Books Received

Blasi, Anthony J., Jean Duhaime, Paul-André Turcotte, editors. Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2002. ISBN 0-7591-0015-2. Pp. xxvii + 802. $100.

Bobertz, Charles A., and David Brakke, editors. Reading in Christian Communities: Essays on Interpretation in the Early Church. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. ISBN 0-268-04017-6. Pp.xi + 248. $19 (paper).

Bolman, Elizabeth S., editor. Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Anthony at the Red Sea. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-300-09224-5. Pp. xxvii + 307.

Donfried, Karl Paul. Paul, Thessalonica, and Early Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. ISBN 0-8028-0509-4. Pp. xxxviii + 347.

Fulton, Rachel. From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-231-12550-X. Pp. xvi + 676.

Hall, Amy Laura. Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love. Cambridge Studies in Religion and Political Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-89311-9. Pp. xi + 222. $21 (paper).

Horstmanshoff, H. F. J., et al., Kykeon: Studies in Honour of H. S. Versnel. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 142. Leiden: Brill, 2002. ISBN 90-04-11983-3. Pp. viii + 228.

Lippolis, Isabella Baldini. La domus tardoantica: Forme e rappresentazioni dello spazio domestico nelle citta'del Mediterraneo. Bologna: University Press Bologna, 2001. ISBN 88-86946-58-9. Pp. 320.

Marguerat, Daniel. The First Christian Historian: Writing the "Acts of the Apostles." Translated by Ken McKinney, Gregory J. Laughery, and Richard Bauckham. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 121. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0 521-81650-5. xii + 299. $60.

Marshall, Peter and Alec Ryrie, editors. The Beginnings of English Protestantism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-00324-5. Pp. xi + 242. $20 (paper).

Mratschek, Sigrid. Der Briefwechsel des Paulinus von Nola: Kommunikation und Soziale Kontakte zwischen christlichen Intellectuellen. Hypomnemata 134. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 3-525-25232-3. Pp. ix + 732. <108,80, SFr 154.

Oakes, Peter. Rome in the Bible and the Early Church. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002. ISBN 0-8010-2607-3. Pp. xvii + 166. $17.99 (paper).

Oden, Thomas C. The Justification Reader. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. ISBN 0-8028-3966-5. Pp. xviii + 163. $18 (paper).

Origen. Homilies on Joshua. Translated by Barbara J. Bruce. Edited by Cynthia White. Fathers of the Church Series 105. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8132-0105-5. Pp. viii + 232. $34.95.

Pranger, M. B. The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-80474524-2. Pp. xv + 332. $65.

Schwartz, Seth. Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-691-08850-0. Pp. xi + 320. $39.50.

Theodoret of Cyrus. Commentary on the Letters of Paul. Trans. with an introduction by Robert Charles Hill. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox, 2001. Vol. 1: ISBN 1-885652-52-6. Pp. 319. $18.95 (paper); Vol. 2: ISBN 1-885652-53-4. Pp. 275. $18.95 (paper).

Weaver, Darlene Fozard. Self-Love and Christian Ethics. New Studies in Christian Ethics 23. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-52097-5. Pp. x + 267. $23 (paper).

Williams, D. H., editor. The Free Church and the Early Church: Bridging the Historical and Theological Divide. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. ISBN 0-8028-4986-5. Pp.xiii + 183. $24 (paper).

Williams, Frederick, and Lionel Wickham, translators. On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, with introduction and notes. Crestwood, N.Y: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2002. ISBN 0-88141-240-6. Pp. 175. $12.95 (paper).

Van Dam, Raymond. Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.ISBN 0-81-22-3681-5. Pp. ix + 290. $49.95.