Early Christianity

"Dating new testament documents"

Lecture given by Peter Eyland at ISCAST (NSW) in May 2011. ISCAST

Abstract: Dating NT documents has been a controversial matter at times, with some giving very late dates and others very early dates. In this talk various factors such as their physical, written and textual properties are discussed. This will include the materials, the ink, multi-spectral imaging and carbon dating. It also includes construction and provenance, calendric complexity, writing styles and transmission of various text types and versions.

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http://iscast.org/Eyland_P_2011-05_Dating_NT_Documents

"Letters of Introduction" were used by early Christians within Greek speaking Egypt to help identify them when travelling between communities. They usually carried the letter with them and it provided credentials to help them complete their purposes.

Greek Letters of Introduction

Note: this is in pdf format

It is fourteen pages long, and is 179kb to download.

Early Christianity in Antioch

Early Christianity in Antioch

Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire and Iran:

The diffusion of Christianity on both sides of the Roman Eastern Frontier

Eastern Frontier

Glossary of Syriac Words and phrases

Syriac Glossary

Judaism in the Didache, Barnabas, Ignatius of Antioch, Melito, Justin Martyr

The Jews in early Christian Texts

In the beginning was the Deed!

Faust on John 1:1

Quell? Literary sources in the Four Gospels

On Dispensing With Q

Cyril and Nestorius: the two Sons?, the Liturgy of Addai and Mari, the filioque clause

History of the Church of the East

References:

Abbott-Smith, G., A manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, T & T Clark, Aberdeen, 1964

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Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, Columbia UP, 2003

Gibbon, J, Athenian Society, Bristol Classical Press, London, 1997

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Harris S.L., and Platzner, G., Classical Mythology, Mayfield, Mountain View, 2001

Neils, J, Worshipping Athena, Panathenaia & Parthenon, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1996

G P Putnam's Sons, The Concise Mythological Dictionary, Peerage Books, London, 1963

Langenscheidts Taschenwortenbuch

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised by Sir Henry Stuart Jones and Roderick McKenzie, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940. Found on line at Perseus

Peck, H. T., Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, 1898

Smith, W., A Smaller History of [Ancient] Greece