The Oxford handbook of early Christian studies /  [print] 
edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  (c)2008. 
 - xxvii, 1020 pages ;  26 cm. 
 - Oxford handbooks series .
 - Oxford handbooks. .
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<br/><br/> Introduction  Prolegomena  From patristics to early Christian studies  Literature, patristics, early Christian writing  Which early Christianity? / Karen L. King  Evidence : material and textual  Material evidence (1) : archaeology  Material evidence (2) : visual culture  Epigraphy  Paleography and codicology  Identities  Jews and Christians  Pagans and Christians  Manichaeism  Arius and Arians  Pelagius and Pelagians  Regions  The west (1) : Italy, Gaul, and Spain  The West (2) : North Africa / Eric Rebillard  The East (1) : Greece and Asia Minor  The East (2) : Egypt and Palestine  The East (3) : Syria and Mesopotamia  Structures and authorities  Clergy and laity  The biblical canon  Creeds, councils, and canons  Church and empire  Women and gender  Monasticism  Expressions of Christian culture  Early Christian apocryphal literature  Apologetics  Homiletics  Early Christian historians and historiography  Martyr passions and hagiography  Poetry and hymnography (1) : Christian Latin poetry  Poetry and hymnography (2) : the Greek world  Poetry and hymnography (3) : Syriac  Christian philosophy  Ritual, piety, and practice  Christian initiation  Eucharistic liturgy  Prayer  Asceticism  Penance  Martyrdom and the cult of the saints  Pilgrimage  Theological themes  Interpretation of Scripture  Doctrine of God  Christ and christologies  Doctrine of creation  Early Christian ethics  Instrumenta studiorum : tools of the trade  Susan Ashbrook Harvey, David G. Hunter  Elizabeth A. Clark  Mark Vessey  Mark Humphries  Robin M. Jensen  William Tabbernee  Ralph W. Mathisen  Andrew S. Jacobs  Michele R. Salzman -- 'Gnosticism' / Antti Marjanen  Samuel N. C. Lieu  J. Rebecca Lyman  Mathijs Lamberigts  Mark Humphries  Raymond Van Dam  David Brakke  Lucas Van Rompay  Karen Jo Torjesen  Michael W. Holmes  Everett Ferguson  Harold A. Drake  Ross Shepard Kraemer  J. William Harmless  Stephen J. Shoemaker  Mark Edwards  Wendy Mayer  William Adler  Susan Ashbrook Harvey  Michael J. Roberts  John A. McGuckin  Sebastian P. Brock  Hubertus R. Drobner  Maxwell E. Johnson  Daniel Sheerin  Columba Stewart  Rebecca Krawiec  Allan D. Fitzgerald  Richard M. Price  Georgia Frank  Frances M. Young  Lewis Ayres, Andrew Radde-Gallwitz  Brian E. Daley  Paul M. Blowers  Francine Cardman  Joseph F. Kelly, Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199271566 0199271569 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007052811 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA817359  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014519050  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christianity.<br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR121.3.O946 2008