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Tables of Contents for The Bible in Greek Christian Antiquity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
4
Abbreviations
xi
 
Introduction
1
14
PAUL BLOWERS
PART I The Bible as a Foundation of Christianity
15
90
1 The Septuagint: Bible of the Earliest Christians
15
19
PAUL LAMARCHE
2 The Role of the Bible in the Birth of the Church
34
15
JACQUES GUILLET
3 The Bible in the Earliest Controversies between Jews and Christians
49
20
MARCEL SIMON
4 The Bible in the Teaching and the Liturgy of Early Christian Communities
69
36
WILLY RORDORF
PART II The Bible in Use among the Greek Church Fathers
105
92
5 Irenaeus's Reading of the Bible
105
7
MAURICE JOURJON
6 The Bible and Christian Morality in Clement of Alexandria
112
19
ERIC OSBORN
7 Reading the Bible with Origen
131
18
RONALD HEINE
8 Gregory Nazianzen: Constructing and Constructed by Scripture
149
14
FREDERICK NORRIS
9 Theodoret of Cyrus: Bishop and Exegete
163
34
JEAN-NOEL GUINOT
PART III The Bible in Early Christian Doctrinal Controversy
197
62
10 The Bible in Use among the Marginally Orthodox in the Second and Third Centuries
197
20
ALAIN LE BOULLUEC
11 The Bible in the Arian Crisis
217
12
CHARLES KANNENGIESSER
12 The Bible and Spiritual Doctrine: Some Controversies within the Early Eastern Christian Ascetic Tradition
229
30
PAUL BLOWERS
PART IV The Bible and the Cultural Setting of the Mediterranean World
259
70
13 Celsus: A Pagan Perspective on Scripture
259
30
MARCEL BORRET
14 The Bible in Greek Inscriptions
289
10
DENIS FEISSEL
15 The First Biblical Scenes Depicted in Christian Art
299
30
PIERRE DU BOURGUET
PART V The Bible and Religious Devotion in the Early Greek Church
329
112
16 Biblical Themes in Greek Eucharistic Anaphoras
329
13
IRENEE-HENRI DALMAIS
17 The Influence of the Bible in Early Christian Martyrology
342
33
VICTOR SAXER
18 The Bible as a Guide for Early Christian Pilgrims to the Holy Land
375
14
PIERRE MARAVAL
19 The Reading of the Bible in the Ancient Liturgy of Jerusalem
389
26
CHARLES RENOUX
20 Oral Culture, Biblical Interpretation, and Spirituality in Early Christian Monasticism
415
26
DOUGLAS BURTON-CHRISTIE
List of Contributors
441
2
Index
443
11
Index of Biblical References
454