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050 00 $aBR63$b.E18 2004
082 00 $a270.1$222
245 00 $aEarly Christian reader :$bChristians text from the first and second centuries in contemporary english translations including the New Revised Standard Version of the New Testament /$cwith introductions and annotations by Steve Mason and Tom Robinson.
260 $aPeabody, Mass. :$bHendrickson Publishers,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $avii, 780 pages :$billustrations, color maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aChristian literature, Early.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025115
700 1 $aMason, Steve,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90701530
700 1 $aRobinson, Thomas A.$q(Thomas Arthur),$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85280554
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hend041/2003056984.html
852 00 $bbar,stor$hBR63$i.E18 2004