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Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Section I: Aspects of Early Christianity -- Chapter 1: Why Did Jesus' Followers Call Themselves 'Christians'? -- 1. The Importance of Christ -- 2. Christian and pagan adhesion to one god -- 3. Jesus' followers as 'Christians' -- Chapter 2: The Social and Religious Capital of the Early Christians -- 1. Charity -- 2. Interconnectedness -- 3. Family aspects -- 4. Bonding and bridging -- 5. Religious capital -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Why Did Early Christianity Attract Upper-class Women? -- Chapter 4: Pauper or Patroness: the Widow in theEarly Christian Church -- 1. Jesus and the first Palestine congregations -- 2. The Greek world -- 3. The Roman world -- 4. Syria and Egypt -- 5. The Christian Empire -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Peregrinus' Christian Career -- Chapter 6: The Domestication of Early Christian Prophecy -- 1. The situation in Paul's time -- 2. The situation around AD 100 -- 3. Montanism or the revival of prophecy -- 4. Preliminary conclusions -- 5. The Ascension of Isaiah and ecstatic prophecy -- Section II: Studies in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostlesand the Pseudo-Clementines -- Chapter 7: Women in the Acts of John -- 1. Lycomedes and Cleopatra (19-29) -- 2. Andronicus and Drusiana (63-86) -- 3. Old women and widows (30-7) -- 4. Conclusion -- Appendix: date and place of composition of the Acts of John -- Chapter 8: Man, Magic, and Martyrdom in the Acts of Andrew -- 1. Males and females -- 2. Magic and exorcism -- 3. Martyrdom -- Chapter 9: Aspects of the Acts of Peter: Women, Magic, Place and Date -- 1. Women -- 2. Demons and magic -- 3. Place of origin and date of the APt -- Chapter 10: Magic, Martyrdom and Women's Liberation in the Acts of Paul and Thecla -- 1. Paul and Thecla in Iconium -- 3. Paul and Thecla in Antioch. 4. Composition, name, date, place of origin, author, and aims of the AP -- Chapter 11: The Acts of Thomas: Place, Date and Women -- 1. Women -- 2. Women and the AAA -- Chapter 12: Conversion in the Oldest Apocryphal Acts -- 1. The Acts of John -- 2. The Acts of Peter -- 3. The Acts of Paul -- 4. Conclusions and general observations -- Chapter 13: Magic in the Apocryphal Acts -- 1. Realities and representations of magic -- 2. Exorcism -- 3. The confrontation between the apostle Peter and Simon Magus -- 4. Conclusions -- Chapter 14: The Apocryphal Acts: Authors, Place, Time and Readership -- 1. Authorship, text and message -- 2. The chronology and place of origin of the AAA -- 3. Readership -- Chapter 15: Pseudo-Clementines: Texts, Dates, Places, Authors and Magic -- 1. Text -- 2. Place and Date of the Grundschrift, Homilies and Recognitions -- 3. The Author of the Grundschrift -- 4. Magic -- Chapter 16: Apion and Anoubion in the Homilies -- 1. Athenodorus -- 2. Annoubion -- 3. Appion -- 4. Conclusion -- Section III: Apocalypses and Tours of Hell -- Chapter 17: The Apocalypse of Peter: Greek or Jewish? -- Chapter 18: The Apocalypse of Peter: Place, Date and Punishments -- 1. The Date and Place of the Apocalypse of Peter -- 2. Crimes and punishments -- 3. The nature and chronology of the tours of hell -- Chapter 19: Christian Hell: From the Apocalypse of Peter to the Apocalypse of Paul -- 1. Date and place of origin -- 2. Old and new sins and sinners -- 3. Punishments -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 20: Tours of Hell: Greek, Jewish, Roman and Early Christian -- 1. The Greeks -- 2. Palestine -- 3. Rome -- 4. Early Christianity -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 21: Descents to Hell and Ascents to Heavenin Apocalyptic Literature -- 1. Descents in the classical world -- 2. An Enochic interlude -- 3. A descent in Rome -- 4. Descents in early Christianity 5. Ascent to heaven -- 5.1 The ascent of the soul to heaven: round trips and single journeys -- 5.2 Roundtrips to heaven in vision or 'reality' -- 5.3 Ascent to immortal heavenly life -- 6. Conclusion -- Section IV: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas -- Chapter 22: Perpetua and her Diary: Authenticity, Family and Visions -- 1. The Acta martyrum -- 2. The text of the Passion of Perpetua -- 3. Perpetua and her family -- 4. Perpetua's visions -- 4.1 Perpetua's Ascent to Heaven -- 4.2 Perpetua and her brother Dinocrates -- 4.3 The fight against the Egyptian -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 23: Felicitas: The Martyrdom of a Young African Woman -- Chapter 24: The Motivation of Martyrs: Perpetua and the Palestinians -- 1. The penultimate day -- 2. The preparations for the execution -- 3. The motivation of martyrs -- Chapter 25: Passio Perpetuae 2, 16 and 17 -- 2.1-2 -- 2.3 -- 16.1 -- 16.2 -- 17 -- Chapter 26: The Vision of Saturus in the Passio Perpetuae -- 1. Saturus and (the text of) his vision -- 2. Saturus' welcome in heaven -- 3. Conversation with the clergy on earth -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 27: Contextualising Heaven in Third-Century North Africa -- 1. The Passio Sanctorum Mariani et Iacobi -- 2. The court scene -- 3. The heavenly landscape -- 4. The fountain and the cup -- 5. Marian's heaven -- Acknowledgements -- Index of names, places and passages
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