The Oxford handbook of early Christian studies
By: edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter
Series: Oxford handbooks series; Oxford handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1020
ISBN-13: 9780199596522
Subjects: Historiography; Christianity; Church history
Other titles: Early Christian studies; Handbook of early Christian studies
Notes: Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prolegomena. From patristics to early Christian studies / Elizabeth A. Clark; title: Literature, patristics, early Christian writing / Mark Vessey; title: Which early Christianity? / Karen L. King; title: Evidence : material and textual. Material evidence (1) : archaeology / Mark Humphries; title: Material evidence (2) : visual culture / Robin M. Jensen; title: Epigraphy / William Tabbernee; title: Paleography and codicology / Ralph W. Mathisen; title: Identities. Jews and Christians / Andrew S. Jacobs; title: Pagans and Christians / Michele R. Salzman; title: 'Gnosticism' / Antti Marjanen; title: Manichaeism / Samuel N.C. Lieu; title: Arius and Arians / J. Rebecca Lyman; title: Pelagius and Pelagians / Mathijs Lamberigts; title: Regions; title: The West (1) : Italy, Gaul, and Spain / Mark Humphries; title: The West (2) : North Africa / Éric Rebillard; title: The East (1) : Greece and Asia Minor / Raymond Van Dam; title: The East (2) : Egypt and Palestine / David Brakke; title: The East (3) : Syria and Mesopotamia / Lucas Van Rompay; title: Structures and authorities. Clergy and laity / Karen Jo Torjesen; title: The biblical canon / Michael W. Holmes; title: Creeds, councils, and canons / Everett Ferguson; title: Church and empire / Harold A. Drake; title: Women and gender / Ross Shepard Kraemer; title: Monasticism / J. William Harmless; title: Expressions of Christian culture. Early Christian apocryphal literature / Stephen J. Shoemaker; title: Apologetics / Mark Edwards; title: Homiletics / Wendy Mayer; title: Early Christian historians and historiography / William Adler; title: Martyr passions and hagiography / Susan Ashbrook Harvey; title: Poetry and hymnography (1) : Christian Latin poetry / Michael J. Roberts; title: Poetry and hymnography (2) : the Greek world / John A. McGuckin; title: Poetry and hymnography (3) : Syriac / Sebastian P. Brock; title: Christian philosophy / Hubertus R. Drobner; title: Ritual, piety, and practice. Christian initiation / Maxwell E. Johnson; title: Eucharistic liturgy / Daniel Sheerin; title: Prayer / Columba Stewart; title: Asceticism / Rebecca Krawiec; title: Penance / Allan D. Fitzgerald; title: Martyrdom and the cult of the saints / Richard M. Price; title: Pilgrimage / Georgia Frank; title: Theological themes. Interpretation of Scripture / Frances M. Young; title: Doctrine of God / Lewis Ayres, Andrew Radde-Gallwitz; title: Christ and christologies / Brian E. Daley; title: Doctrine of creation / Paul M. Blowers; title: Early Christian ethics / Francine Cardman; title: Instrumenta studiorum : tools of the trade / Joseph F. Kelly, Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent.