An Early Christian Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565630432 ISBN 13: 9781565630437

Publisher: Hendrickson Pub, 2001

Synopsis

The Early Christian Reader prepares the earliest Christian writings in a historically meaningful order and includes writings similar in age and historical importance to the books of the New Testament.
Each book of the New Testament is presented in the NRSV, the most widely accepted version in university classrooms today. The Reader also supplies up-to-date translations of the Gospel of Thomas, the Didache, the Letter of Barnabas, 1 Clement, and the letters of Ignatius.
Broader issues affecting the treatment of these texts open the six sections of literature. Lead articles discuss pseudonymity, church tradition, synoptic sources, epistles as documents, conflicting doctrines, and originating events.
Introductions to each individual work discuss the date and place of composition, authorship, audience, basic themes, literary features, and the Jewish and Hellenistic contexts, and they suggest further readings in the secondary literature. Generous notes illumine specific historical, lexical, and interpretive issues.
The Early Christian Reader thus offers an objective, informed entree into the complex world of the earliest Christian literature. Useful appendixes, maps, and charts make this an ideal text for the university or college classroom.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Mason is Associate Professor of Humanities at Vanier College, York University, Ontario. He is the author of Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees: A Composition-critical Study.

Thomas Robinson is coordinator of the Religious Studies Programme and teaches in the History Department of the University of Lethbridge in Alberta.

Review:

Steve Mason is associate professor at York University in Ontario, where he teaches in Classics and Religious Studies and in the Graduate Programme in History.Tom Robinson is coordinator of the Religious Studies Programme and teaches in the History Department of the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. He is author of "The Early Church: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature in English" and "Mastering Greek Vocabulary."

About this edition

• Publisher: Hendrickson Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1565630432
• ISBN 13: 9781565630437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 752
• Editor: Mason Steve, Robinson Thomas A.