The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies

Susan Ashbrook Harvey, David G. Hunter

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies responds to and celebrates the explosion of research in this interdisciplinary field over recent decades. A one-volume reference work, it provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. It is thematically arranged to encompass history, literature, thought, practices, and material culture. It contains authoritative and up-to-date surveys of current thinking and research in the various subfields of early Christian studies, written by leading figures in the discipline. The essays orient readers to a given topic, as well as to the trajectory of research developments over the past 30-50 years within the scholarship itself. Guidance for future research is also given. Each essay points the reader towards relevant forms of extant evidence (texts, documents, or examples of material culture), as well as to the appropriate research tools available for the area. This volume will be useful to advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as to specialists in any area who wish to consult a brief review of the “state of the question” in a particular area of early Christian studies, especially one different from their own. click to read more

Year:
2008

Publisher:
Oxford University Press

Language:
english

Pages:
1084

ISBN 10:
0199271569

ISBN 13:
9780199271566

File:
PDF, 10.48 MB