Books Received *
Boyarin, Daniel. Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8047-3617-0. Pp. xi + 247. $49.50.
Bull, Marcus. The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 1999. ISBN 0-85115-765-3. Pp. xi + 223. $75.00.
Burt, Donald, OSA. Friendship and Society: An Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999. ISBN 0-8028-4682-3. Pp. xii + 239. $18.00.
Chrysos, Evangelos, and Ian Wood, editors. East and West: Modes of Communication. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999. ISBN 90-04-10929-3. Pp. xiv + 285. 36 b & w pl.
Clarke, Andrew. Serve the Community of the Church. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000. ISBN 0-8028-4182-1. Pp. ix + 305. $30.00.
Clement of Alexandria. Les Stromates, livre VI. Edited and translated by Mgr. Patrick Descourtieux. Sources Chrétiennes 446. Paris: Cerf, 1999. ISBN 2-204-06348-7. Pp. 422. 183FF.
Davies, Jon. Death, Burial, and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity. New York: Routledge, 1999. ISBN 0-415-12991-5. Pp. xiii + 246. $24.99.
De Dreuille, Christophe, editor. L'Église et la Mission au VIe siècle: La mission d'Augustin de Cantorbéry et les Églises de Gaule sous l'impulsion de Grégoire de Grand. Paris: Cerf, 2000. ISBN 2-204-06412-2. Pp. xii + 424. 183FF.
Drake, H. A. Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8018-6218-3. Pp. xx + 609. $68.00.
Edwards, Mark, et al., editors. Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-826986-2. Pp. x + 315. $82.00.
Eusebius. Life of Constantine. Translated by Averil Cameron and Stuart Hall. Clarendon Ancient History Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-814917-4. Pp. xiv + 395. $95.00.
Fagan, Patrick. Catholics in a Protestant Country: The Papist Constituency in Eighteenth-Century Dublin. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998. Pp. 201. $45.00 (from U.S. distributor, International Specialized Book Services, Inc., Portland, Oregon).
Ferguson, Everett. Early Christians Speak: Faith and Life in the First Three Centuries. 3d edition. Abilene, Tx.: Abilene Christian University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-89112-045-9. Pp. ix + 266. $17.95.
Guder, Darrell. The Incarnation and the Church's Witness. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1999. ISBN 1-563338-310-1. Pp. xiii + 63. $9.00 (pb).
Holmes, Michael, editor. The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translation. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1999. ISBN 0-8010-2225-8. Pp. xv + 609. $29.99.
Howard-Johnston, James, and Paul Hayward, editors. The Cult of the Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-826978-1. Pp. x + 298. $74.00
Humphries, Mark. Communities of the Blessed: Social Environment and Religious Change in Northern Italy, A.D. 200-400. Oxford Early Christian Texts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-826983-8. Pp. xv + 258. $70.00.
Jerome. On Illustrious Men. Translated by Thomas Halton. Fathers of the Church 100. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8132-0100-4. Pp. xxx + 211. $34.95.
John Cassian, The Monastic Institutes. Translated by Jerome Bertram, F.S.A. London: Saint Austin Press, 1999. ISBN 1-901157-04-0. Pp. xviii + 193. $26.95.
Leahy, Brendan. The Marian Profile in the Ecclesiology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Hyde Park, N.Y.: New City Press, 2000. ISBN 1-56548-139-9. Pp. 205. $14.95.
Lamoreaux, John, editor. The Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas, 2 vols. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores Arabici 50, 51. Louvain: Peeters, 1999. Pp. xiv + 151; xii + 136.
Loofs, Friedrich. Patristica: Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Alten Kirche. Edited by Hanns Christof Brennecke and Jörg Ulrich. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 71. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Pp. xix + 453. ISBN 3-11-015763-2. DM258.00.
Maier, Christoph. Crusade Propaganda and Ideology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-521-59061-2. Pp. viii + 280. $59.95.
Mann, Friedhelm, editor. Lexicon Gregorianum: Wörterbuch zu den Schriften Gregors von Nyssa, band I. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999. ISBN 90-04-11228-6. Pp. xviii + 664.
Mastino, Attilio, et al., editors. La Sardegna Paleocristiana tra Eusebio e Gregorio Magno. Studi e Ricerche di Cultura Religiosa, Nuova Serie 1. Cagliari: Pontifica Facoltá Teologica della Sardegna, 1999. Pp. 542.
Mehlhause, Joachim. Vestigia Verbi. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 72. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Pp. x +574. ISBN 3-11-015053-0. DM278.00.
O'Daly, Gerard. Augustine's "City of God": A Reader's Guide. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-826354-6. Pp. xii + 323. $85.00.
O'Donovan, Oliver, and Joan O'Donovan, editors. From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 999. ISBN 0-8028-3876-6. Pp. xx + 838. $70.00.
Parrott, Bob. Alfred Outler: The Gifted Dilettante. Anderson, Ind.: Bristol Books, 1999. ISBN 1-885224-28-1. Pp. 504.
Peterson, Silke. "Zerstört die Werke der Weiblichkeit!" Maria Magdalena, Salome und andere Jüngerinnen Jesu in christlich-gnostichen Schriften. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 48. Leiden: Brill, 1999. ISBN 90-04-11449-1. Pp. ix + 383.
Questier, M. C. Newsletters from the Archpresbyterate of George Birkhead. Camden Fifth Series 2. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-521-65260-X. Pp. xiv + 307. $64.95.
Stewart, Columba. Cassian the Monk. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-513484-2. Pp. xv + 286. $19.95.
Stroumsa, Guy. Barbarian Philosophy: The Religious Revolution of Early Christianity. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 112. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999. ISBN 3-16-147105-9. Pp. xii + 345. DM 178.00.
Stone, Michael, and Theodore Bergren, editors. Biblical Figures Outside the Bible. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1999. Pp. xiii + 433. $35.00.
Thier, Sebastian. Kirche bei Pelagius. Patristische Texte und Studien 50. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999. ISBN 3-11-016314-4. Pp. ix + 358. DM218.00.
Vessey, Mark, et al., editors. History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination: New Essays on Augustine's "City of God". Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999. ISBN 1-889680-04-4. Pp. viii + 333.
Vivian, Tim, et al., editors. The Lives of the Jura Fathers. Cistercian Studies Series 178. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1999. ISBN 0-87907-678-X. Pp. 240. $49.95.
Wright, J. Edward. The Early History of Heaven. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-5130009-X. Pp. xviii + 318.
* Listing here neither promises nor precludes future review in the Journal of Early Christian Studies. Prices are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated. ISBN information is given as a convenience for ordering.
