Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 362 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9789004267367
Series Statement:
Supplements to Novum Testamentum v. 90
Content:
Preliminary Material /Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson -- What Gnostics Knew /Harold W. Attridge -- Attitudes Toward Foreigners in 2 Maccabees, Eupolemus, Esther, Aristeas, and Luke-Acts /David L. Balch -- En-Spirited Waters: Baptism in the Confessions of Augustine /Pamela Bright -- Cyprian's Eschatology: Explaining Divine Purpose /J. Patout Bums -- The Reading of the Personal Letter as the Background for the Reading of the Scriptures in the Early Church /Claude E. Cox -- The Papias Fragments on Mark and Matthew and their Relationship to Luke's Prologue: An Essay on the Pre-History of the Synoptic Problem /Denis Farkasfalvy -- Further Reflections on the Fourfold Gospel Canon /William R. Farmer -- A Late-Antique Tunic Fragment in St. Louis /Paul Corby Finney -- Eusebius and the Little Labyrinth /John T. Fitzgerald -- Lions in Early Christian Literature /Robert M. Grant -- Cicero's Sketch and Lactantius's Plan /Rowan A. Greer -- Incense Offerings in the Syriac Transitus Mariae: Ritual and Knowledge in Ancient Christianity /Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Pseudo-Orpheus: Tracking a Tradition /Carl R. Holladay -- The Athanasian Understanding of Scripture /Charles Kannengiesser -- Conversion to Paul's Gospel /Abraham J. Malherbe -- The Chreia in the Desert: Rhetoric and the Bible in the Apophthegmata Patrum /Kathleen McVey -- Encyclopedia Revisited /Frederick W. Norris -- Fourth- and Fifth-Century Homilists on the Ascension of Christ /Hendrik F. Stander -- A Cult from Philadelphia: Oikos Religion or Cultic Association? /Stanley K. Stowers -- The Appropriate, the Necessary, and the Impossible: Faith and Reason in Hebrews /James W. Thompson -- The Public Priestesses of Pompeii /Roy Bowen Ward -- A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Everett Ferguson /Craig Churchill -- Index of Canonical and Deuterocanonical Works /Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson -- Index of Ancient References /Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson -- Index of Authors /Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson.
Content:
This volume honors Professor Everett Ferguson of Abilene Christian University on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Reflecting the interests of the honoree, the twenty-one contributions focus on various aspects of the early church and its environment. Together the articles form a broad tapestry of interrelated topics informed from the disciplines of philosophy, patristic theology, archaeology, rhetoric, art, Greco-Roman religion, and biblical studies
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004108325
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Early Church in Its Context: Essays in Honor of Everett Ferguson Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1998 ISBN 9789004108325
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004267367
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