The Bible

The Bible in Greek Christian Antiquity comes as an international project, the work of French, Swiss, Australian, and now Canadian and American scholars. It will be useful to students of early Christianity and the history of biblical interpretation, and will also serve as a useful introduction to the many dimensions of the reception of the Bible in the early Church.
The Bible in Greek Christian Antiquity is a collection of wide-ranging essays on the influence of the Bible in numerous and varied aspects of the life of the Greek-speaking churches during the first four centuries.

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
The Bible as a Foundation of Christianity
The Septuagint: Bible of the Earliest Christians	p. 15
The Role of the Bible in the Birth of the Church	p. 34
The Bible in the Earliest Controversies between Jews and Christians	p. 49
The Bible in the Teaching and the Liturgy of Early Christian Communities	p. 69
The Bible in Use among the Greek Church Fathers
Irenaeus's Reading of the Bible	p. 105
The Bible and Christian Morality in Clement of Alexandria	p. 112
Reading the Bible with Origen	p. 131
Gregory Nazianzen: Constructing and Constructed by Scripture	p. 149
Theodoret of Cyrus: Bishop and Exegete	p. 163
The Bible in Early Christian Doctrinal Controversy
The Bible in Use among the Marginally Orthodox in the Second and Third Centuries	p. 197
The Bible in the Arian Crisis	p. 217
The Bible and Spiritual Doctrine: Some Controversies within the Early Eastern Christian Ascetic Tradition	p. 229
The Bible and the Cultural Setting of the Mediterranean World
Celsus: A Pagan Perspective on Scripture	p. 259
The Bible in Greek Inscriptions	p. 289
The First Biblical Scenes Depicted in Christian Art	p. 299
The Bible and Religious Devotion in the Early Greek Church
Biblical Themes in Greek Eucharistic Anaphoras	p. 329
The Influence of the Bible in Early Christian Martyrology	p. 342
The Bible as a Guide for Early Christian Pilgrims to the Holy Land	p. 375
The Reading of the Bible in the Ancient Liturgy of Jerusalem	p. 389
Oral Culture, Biblical Interpretation, and Spirituality in Early Christian Monasticism	p. 415
List of Contributors	p. 441
Index	p. 443
Index of Biblical References	p. 454
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