TY - BOOK AU - Malherbe, Abraham J. AU - Norris, Frederick W. AU - Thompson, James W. TI - The early church in its context: essays in honor of Everett Ferguson T2 - Supplements to Novum Testamentum SN - 97890041083259004108327 AV - BR165 .E18 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - New York : PB - E.J. Brill,  KW - Ferguson, Everett, 1933- Bibliography.Ferguson, Everett.Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Early church, ca. 30-600 N1 - 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 ER -