NT Church History / Apostolic Period

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The Apostolic Tradition Bradshaw, Paul F.; Johnson, Maxwell; Phillips, L. Edward 288 Herm 2002
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Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity Johnson, Luke Timothy 480 AYBRL 2010
Women in the Earliest Churches Witherington III, Ben 316 SNTSMS 1991
Kerygma and Didache: The Articulation and Structure of the Earliest Christian Message McDonald, James I. H. 264 SNTSMS 2004
Worship Theology and Ministry in the Early Church Marshall, I. Howard; Losie, Lynn A.; Allen, Leslie C.; Morris, Leon; Best, Ernest; Guthrie, Donald; Stanton, Graham N.; Hagner, Donald A.; Brown, Colin; Dunn, James D. G.; Lincoln, Andrew T.; Paige, Terence; Ellis, E. Earle; Thompson, Marianne Meye; Hawthorne, Gerald F.; Kruse, Colin G.; O'Brien, Peter T.; Schweizer, Eduard; Wilkins, Michael J. 391 LNTS 1993
Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions Moss, Candida R. 272 AYBRL 2012
No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus Garrett, Susan R. 352 AYBRL 2008
Israel in the Apostolic Church Richardson, Peter 272 SNTSMS 2005
The Pauline Churches: A Socio-Historical Study of Institutionalization in the Pauline and Deutrero-Pauline Writings MacDonald, Margaret Y. 304 SNTSMS 2004
Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: How to Write Their History eds. Tomson, Peter J.; Schwartz, Joshua CRINT 2014
 Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature: Volume 2: Jewish Historiography and Iconography in Early and Medieval Christianity  Schreckenberg, Heinz; Schubert, Kurt 328 CRINT 1992
 Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature: Volume 3: Philo in Early Christian Literature Runia, David T. 438 CRINT 1993
 Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature: Volume 4: Jewish Apocalyptic Heritage in Early Christianity eds. VanderKam, James C.; Adler, William 300 CRINT 1996
Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls Abegg, Jr., Martin G.; Wooden, R. Glenn; Smith, Barry D.; Wilson, Jonathan R. 144 ASBT 2006
A History of the First Christians Wedderburn, Alexander J. M. 312 UBW 2004
The Earliest Christian Meeting Places: Almost Exclusively Houses? Adams, Edward 280 LNTS 2015
Ancient Education and Early Christianity Hauge, Matthew Ryan; Pitts, Andrew W.; Hezser, Catherine; Atkin, James; Harrison, James R.; Hock, Ronald F.; Strawbridge, Jennifer; McDonald, Dennis R.; Adams, Sean A.; Hauge, Matthew Ryan; Porter, Stanley E.; Pitts, Andrew W.; Watson, Duane F.; Varner, William 240 LNTS 2016
Illiterate Apostles: Uneducated Early Christians and the Literates Who Loved Them Hilton, Allen 224 LNTS 2018
The Birth of Christian History: Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts Becker, Eve-Marie 264 AYBRL 2017
Texts and Artefacts: Collected Essays on Early Christian Manuscripts Hurtado, Larry W. 240 LNTS 2017
Church and Empire eds. Doerfler, Maria E. 162 AF 2016
Wealth and Poverty in Early Christianity eds. Rhee, Helen; Kalantzis, George 184 AF 2017
Marriage and Sexuality in Early Christianity eds. Hunter, David G. 272 AF 2018
Revealed Histories: Techniques for Ancient Jewish and Christian Historiography Hall, Robert G. 288 LSTS 2015
Paul, Antioch and Jerusalem: A Study in Relationships and Authority in Earliest Christianity Taylor, Nicholas 271 LNTS 1992
Redemptive Almsgiving in Early Christianity Garrison, Roman 175 LNTS 1993
Making Sense in (and of) the First Christian Century Downing, F. Gerald 270 LNTS 2000
Doing Things with Words in the First Christian Century Downing, F. Gerald 272 LNTS 2000
Christians as a Religious Minority in a Multicultural City: Modes of Interaction and Identity Formation in Early Imperial Rome Kunst, Christiane; Lampe, Peter; Williams, Margaret H.; Noy, David; Labahn, Michael; Hodge, Caroline Johnson; Pitta, Antonio; O'Neill, J. C.; Zangenberg, Jürgen K.; Meiser, Martin; Dunderberg, Ismo; Wehnert, Jürgen 216 LNTS 2004
The Church in Antioch in the First Century CE: Communion and Conflict Slee, Michelle 224 LNTS 2004
Radical Martyrdom and Cosmic Conflict in Early Christianity Middleton, Paul 224 LNTS 2006
Knowledge and the Coming Kingdom: The Didache's Meal Ritual and its Place in Early Christianity Schwiebert, Jonathan 304 LNTS 2008
Jesus, Matthew's Gospel and Early Christianity: Studies in Memory of Graham N. Stanton Stanton, Graham N.; Burridge, Richard A.; Gurtner, Daniel M.; Dunn, James D. G.; McKnight, Scot; Hagner, Donald A.; Head, Peter M.; Evans, Craig A.; Olmstead, Wesley; Runesson, Anders; Tuckett, Christopher M.; Willitts, Joel; Catchpole, David R. 240 LNTS 2011
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