A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity

Introduction: The Christian Second Century: Energetic Innovations and LegaciesScott Harrower

Part 1: Defining and Writing Early Christianity1 A Literary Faith: Reading God, Reading Books, and Reading Each OtherD. Jeffrey Bingham2 Second-Century Christian WomenEdwina Murphy3 Gallic, Greek, Asian, and Unknown Texts: Regional Diversity, Common ThemesKirsten H. Mackerras and Jonathon Lookadoo4 Apologists, Heresiologists, and First Theologians I: Preliminary Issues, the City of RomeScott Harrower5 Apologists, Heresiologists, and First Theologians II: Antioch, Smyrna, AlexandriaScott Harrower6 Emerging Diversity: "Other" ChristianitiesDavid A. Evans and Paul McKechnie7 Jewish Responses and Pagan References to ChristianityWarren Campbell and David Lincicum

Part 2: The Christian Second Century in Retrospect8 The Second Century in the Fourth: Eusebius and the Codification of Christian HistoryMichael J. Svigel9 The New Testament in the Second Century: Chronology and the Emergence of Christian ScriptureMichael F. Bird

Part 3: The Spectrum of Early Christian Texts10 Early Christian Letters: Building Community, Building FaithJanelle Peters11 The Nag Hammadi Codices: A Window into the Plurality of Early ChristianityChristine Jacobi12 Jesus Books, Gospel Fragments, and Gospel Harmonies: Rewriting the Jesus TraditionMarkus Bockmuehl and Jacob A. Rodriguez13 Second-Century Apocalypses: The Proliferation of a Contested GenreJörg Frey14 Early Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles: Remembered OriginsTobias Nicklas15 Martyrologies: A Witness to Theological FormationLynn H. Cohick and Samuel S. Cho16 Didactic and Pastoral Writings: The Pedagogy of FaithJonathon Lookadoo

Part 4: Producing the Christian Culture17 Apostolic Texts as Scripture in the Second Century: Their Significance and AuthorityEckhard J. Schnabel18 Christian Papyri and Literary CulturePaul Foster19 New Testament Manuscripts (Possibly) from the Second CenturyMichael J. Kruger20 Lost (and Found) Second-Century Christian WritingsStephen C. Carlson

Part 5: Practicing the Christian Life21 The Rule of Faith and Emerging Symbolum Apostolorum: Origin, Function, StructureTomas Bokedal22 Sources of Second-Century Worship: Initiation, Ritual, ParticipationDaniel Cardó and Elizabeth Klein