119 ). The focus of this volume is the "editio princeps" of Papyrus Chester Beatty XVI: The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres, composed in Greek, perhaps as early as the first century C.E. A full commentary accompanies the edited text. An introductory section discusses the numerous references to the...
Essays from the Tarragona Conference, June 2013. — Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. — IX, 608 p. — (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 352). Table of Contents: John Barclay: The Last Years of Paul: What are the Issues? – Reimund Bieringer: The Jerusalem Collection and Paul's Missionary Project: Collection and Mission in Romans 15.14–32 – Michel Quesnel: The...
Cambridge University Press. New York. 1969. — 272 p. Preface page Texts and Abbreviations The Church and Israel The historical problem The sociological problem The theological problem The Church Fathers to A.D. 160 Justin and the true Israel Continuity and discontinuity 'Tertium Genus' Newness, and the Old Testament Political factor in separation Jewish revolts Roman law and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 312 p. This book addresses a particular and little-known form of writing, the prose dialogue, during the Late Antique period, when Christian authors adopted and transformed the dialogue form to suit the new needs of religious debate. Connected to, but departing from, the dialogues of Classical Antiquity, these new forms staged encounters between...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 397 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 166 ) From early on, Christians passed down the account of Jesus’s agony at the prospect of his own death and his prayer that the cup should pass from him (Gethsemane). Yet, this is a troublesome aspect of Christian tradition. Jesus was committed to his death, but as it approached, he prayed for his...
Oxford University Pres, 1991. — 205 p. — (Oxford Early Christian Studies). Origen and the Life of the Stars: A History of an Idea Note on Citations From the Pre-Socratics to Plato and His School Aristotle The Old Stoics The Hellenistic Schoolroom Philo Heavenly Powers as Good or as Morally Neutral Pagan sources Apocalyptic and gnostic sources Clement of Alexandria. Origen and...
Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1992. - 412 p. Shanks Hershel. Foreword. Vermes Geza. Introduction: Parallel History Preview. Feldman Louis H. Palestinian and Diaspora Judaism in the First Century. Sanders E.P. The Life of Jesus. Kee Howard C. After the Crucifixion-Christianity Through Paul Levine Lee I.A. Judaism from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the End of...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 304 p. For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strangely overlooked despite, or perhaps because of, her centrality in Christian devotion....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. — 295 p. The emergence of formative Judaism has traditionally been examined in light of a theological preoccupation with the two competing religious movements, 'Christianity' and 'Judaism' in the first centuries of the Common Era. In this book Ariel Schremer attempts to shift the scholarly consensus away from this paradigm, instead...
London: t and t Clark, 2009. 221 p. Scholarship in early Christianity has long focused on themes of theological doctrine on the one hand, and anthropology on the other. Doctrinal study has generally concentrated on the rise of Trinitarian language and Christological questions, while anthropological studies explore early perceptions of human nature, sin and redemption. This has...
Nashville: T. Nelson,1985. — 179 p. — ISBN10: 0840775008; ISBN13: 978-0840775009 The history of the catacombs is parallel to the history of early Christianity itself. And James Stevenson traces this crucial era with precision, bringing to light facts which are often misinterpreted or shrouded in legend. (The catacombs, for example, were not sanctuaries for the persecuted...
Israel Antiquities Authority, 2006. — 62 p. From 2003-2005 extensive archaeological salvage excavations were conducted inside the Megiddo Prison compound. An area of 3000 sq m was excavated inside the ancient Jewish village of Kefar `Othnay. A large residential building, dating from the third century CD, was exposed during the excavation of the settlement. Finds from this...
Delphi Classics, 2018. — 3951 p. — (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 89). — ISBN: 9781788779234. A second century theologian from Carthage, Tertullian was an important early Christian writer, who produced an extensive corpus of literature. As the initiator of ecclesiastical Latin, he was instrumental in shaping the vocabulary and thought of Western Christianity. Tertullian has been...
