The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 September 2008
- ISBN 9780199271566
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1048 pages
- Size 252x178x58 mm
- Weight 1521 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 maps, 19 in-text black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
A wide-ranging collection of authoritative accounts covering all major areas of current research in Early Christian studies by a distinguished team of international authors. It is thematically arranged to encompass the inter-disciplinary nature of the field, examining history, literature, thought, practices, and material culture.
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies responds to and celebrates the explosion of research in this inter-disciplinary field over recent decades. As a one-volume reference work, it provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in western and eastern late antiquity. It is thematically arranged to encompass history, literature, thought, practices, and material culture. It contains authoritative and up-to-date surveys of current thinking and research in the various sub-specialties of early Christian studies, written by leading figures in the discipline. The essays orientate readers to a given topic, as well as to the trajectory of research developments over the past 30-50 years within the scholarship itself. Guidance for future research is also given. Each essay points the reader towards relevant forms of extant evidence (texts, documents, or examples of material culture), as well as to the appropriate research tools available for the area.
This volume will be useful to advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as to specialists in any area who wish to consult a brief review of the 'state of the question' in a particular area or sub-specialty of early Christian studies, especially one different from their own.
These essays, as well as many others in the volume, provide the reader with a helpful orientation to the figure or issue under consideration, and all of the essays evidence a fairness and balance in presentation; where an issue is unsettled or controverted, the author signals such to the reader and indicates where she should turn to pursue the question.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One: Prolegomena
From Patristics to Early Christian Studies
Literature, Patristics, Early Christian Writing
Which Early Christianity?
Part Two: Evidence: Material and Textual
Material Evidence (1): Archaeology
Material Evidence (2): Visual Culture
Epigraphy
Paleography and Codicology
Part Three: Identities
Jews and Christians
Pagans and Christians
'Gnosticism'
Manichaeism
Arius and Arians
Pelagius and Pelagians
Part Four: Regions
The West (1): Italy, Gaul, and Spain
The West (2): North Africa
The East (1): Greece and Asia Minor
The East (2): Egypt and Palestine
The East (3): Syria and Mesopotamia
Part Five: Structures and Authorities
Clergy and Laity
The Biblical Canon
Creeds, Councils, and Canons
Church and Empire
Women and Gender
Monastic Life
Part Six: Expressions of Christian Culture
Early Christian Apocryphal Literature
Apologetics
Homiletics
Early Christian 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
Part Seven: Ritual, Piety, and Practice
Christian Initiation
Eucharistic Liturgy
Prayer
Asceticism
Penance
Martyrdom and the Cult of the Saints
Pilgrimage
Part Eight: Theological Themes
Interpretation of Scripture
Doctrine of God
Christ and Christologies
Doctrine of Creation
Early Christian Ethics
Instrumenta Studiorum: Tools of the Trade
Index of Biblical Citations
Index of General Subjects
Index of Persons (Ancient and Modern)
New Media Labs for Physical Geography of the Global Environment
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