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Journal of Early Christian Studies 8.3 (2000) 479-481



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JECS readers may be interested in Albert Outler: Biography by Bob Parrott (Anderson, Ind.: Bristol Books, 2000), ISBN 1-885224-28-1, an account of Outler's life in academia and the church. Abilene Christian University Press has issued the third edition of Everett Ferguson's Early Christians Speak (ISBN 0-89112-045-9). Oxford UP offers a paperback edition of Columba Stewart's Cassian the Monk (ISBN 0-19-513484-3), and Columbia UP now has the rights to Bernard McGinn's Antichrist and has a paperback edition (ISBN 0-231-11977-1). Hendrickson Publishers has combined Hans von Campenhausen's Fathers of the Greek Church and Fathers of the Latin Church into one volume, Fathers of the Church (ISBN 1-56563-095-5).

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Augustine, Exposition of the Psalms, vol. 1. Translated by Maria Boulding, O.S.B. Hyde Park, N.Y.: New City Press, 2000. ISBN 1-56548-140-2. Pp. 462. $24.95.

Beaujard, Brigitte. Le Culte des Saints en Gaule. Histoire religieuse de France. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2000. ISBN 2-240-06430-0. Pp. iv + 613. 290FF.

Brent, Allen. The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order: Concepts and Images of Authority in Paganism and Early Christianity before the Age of Cyprian. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 45. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999. ISBN 90-04-11420-3. Pp. xxii + 369. 31 b & w plates.

Breton, Jean-François. Arabia Felix from the Time of the Queen of Sheba. Translated by Albert LaFarge. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. ISBN 0-268-02002-7. Pp. ix + 216. $24.00.

Bryan, Christopher. A Preface to Romans: Notes on the Epistle in Its Literary and Cultural Setting. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-513023-5. Pp. xviii + 278. $49.95.

Charlesworth, James, and Walter Weaver, editors. Jesus Two Thousand Years Later. Faith and Scholarship Colloquies. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity International Press, 2000. ISBN 1-56338-303-9. Pp. xi + 130. $14.00 (pb).

Donfried, Karl, and Johannes Beutler, editors. The Thessalonians Debate. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-8028-4374-3. Pp. xv + 384. $25.00 (pb).

Donovan, Leslie. Women's Saints Lives in Old English Prose. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2000. ISBN 0-85991-568-9. Pp. 142. $19.95 (pb).

Drijvers, Jan Willem, and John Watt, editors. Portraits of Spiritual Authority: Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium,and the Christian Orient. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 137. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999. ISBN 90-04-11459-9. Pp. xiii + 227.

Eisen, Ute. Women Officeholders in Early Christianity. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8146-5950-0. Pp. viii + 322. $19.95 (pb).

Gordon, Bruce, and Peter Marshall, editors. The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-512-64518-2. Pp. xiii + 324. $24.95 (pb).

Grenholm, Cristina, and David Patte, editors. Reading Israel in Romans: Legitimacy and Plausibility of Divergent Interpretations. Romans through History and Culture Series. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2000. ISBN 1-56338-308-X. Pp. vi + 265. $29.00 (pb).

Hübner, Reinhold. Der Paradox Eine: Antignostischer Monarchianismus im zweiten Jahrhundert. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 50. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999. ISBN 90-04-11576-5. Pp. xviii + 332.

Lechner, Thomas. Ignatius adversus Valentinianos? Chronologische und theologiegeschichtliche Studien zu den Briefen des Ignatius von Antiochen. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 47. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999. ISBN 90-04-11505-6. Pp. xxvi + 370.

Luck, Georg. Ancient Pathways and Hidden Pursuit: Religion, Morals, and Magic in the Ancient World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. ISBN 0-472-10790-9. Pp. xii + 314. $54.50.

MacDonal, Dennis. The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-300-08012-3. Pp. viii + 262. $30.00.

Mann, Friedhelm, editor. Lexicon Gregorianum: Wörterbuch zu den Schriften Gregors von Nyssa, Band II. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999. ISBN 90-04-11450-5...

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