... epistemological crisis Inwood Brad Long A A MacIntyre Alasdair Plutarch Stout Jeffrey cosmos cosmology Hadot Pierre Early Christianity Stoicism Philosophy Comparison Traditions of Life Truth At its heart, this book is about the fact that we can live only one life. The track from birth to death can...

... context, a wide range of early Christian authors (including Irenaeus of Lyon, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine of Hippo) used milk and solid food to think about how humans become what they eat—for good or for ill. In so doing, the book demonstrates the deep connection between...

... of the Mar Saba letter and thus remains highly influential. Soon after publishing The Gospel Hoax, Carlson began doctoral studies in early Christianity at Duke University, where his dissertation was co-chaired by Bart Ehrman. The other book-length study of the Secret Gospel controversy...

... in early Christianity. Chapter 3 actant pathēmata Philippi Chapter 2 Vitarum auction Lives for Sale heuriskō huperexō kerdos kerdēso koinonia zēmia skubala Bloomquist L Gregory Bruce F F Chapter 9 Colossians Briones David charis gift Ogereau Julien M Chapter Hadrian slavery Opera et...

... in Philippi. As comparing Paul's Letter to the Philippians and Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians helped to trace one of many afterlives of the theo-economic themes present in early Christianity, a broader study compiling evidence from several texts and contexts would begin to untangle...

... transformation Milk Nurturance Donna Haraway Judith Butler Food Surrogacy Queer Theory Early Christianity Roman Empire “One must eat well” does not mean above all taking and grasping in itself, but learning and giving to eat, learning-to-give-the-other-to-eat. One never eats entirely on one’s own...

...A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, the author of this book offers here a selection of his most influential writings on the New Testament and early Christianity. His essays illustrate recent changes in our thinking about the early Christian...

... challenge our basic understanding of who Jesus was, how he interacted privately with his disciples, and whether he had a companion or even a love interest. Smith's discovery has the potential to rewrite the history of early Christianity. However, the “conventional wisdom” within biblical studies circles...

...This chapter examines how early Christian attitude toward the Temple changed and why. First-century early Christianity was a religious and social movement at the beginning of the process of identity formation. Its members had yet to determine who they were: what part of their identity...

...-identifications of the female figures on the church’s walls. What if the veiled women were going not to a tomb, but to a wedding? What if the woman at a well was not a repentant sinner, but a spotless virgin—the Virgin Mary herself? Contrary to commonly held assumptions about early Christian initiation, Peppard...