St Joseph in Early Christianity by LV le Roux

“…In sy werk, St Joseph in Early Christianity, bied Lienhard belangrike inligting wat die Nuwe-Testamentiese Apokriewe in die tweede eeu, en die kerkvaders tot aan die einde van die Romeinse Ryk (c600) oor hom verstrek. …”
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Orphans in Mediterranean antiquity and early Christianity by J. T. Fitzgerald

“…Part 4 discusses the treatment of orphans in early Christianity, focusing on the pre-Constantinian period. …”
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Early Christian prophetesses in the New Testament by Adam Kubiś

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EARLY CHRISTIAN PRAYER AND IDENTITY FORMATION by C Stenschke

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ACTS: INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRAXIS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY by C. Stenschke

“…This article uses the theme of integrating theory and praxis to shed light on developments in early Christianity. …”
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Style and Influence: Computing Hebrews and the Early Christian Stylistic Fingerprint by Erich Benjamin Pracht, Thomas McCauley

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The punishment of slaves in Early Christianity: the views of some selected Church Fathers by C. L. de Wet

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Money Can Buy Me Love. The Origins of Early Christian Diaconia by Lauri Thurén

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Slavery and Early Christianity - a reflection from a human rights perspective by P. G. Kirchschlaeger

“… Addressing the topic “slavery and Early Christianity” is a difficult task for various reasons. …”
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Probing the Relationships Between Mandaeans (the Followers of John the Baptist), Early Christians, and Manichaeans by Brikha H. S. Nasoraia

“…‘Gnosticism’ was a block of creative religious activity mostly responding to the early Christian teachings in unusual ways of cosmicizing Jesus, and presenting a challenge to the ancient church fathers in the first-to-third centuries CE. …”
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Social welfare in the Greco-Roman world as a background for early Christian practice by P. Lampe

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FOUR CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING THE SOCIALLY MARGINAL IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY REFLECTED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT by I.C. Berg

“…This phenomenon was endemic throughout the imperial Roman world, which was the immediate sociopolitical context of early Christianity. This article generally focuses on the province of Judea and its vicinities, as well as the first two centuries of the imperial Roman world as the mother womb context of early Christianity reflected in the New Testament. …”
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Meron T. Gebreananye, Logan Williams, and Francis Watson, eds, Beyond Canon: Early Christianity and the Ethiopic Textual Tradition by Calum Samuelson

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Justin Martyr – between Philosophy and the Second Sophistic by Justinas Ambrazas

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Candida R. Moss. The Myth of Persecution: How Early-Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2013. 308 s. ISBN: 978-0-06210452-6 by Ramazan Adıbelli

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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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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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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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‘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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