The relevance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for New Testament interpretation with a bibliographical appendix by J. Frey

“…Neither was the Qumran community a prototype of Early Christianity, nor do Qumran texts reflect Early Christian history. …”
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Marriage, sexuality, and holiness: aspects of marital ethics in the Corpus Paulinum by R. Zimmermann

“…Foucault as the transition from a “matrimonial” to a “conjugal” marital concept. While early Christianity participated in this development, it also influenced it at decisive points and developed its own marital ethics. …”
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Psalm 22 LXX in Origen’s commentary on the Song of Songs by P.B. Decock

“… This article examines three distinct ways of reading Psalm 23(LXX 22), first in the Targum, then in the liturgy of early Christian initiation, and finally in Origen’s commentary on the Song of Songs. …”
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Barbara Thiering's interpretation of Jesus' life by JA Naudé

“…The evaluation of Thiering's attempt to equate Christianity and Essenism, as well as the so-called similarities between the Qumran community and early Christianity, will follow logically. …”
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St. Nikephoros of Antioch - a nominal warrior saint. A note on the interplay of onomastics and iconography in Eastern Christian art by Živković Miloš

“…Nikephoros offer no grounds for including this early Christian martyr in the military saint category. …”
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Memory, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene: Whose memory matters? by N.E. Müller van Velden

“…As such, the article attempts to highlight the role of subjectivity and ideology in the acts of remembering in the Christian tradition based on New Testament and Early Christian writings and argues for critical interpretations of both the characterisations in the writings themselves, and the subsequent “lives” of these characterisations in the Christian tradition. …”
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What happened to the Galatian Christians? Paul's legacy in Southern Galatia by Cilliers Breytenbach

“…Nowhere else in the world of early Christianity the name ?????? was used with such a high frequency as in those regions where the apostle founded the first congregations in the south of the province Galatia and in the Phrygian-Galatian borderland. …”
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PAULINE “ETHICS OF RELINQUISHING”: by R. Zimmermann

“…In the first section, I contend that the source of inspiration for this ethics is the Bible and, in particular, the writings of Paul, which open up insights into moral principles and the ethos of Early Christian communities. In the second section, I take up insights from biblical ethics and develop foundational aspects of, and criteria for how such an ethics of relinquishing can be described on both a theoretical and a terminological level. …”
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The Use of the Stoic Concept of Phronēsis by Irenaeus and Lactantius by Gábor Kendeffy

“… The Stoic concept of practical wisdom and the stoic Idea of the necessary conjunction of good and evil implicitly combined by Stoics themselves can be found in the works of early Christian thinkers like Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyons and Lactantius, the African apologist. …”
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‘His Own Nearer Household Gods’: Pagans, Christians, and Marius the Epicurean’s Religious Hermeneutics by Jude Wright

“…Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean (1885) may be seen as part of the subgenre of the all but forgotten Historical Novel of Early Christianity, which is represented by such lights as Newman, Kingsley, and Wiseman. …”
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Religious experience and sacred text by A. Holder

“…Beginning with biblical theophanies that represent religious experience in the sacred text, the article moves to early Christian reading practices that foster experience of the text, and then to medieval accounts of mystical revelations that treat experience as a text. …”
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MARCION OF SYNOPE’S RELEVANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD VIS-À-VIS RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE by G Andrade

“…He is frequently grouped with the Gnostic trends of Early Christianity, although this is not entirely accurate. …”
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L’iconographie de la croix sur les sarcophages du haut Moyen Âge en Gaule by Anne Flammin

“…In early Christian art, the image of the cross only began appearing on sarcophagi or in the monumental decoration of Roman churches in the mid-fourth century. …”
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Le castrum de l’Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge de Mandeure et l’établissement fortifié de hauteur de Château-Julien (Doubs) by David Billoin, Cédric Cramatte

“…They allowed to reconsider the town evolution between the Late Iron Age and the Early Middle Ages but above all to understand the extent of changes that the town goes through during the Late Antiquity; the construction of a castrum and of an Early Christian basilica on the spot of a military camp built in the mid-4th c. …”
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IUENNA – openIng the soUthErn jauNtal as a micro-regioN for future Archaeology: A «para-description» by Hagmann, Dominik, Reiner, Franziska

“…This site moreover functions as a crucial reference point for early Christianity in the Southeast Alpine region and boasts a rich array of features: at least five early Christian churches, burials, auxiliary structures, and notable landmarks like the Gothic pilgrimage church of St. …”
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Jesus' affection towards children and Matthew's tale of two kings by A. G. van Aarde

“… On account of multiple and independent attestations in early Christian literature Jesus’ affection towards children can be taken as historical authentic. …”
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Why Can’t Saint Victorinus of Poetovio Be the Author of the Homily “On the Ten Virgins”? by Nikolay A. Khandoga

“… The early Christian homily «On the ten virgins» for over 100 years has been a controversial work, since no strong argument has been presented by any scholar in favor of who is its author. …”
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How to understand the parables of Jesus. A paradigm shift in parable exegesis by R. Zimmermann

“…Instead, the discussion of a comprehensive genre of “parable” utilises the genre consciousness of the early Christian authors; a genre that can be precisely defined by means of a literary-critical description in terms of the criteria of narrativity, fictionality, relation to reality, metaphor, appeal structure and co-/contextuality. …”
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Ansanus “the Baptizer” and the Problem of Siena’s Non-Existent Early Episcopacy (c. 1100–1600) by Carol A. Anderson

“…As part of their effort to verify that their city had not only Roman but also early Christian origins, the Sienese, primarily spearheaded by lay officials, refashioned the image of their martyr-saint, Ansanus (d. 296). …”
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The influence of Christianity on Graeco-Roman medicine up to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… In this overview of the effect of early Christianity on empirical medicine in Graeco-Roman times, it is shown that the first two centuries represented peaceful cooperation, since the Christians saw secular medicine as a legitimate form of supernatural cure and not as magic. …”
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