TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Everett
AU  - Malherbe,Abraham J.
AU  - Norris,Frederick W.
AU  - Thompson,James
TI  - The early church in its context: essays in honor of Everett Ferguson 
T2  - Supplements to Novum Testamentum,
SN  - 9789004267367
AV  - BR165 .E18 1998
U1  - 270.1 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Primitive and early church
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004267367
ER  -