UID:
almahu_9949702083802882
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 362 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9789004267367
Series Statement:
Supplements to Novum Testamentum, v. 90
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:
Preliminary Material /
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What Gnostics Knew /
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Attitudes Toward Foreigners in 2 Maccabees, Eupolemus, Esther, Aristeas, and Luke-Acts /
,
En-Spirited Waters: Baptism in the Confessions of Augustine /
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Cyprian's Eschatology: Explaining Divine Purpose /
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The Reading of the Personal Letter as the Background for the Reading of the Scriptures in the Early Church /
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The Papias Fragments on Mark and Matthew and their Relationship to Luke's Prologue: An Essay on the Pre-History of the Synoptic Problem /
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Further Reflections on the Fourfold Gospel Canon /
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A Late-Antique Tunic Fragment in St. Louis /
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Eusebius and the Little Labyrinth /
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Lions in Early Christian Literature /
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Cicero's Sketch and Lactantius's Plan /
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Incense Offerings in the Syriac Transitus Mariae: Ritual and Knowledge in Ancient Christianity /
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Pseudo-Orpheus: Tracking a Tradition /
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The Athanasian Understanding of Scripture /
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Conversion to Paul's Gospel /
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The Chreia in the Desert: Rhetoric and the Bible in the Apophthegmata Patrum /
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Encyclopedia Revisited /
,
Fourth- and Fifth-Century Homilists on the Ascension of Christ /
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A Cult from Philadelphia: Oikos Religion or Cultic Association? /
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The Appropriate, the Necessary, and the Impossible: Faith and Reason in Hebrews /
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The Public Priestesses of Pompeii /
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A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Everett Ferguson /
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Index of Canonical and Deuterocanonical Works /
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Index of Ancient References /
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Index of Authors /
Additional Edition:
Print version: The Early Church in Its Context: Essays in Honor of Everett Ferguson Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1998, ISBN 9789004108325
Language:
English
