Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics

This is a collection of 13 studies on Greek-speaking preachers and audiences in a period from the beginning of the 2nd Century AD to the beginning of the 10th century. The studies cover themes including the identity of Greek-speaking preachers, the circumstances of delivery, the different genres of homiletic, the adaptation of the tropes of Classical rhetoric by Christian preachers, the subject-matter of sermons, exegetical approaches, the preparation, redaction and transmission of sermons, the audiences for sermons and their composition, the location and circumstances of preaching, and the interaction between preacher and audience. Each chapter is accompanied by a summary bibliography of the most important primary source and secondary literature.