Author : Frances Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521460835
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Author : Margaret M. Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
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ISBN : 9780521812399
Author : James McKinnon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 1989-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521376242
A collection of 400 passages on music from early Christian literature.
Author : Markus Vinzent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1108480101
Brings a new approach to the interpretation of the sources used to study the Early Christian era - reading history backwards. This book will interest teachers and students of New Testament studies from around the world of any denomination, and readers of early Christianity and Patristics.
Author : Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300069181
This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes. Harry Y. Gamble interweaves practical and technological dimensions of the production and use of early Christian books with the social and institutional history of the period. Drawing on evidence from papyrology, codicology, textual criticism, and early church history, as well as on knowledge about the bibliographical practices that characterized Jewish and Greco-Roman culture, he offers a new perspective on the role of books in the first five centuries of the early church.
Author : T. M. Charles-Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521363950
A fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish from the fifth to the ninth centuries.
Author : Lynn Cohick
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441207996
Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general. Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles nor did their gender always determine their level of participation. The book corrects our understanding of early Christian women by offering an authentic and descriptive historical picture of their lives. Includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.
Author : Yifat Monnickendam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 110857033X
Ephrem, one of the earliest Syriac Christian writers, lived on the eastern outskirts of the Roman Empire during the fourth century. Although he wrote polemical works against Jews and pagans, and identified with post-Nicene Christianity, his writings are also replete with parallels with Jewish traditions and he is the leading figure in an ongoing debate about the Jewish character of Syriac Christianity. This book focuses on early ideas about betrothal, marriage, and sexual relations, including their theological and legal implications, and positions Ephrem at a precise intersection between his Semitic origin and his Christian commitment. Alongside his adoption of customs and legal stances drawn from his Greco-Roman and Christian surroundings, Ephrem sometimes reveals unique legal concepts which are closer to early Palestinian, sectarian positions than to the Roman or Jewish worlds. The book therefore explains naturalistic legal thought in Christian literature and sheds light on the rise of Syriac Christianity.
Author : Augustine Casiday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107423633
This volume in the Cambridge History of Christianity presents the 'Golden Age' of patristic Christianity. After episodes of persecution by the Roman government, Christianity emerged as a licit religion enjoying imperial patronage and eventually became the favoured religion of the empire. The articles in this volume discuss the rapid transformation of Christianity during late antiquity, giving specific consideration to artistic, social, literary, philosophical, political, inter-religious and cultural aspects. The volume moves away from simple dichotomies and reductive schematizations (e.g., 'heresy v. orthodoxy') toward an inclusive description of the diverse practices and theories that made up Christianity at this time. Whilst proportional attention is given to the emergence of the Great Church within the Roman Empire, other topics are treated as well - such as the development of Christian communities outside the empire.
Author : Siegmar Doepp
Publisher : Herder & Herder Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824528003
The long-awaited successor to Berthold Altaner's Patrologie handbook, the Dictionary of Early Christian Literature presents the life and work of Chrisitan authors up to the eighth century and an assessment of their lasting influence on the Christian tradition. The Dictionary offers complete and precise information as well as an updated bibliography in an easy-to-use alphabetical arrangement. Articles on authors provide a brief description of their lives, a presentation of their works, and an assessment of their invluence on the Christian tradition. Other articles deal with types of works and their particular characteristics. Despite the wealth of articles, movements and developments within the centuries can be easily grasped, providing valuable insight into the formation of the Christian tradition as we understand it today.
