Early Christianity

homoousios 162

Hopkins, K. 22, 111–12

Ignatius, bp of Antioch 77, 107,

153–4, 161–2, 219

informers 216–17

inscriptions 90, 92, 124, 125–41,

210, 220, 233

Ireland 18, 22–3

Irenaeus of Lyons 78, 79, 80,

109–10, 148–9, 160–1, 165,

170–2, 176–7

Islam 29, 210

Jehovah’s Witnesses 19–20, 27

Jerome 43, 47, 209

Jerusalem 40–1, 155; temple

destroyed 73, 108

Jesus: career of 101–2, 186–7; death

100–1, 161; divinity of 161–2; as

‘king of the Jews’ 101; as

Messiah 73, 104, 157, 197; as

saviour 136–7, 159; as lord 140;

tomb of 40–1; traditions about

157; trial 216; see also

crucifixion; homoousios;

parousia; salvation

Jewish literature 82–6

Jews: Roman attitudes to 197–8;

target of Christian mission

116–17

John Chrysostom, bp of Antioch

107

John, evangelist 219

Josephus 85–6, 101

Judaism 37–8, 39, 74; Christian

hostility to 99, 104, 110, 141,

162; development of in early

Christian centuries 105–8;

diversity 105; Diaspora 105, 107,

116, 123; influence on early

Christianity 151; interaction with

early Christianity 98–100, 104–8;

see alsoEusebius, bp of

Caesarea; Jews; ‘parting of the

ways’; Passover

Julian, emp. 10, 125, 198, 208

Julius Caesar, C. 138–9

Jung, C. G. 168, 176

Justin Martyr 79, 106, 121–2, 164

Kataphrygians 163

King, K. 175–8

Klauck, H.-J. 135–6

kurios 140

Lactantius 189, 224

Lane Fox, R. 17–18, 113–14

language: indicator of culture 16,

79, 146–7; see alsoCoptic

late antiquity 62–3

letters: New Testament 137, 166; of

John 69; of Peter 192, 202–3; see

alsoPaul, letters

lions: Christians thrown to 97, 187,

195;see alsotigers

liturgy 156–8, 165–6

Livy 199–200

Lucian of Samosata 87

Luther, M. 49, 52

Lyons 114–5, 119, 192; see also

Gaul; Irenaeus of Lyons; Vienne

MacMullen, R. 112

madness 201–2

Magdeburg Centuries52–3

Mamre, oak of: festival at 124

Mandaeans 176

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