RT Review
T1 The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. Edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 63
IS 1
SP 297
OP 299
A1 Grig, Lucy
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1783730250
AB There is currently an explosion of ‘handbooks’, ‘companions’, and ‘dictionaries’, all designed to help scholars negotiate their way around both familiar and unfamiliar territory. It can be hard to know exactly what these volumes are for and who, precisely, they are aimed at. The rationale offered for this handbook, that it is responding to an explosion of research in a burgeoning, interdisciplinary field, where it is impossible for one single scholar to be an expert in all areas, seems eminently reasonable. As to audience, the handbook presents itself as ‘an aid to research both for beginners and for more seasoned scholars entering an unfamiliar sub-speciality’ (p. 2).
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/fls035