Contents

2013 NAPS Presidential Address
From Russia with Love: Deciphering Augustine’s Code    1
Kenneth B. Steinhauser

Literate Media in Early Christ Groups: The Creation of a Christian Book Culture     21
John S. Kloppenborg

Compunction and Compassion: Two Overlooked Virtues in Evagrius of Pontus     61
Kevin Corrigan and Gregory Yuri Glazov

“Hair!”: Remnants of Ascetic Exegesis in Augustine of Hippo’s De Opere Monachorum     79
Maria E. Doerfler

Autopsies and Philosophies of a Merovingian Life: Death, Responsibility, Salvation     113
Jamie Kreiner

Hellenistic “Judaism” and the Social Origins of the “Pagan-Christian” Debate     167
Douglas Boin

Finding a Safe Spot: An Attempt to Understand the Arrangement of Nag Hammadi Codex VI     197
Michael Kaler

Laying Down the Law in Ferragosto: The Roman Visit of Theodosius in Summer 389     219
Fritz Graf

A Spectacle to the World: The Theatrical Meaning of St. Augustine’s Soliloquies     243
Michael P. Foley

The Insertion of the Filioque into the Nicene Creed and a Letter of Isidore of Seville     261
Shawn C. Smith

Note

Ambrose’s Use of 4 Maccabees in De Jacob et Vita Beata: Some Correctives     287
David A. deSilva

The Wondrous Exchange: Irenaeus and Eastern Valentinians on the Soteriology of Interchange     311
M. David Litwa

Semen Stains: Seminal Procreation and the Patrilineal Genealogy of Salvation in Tertullian     343
Taylor G. Petrey

Authoritative Obscenity in Iamblichus and Arnobius     373
Mark Masterson

True Church or True Basilica? The Song of Songs and Parmenian’s Ecclesiology Revisited     399
David E. Wilhite

Chromatius and Jovinus at the Synod of Diospolis: A Prosopographical Inquiry     437
Pier Franco Beatrice

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The Logic of the Logos: A Note on Stoic Logic in Adversus Praxean 10     485
Gerald P. Boersma

Religious Toleration around the Year 313
Ramsay MacMullen     499

The Power of Baptism: Augustine’s Pro-Nicene Response to the Donatists     519
Adam D. Ployd

Suffering for Our Sake: Christ and Human Destiny in Hilary of Poitiers’s De Trinitate     541
Jarred Mercer

Physical Ruin and Spiritual Perfection in Fifth-Century Gaul: Orientius and His Contemporaries on the “Landscape of the Soul”     569
Ian Fielding

Book Reviews     153, 295, 465, 587

Books Received     165, 309, 483, 603