The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. Edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter
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 fo...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 297-299 |
| Review of: | The Oxford handbook of early Christian studies (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2008) (Grig, Lucy)
The Oxford handbook of early Christian studies (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2008) (Grig, Lucy) |
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| Summary: | 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). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls035 |