Brill, 2017 — x, 379 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-35543-9 Women and knowledge are interconnected in several ways in late ancient and early Christian discourses, not least because wisdom (Sophia) and spiritual knowledge (Gnosis) were frequently personified as female entities. Ancient texts deal with idealized women and use feminine imagery to describe the divine but they also debate...
London, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. – 132 p. Translated with an appendix of ancient evidence on the origin of the Septuagint by H. Thackeray Editors’ preface The Letter of Aristeas
Oxford, 1861. - 345 p. (eng) The works now extant of S. Justin the Martyr, translated, with notes and indices. The Two Apologies of S. Justin the Martyr The Dialogue of S. Justin with Trypho the Jew Index of Texts Index of Profane Authors Library of the Fathers
Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme, 1985. — 289 p. Theissen Gerd. Studies in the Sociology of Early Christianity (in Spanish) Contenido: Prólogo. Evangelios. Pablo. Índice general.
Liverpool University Press, 1996. — 146 p. With this volume, Donatism regains its voice and its hagiography is available in English for the first time. The stories included provide a unique opportunity to glimpse the daily life of the church which for over a century was the faith of the majority of North African Christians. The narratives represent the lives and deaths of...
Routledge, 2002. - 207 p. - (The Early Church Fathers) Origen was the most influential Christian theologian before Augustine, the founder of Biblical study as a serious discipline in the Christian tradition, and a figure with immense influence on the development of Christian spirituality. This volume presents a comprehensive and accessible insight into Origen's life and...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 1529 p. The Oxford History of Christian Worship is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the origins and development of Christian worship to the present day. Backed by an international roster of experts as contributors, this new book will examine the liturgical traditions of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant, and Pentecostal...
Brill Academic Pub, 2010. — 371 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 136). As a far reaching tribute to the distinguished career of Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., a team of outstanding biblical scholars has joined to offer essays on the religious milieu of the ancient Mediterranean region. Challenged by Hellenistic and Greco-Roman cultural and political domination, the religious...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009. — 714 p. — (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 100). — ISBN: 9004169040 The Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae' series was launched in 1987 with the publication of Tertullianus, De Idololatria, a critical text with translation and commentary by J.H. Waszink and J.C.M. van Winden (partly based on a manuscript left behind by P.G. van der Nat). It...
Bilingual edition (English/Deutsch). — Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. — 464 p. — (Novum Testamentum Et Orbis Antiquus). From the beginning, many of the early Christian communities led an ascetic lifestyle, although a good number of New Testament texts do not seem suitable for justifying radical ascetic and encratite practice. The question thus arises how the different forms of...
London; New York: Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, 2015. — 227 p. — ISBN13: 978-0567662675. — Library of New Testament Studies. Volume 536. The Library of New Testament Studies (LNTS) is a premier book series that offers cutting-edge work for a readership of scholars, teachers in the field of New Testament studies, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. All the many and...
Greenwood Press, 2007. — 241 p. — (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Ancient World). The ancient Romans believed that only proper polytheistic worship could maintain the pax Romana, or Roman Peace. In the first century A.D., a splinter sect of Judaism began to crack this wall, bringing upheaval, persecution, and conversion into the lives of Romans, Jews, Christians,...
2nd Edition — Yale University Press, 2003. — 238 p. This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans. Robert Louis Wilken is William R. Kenan Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books, including The...
Amsterdam: Uitgave van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschaappen, 1922. — 103 S. The monograph is dedicated to the Oracle of Hystaspes (Greek: Χρήσεις ῾Υστάσπου) - an eschatological work of Parthian origin, popular in the early Christian environment and preserved in retellings and quotations of the Greek translation by Christian authors of the 2nd-4th centuries. - Justin the...
Second edition revised and edited by T. A. Burkill and Géza Vermes. — Walter de Gruyter, 1974. — xxiv + 225 p. — (Studia Judaica 1). Jewish-Roman Relations The High-Priest’s Insignia of Office The Meeting-Place of the Sanhedrin and Mark’s Nocturnal Session »The High-Priest of That Year« The Circumstances and Grounds of Jesus’ Arrest Pilate in History and in Christian Tradition...
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