The first three centuries were the formative period of Christianity. The developments during this time led to the distinction of canonical and non-canonical writings, to organizational structures of the Christian…

Recent scholarship on the history of the biblical canons has increasingly recognised that the Jewish and Christian Bibles were not formed independently of each other but amid controversial debate and…

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Provides a rich narrative to Christian history by looking back upon the theological forces that created the New Testament canon. Through a textual, historical, and hermeneutical examination of early Christianity…

Reading Christian Apocrypha provides a fresh approach to the functions of apocryphal texts in the history of Christianity. The apocryphal writings reveal that Christianity, from the very beginning, developed a…

The volume focuses on the origins, provenance, and social function of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts, including so-called ‘Gnostic, ’ writings. In different strands of ancient Judaism, early Christianity…

Luke-Acts is the first early Christian writing to which serious historiographical interest can be attributed. In view of the intense debate in recent years concerning the character and forms of…

The projected thirty-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and…