Paul’s missionary journeys are analysed with typical insight
by Clarke 1996. Meeks 1983, a classic study, is essential for the
background of the Pauline communities. The implications of
the Delphi inscription were first raised by Brassac 1913: if you
can read French, this is a fascinating piece of detective work that
is still worth reading. For the text of the inscription, see Oliver
1971; Murphy-O’Connor 1992: 137–60 provides a succinct analy-
sis of the issues. The link between Paul, Sergius Paullus and
Antioch in Pisidia is discussed in detail by Mitchell 1993: II,
3–10. The thrill of the discovery of the inscriptions from Antioch
in Pisidia is palpable in Cheesman 1913, Jacquier 1916, and
W. M. Ramsay 1926 – all of them fine pieces of pioneering schol-
arship. The link between the preaching of the gospel and emperor
worship in Asia Minor, first put forward by Deissmann 1910, has
been the subject of recent analyses by Oakes 2001 and Stanton
2004: 9–62. For emperor worship in Asia, see Price 1984.Chapter 5
The council of Nicaea and the debates that followed it are
analysed by Barnes 1981, H. Chadwick 1960, and (in great detail)
Hanson 1988. The making of the creeds can be explored in Young
1991 and J. N. D. Kelly 1972. For the term ‘ecumenical council’,
see H. Chadwick 1972.
For Cyprian’s episcopal career, see Amidon 1983 and Rives
1995: 285–307 (this latter particularly good on seeing Cyprian in
the context of civic life in Roman Carthage). Grant 1997 is a good
introduction to Irenaeus. For Ignatius of Antioch, see Schoedel- For the emergence of a Christian community and leader-
ship see Burtchaell 1992, Campbell 1994, and Kee 1995. Develop-
ments in the face of schism and heresy are analysed by Brent
1995, Lampe 2003, and Thomassen 2004. On the role of women,
from the New Testament period onwards, there is an immense
bibliography: to start with, see Fiorenza 1983, Witherington 1988,
and Eisen 2000. On councils, Hess 2002 is more broad-ranging
than its title promises. For ritual diversity, see especially Bradshaw
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