- Volume Contents
2014 NAPS Presidential Address
Compiling Narratives: The Visual Strategies of Early Christian Art
Robin Margaret Jensen 1
Voluntary Martyrdom and Gnosticism
Philip L. Tite 27
Ambrosiaster’s Second Thoughts about Eve
Marie-Pierre Bussières 55
Chrysostom’s Serpent: Animality and Gender in the Homilies on Genesis
Benjamin H. Dunning 71
Evergetism among the Bishops of Hispania between the Sixth and Seventh Centuries: A Dialogue between Archaeological and Documentary Sources
María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudo and Francisco José Moreno Martín 97
Irenaeus vs the Valentinians: Toward a Rethinking of Patristic
Exegetical Origins
Lewis Ayres 153
“The Health-Giving Cup”: Cyprian’s Ep. 63 and the Medicinal Power of Eucharistic Wine
John David Penniman 189
How Greek is Ephrem’s Syriac?: Ephrem’s Commentary on Genesis as a Case Study
Yifat Monnickendam 213 [End Page 647]
The Early Christian Reception of Genesis 18: From Theophany to Trinitarian Symbolism
Bogdan G. Bucur 245
Ascension of Christ or Ascension of Mary?: Reconsidering a Popular Early Iconography
Ally Kateusz 273
Note
Bed, Bath, and Burial: NCE 156 Revisited
H. Gregory Snyder 305
“For Mark was Peter’s Tannaʾ”: Tradition and Transmission in Papias and the Early Rabbis
Azzan Yadin-Israel 337
Pudor et Dedecus: Rhetoric of Honor and Shame in Perpetua’s Passion Brian Sowers 363
Candida: An Ante-Nicene Martyr in Persia
Justin David Strong 389
Adversus Adversus Iudaeos?
Countering Christian Anti-Jewish Polemics in the Gospel of Nicodemus Philip Fackler 413
The Double Bind of Christianity’s Judaism: Language, Law, and the Incoherence of Late Antique Discourse
Todd S. Berzon 445
Clement of Alexandria’s Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue
Robert G. T. Edwards 501
Spiritual Exegesis as an Ascetic Performance in Gregory of Nyssa
Olga Solovieva 529
Placuit apostolicae (Ep. 1) of Zosimus of Rome and the Ecclesiastical
Reorganization of Gaul
Geoffrey D. Dunn 559 [End Page 648]
Simeon and Other Women in Theodoret’s Religious History: Gender in the Representation of Late Ancient Christian Asceticism
Ellen Muehlberger 583
Fixing John Damascene’s Biography: Historical Notes on His Family Background
Sean W. Anthony 607
Book Reviews 133, 317, 481, 629
Books Received 149, 333, 497, 641 [End Page 649]