The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature: Volume 1

Introduction: the literary culture of the earliest Christianity / Frances Young -- The apostolic and sub-apostolic writings: the new testament and the apostolic fathers / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Gnostic literature / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Apocryphal writings and acts of the martyrs / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- The apologists / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Irenaeus of Lyon / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Social and historical setting / John Behr -- Articulating identity / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Christian teaching / Frances Young -- Conclusion: towards a hermeneutic of second-century texts / Frances Young -- The Alexandrians / Ronald E. Heine -- The beginnings of Latin Christian literature / Ronald E. Heine -- Hippolytus, Ps.-Hippolytus and the early canons / Ronald E. Heine -- Cyprian and Novatian / Ronald E. Heine -- The earliest Syriac literature / Sebastian P. Brock -- Concluding review: the literary culture of the third century / Frances Young -- Social and historical setting: Christianity as culture critique / Karen Jo Torjesen -- Articulating identity / Ronald E. Heine -- Christian teaching / John David Dawson -- The significance of third-century Christian literature / Frances Young -- Classical genres in Christian guise; Christian genres in classical guise / Frances Young -- Arnobius and Lactantius / Oliver Nicholson -- Eusebius and the birth of church history / Andrew Louth -- The fourth-century Alexandrians: Athanasius and Didymus / Andrew Louth -- Palestine: Cyril of Jerusalem and Epiphanius / Andrew Louth -- The Cappadocians / Andrew Louth -- Fourth-century Latin writers: Hilary, Victorinus, Ambrosiaster, Ambrose / David G. Hunter -- Jerome and Rufinus / Mark Vessey -- Augustine / Henry Chadwick -- John Chrysostom and the Antiochene school to Theodoret of Cyrrhus / Andrew Louth -- Cyril of Alexandria / Andrew Louth -- Hagiography / Andrew Louth -- Ephrem and the Syriac tradition / Sebastian P. Brock -- The literature of the monastic movement / Andrew Louth -- Women and words: texts by and about women / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Conciliar records and canons / Andrew Louth -- Social and historical setting / R.A. Markus -- Articulating identity / Lewis Ayres -- Christian teaching / Frances Young -- Retrospect: interpretation and appropriation / Frances Young.