Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry

Roald Dijkstra, Ph.D. (2014), Radboud University, is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at that university. He publishes on late antiquity and co-edited East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century. An End to Unity? (Brill, 2015).

'This work has much to commend it. It is both ambitious and, as regards a study of early Christian poetry, admirably thorough. It is accompanied by an extensive bibliography, appendices, and 50 illustrations, most in color.'Robin M. Jensen, University of Notre Dame, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.02.55'This wonderful, learned book [...] provides a feast for anyone who takes an interest in early Christian literary and material culture, or in the development of apostolic tradition before 400.'Jane Heath, Durham University, Expository Times 128, 2017.08.407

• ContentsIntroduction1 Early Christian Poets and the Apostles1.1 Commodianus 1.2 Juvencus1.3 Proba1.4 The Hymnum dicat turba fratrum or Hymnus de Christo1.5 Damasus1.6 Ambrose1.7 Claudian1.8 Amphilochius of Iconium1.9 Gregory of Nazianzus1.10 Prudentius1.11 Paulinus of Nola1.12 The Oratio consulis Ausonii versibus rhopalicis1.13 Synthesis: The Apostles in Early Christian Poetry 2702 Art, Poetry and the Apostles2.1 The Apostles and the Canon2.2 The Apostles and Non-Canonical Traditions2.3 Concluding RemarksGeneral ConclusionAppendix 1: Overview of Canonical References to the Apostles in Art and PoetryAppendix 2: Overview of Non-Canonical References to the Apostles in Art and PoetryAppendix 3: Figures