The early church in its context : essays in honor of Everett Ferguson /
The early church in its context : essays in honor of Everett Ferguson /
edited by Abraham J. Malherbe, Frederick W. Norris, James W. Thompson.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 362 pages) : illustrations.
- Supplements to Novum Testamentum, v. 90 0167-9732 ; .
- Novum Testamentum, Supplements 90. Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264557. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preliminary Material / What Gnostics Knew / Attitudes Toward Foreigners in 2 Maccabees, Eupolemus, Esther, Aristeas, and Luke-Acts / En-Spirited Waters: Baptism in the Confessions of Augustine / Cyprian's Eschatology: Explaining Divine Purpose / The Reading of the Personal Letter as the Background for the Reading of the Scriptures in the Early Church / The Papias Fragments on Mark and Matthew and their Relationship to Luke's Prologue: An Essay on the Pre-History of the Synoptic Problem / Further Reflections on the Fourfold Gospel Canon / A Late-Antique Tunic Fragment in St. Louis / Eusebius and the Little Labyrinth / Lions in Early Christian Literature / Cicero's Sketch and Lactantius's Plan / Incense Offerings in the Syriac Transitus Mariae: Ritual and Knowledge in Ancient Christianity / Pseudo-Orpheus: Tracking a Tradition / The Athanasian Understanding of Scripture / Conversion to Paul's Gospel / The Chreia in the Desert: Rhetoric and the Bible in the Apophthegmata Patrum / Encyclopedia Revisited / Fourth- and Fifth-Century Homilists on the Ascension of Christ / A Cult from Philadelphia: Oikos Religion or Cultic Association? / The Appropriate, the Necessary, and the Impossible: Faith and Reason in Hebrews / The Public Priestesses of Pompeii / A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Everett Ferguson / Index of Canonical and Deuterocanonical Works / Index of Ancient References / Index of Authors / Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson -- Harold W. Attridge -- David L. Balch -- Pamela Bright -- J. Patout Bums -- Claude E. Cox -- Denis Farkasfalvy -- William R. Farmer -- Paul Corby Finney -- John T. Fitzgerald -- Robert M. Grant -- Rowan A. Greer -- Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Carl R. Holladay -- Charles Kannengiesser -- Abraham J. Malherbe -- Kathleen McVey -- Frederick W. Norris -- Hendrik F. Stander -- Stanley K. Stowers -- James W. Thompson -- Roy Bowen Ward -- Craig Churchill -- Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson -- Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson -- Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004267367
10.1163/9789004267367 DOI
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history--Primitive and early church.
BR165 / .E18 1998
270.1
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preliminary Material / What Gnostics Knew / Attitudes Toward Foreigners in 2 Maccabees, Eupolemus, Esther, Aristeas, and Luke-Acts / En-Spirited Waters: Baptism in the Confessions of Augustine / Cyprian's Eschatology: Explaining Divine Purpose / The Reading of the Personal Letter as the Background for the Reading of the Scriptures in the Early Church / The Papias Fragments on Mark and Matthew and their Relationship to Luke's Prologue: An Essay on the Pre-History of the Synoptic Problem / Further Reflections on the Fourfold Gospel Canon / A Late-Antique Tunic Fragment in St. Louis / Eusebius and the Little Labyrinth / Lions in Early Christian Literature / Cicero's Sketch and Lactantius's Plan / Incense Offerings in the Syriac Transitus Mariae: Ritual and Knowledge in Ancient Christianity / Pseudo-Orpheus: Tracking a Tradition / The Athanasian Understanding of Scripture / Conversion to Paul's Gospel / The Chreia in the Desert: Rhetoric and the Bible in the Apophthegmata Patrum / Encyclopedia Revisited / Fourth- and Fifth-Century Homilists on the Ascension of Christ / A Cult from Philadelphia: Oikos Religion or Cultic Association? / The Appropriate, the Necessary, and the Impossible: Faith and Reason in Hebrews / The Public Priestesses of Pompeii / A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Everett Ferguson / Index of Canonical and Deuterocanonical Works / Index of Ancient References / Index of Authors / Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson -- Harold W. Attridge -- David L. Balch -- Pamela Bright -- J. Patout Bums -- Claude E. Cox -- Denis Farkasfalvy -- William R. Farmer -- Paul Corby Finney -- John T. Fitzgerald -- Robert M. Grant -- Rowan A. Greer -- Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Carl R. Holladay -- Charles Kannengiesser -- Abraham J. Malherbe -- Kathleen McVey -- Frederick W. Norris -- Hendrik F. Stander -- Stanley K. Stowers -- James W. Thompson -- Roy Bowen Ward -- Craig Churchill -- Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson -- Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson -- Abraham J. Malherbe , Frederick W. Norris and James W. Thompson.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004267367
10.1163/9789004267367 DOI
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history--Primitive and early church.
BR165 / .E18 1998
270.1