The early church in its context : : essays in honor of Everett Ferguson / / edited by Abraham J. Malherbe, Frederick W. Norris, James W. Thompson.

• Superior document: Supplements to Novum Testamentum, v. 90
• TeilnehmendeR: Ferguson, Everett, 1933-; Malherbe, Abraham J.; Norris, Frederick W., 1941-; Thompson, James, 1942-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 90.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; What Gnostics Knew /; Attitudes Toward Foreigners in 2 Maccabees, Eupolemus, Esther, Aristeas, and Luke-Acts /; En-Spirited Waters: Baptism in the Confessions of Augustine /; Cyprian's Eschatology: Explaining Divine Purpose /; The Reading of the Personal Letter as the Background for the Reading of the Scriptures in the Early Church /; The Papias Fragments on Mark and Matthew and their Relationship to Luke's Prologue: An Essay on the Pre-History of the Synoptic Problem /; Further Reflections on the Fourfold Gospel Canon /; A Late-Antique Tunic Fragment in St. Louis /; Eusebius and the Little Labyrinth /; Lions in Early Christian Literature /; Cicero's Sketch and Lactantius's Plan /; Incense Offerings in the Syriac Transitus Mariae: Ritual and Knowledge in Ancient Christianity /; Pseudo-Orpheus: Tracking a Tradition /; The Athanasian Understanding of Scripture /; Conversion to Paul's Gospel /; The Chreia in the Desert: Rhetoric and the Bible in the Apophthegmata Patrum /; Encyclopedia Revisited /; Fourth- and Fifth-Century Homilists on the Ascension of Christ /; A Cult from Philadelphia: Oikos Religion or Cultic Association? /; The Appropriate, the Necessary, and the Impossible: Faith and Reason in Hebrews /; The Public Priestesses of Pompeii /; A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Everett Ferguson /; Index of Canonical and Deuterocanonical Works /; Index of Ancient References /; Index of Authors /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004267360
• ISSN: 0167-9732
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Abraham J. Malherbe, Frederick W. Norris, James W. Thompson.

This volume honors Professor Everett Ferguson of Abilene Christian University on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Reflecting the interests of the honoree, the twenty-one contributions focus on various aspects of the early church and its environment. Together the articles form a broad tapestry of interrelated topics informed from the disciplines of philosophy, patristic theology, archaeology, rhetoric, art, Greco-Roman religion, and biblical studies.