The Early Church books

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Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity

Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient...

Author: Andrew Crislip
ISBN: 9780812244458
Format: Hardback
$122.95

In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip explores late ancient Christian reflections on the meaning and value of illness...  Read More >>

Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches

Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches

Author: F. Gerald Downing
ISBN: 9780415642804
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Spiritual Classics of the Early Church

Spiritual Classics of the Early Church

Author: Robert Atwell
ISBN: 9780715143414
Format: Paperback
$42.21

This is an exploration of the rich spirituality of the Church Fathers found in the writings of Cyprian; the Desert...  Read More >>

Orosius and the Rhetoric of History

Orosius and the Rhetoric of History

Author: Peter Van Nuffelen (Research Professor of Ancient History, Ghent University)
ISBN: 9780199655274
Format: Hardback
$256.95

Drawing on textual and rhetorical analysis, Peter Van Nuffelen proposes a major revaluation of The Histories Against...  Read More >>

Martyriumsvorstellungen in Antike und Mittelalter: Leben oder sterben für Gott?

Martyriumsvorstellungen in Antike und Mittelalter: Leben...

Author: Sebastian Fuhrmann ,  Regina Grundmann
ISBN: 9789004226302
Format: Hardback
$535.92

Voluntary death plays a central role in various discourses of the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Period Judaism, Early...  Read More >>

Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History...

Author: Ross Shepard Kraemer (Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, Brown University)
ISBN: 9780199916511
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Through case studies, Ross Shepard Kraemer explores how rhetorical uses of gender obscure our vision of women's...  Read More >>

From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics

From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics

Author: Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven ,  William A. Barbieri
ISBN: 9783110291773
Format: Hardback
$180.09

Christian reflection on reducing violence or overcoming war has roots extending back to ancient Roman philosophy,...  Read More >>

The Seventh Book of the Stromateis: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (Olomouc, October 21-23, 2010)

The Seventh Book of the Stromateis: Proceedings of the...

Author: Matyáš Havrda ,  Vít Hušek
ISBN: 9789004223639
Format: Hardback
$604.56

This volume comprises sixteen studies focused on the last extant part of Clement's Stromateis. Written by specialists...  Read More >>

The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity

The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity...

Author: David Brakke
ISBN: 9780674066038
Format: Paperback
$43.95

This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of 'Gnosticism' and the...  Read More >>

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome,...

Author: Peter Brown
ISBN: 9780691152905
Format: Hardback
$72.99

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Rabbis as Romans: The Rabbinic Movement in Palestine, 100-400 CE

Rabbis as Romans: The Rabbinic Movement in Palestine,...

Author: Hayim Lapin (Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies; Director of the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9780195179309
Format: Hardback
$101.95

Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as a distinctly intra-Jewish development, a response...  Read More >>

Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence

Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence

Author: Timo Nisula
ISBN: 9789004231689
Format: Hardback
$702.24

In Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence, Timo Nisula offers a comprehensive analysis of Augustine’s developing...  Read More >>

Church History: Five Approaches to a Global Discipline

Church History: Five Approaches to a Global Discipline...

Author: Dyron Daughrity
ISBN: 9781433116957
Format: Paperback
$138.60

Explains how church history is created and organized. Different from traditional church history textbooks, this...  Read More >>

Remembering Eden: The Reception History of Genesis 3: 22-24

Remembering Eden: The Reception History of Genesis 3:...

Author: Peter Thacher Lanfer (Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and religions of the Ancient Near East, Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and religions of the Ancient Near East, University of California Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780199926749
Format: Hardback
$382.80

In Remembering Eden, Peter Thacher Lanfer seeks to evaluate texts that expand and explicitly interpret the expulsion...  Read More >>

Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East

Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with...

Author: Professor C.L. Crouch (Radboud University) ,  Dr. Jonathan Stökl (University of Leiden, The Netherlands.)
ISBN: 9780567461629
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Analyzes the variety of religious practices employed to communicate with deities and to interpret the divine response,...  Read More >>

The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context

The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its...

Author: James F. McGrath
ISBN: 9780252078798
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A provocative reexamination of the shared monotheistic views of Jews and Christians in New Testament times  Read More >>

The Childhood of Christianity

The Childhood of Christianity

Author: Etienne Trocme ,  John Bowden
ISBN: 9780334027096
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Here is a brief and highly readable history of early Christianity. Even those who feel that more than enough has...  Read More >>

The First Followers of Jesus: A Sociological Analysis of the Earliest Christianity

The First Followers of Jesus: A Sociological Analysis...

Author: Gerd Theissen ,  J. Bowden
ISBN: 9780334004790
Format: Paperback
$63.36

A Sociological investigation into the life of the early Church by one of the twentieth-century's leading Biblical...  Read More >>

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