The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I. PROLEGOMENA 1. From Patristics to Early Christian Studies ELIZABETH A. CLARK 2. Literature, Patristics, Early Christian Writing MARK VESSEY 3. Which Early Christianity? KAREN L. KING PART II. EVIDENCE: MATERIAL AND TEXTUAL 4. Material Evidence (i): Archaeology MARK HUMPHRIES 5. Material Evidence (2): Visual Culture ROBIN M. JENSEN 6. Epigraphy WILLIAM TABBERNEE 7. Palaeography and Codicology RALPH W. MATHISEN PART III. IDENTITIES 8. Jews and Christians ANDREW S. JACOBS 9. Pagans and Christians MICHELE R. SALZMAN 10. `Gnosticism` ANTTI MARJANEN 11. Manichaeism SAMUEL N. C. LIEU 12. Arius and Arians J. REBECCA LYMAN 13. Pelagius and Pelagians MATHIJS LAMBERIGTS PART IV. REGIONS 14. The West (i): Italy, Gaul, and Spain MARK HUMPHRIES 15. The West (2): North Africa ERIC REBILLARD 16. The East (i): Greece and Asia Minor RAYMOND VAN DAM 17. The East (2): Egypt and Palestine DAVID BRAKKE 18. The East (3): Syria and Mesopotamia LUCAS VAN ROMPAY PART V. STRUCTURES AND AUTHORITIES 19. Clergy and Laity KAREN Jo TORJESEN 20. The Biblical Canon MICHAEL W. HOLMES 21. Creeds, Councils, and Canons EVERETT FERGUSON 22. Church and Empire HAROLD A. DRAKE 23. Women and Gender Ross SHEPARD KRAEMER 24. Monasticism J. WILLIAM HARMLESS, SJ PART VI. EXPRESSIONS OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE 25. Early Christian Apocryphal Literature STEPHEN J. SHOEMAKER 26. Apologetics MARK EDWARDS 27. Homiletics WENDY MAYER 28. Early Christian Historians and Historiography WILLIAM ADLER 29. Martyr Passions and Hagiography SUSAN ASHBROOK HARVEY 30. Poetry and Hymnography (i): Christian Latin Poetry MICHAEL J. ROBERTS 31. Poetry and Hymnography (2): The Greek World JOHN A. McGucKiN 32. Poetry and Hymnography (3): Syriac SEBASTIAN P. BROCK 33. Christian Philosophy HUBERTUS R. DROBNER PART VII. RITUAL, PIETY, AND PRACTICE 34. Christian Initiation MAXWELL E. JOHNSON 35. Eucharistic Liturgy DANIEL SHEERIN 36. Prayer COLUMBA STEWART, OSB 37. Asceticism REBECCA KRAWIEC 38. Penance ALLAN D. FITZGERALD, OSA 39. Martyrdom and the Cult of the Saints RICHARD M. PRICE 40. Pilgrimage GEORGIA FRANK PART VIII. THEOLOGICAL THEMES 41. Interpretation of Scripture FRANCES M. YOUNG 42. Doctrine of God LEWIS AYRES AND ANDREW RADDE-GALLWITZ 43. Christ and Christologies BRIAN E. DALEY, SJ 44. Doctrine of Creation PAUL M. BLOWERS 45. Early Christian Ethics FRANCINE CARDMAN 46. Instrumenta Studiorum: Tools of the Trade JOSEPH F. KELLY AND JEANNE-NICOLE SAINT-LAURENT