Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
1 Images of the Church in Early Christian Literature 1
2 Attitudes to Schism at the Council of Nicaea 15
3 A Note on Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses IV.8.3 23
4 Ordination in the Ancient Church, I: Greek, Roman, and Jewish Backgrounds 28
5 Ordination in the Ancient Church, II: The Ceremony of Ordination 53
6 Ordination in the Ancient Church, III: Ordination in the Second and Third Centuries 73
7 Ordination and the Early Church, IV: Ordination in the First Century 92
8 Selection and Installation to Office in Roman, Greek, Jewish, and Christian Antiquity 111
9 Jewish and Christian Ordination: Some Observations 129
10 Qumran and Codex D 136
11 Origen and the Election of Bishops 142
12 Eusebius and Ordination 153
13 Laying on of Hands: Its Significance in Ordination 160
14 The Covenant Idea in the Second Century 173
15 Justin Martyr on Jews, Christians, and the Covenant 201
16 Canon Muratori: Date and Provenance 218
17 The Muratorian Fragment and the Canon: Review of Hahneman 226
18 Pseudepigraphy: Post-Canonical Letters 234
19 Factors Leading to the Selection and Closure of the New Testament Canon 247
Bibliography 281
Index of Ancient Documents 301
Index of Subjects 325
