Early Christianity

Abraham 124, 145, 204

actaof martyrs 189

Acts of Polycarp216; anti-Jewish

agenda 106

Acts of the Apostles65–6, 74, 115,

117–18, 123, 125–41, 151, 154

Africa 155, 156; see alsoCarthage;

Cyprian, bp of Carthage;

Donatists; Tertullian

agendas: of modern scholars 7–8,

17–22, 31–2, 55–63, 93, 94–5,

142, 170, 183–5, 226

Akhmim, Egypt: Gospel of Peterat

182;see alsoNag Hammadi

library

Alexamenos, Roman Christian 206

Alexander Severus, emp. 190, 196,

204

Alexandria 114, 139, 143, 155; see

alsoArius; Athanasius, bp of

Alexandria; Demetrius, bp of

Alexandria; Egypt; George, bp of

Alexandria

Alfred the Great 45

Ambrose, bp of Milan 43, 47, 208

Ammianus Marcellinus 208

anthropology: and study of religion

28–33;see alsosocial-scientific

interpretation

Antioch in Pisidia 133–6, 141

Antoninus Pius, emp. 189

Aphrodisias 194

apocrypha: Christian 74–6, 159;

Jewish 84–5, 103; see alsoNag

Hammadi library;

pseudepigrapha

268

Chapter 5

Index

Note: the following abbreviations have been used.

bp = bishop emp. = emperor