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What do we mean when we talk about 'being Christian' in late antiquity? This volume brings together 16 world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honour of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillian Clark.

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Books 1-9 comprised a translation of Eusebius' history. This volume contains books 10 and 11, Rufinus' own continuation which covers the period 325-395. As the first Latin history, this work exerted great influence over scholarship of the Western Church.

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Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing perspectives arising from a changing social and academic culture. Key issues concerning early Christianity are addressed, such as how early Christian accounts of pagans, Jews and heretics can be challenged and the degree to which Christian groups offered support to their members and to those in need. The work examines how non-Christians reacted to the spectacle of martyrdom and to Christian reverence for relics. Questions are also raised about why some Christians encouraged others to abandon wealth, status and gender-roles for extreme ascetic lifestyles and about whether Christian preachers trained in classical culture offered moral education to all or only to the social elite. The interdisciplinary and thematic approach offers the student of early Christianity a comprehensive treatment of its role and influence in Roman society.

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Published posthumously in 1894, these lectures from the biblical scholar and theologian Fenton John Anthony Hort draw on his work on the early Christian Church and its transition from Judaism in the Apostolic period. Hort devoted himself to the study of Christian history and to the joint editorship of a critical edition of the New Testament in Greek and, later, modern English. In his last years at Cambridge University, his efforts centred on proving a first-century dating for the New Testament books, and researching the history and development of the church as described in them. The lectures in this volume respond to arguments of Hort's contemporaries, notably F.C. Baur and the Tübingen school, for a second-century dating. To support his case, Hort examines relations between Judaistic, Gentile and Pauline Christianity and analyses New Testament accounts of Christ's attitude to the Jewish faith.

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