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The Author in Early Christian Literature
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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While scholars of ancient Mediterranean literature have focused their efforts heavily on explaining why authors would write pseudonymously or anonymously, less time has been spent exploring why an author would write orthonymously (that is, under their own name). This Element explores how early …
The Author in Early Christian Literature
Häftad, 2025
324 kr
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While scholars of ancient Mediterranean literature have focused their efforts heavily on explaining why authors would write pseudonymously or anonymously, less time has been spent exploring why an author would write orthonymously (that is, under their own name). This Element explores how early …
Early Christian Georgian Literature
Making Christian Identity in an Iranic Culture
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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This Element re-evaluates the genesis and early development of Georgian literature. Sparked by the Christian invention of a Georgian script ca. 400 AD, this literature was a product of the Christianization of the Caucasus region. But to what extent was early Georgian literature a Christian one? …
Early Christian Georgian Literature
Making Christian Identity in an Iranic Culture
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element re-evaluates the genesis and early development of Georgian literature. Sparked by the Christian invention of a Georgian script ca. 400 AD, this literature was a product of the Christianization of the Caucasus region. But to what extent was early Georgian literature a Christian one? …
Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination
Inbunden, 2026
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Ancient apologetics is usually treated as a literary genre or a branch of early theology. This Element offers a different account. It argues that many Jewish and Christian texts conventionally labeled 'apologetic' are better understood through a bibliographic and archival lens: They produce …
Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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Ancient apologetics is usually treated as a literary genre or a branch of early theology. This Element offers a different account. It argues that many Jewish and Christian texts conventionally labeled 'apologetic' are better understood through a bibliographic and archival lens: They produce …
Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination
Av Stéphanie É. Binder
Häftad, 2026
354 kr
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This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary critical issues relevant to understanding his biography and work, with special attention to his presentation of the Jews in the wider context of early Christian literature. This topic …
Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination
Av Stéphanie É. Binder
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
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This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary critical issues relevant to understanding his biography and work, with special attention to his presentation of the Jews in the wider context of early Christian literature. This topic …
Gregory of Nyssa on the Resurrected Life
Bodies of Hope
Inbunden, 2026
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This Element is composed of three sections that explore Gregory of Nyssa's understanding of the resurrected life. First, according to Gregory, Christ establishes the ascent as the way of virtue and all who desire virtue will be sustained and sated by an infinite God. Second, Gregory assumes that …
Gregory of Nyssa on the Resurrected Life
Bodies of Hope
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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This Element is composed of three sections that explore Gregory of Nyssa's understanding of the resurrected life. First, according to Gregory, Christ establishes the ascent as the way of virtue and all who desire virtue will be sustained and sated by an infinite God. Second, Gregory assumes that …
Maximos the Confessor
Androprimacy and Sexual Difference
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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Maximos affirms in various texts (such as Difficulty 41) that sexual differentiation into male and female is inconsistent with the divine intention and will therefore be eschatologically eradicated. His affirmations have elicited a half-dozen conflicting interpretations, such as the metaphorization …
Maximos the Confessor
Androprimacy and Sexual Difference
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Maximos affirms in various texts (such as Difficulty 41) that sexual differentiation into male and female is inconsistent with the divine intention and will therefore be eschatologically eradicated. His affirmations have elicited a half-dozen conflicting interpretations, such as the metaphorization …
The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition
The Hermeneutics of Late-Ancient Sophistic Christianity
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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This Element, through detailed example, scrutinizes the exact nature of Christian storytelling in the case of the Greek Pseudo-Clementines, or Klementia, and examines what exactly is involved in the correct interpretation of this Christian prose fiction as a redefined pepaideumenos. In the act of …
The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition
The Hermeneutics of Late-Ancient Sophistic Christianity
Inbunden, 2025
1039 kr
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This Element, through detailed example, scrutinizes the exact nature of Christian storytelling in the case of the Greek Pseudo-Clementines, or Klementia, and examines what exactly is involved in the correct interpretation of this Christian prose fiction as a redefined pepaideumenos. In the act of …
St. Ephrem the Syrian on Beatitude and the Afterlife
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
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The poetry of Ephrem the Syrian abounds with vivid symbols for the conclusion of salvation history, which forms a path leading from Paradise back to God. His transfiguring glory-light nourishes and enriches the blessed. Those in Gehenna behold the same goal, yet due to self-inflicted inner …
St. Ephrem the Syrian on Beatitude and the Afterlife
Häftad, 2026
318 kr
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The poetry of Ephrem the Syrian abounds with vivid symbols for the conclusion of salvation history, which forms a path leading from Paradise back to God. His transfiguring glory-light nourishes and enriches the blessed. Those in Gehenna behold the same goal, yet due to self-inflicted inner …
Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
Inbunden, 2025
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This Element provides a historical overview of the sources and key scholarship related to literate workers in early Christianity. It argues that literate workers were indispensable for the creation, production, maintenance, interpretation, and preservation of ancient Christian thought, theology, …
Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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This Element provides a historical overview of the sources and key scholarship related to literate workers in early Christianity. It argues that literate workers were indispensable for the creation, production, maintenance, interpretation, and preservation of ancient Christian thought, theology, …
Origen on Demonic Executioners and the Problem of Evil
Av Ky Heinze
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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Origen believed that God's providence makes good use of everything, including the actions of wicked demons, which serve to discipline sinners and test the righteous. This Element, which focuses on the disciplinary function of demons, will show that Origen's position was the synthesis and …
Origen on Demonic Executioners and the Problem of Evil
Av Ky Heinze
Inbunden, 2026
892 kr
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Origen believed that God's providence makes good use of everything, including the actions of wicked demons, which serve to discipline sinners and test the righteous. This Element, which focuses on the disciplinary function of demons, will show that Origen's position was the synthesis and …
The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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This Element examines the forms of Arabic used by Christians in the early Islamic period in theological treatises and Arabic Bible translations. It argues that linguistic analysis of these texts not only clarifies the nature of early Islamic Arabic but also sheds new light on Christian …
The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature
Inbunden, 2026
892 kr
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This Element examines the forms of Arabic used by Christians in the early Islamic period in theological treatises and Arabic Bible translations. It argues that linguistic analysis of these texts not only clarifies the nature of early Islamic Arabic but also sheds new light on Christian …
Egeria
Theological and Ecclesial Knowledge Between Eastern and Western Traditions
Inbunden, 2025
829 kr
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Egeria's Itinerarium is a unique document. It is one of the few surviving works from antiquity written by a woman and is one of the first Christian travelogues depicting a pilgrimage to and in the Holy Land. In her Itinerarium, Egeria describes not only her travels but also the practices of …
Egeria
Theological and Ecclesial Knowledge Between Eastern and Western Traditions
Häftad, 2025
292 kr
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Egeria's Itinerarium is a unique document. It is one of the few surviving works from antiquity written by a woman and is one of the first Christian travelogues depicting a pilgrimage to and in the Holy Land. In her Itinerarium, Egeria describes not only her travels but also the practices of …
