The Cambridge history of early Christian literature

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Front Cover Front Flap Title Page Copyright Contents List of contributors Editors’ preface List of abbreviations of patristic and other texts List of other abbreviations Chronological table of early Christian literature Map: The Roman Empire in the late fourth century AD Part 1: The Beginnings: The New Testament to Irenaeus A. Literary Guide 1. Introduction: the literary culture of the earliest Christianity 2. The apostolic and sub-apostolic writings: the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers 3. Gnostic literature 4. Apocryphal writings and Acts of the martyrs 5. The Apologists 6. Irenaeus of Lyon B. Context and Interpretation 7. Social and historical setting 8. Articulating identity 9. Christian teaching 10. Conclusion: towards a hermeneutic of second-century texts Part 2: The Third Century A. Literary Guide 11. The Alexandrians 12. The beginnings of Latin Christian literature 13. Hippolytus, Ps.-Hippolytus and the early canons 14. Cyprian and Novatian 15. The earliest Syriac literature 16. Concluding review: the literary culture of the third century B. Context and Interpretation 17. Social and historical setting: Christianity as culture critique 18. Articulating identity 19. Christian teaching 20. The significance of third-century Christian literature Part 3: Foundation of a New Culture: From Diocletian to Cyril A. Literary Guide 21. Classical genres in Christian guise; Christian genres in classical guise 22. Arnobius and Lactantius 23. Eusebius and the birth of church history 24. The fourth-century Alexandrians: Athanasius and Didymus 25. Palestine: Cyril of Jerusalem and Epiphanius 26. The Cappadocians 27. Fourth-century Latin writers: Hilary, Victorinus, Ambrosiaster, Ambrose 28. Jerome and Rufinus 29. Augustine 30. John Chrysostom and the Antiochene School to Theodoret of Cyrrhus 31. Cyril of Alexandria 32. Hagiography 33. Ephrem and the Syriac tradition 34. The literature of the monastic movement 35. Women and words: texts by and about women 36. Conciliar records and canons B. Context and Interpretation 37. Social and historical setting 38. Articulating identity 39. Christian teaching 40. Retrospect: interpretation and appropriation Bibliographies Back Flap Back Cover