Writing the History of Early Christianity

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Brings a new approach to the interpretation of the sources used to study the Early Christian era - reading history backwards. This book will interest teachers and students of New Testament studies from around the world of any denomination, and readers of early Christianity and Patristics.

Contenu

1. Methodological introduction; 2. 'Abercius' - pious fraud, now and then?; 3. Hippolytus of Rome - a manifold enigma; 4. Aristides of Athens - apologetics and narratives; 5. Ignatious of Antioch - a mysterious martyr.