Ezekiel, Daniel
Ezekiel, Daniel

Author: Kenneth Stevenson

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-02-19

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 0830897380

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The books of Ezekiel and Daniel are rich in imagery that is taken up afresh in the New Testament. It is no wonder these books, despite the difficulties in interpreting them, took hold on the imagination of the early church. In this ACCS volume, over forty church fathers are cited and four extant works are included, providing a wealth of insight.

Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1-2 Samuel
Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1-2 Samuel

Author: John R. Franke

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-02-19

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0830897291

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The early church fathers readily found parallels, or types, in the narratives of the historical books that illumined the New Testament. This ACCS volume features a rich treasure trove of ancient wisdom, including homilies of Origen, commentaries from Gregory of Nazianzus and Bede the Venerable, and question-and-answer works from Augustine, Theodoret of Cyr, and Bede.

In Defiance of History
In Defiance of History

Author: Victoria Leonard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-16

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1317084969

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This volume offers a counterbalance to the dismissal that Orosius’s Histories Against the Pagans has suffered in most recent criticism. Orosius is traditionally considered to be a mediocre scholar and an essentially worthless historian. This book takes his literary endeavour seriously, recognizing the unique contribution the Histories made at a crucial moment of debate and uncertainty, where the present was shaped by restructuring the past. The significance of the Histories is recognised intrinsically rather than only in comparison with other texts and authors, principally Augustine of Hippo, Orosius's mentor. The approach of the book is historiographical, exploring the form, purpose, and meaning of the Histories. The themes of divine providence, monotheism, and imperial authority are examined, and the subjects of war and the sack of Rome receive extended analysis. The book foregrounds Orosius's significant historiographical innovations that are seldom explored, such as the subversion of imperial history within a Christian spectrum in the synchronization of the emperor Augustus and Christ. Each chapter contributes to the progression of knowledge about Orosius’s Histories and the wider literary and historiographical culture of disruption that characterised the late fourth and early fifth centuries CE.

Isaiah 1-39
Isaiah 1-39

Author: Steven A. McKinion

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-02-19

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0830897356

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For the early church fathers the prophecy of Isaiah was not a compendium of Jewish history or theology but an announcement of the coming Messiah fulfilled in the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. In this ACCS volume, readers will find commentary on Isaiah 1-39 ranging from East to West and from the first through the eighth centuries.

Slave Revolts in Antiquity
Slave Revolts in Antiquity

Author: Theresa Urbainczyk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1315478803

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Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery, slave resistance has typically been dismissed as historically insignificant and those revolts that are documented are portrayed as wholly exceptional and resulting from peculiar historical circumstances that had little to do with the intrinsic views or organizational capabilities of the slaves themselves.In this book Theresa Urbainczyk challenges the current orthodoxy and argues that there were many more slave revolts than is usually assumed and they were far from insignificant historically. She carefully dissects ancient and modern interpretations to show that there was every reason for the writers who recorded and re-recorded the slave rebellions and wars to repress or to reconfigure any larger-scale slave resistance as something other than what it was. Further, she shows that we often have the accounts that we do because of the happenstance of certain ancient authors having been particularly interested in creating accounts of them for their own interests. Urbainczyk argues that we need to look beyond the canonical sources and episodes to see a bigger history of long-term resistance of slaves to their enslavement.

Text, Liturgy, and Music in the Hispanic Rite
Text, Liturgy, and Music in the Hispanic Rite

Author: Raquel Rojo Carrillo

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 0197503764

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This groundbreaking book offers the first detailed analysis of the textual, liturgical, and musical aspects of the vespertinus, the chant genre most central to the Christian practices that shaped the religious and cultural landscape of medieval Iberia.

The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, and the Literacy of Jesus
The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, and the Literacy of Jesus

Author: Chris Keith

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 9004173943

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Although consistently overlooked or dismissed, John 8.6, 8 in the "Pericope Adulterae" is the only place in canonical or non-canonical Jesus tradition that portrays Jesus as writing. After establishing that John 8.6, 8 is indeed a claim that Jesus could write, this book offers a new interpretation and transmission history of the "Pericope Adulterae." Not only did the pericope s interpolator place the story in John s Gospel in order to highlight the claim that Jesus could write, but he did so at John 7.53 8.11 as a result of carefully reading the Johannine narrative. The final chapter of the book proposes a plausible socio-historical context for the insertion of the story.

The Twelve Prophets
The Twelve Prophets

Author: Alberto Ferreiro

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-02-19

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0830897399

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The church fathers mined the Old Testament throughout for prophetic utterances regarding the Messiah, but few books yielded as much messianic ore as the Twelve Prophets, sometimes known as the Minor Prophets. In this rich and vital ACCS volume you will find excerpts, some translated here into English for the first time, from more than thirty church fathers.