The early church in its context : essays in honor of Everett Ferguson /

The early church in its context : essays in honor of Everett Ferguson /

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 tapest...

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Other Authors: Ferguson, Everett, 1933-, Malherbe, Abraham J., Norris, Frederick W., 1941-, Thompson, James, 1942-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998.

Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 90.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264557.

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Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Primitive and early church.

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Call Number: BR165 .E18 1998

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.