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The Bible in Christian North Africa. Part I, Commencement to the "Confessiones" of Augustine (ca. 180 to 400 CE) / edited by Jonathan Yates, Anthony Dupont.
LIBRA BR190 .B53 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Handbooks of the Bible and its reception ; v. 4.1.
- Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception (HBR) ; 4/1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Canon.
- Bible.
- Canon.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Africa, North--History.
- Africa, North.
- North Africa.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 396 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This handbook explores the formation of Christianity in Northern Africa from the second century CE until the present. It focuses on the reception of Scripture in the life of the Church, the processes of decision making, the theological and philosophical reflections of the Church Fathers in various cultural contexts, and schismatic or heretical movements. Volume one covers the first four centuries up until the time of Augustine.
- Contents:
- Scripture and Latin Christian manuscripts from North Africa / H.A.G. Houghton
- Scripture in the martyr Acta et passiones / David L. Riggs
- Scripture in Tertullian's polemical and apologetic treatises / Geoffrey D. Dunn
- Scripture in Tertullian's moral and ascetical treatises / Carly Daniel-Hughes
- Scripture in the letters of and councils under Cyprian of Carthage / Edwina Murphy
- Scripture in the North African treatises of Pseudo-Cyprian / Laetitia Ciccolini
- Scripture in the North African apologists Arnobius and Lactantius / Mark Edwards
- Scripture in Optatus of Milevis / Alden Bass
- Scripture in Augustine's earliest treatises / Gerald P. Boersma
- Paul as scripture in the young Augustine / Volker Henning Drecoll
- Scripture in Augustine's early anti-Manichaean treatises / Jason David BeDuhn
- Scripture in Tyconius / Jesse A. Hoover
- Scripture in Augustine's De doctrina christiana / Tarmo Toom
- Scripture in Augustine's Confessiones / Annemaré Kotzé.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781614517566
- 1614517568
- OCLC:
- 1238129241
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