Oda Wischmeyer, Love as Agape: The Early Christian Concept and Modern Discourse (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021), pp. xvii + 317. $69.99
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DOI: 10.1017/s0036930622000461
Abstract: indeed have much to say to these issues, but they are, at best, unevenly developed in relationship to the Swiss theologian’s own thought. Nevertheless, Hauerwas helpfully pushes back against the view that Barth’s critique of… read more here.
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Jennifer Otto. Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xi + 231 pp.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0364009419000576
Abstract: the speakers’ “claim of worthiness” (81). Charney defines kairos as the “right moment” for a speaker to speak, and in chapter 5, she turns her attention to the kairos of first-person imprecatory psalms. Spoken curses… read more here.
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The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context
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DOI: 10.1086/723773
Abstract: The ancient Kingdom of Aksūm, located in Ethiopia and Eritrea, was one of the most influential civilizations of the first millennium ce. More than a dozen Aksūmite structures attest to the spread of Christianity from… read more here.
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Six Years a Slave: The Confessio of St Patrick as Early Christian Slave Narrative
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DOI: 10.1177/0021140020948324
Abstract: This article interprets St Patrick’s Confessio, supplemented by his Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus, in the light of North American slave narratives, arguing that Patrick’s account of his enslavement in Ireland shares many of… read more here.
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Book Review: Engaging Early Christian History: Reading Acts in the Second Century
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DOI: 10.1177/0146107917697910d
Abstract: 123 the forte of this splendid commentary is, in addition to its lively fresh translation, its meticulous and comprehensive attention to textual and literary detail, history of traditions, and the reception history of 1 Enoch… read more here.
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Holy Spirit Mother, the Baptismal Womb, and the Walesby Tank: Excavating Early Christian Women Baptizers
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DOI: 10.1177/09667350221135461
Abstract: Writers starting with Tertullian and the author behind the Didascalia Apostolorum attest to the presence of early Christian women baptizers, as do a variety of later writers. The early Christian tradition of Holy Spirit as… read more here.
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The Early Christian Origins of Secularization
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DOI: 10.3817/0323202155
Abstract: David Lloyd Dusenbury, The Innocence of Pontius Pilate: How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History. London: Hurst Publishers, 2021. Pp. 272. The Innocence of Pontius Pilate by David L. Dusenbury of the Danube Institute… read more here.
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Ethnic reasoning and early Christian identity: A Pauline theological perspective
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DOI: 10.4102/hts.v76i1.5800
Abstract: Within the ethnic-reasoning position, which has gained momentum in recent years, it is argued that in the in-Christ identity there exists no dichotomy between natural, physical relationships and constructed, made-up relationships. Ethnicity is viewed as… read more here.
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