Results 251 to 260 of about 342,295 (310)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
2022
In this Element the author argues that genre deeply affects how early Christian female philosophers are characterized across different works. The included case studies are three women who feature in both narrative and dialogic texts: Thecla, Macrina the Younger and Monica. Based on these examples, the author demonstrates that the narrative sources tend
openaire +3 more sources
In this Element the author argues that genre deeply affects how early Christian female philosophers are characterized across different works. The included case studies are three women who feature in both narrative and dialogic texts: Thecla, Macrina the Younger and Monica. Based on these examples, the author demonstrates that the narrative sources tend
openaire +3 more sources
2020
Many fragments and testimonies in Usener’s collection, Epicurea, come from ancient Christian sources. This essay explores Patristic interest in Epicureanism, which is often critical, and sometimes imprecise or distorted, but tangible. It shows how the fading away of the availability and use of good sources on Epicureanism, along with the disappearance ...
+5 more sources
Many fragments and testimonies in Usener’s collection, Epicurea, come from ancient Christian sources. This essay explores Patristic interest in Epicureanism, which is often critical, and sometimes imprecise or distorted, but tangible. It shows how the fading away of the availability and use of good sources on Epicureanism, along with the disappearance ...
+5 more sources
1999
Abstract Early Christian societies and the beliefs and practices born among them did not arise in a vacuum. Christian writers and saints borrowed important medical and cultural traditions from the Roman and Jewish world in which they lived, adapting them to their own purposes.
openaire +1 more source
Abstract Early Christian societies and the beliefs and practices born among them did not arise in a vacuum. Christian writers and saints borrowed important medical and cultural traditions from the Roman and Jewish world in which they lived, adapting them to their own purposes.
openaire +1 more source
2015
The study of early Christianity overlaps with closely related fields of study such as New Testament canonical literature, Historical Jesus studies, and early Christian history (or church history/patristics). This survey will concentrate on the broader conceptualization of the formation of the religio-historical phenomenon named Christianity, the ...
openaire +1 more source
The study of early Christianity overlaps with closely related fields of study such as New Testament canonical literature, Historical Jesus studies, and early Christian history (or church history/patristics). This survey will concentrate on the broader conceptualization of the formation of the religio-historical phenomenon named Christianity, the ...
openaire +1 more source
2020
Until the third century CE, in Egypt and throughout the (primarily Mediterranean) area of Greek language and culture, the standard format of book was the roll, used horizontally. Only during the third to fourth centuries do we see the diffusion of the codex format: the direct documentation from this period on consists of an increasing number of ...
openaire +2 more sources
Until the third century CE, in Egypt and throughout the (primarily Mediterranean) area of Greek language and culture, the standard format of book was the roll, used horizontally. Only during the third to fourth centuries do we see the diffusion of the codex format: the direct documentation from this period on consists of an increasing number of ...
openaire +2 more sources
EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
Christine Shepardson +9 moreopenaire +2 more sources