The Early Church books

This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume address the key institutions of the first and second Church, considering the development...  Read More >>

How did Christianity become the dominant faith in the West in the historical blink of an eye? Bart Ehrman shows...  Read More >>

This book is intended for those interested in patristics, liturgy, and sacramental theology: scholars, theology...  Read More >>

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. This...  Read More >>

The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage explores how the visionary experiences of early Christian martyrs shaped...  Read More >>

Argues that our main narrative source for early Christianity, the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea,...  Read More >>

This book offers an authoritative and accessible introduction to the New Testament and other early Christian literature...  Read More >>

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This book provides a critical edition with the Coptic text and English translation of a major non-canonical Gospel:...  Read More >>

Arguing with Aseneth reads the ancient romance Joseph and Aseneth as a participant in ancient Jewish debates around...  Read More >>

The Collectio Avellana (CA) has an extraordinary richness and variety of content. Imperial rescripts, reports of...  Read More >>

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The most cherished values of modernity are unthinkable without the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Equal rights,...  Read More >>

Readers of the New Testament notice varying ideas about women. Some women are submissive and silent; others have...  Read More >>

This work examines the role of the reception of the Council of Nicaea (325) in the major councils of the mid-fifth...  Read More >>

The first book to study both Irenaeus' conceptions of God and the person of Christ.  Read More >>

Readers of the New Testament notice varying ideas about women. Some women are submissive and silent; others have...  Read More >>

This study illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote....  Read More >>

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What did it mean to be a Christian in the Roman Empire? In one of the inaugural titles of Oxford's new Essentials...  Read More >>