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    <title>early church in its context</title>
    <subTitle>essays in honor of Everett Ferguson</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Malherbe, Abraham J.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Norris, Frederick W.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Thompson, James W.</namePart>
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    <publisher>E.J. Brill, </publisher>
    <dateIssued>1998</dateIssued>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xviii, 362 p. : ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>What gnostics knew / Harold W. Attridge -- Attitudes toward foreigners in 2 Maccabees, Eupolemus, Esther, Aristeas, and Luke-Acts / David L. Balch -- En-spirited waters: baptism in the Confessions of Augustine / Pamela Bright -- Cyprian's eschatology: explaining divine purpose / J. Patout Burns -- The reading of the personal letter as the background for the reading of the Scriptures in the early church / Claude E. Cox -- The Papias fragments on Mark and Matthew and their relationship to Luke's Prologue: an essay on the pre-history of the synoptic problem / Denis Farkasfalvy -- Further reflections on the fourfold Gospel canon / William R. Farmer -- A late-antique Tunic fragment in St. Louis / Paul Corby Finney -- Eusebius and The little labyrinth / John T. Fitzgerald.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Abraham J. Malherbe, Frederick W. Norris, James W. Thompson</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Ferguson, Everett, 1933- Bibliography.Ferguson, Everett.Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Early church, ca. 30-600</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BR165  .E18 1998</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">97890041083259004108327</identifier>
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