Intellectual Hegemony, Conversion Discourse and Early Christian Apologetic Literature [PDF]
The present study aspires to catch a glimpse of a peculiar phenomenon in the history of religions, namely, the competitive character of early Christian apologetic literature in its attempt to confront head-on the non-Christian ideological life-world and,
Vassilios Adrahtas
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The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature [PDF]
Young, Frances +2 more
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Pauline Pseudepigrapha and Early Christian Literacy: Are the Clues Hidden Right in Front of US?
Within Biblical scholarship, there have been a limited number of studies which examine ancient literacy and education in relation to the production of the Deutero-Pauline letters.
Justin P. Paley
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Greek Literature and Christian Doctrine in Early Christianity: A Difficult Co-Existence [PDF]
This paper traces the complex relationship between classical literature and Christian doctrine in the first four centuries. In the earliest period of Christianity, we can identify two attitudes of Christians towards Greek literature: the hostile attitude
Roberta Franchi
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Travel and the Making of a Pseudepigraphical Hero in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Literature [PDF]
Elisa Uusimäki, Miriam DeCock
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Recent Discoveries in Early Christian Literature [PDF]
Synesius the scholar walks the streets of Alexandria with a strange figure at his side. An Oxford don with the unlovely garments of the twentieth century looks oddly out of place among the tunics, cloaks, and togas that fill those brilliant fourth-century streets.
Edgar J. Goodspeed
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Religion without fear. Plutarch on superstition and Early Christian Literature
After some introductory remarks on the role of fear in religious discourse. Plutarch s treatise On Superstition is analysed according to its rhetorical outline.
H-J Klauck
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Purity, Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (TOC, Intro and Conclusions)
Moshe Blidstein
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Dramaturgical Tricks in the Clementine Literature
The Clementine novel (written in the 4th century CE and set in the 1st century CE) incorporates a palette of comic features. Using the “Taxonomy of ” and the “Script Theory” developed by Attardo and Raskin within the framework of the General Theory of ...
Sergio Basso
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Early Christian Literature: Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries by Helen Rhee [PDF]
Joel Walker
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