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Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World


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Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World offers monographs and edited collections which explore the most cutting-edge research in Early Christianity. Covering all aspects of world of early Christianity, from theology, archaeology and history, to urbanism, class, economics, and sexuality and gender, the series aims to situate these early Christians within the wider context of Late Antiquity.

Comprising both regional studies and broader thematic surveys, this series explores what changed with the advent of Christianity, what remained the same, and how early Christians interacted with, made sense of, and shaped the world around them. Aimed at early Christian scholars, classicists and historians alike, Studies in the Early Christian World is an invaluable resource for anyone researching this fascinating period.

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A New Perspective on the Use of Paul in the Gospel of Mark

A New Perspective on the Use of Paul in the Gospel of Mark

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Cameron Evan Ferguson
May 27, 2024

This volume presents a detailed case for the plausible literary dependence of the Gospel of Mark on select letters of the apostle Paul. The book argues that Mark and Paul share a gospel narrative that tells the story of the life, death, resurrection, and second coming of Jesus Christ "in accordance...

Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes Three Early Christian Teachers of Alexandria and Rome

Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes: Three Early Christian Teachers of Alexandria and Rome

1st Edition

By M. David Litwa
January 29, 2024

Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is the definitive study of the early Christian theologian Carpocrates, his son Epiphanes, and the leader of the Carpocratian movement in Rome, Marcellina. It contains the first full-length study of and commentary on the fragments of Epiphanes, the ...

The Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity Iconography, the Christianization of Marriage, and Alternatives to the Ascetic Ideal

The Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity: Iconography, the Christianization of Marriage, and Alternatives to the Ascetic Ideal

1st Edition

By Mark D. Ellison
December 11, 2023

This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented or missing in literary sources. Historians of early ...

The Making of Syriac Jerusalem Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

The Making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

1st Edition

By Catalin-Stefan Popa
May 31, 2023

This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of the physical as well as metaphysical Jerusalem in the literature of two Eastern Christian denominations, East and West Syrians. Popa analyses the ...

Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond Surviving Martyrdom

Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Surviving Martyrdom

1st Edition

By Diane Fruchtman
August 12, 2022

This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that, consequently, attempts to define, study, or locate martyrdom must move away from conceptualizations that require or center on death. After an introduction that traces ...

A Social History of Christian Origins The Rejected Jesus

A Social History of Christian Origins: The Rejected Jesus

1st Edition

By Simon J. Joseph
December 30, 2022

A Social History of Christian Origins explores how the theme of the Jewish rejection of Jesus – embedded in Paul’s letters and the New Testament Gospels – represents the ethnic, social, cultural, and theological conflicts that facilitated the construction of Christian identity. Readers of this ...

Valentinus’ Legacy and Polyphony of Voices

Valentinus’ Legacy and Polyphony of Voices

1st Edition

By Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski
September 24, 2021

This book challenges the popular use of ‘Valentinian’ to describe a Christian school of thought in the second century CE by analysing documents ascribed to ‘Valentinians’ by early Christian Apologists, and more recently by modern scholars after the discovery of codices near Nag Hammadi in Egypt. ...

Resurrecting Parts Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference

Resurrecting Parts: Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference

1st Edition

By Taylor Petrey
December 12, 2019

During the late second and early third centuries C.E. the resurrection became a central question for intellectual commentary, with increasingly tense divisions between those who interpreted the resurrection as a bodily experience and those who did not. The relationship between the resurrected ...

The Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria 189-232 CE The Form and Function of Hagiography in Late Antique and Islamic Egypt

The Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria 189-232 CE: The Form and Function of Hagiography in Late Antique and Islamic Egypt

1st Edition

By Maged Mikhail
December 12, 2019

This is the first full-length study of Demetrius of Alexandria (189–232 ce), who generated a neglected, yet remarkable hagiographic program that secured him a positive legacy throughout the Middle Ages and the modern era. Drawing upon Patristic, Coptic, and Arabic sources spanning a millennium, the...

Visions of God and Ideas on Deification in Patristic Thought

Visions of God and Ideas on Deification in Patristic Thought

1st Edition

Edited By Mark Edwards, Elena Ene D-Vasilescu
December 12, 2019

This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the image of God in their expositions of Christian...

The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts

The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts

1st Edition

By Ronald Charles
July 17, 2019

The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts analyzes a large corpus of early Christian texts and Pseudepigraphic materials to understand how the authors of these texts used, abused and silenced enslaved characters to articulate their own social, political, and theological visions. ...

The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage Near-Death Experiences, Ancestor Cult, and the Archaeology of Paradise

The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage: Near-Death Experiences, Ancestor Cult, and the Archaeology of Paradise

1st Edition

By Stephen E. Potthoff
January 11, 2019

The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage explores how the visionary experiences of early Christian martyrs shaped and informed early Christian ancestor cult and the construction of the cemetery as paradise. Taking the early Christian cemeteries in Carthage as a case study, the volume broadens our ...

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