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Table of Contents

JOSEPH VERHEYDEN and MARK GRUNDEKEN: Introduction

ANDREAS LINDEMANN: Sakramentale Praxis in Gemeinden des 2. Jahrhunderts

I. Taufe und Abendmahl im Neuen Testament

II. Sakramentale Praxis in den Schriften der Apostolischen Väter

III. Taufe und Mahlfeier beim Apologeten Justin

IV. Zur sakramentalen Praxis im 2. Jahrhundert

CLAYTON N. JEFFORD: The Didache and Eucharist: Signs of Community?

I. Introduction

1. Mirror or New Formation?

2. Unique or Typical?

II. Context is Everything

1. As Source

2. As Structure

III. Mainstream or Unique?

1. Mainstream

2. Unique

3. Resolution

IV. Elements of the Didache Community

1. The Suggestion of Aaron Milavec

2. The Suggestion of Dietrich-Alex Koch

3. The Suggestion of Dennis Smith

4. The Suggestion of Jonathan Schwiebert

V. Summary and Analysis of Suggestions

VI. Community Support

1. Primitive Models

2. Cult, not Church

VII. Conclusions: Ideal and Reality

TARAS KHOMYCH: From Glorious Past to Miserable Present. First Clement on the Organisation of the Corinthian Community

I. Introductory Remarks

II. The Genre and Purpose of First Clement

III. Glorious Past versus Miserable Present of the Community

IV. Noble Origins versus Present Conflict

V. Conclusion

JOHN S. KLOPPENBORG: Pneumatic Democracy and the Conflict in 1 Clement

I. Office-less ekklesiae

II. Evaluating the Paradigm

III. 1 Clement in the Context of Associations

IV. Conclusion

JAMES A. KELHOFFER: If Second Clement Really Were a “Sermon,” How Would We Know, and Why Would We Care? Prolegomena to Analyses of the Writing’s Genre and Community

I. Second Clement Is Not a Letter

II. Construing Second Clement as a “Sermon” or “Homily”

III. The Remarkably Similar Sitze im Leben of Reading a “Letter” and Reading a “Sermon”

1. Orality and Literacy

2. Unusual Letters: The Authentic Letters of Paul

3. Pseudepigraphic Pauline Letters

4. Hortatory Writings without Epistolary Features

IV. The Genre of Second Clement: A Selective Forschungsbericht

1. J. B. Lightfoot

Excursus I: Assumptions about the Role of a Single, Prepared “Sermon” in Early Christian Worship (Justin, First Apology 67)

2. Holt H. Graham (and Robert M. Grant)

3. Karl Paul Donfried

4. Klaus Wengst

5. Andreas Lindemann

Excursus II: Genre and Accountability: “Sermon” as an Excuse for Objectionable Theology?

6. Wilhelm Pratscher

7. Paul Parvis

Excursus III: 2 Clem. 19.1 Points to an Acceptance of 2 Clement 1–18 among “the Scriptures”

8. Christopher Tuckett

V. A Proposal for Future Inquiry: From Macro-Genre to Micro-Genre and to an Analysis of Function

PAUL FOSTER: Christ and the Apostles in the Epistles of Ignatius of Antioch

I. Introduction

II. The Apostles in the Epistles of Ignatius

1. Ephesians

2. Magnesians

3. Trallians

4. Romans

5. Philadelphians

6. Smyrnaeans

7. The Primary Usages of the Apostles in Ignatius’ Writings

III. The Christological Perspectives of Ignatius

1. Christ as a Divine Figure

2. The Fully Human Jesus

3. The Eucharistic Significance of Christ

4. Christ as the Means of Divine Salvation

5. Union with Christ

IV. Conclusions

MARK GRUNDEKEN: Baptism and Μετάνοια in the Shepherd of Hermas

Introduction

I. Baptism

II. Μετάνοια

1. Establishing the Meaning of Μετάνοια

2. Real, General and Imaginary Issues

(a) Real Issues

(b) General Moral Issues

(c) Imaginary Issues

Concluding Remarks

HARRY O. MAIER: From Material Place to Imagined Space: Emergent Christian Community as Thirdspace in the Shepherd of Hermas

I. Toward a Spatial Turn in the Study of the Shepherd of Hermas

II. Material Place and Imagined Space in the Roman Insula: The Shepherd of Hermas

III. The Roman Insula as the Material Place of the Shepherd of Hermas

IV. From Reality to Idea(l)s

V. Housefuls of Jesus Followers?

VI. From Material Place to Thirdspace in the Shepherd of Hermas

VII. Place out of Place

VIII. Hermas’ Paradox

JUDITH M. LIEU: From Us but Not of Us? Moving the Boundaries of the Community

I. The Achievement of Irenaeus, Against Heresies

II. Paul and Another Gospel

III. Johannine Conflicts

IV. Ignatius

Concluding Remarks

JAMES CARLETON PAGET: Barnabas and the Outsiders: Jews and Their World in the Epistle of Barnabas

I. Introduction

II. Barnabas’ Anti-Jewish Polemic – Its Role and Referent

III. Barnabas’ Perspective: The Jew as Outsider

IV. The Actual Place of the Jews in Barnabas’ World

V. Conclusions

TOBIAS NICKLAS: Identitätsbildung durch Konstruktion der „Anderen“: Die Schrift Ad Diognetum

I. Die Darstellung paganer Gottesverehrung

II. Ad Diognetum 3–4: Polemik gegen das Judentum

III. Fazit

List of Contributors

Index of Ancient Sources

I. Old Testament

II. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

III. Other Jewish Literature

IV. New Testament

V. Other Early Christian Literature

VI. Greek and Roman Literature

VII. Inscriptions and Papyri

Index of Modern Authors

Thematic Index