Ancient History in a Modern University

by Hillard, T. W.; Kearsley, R. A.; Nixon, C. E. V.; Nobbs, A. M.

• ISBN13: 9780802838414
• ISBN10: 0802838413
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-17
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Volume II of Ancient History in a Modern University contains forty-five essays, produced in honor of historian Edwin Jedge, that move beyond Volume I's study of the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome to explore historical facets of early Christianity, Late Antiquity, and the abiding influences of both into the modern period.i

Table of Contents

Preface
Contents of Volume 2
Part IV Early Christianity and Late Antiquity	1	(483)
(j) Judaism in the Roman Period	1	(70)
M. Harding
Making Old Things New: Prayer Texts in Josephus' Antiquities, 1-11. A Study in the Transmission of Tradition	1	(14)
A.D. Crown
Was There a Samaritan Book of Joshua?	15	(8)
L. Cansdale
Qumran, Its Names Past and Present: A Literary and Archaeological Investigation	23	(11)
P.M. Mendham
`The Yeast of the Pharisees': Rethinking a Christian Prejudice	34	(9)
G.N. Stanton
`God-fearers': Neglected Evidence in Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho	43	(10)
J.S. McLaren
Christians and the Jewish Revolt, 66-70 C.E.	53	(8)
M. Lattke
The Odes of Solomon: Discoveries, Editions, and the Problem of Dating	61	(10)
(k) History and the New Testament	71	(134)
E.E. Ellis
New Directions in the History of Early Christianity	71	(22)
B.G. Ockinga
The Tradition History of the Mary-Martha Pericope in Luke (10.38-42)	93	(5)
M. Wilcox
`Liberation' as a Central Theme in Special Luke	98	(12)
R.K. McIver
The Place of the Matthean Community in the Stream of Early Christian History	110	(11)
B.W. Winter
Christentum und Antike: Acts and Paul's Corpus as Ancient History	121	(10)
J.T. Squires
Fate and Free Will in Hellenistic Histories and Luke-Acts	131	(7)
P.W. Barnett
Second Corinthians: Why Paul Wrote It	138	(15)
P.J. Marshall
The Enigmatic Apostle: Paul and Social Change. Did Paul Seek to Transform Graeco-Roman Society?	153	(22)
R.H. Saunders
Attalus, Paul and Paideia: The Contribution of I. Eph. 202 to Pauline Studies	175	(9)
S.R. Llewelyn
Directions for the Delivery of Letters and the Epistles of St Paul	184	(11)
D. Hartman
Epistolary Conventions and Social Change in Paul's Letters	195	(10)
(l) Greek Language and Papyrology	205	(33)
N.H. Young
Pronominal Shifts in Paul's Argument to the Galatians	205	(11)
S.R. Pickering
The Dating of the Chester Beatty-Michigan Codex of the Pauline Epistles (XXX^46)	216	(12)
B.F. Harris
The Use of Scripture in Some Unidentified Theological Papyri	228	(5)
A.M. Nobbs
Formulas of Belief in Greek Papyrus Letters of the Third and Fourth Centuries	233	(5)
(m) The Later Roman Empire	238	(67)
P. Brennan
Divide and Fall: The Separation of Legionary Cavalry and the Fragmentation of the Roman Empire	238	(7)
W.L. Leadbetter
Lactantius and Paideia in the Latin West	245	(8)
J.F. Matthews
Eternity in Perishable Materials: Law-Making and Literate Communication in the Roman Empire	253	(13)
B.H. Warmington
Eusebius of Caesarea and the Governance of Constantine	266	(14)
R. Seager
(Quondam) Soldiers and (Quondam) Greeks: Ammianus and Libanius on Julian	280	(14)
C.E.V. Nixon
The Early Career of Valentinian I	294	(11)
(n) The Influence of Christianity	305	(96)
A. Dihle
Early Christianity in India	305	(12)
G.W. Clarke
Two Mid-Third Century Bishops: Cyprian of Carthage and Dionysius of Alexandria. Congruences and Divergences	317	(12)
H. Hauben
The Melitian `Church of the Martyrs' Christian Dissenters in Ancient Egypt	329	(21)
K. Adshead
Pharaoh and Patriarch: A Lexical Approach	350	(7)
H.A. Drake
Fourth-Century Christianity and `The Paranoid Style'	357	(12)
R.A. Markus
How on Earth Could Places Become Holy?	369	(10)
K.E. Power
Philosophy, Medicine and Sexual Gender in Ambrose of Milan	379	(12)
P. Rousseau
The Preacher's Audience: A More Optimistic View	391	(10)
(o) Late Antiquity and Beyond	401	(52)
R.G. Tanner
Three Christian Latin Authors and The Late Roman Empire: Augustine, Orosius and Sulpicius Severus	401	(5)
J. Barlow
Race Theory, Historical Geography and the Transition from Ancient to Medieval	406	(11)
H.A.S. Tarrant
Olympiodorus and History	417	(9)
U. Treu
The Greek Physiologus	426	(7)
J.C. Koenig
Influencing the Gods: The Ritual Supplication in Ancient and Early Medieval Times	433	(12)
E.M. Jeffreys
Byzantium's Epic Past: A Twelfth-Century Perspective	445	(8)
(p) The Ancient in the Modern World	453	(31)
E.F. Osborn
The Beginning of European Ideas	453	(6)
G. Maddox
Prophetic Religion and the Roots of Political Opposition	459	(9)
E.A. Judge
Ancient Beginnings of the Modern World	468	(16)
Appendix 1: Conference Program	484	(5)
Appendix 2: Addresses for Correspondence	489