Michael F. Bird is Deputy Principal and Lecturer in Theology at Ridley College.Scott Harrower is Lecturer in Christian Thought at Ridley College.

• 1 The Christian Second Century: Energetic Innovations and Legacies Scott Harrower 2 An Introduction to the Second Century: Reading God, Reading Books, and Reading Each Other D. Jeffrey Bingham 3 Second-Century Christian Women Edwina Murphy 4 Gallic, Greek, Asian, and Unknown Texts Kirsten H. Mackerras and Jonathon Lookadoo 5 Apologists, Heresiologists, and First Theologians (Preliminary Issues, the City of Rome) Scott Harrower 6 Apologists, Heresiologists, and First Theologians (Antioch, Smyrna, Alexandria) Scott Harrower 7 Emerging Diversity: "Other" Christianities David A. Evans and Paul McKechnie 8 Jewish Responses and Pagan References to Christianity Warren Campbell and David Lincicum 9 The Second Century According to Eusebius in the Fourth Century Michael J. Svigel 10 How Much of the New Testament Should Be Dated to the Second Century? Michael F. Bird 11 Early Christian Letters Janelle Peters 12 Nag Hammadi Codices as a Window into Second-Century Christianity Christine Jacobi 13 Jesus Books, Gospel Fragments, and Gospel Harmonies Markus Bockmuehl and Jacob A. Rodriguez 14 Apocalypses in the Second Century Jörg Frey 15 Early Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles Tobias Nicklas 16 Martyrologies and Second-Century Christianity Lynn H. Cohick and Samuel S. Cho 17 Didactic and Pastoral Writings Jonathon Lookadoo 18 The Significance and Authority of Apostolic Texts as Scripture in the Second Century Eckhard J. Schnabel 19 Christian Papyri and Literary Culture Paul Foster 20 New Testament Manuscripts Possibly from the Second Century Michael J. Kruger 21 Lost (and Found) Second-Century Christian Writings Stephen C. Carlson 22 The Rule of Faith and Emerging Symbolum Apostolorum: Origin, Function, Structure Tomas Bokedal 23 Sources of Second-Century Worship Daniel Cardó and Elizabeth Klein

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