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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2010</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>Prolegomena. From patristics to early Christian studies / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Literature, patristics, early Christian writing / Mark Vessey -- Which early Christianity? / Karen L. King -- Evidence : material and textual. Material evidence (1) : archaeology / Mark Humphries -- Material evidence (2) : visual culture / Robin M. Jensen -- Epigraphy / William Tabbernee -- Paleography and codicology / Ralph W. Mathisen -- Identities. Jews and Christians / Andrew S. Jacobs -- Pagans and Christians / Michele R. Salzman -- 'Gnosticism' / Antti Marjanen -- Manichaeism / Samuel N.C. Lieu -- Arius and Arians / J. Rebecca Lyman -- Pelagius and Pelagians / Mathijs Lamberigts -- Regions -- The West (1) : Italy, Gaul, and Spain / Mark Humphries -- The West (2) : North Africa / Éric Rebillard -- The East (1) : Greece and Asia Minor / Raymond Van Dam -- The East (2) : Egypt and Palestine / David Brakke -- The East (3) : Syria and Mesopotamia / Lucas Van Rompay -- Structures and authorities. Clergy and laity / Karen Jo Torjesen -- The biblical canon / Michael W. Holmes -- Creeds, councils, and canons / Everett Ferguson -- Church and empire / Harold A. Drake -- Women and gender / Ross Shepard Kraemer -- Monasticism / J. William Harmless -- Expressions of Christian culture. Early Christian apocryphal literature / Stephen J. Shoemaker -- Apologetics / Mark Edwards -- Homiletics / Wendy Mayer -- Early Christian historians and historiography / William Adler -- Martyr passions and hagiography / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Poetry and hymnography (1) : Christian Latin poetry / Michael J. Roberts -- Poetry and hymnography (2) : the Greek world / John A. McGuckin -- Poetry and hymnography (3) : Syriac / Sebastian P. Brock -- Christian philosophy / Hubertus R. Drobner -- Ritual, piety, and practice. Christian initiation / Maxwell E. Johnson -- Eucharistic liturgy / Daniel Sheerin -- Prayer / Columba Stewart -- Asceticism / Rebecca Krawiec -- Penance / Allan D. Fitzgerald -- Martyrdom and the cult of the saints / Richard M. Price -- Pilgrimage / Georgia Frank -- Theological themes. Interpretation of Scripture / Frances M. Young -- Doctrine of God / Lewis Ayres, Andrew Radde-Gallwitz -- Christ and christologies / Brian E. Daley -- Doctrine of creation / Paul M. Blowers -- Early Christian ethics / Francine Cardman -- Instrumenta studiorum : tools of the trade / Joseph F. Kelly, Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter.</note>
  <note>Originally published: 2008.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Christianity</topic>
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    <topic>Church history</topic>
    <temporal>Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600</temporal>
    <topic>Historiography</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BR121.3 .O99 2010</classification>
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