Contents

Contents

2005 NAPS Presidential Address
Remembering Abraham of Farshut: History, Hagiography, and the Fate of the Pachomian Tradition     1
James E. Goehring

In the Footsteps of Paul: Steps along the Road to Canon in Ignatius of Antioch     27
Matthew W. Mitchell

The Characterization of Jesus in Codex W     47
Justin R. Howell

Slavery and Pope Gregory the Great     77
Adam Serfass

Note
Divine Monarchy in Gregory of Nazianzus     105
Richard Cross

Editors' Note
Elizabeth A. Clark and the Journal of Early Christian Studies     137

Tertullian's Scriptural Exegesis in de praescriptione haereticorum     141
Geoffrey D. Dunn

Moral, Ascetic, and Ritual Dimensions to Law-Observance in Aphrahat's Demonstrations     157
Adam Lehto

The Stones of St. Theodore: Disfiguring the Pagan Past in Christian Gerasa     183
Jason Moralee

Note
Paradisus in carcere: The Vocabulary of Imprisonment and the Theology of Martyrdom in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis     217
Thomas J. Heffernan and James E. Shelton

Note
Saint Augustine's Letter 211 in The Rule of the Master and The Rule of Saint Benedict     225
John R. Fortin, OSB

Clement of Alexandria and Early Christian Music     255
Charles H. Cosgrove

Rhetoric of Martyrs: Listening to Saints Perpetua and Felicitas      283
Erin Ronsse

Towards a Miraculous Economy: Christian Gifts and Material "Blessings" in Late Antiquity     329
Daniel Caner

The Question Of Orthodoxy

Introduction     395
Lewis Ayres

Walter Bauer's Rechtgläubigkeit und Ketzerei im ältesten Christentum     399
Reviewed by Walther Völker
Translated from German by Thomas P. Scheck

Origen and Christian Naming: Textual Exhaustion and the Boundaries of Gentility in Commentary on John 1     407
Catherine M. Chin

Tertullian and the "Heretical" Origins of the "Orthodox" Trinity     437
Andrew McGowan

Eusebian Theologies of the Son as the Image of God before 341     459
Mark DelCogliano

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Early Christian Re-Writing and the History of the Pericope Adulterae     485
Jennifer Wright Knust

Book Reviews     117, 235, 379, 537

Books Received     135, 253, 393, 543