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

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Ciało - źródło grzechu czy powód do chwały w świetle poglądów Tertuliana by Adam M. Filipowicz

“…The article considers human body in teaching of Tertullian, one of the famous early Christian writers and an important apologist of Christianity. …”
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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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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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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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