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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI Hunter, David G. Cottrill-Rolfes Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927156-6 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
8 Jews and Christians doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199271566.003.0009 Andrew S. Jacobs Abstract: Approaches – Sources Keywords: Christ, Christian,	Related Content in OHO 'Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period' in The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies 'Historiography on the Jews in the ‘Talmudic Period’ (70–640CE)' in The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
Andrew S. Jacobs is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside.	Andrew S. Jacobs Find in OUP journals External web page

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I Prolegomena

1 From Patristics to Early Christian Studies

2 Literature, Patristics, Early Christian Writing

3 Which Early Christianity?

II Evidence: Material And Textual

4 Material Evidence (1): Archaeology

5 Material Evidence (2): Visual Culture

7 Palaeography and Codicology

III Identities

8 Jews and Christians

9 Pagans and Christians

10 ‘Gnosticism’

12 Arius and Arians

13 Pelagius and Pelagians

IV Regions

14 The West (1): Italy, Gaul, and Spain

15 The West (2): North Africa

16 The East (1): Greece and Asia Minor

17 The East (2): Egypt and Palestine

18 The East (3): Syria and Mesopotamia

V Structures And Authorities

19 Clergy and Laity

20 The Biblical Canon

21 Creeds, Councils, and Canons

22 Church and Empire

23 Women and Gender

VI Expressions of Christian Culture

25 Early Christian Apocryphal Literature

28 Early Christian Historians and Historiography

29 Martyr Passions and Hagiography

30 Poetry and Hymnography (1): Christian Latin Poetry

31 Poetry and Hymnography (2): The Greek World

32 Poetry and Hymnography (3): Syriac

33 Christian Philosophy

VII Ritual, Piety, and Practice

34 Christian Initiation

35 Eucharistic Liturgy

39 Martyrdom and the Cult of the Saints

VIII Theological Themes

41 Interpretation of Scripture

42 Doctrine of God

43 Christ and Christologies

44 Doctrine of Creation

45 Early Christian Ethics

46 Instrumenta Studiorum: Tools of the Trade

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