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This work compares the Minor Prophets commentaries of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria, isolating the role each interpreter assigns the Twelve Prophets in their ministry to Old Testament Israel and the texts of the Twelve as Christian scripture.

This book explores how the Donatist church, a schismatic movement that for a brief moment formed the majority church in Roman North Africa, interpreted the apocalypse during the first two centuries of its existence (c. 300-500).

Tollefsen investigates the image-doctrine of St Theodore the Studite with particular attention to his three refutations of the iconoclasts, the Antirrhetici tres adversus iconomachos.

Gregory of Nyssa is firmly established in today's theological curriculum and is a major figure in the study of late antiquity. Andrew Radde-Gallwitz presents a reading of the works in Gregory's corpus devoted to the dogmatic controversies of his day.

This work examines the role of the reception of the Council of Nicaea (325) in the major councils of the mid-fifth century.

This study examines major narrative elements of the martyrdom accounts of Peter and Paul and explores the variety concerning whether the apostles died separately or together, why they died, when they died, where they died, and what happened to their bodies after their deaths.

For too long certain scholars have been content to portray Irenaeus of Lyons as a well-meaning churchman but incompetent theologian. By offering a careful reading of Irenaeus' polemical and constructive arguments, Briggman contradicts these claims by showing that he was highly educated, trained in the rhetorical arts, aware of general philosophical positions, and able to use both rhetorical and philosophical theories and methods in his argumentation. It is the firstbook to study both Irenaeus' conceptions of God and the person of Christ.

This study investigates the origins and use of the Canon Tables apparatus, which was included in the four-gospel codex. This reading aid was invented in the early fourth century by Eusebius of Caesarea and represented a milestone achievement both in the history of the book and in the scholarly study of the fourfold gospel.

The letters of Paulinus of Nola and his correspondents show an early Christian 'web' of ideas in action. Catherine Conybeare examines how messages carried between members of a far-flung community helped to tie that community together. The letters reveal the profound impact Paulinus had in shaping the new Christian Church.

Embodiment in the theology of Gregory of Nyssa is a much-debated topic. Hans Boersma argues that this-worldly realities of time and space, which include embodiment, are not the focus of Gregory's theology. Instead, Boersma suggests, the key to Gregory's theology is anagogy-going upward in order to participate in the life of God.

This study examines the acts of ancient church councils as the objects of textual practices, in their editorial shaping, and in their material conditions.

David Lloyd Dusenbury provides the first monograph in English on the first Christian anthropology-a text which influenced ideas about human nature in the Byzantine and Islamicate worlds, and in Europe, well into the early modern period.

This monograph provides the first book-length treatment of Jerome's opus Paulinum in any language.

Covering the widest array of manuscript evidence to date, this book reconstructs the compositional and editorial practices by which Tatian the Assyrian wrote his Gospel.

This book ventures to describe Augustine of Hippo's understanding of demons, including the theology, angelology, and anthropology that contextualize it.

This book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Blackwood explains how these metres are arranged as aural patterns with a therapeutic and even liturgical purpose.