Early Christianity

episkopos150–1;see alsobishop
Essenes 200
euangelion136–40;see also
gospel
eucharist 157–8
Eugenius, emp. 208
Eusebius, bp. of Caesarea, historian
35–40, 78, 81, 109, 114, 120,
142, 152, 154, 160, 162, 177,
182, 188–9, 209, 218–19; on
Judaism 37–8, 39, 209–10, 219;
on Roman empire 38–40, 187,
189–90, 192, 204, 219;
unreliability of passim
executions 190, 201, 216

fathers of the church 76; survival of
writings 80–1
Firmilian, bp of Caesarea in
Cappadocia 196
Frontinus 129

Gaius (Caligula), emp. 139
Galerius, emp. 196, 202; see also
Diocletian
Gallienus, emp. 189
Gallio, L. Iunius, proconsul of
Achaia (Greece) 127–32
Gamaliel, Jewish elder 102
games 190, 197, 201
Gaul 114, 119, 120; see alsoLyons,
Vienne
Gelasius of Cyzicus, historian 41
George, bp of Alexandria 209
Gérôme, J.-L. 188
Gibbon, E. 57–8, 112, 191
gno ̄sis160–1, 165, 176–7
Gnostics, Gnosticism 148, 160–1,
165–6, 170–8

God: perceived role in history 44–5,

150, 189–90

‘god-fearers’: in synagogues 107,

123; in cult of Theos Hypsistos

124

Goths 42, 43, 205; Christianity

among 119–20, 182

gospels 137, 166, 179, 186–7;

authorship 68; historical

reliability 67, 71–4, 97–8;

inconsistencies 157; see also

apocrypha; euangelion; Nag

Hammadi library; Q

Greece 126; see alsoCorinth,

Philippi

Greek Orthodox church 150

Gregory the Great, bp of Rome 47,

210

Gregory Thaumaturgus, bp of

Neocaesarea 205

Gregory of Tours 88

Hadrian, emp. 103, 189

hair 197

Harnack, A. von 59–60, 112

Helena, empress 40–1

heresiology 160

heresy, opposed to orthodoxy 12,

37, 158–65

Hermas, author of the The Shepherd

16–17, 77, 78

Herod, king of Judaea 66

hetaeriae(political clubs) 217,

221–3

Hippolytus of Rome 78, 79,

160–1

historiography: ecclesiastical 35–40,

41–2, 43–4, 48, 52–4, 144–5; see

alsoEusebius, bp of Caesarea

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