Irenaeus

v

Acknowledgments vii

Contributors viii

The Writings of Irenaeus xi

Timeline xv

Introduction: Irenaeus and His Traditions 1

Sara Parvis and Paul Foster

Part One. Life: Irenaeus and His Context

1. Who Was Irenaeus? An Introduction to the Man and His Work 13
   Paul Parvis


2. The Cultural Geography of a Greek Christian: Irenaeus from Smyrna to Lyons 25
   Jared Secord


3. How Irenaeus Has Misled the Archaeologists 35
   Allen Brent

Part Two. Scripture: Irenaeus and His Scriptural Traditions

4. The Parable of the Two Sons (Matt. 21:28-32) in Irenaeus and Codex Bezae 55
   Denis Minns


5. Irenaeus and Hebrews 65
   D. Jeffrey Bingham


6. Irenaeus’s Contribution to Early Christian Interpretation of the Song of Songs 81
   Karl Shuve


7. The Man with No Name: Who Is the Elder in Irenaeus’s Adversus haereses IV? 89
   Sebastian Moll

Contents