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The Cambridge history of early Christian literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Young, Frances M. (Frances Margaret), Ayres, Lewis, Louth, Andrew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Christian literature, Early > History and criticism.
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Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the literary culture of the earliest Christianity / Frances Young
  • The apostolic and sub-apostolic writings: the new testament and the apostolic fathers / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
  • Gnostic literature / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
  • Apocryphal writings and acts of the martyrs / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
  • The apologists / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
  • Irenaeus of Lyon / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
  • Social and historical setting / John Behr
  • Articulating identity / Richard A. Norris, Jr.
  • Christian teaching / Frances Young
  • Conclusion: towards a hermeneutic of second-century texts / Frances Young
  • The Alexandrians / Ronald E. Heine
  • The beginnings of Latin Christian literature / Ronald E. Heine
  • Hippolytus, Ps.-Hippolytus and the early canons / Ronald E. Heine
  • Cyprian and Novatian / Ronald E. Heine
  • The earliest Syriac literature / Sebastian P. Brock
  • Concluding review: the literary culture of the third century / Frances Young
  • Social and historical setting: Christianity as culture critique / Karen Jo Torjesen
  • Articulating identity / Ronald E. Heine
  • Christian teaching / John David Dawson
  • The significance of third-century Christian literature / Frances Young
  • Classical genres in Christian guise; Christian genres in classical guise / Frances Young
  • Arnobius and Lactantius / Oliver Nicholson
  • Eusebius and the birth of church history / Andrew Louth
  • The fourth-century Alexandrians: Athanasius and Didymus / Andrew Louth
  • Palestine: Cyril of Jerusalem and Epiphanius / Andrew Louth
  • The Cappadocians / Andrew Louth
  • Fourth-century Latin writers: Hilary, Victorinus, Ambrosiaster, Ambrose / David G. Hunter
  • Jerome and Rufinus / Mark Vessey
  • Augustine / Henry Chadwick
  • John Chrysostom and the Antiochene school to Theodoret of Cyrrhus / Andrew Louth
  • Cyril of Alexandria / Andrew Louth
  • Hagiography / Andrew Louth
  • Ephrem and the Syriac tradition / Sebastian P. Brock
  • The literature of the monastic movement / Andrew Louth
  • Women and words: texts by and about women / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • Conciliar records and canons / Andrew Louth
  • Social and historical setting / R. A. Markus
  • Articulating identity / Lewis Ayres
  • Christian teaching / Frances Young
  • Retrospect: interpretation and appropriation / Frances Young.