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Arator on the Acts of the Apostles : a baptismal commentary
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillier, Richard, Author.
- Series:
- Oxford early Christian studies Arator on the Acts of the Apostles
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baptism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Baptism.
- Arator, Subdiaconus, active 513-544. De actibus apostolorum.
- Arator.
- Bible. Acts.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 222 p.)
- Other Title:
- Arator on the Acts of the Apostles
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a wide-ranging study of baptismal symbolism in the early Church taking as its starting point Arator's 'Historia Apostolica', a commentary in verse on the Acts of the Apostles, written in Rome in AD 544. Baptism is a major theme is Arator's poem and his ideas are here traced back to their origins.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191672330 (ebook) :
- 0191672335 (ebook) :
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