The Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments offers a summa of New Testament studies. Designed to bring students, teachers, pastors and general readers up to date and up to speed, this one-of-a-kind reference volume presents more information than any other single work--dealing exclusively with the theology, literature, background and scholarship of the later New Testament and the apostolic church.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• How to Use This Dictionary
• Abbreviations
• Transliterations
• List of Contributors
• A
• ABBA.
• ABRAHAM
• ABYSS.
• ACTS OF ANDREW.
• ACTS OF JOHN.
• ACTS OF PETER.
• ACTS OF PETER AND THE TWELVE APOSTLES.
• ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
• ACTS OF THOMAS.
• ADOPTIONISM.
• ADULTERY.
• ADVERSARIES
• AGAPE, THE.
• ALEXANDRIA, ALEXANDRIAN CHRISTIANITY
• ALLEGORY.
• ALLUSIONS, OLD TESTAMENT.
• AMEN.
• AMORAIM.
• ANCESTORS
• ANGELS, HEAVENLY BEINGS, ANGEL CHRISTOLOGY
• ANOINTING
• ANTICHRIST
• ANTIOCH ON THE ORONTES
• APOCALYPSE, THE.
• APOCALYPSE OF PETER.
• APOCALYPSE OF THOMAS.
• APOCALYPTIC, APOCALYPTICISM
• APOCALYPTIC ESCHATOLOGY.
• APOCALYPTICISM.
• APOCRYPHAL AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHAL WRITINGS
• APOSTASY
• APOSTLE, APOSTLESHIP
• APOSTLE'S CREED.
• APOSTOLIC FATHERS
• APOSTOLIC TRADITION.
• ARCHITECTURE, EARLY CHURCH
• ARMY, ROMAN.
• ASCENSION
• ASCENSION OF ISAIAH.
• ASSURANCE
• ASTROLOGY.
• ATONEMENT.
• AUTHORITY
• B
• BABYLON
• BAPTISM, BAPTISMAL RITES
• BAR KOKHBA
• BARNABAS, EPISTLE OF
• BASILIDES.
• BEASTS, DRAGON, SEA, CONFLICT MOTIF
• BENEDICTIONS.
• BENEFACTORS.
• BIBLICAL THEOLOGY.
• BISHOPS.
• BLESSING
• BODY.
• BORN AGAIN.
• BOWLS
• BROTHERS OF JESUS
• C
• CAIN.
• CANON
• CATECHETICAL SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA.
• CELIBACY.
• CENTERS OF CHRISTIANITY
• CERINTHUS.
• CHILDREN, CHILDREN OF GOD.
• CHRIST
• CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM: PARTINGS OF THE WAYS
• CHRISTOLOGY
• CHRONOLOGY
• CHURCH
• CHURCH AS ISRAEL, PEOPLE OF GOD
• CHURCH ORDER, GOVERNMENT
• CIRCUMCISION
• CITY.
• CIVIC CULT.
• CIVIL AUTHORITY
• CLAUDIUS, EDICT OF.
• CLEAN AND UNCLEAN.
• 1 CLEMENT.
• 2 CLEMENT.
• CLEMENT OF ROME
• CLEMENTINE LITERATURE.
• COMMANDMENTS
• CONFESSIONAL FORMS.
• CONFLICT MOTIF.
• CONSCIENCE
• CONVERSION.
• COPTIC APOCALYPSE OF PETER.
• CORINTH.
• CORNELIUS
• CORNERSTONE.
• COSMOLOGY.
• COVENANT, NEW COVENANT
• CREATION, COSMOLOGY
• CREEDS, CONFESSIONAL FORMS
• CROSS, THEOLOGY OF THE
• CULT, EMPEROR.
• CURSE.
• D
• DARKNESS.
• DAVID.
• DAY OF THE LORD
• DEACONS.
• DEAD SEA SCROLLS.
• DEATH.
• DEATH OF CHRIST
• DECONSTRUCTION.
• DELAY OF PAROUSIA.
• DEMONS.
• DESPOSYNOI.
• DESTRUCTION.
• DEVIL.
• DIASPORA JUDAISM
• DIDACHE, THE
• DIDACHE.
• DIOGNETUS, EPISTLE TO
• DISCIPLINE
• DISCOURSE ANALYSIS.
• DIVINE PRESENCE.
• DIVORCE
• DOCETISM
• DOXOLOGY.
• DRAGON.
• DUALISM.
• E
• EARLY CATHOLICISM
• EBIONITES
• ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE
• EDESSA.
• ELDERS.
• ELECTION
• ELKESAITES
• EMPEROR, EMPEROR CULT
• END TIMES.
• ENDURANCE, PERSEVERANCE
• ENTHRONEMENT
• EPHESUS.
• EPISTLES.
• ESAU.
• ESCHATOLOGY
• ESSENES.
• ETERNAL LIFE.
• ETERNITY, ETERNAL
• ETHICS
• ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH.
• EUCHARIST.
• EVANGELISM IN THE EARLY CHURCH
• EVIL ONE.
• EVIL SPIRITS.
• EXALTATION, ENTHRONEMENT
• 5 EZRA AND 6 EZRA.
• F
• FAITH, FAITHFULNESS
• FAITH AND WORKS
• FALSE PROPHETS.
• FALSE TEACHERS.
• FAMILY.
• FASTING.
• FEAR
• FELLOWSHIP
• FLESH
• FLOCK
• FOOD, FOOD LAWS, TABLE FELLOWSHIP
• FORGIVENESS
• FREEDOM, LIBERTY
• FULFILLMENT
• G
• GALILEAN CHRISTIANITY
• GENTILES, GENTILE MISSION
• GEONIM
• GIFTS.
• GLORY
• GLOSSOLALIA
• GNOSIS, GNOSTICISM
• GNOSTICISM
• GOD
• GOD-FEARERS.
• GOSPEL
• GOSPEL OF PETER.
• GOSPEL OF THOMAS.
• GRACE
• GUESTS
• H
• HALLELUJAH.
• HAUSTAFEL
• HEALING, ILLNESS
• HEART.
• HEAVEN, NEW HEAVENS
• HEAVENLY ASCENT.
• HEAVENLY BEINGS.
• HEBREWS
• HELL, ABYSS, ETERNAL PUNISHMENT
• HELLENISTIC CHRISTIANITY.
• HELLENISTIC-JEWISH CHRISTIANITY.
• HELLENISTS, HELLENISTIC AND HELLENISTIC-JEWISH CHRISTIANITY
• HERESY
• HERMAS, SHEPHERD OF
• HERMENEUTICS
• HIGH PRIEST.
• HOLINESS.
• HOLY, HOLINESS
• HOLY CITY.
• HOLY SPIRIT
• HOMILY GENRE.
• HOMOSEXUALITY.
• HOPE
• HOSPITALITY
• HOUSE CHURCHES.
• HOUSE OF GOD.
• HOUSE, SPIRITUAL HOUSE
• HOUSEHOLD, FAMILY
• HOUSEHOLD CODES
• HUMILITY.
• HYMNS, SONGS
• I
• IDOLATRY
• IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
• ILLNESS
• IMITATION
• IMMORTALITY
• IMPERIAL CULT.
• IMPURITY.
• INCARNATION
• INTERCESSION.
• INTERTEXTUALITY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
• ISAAC
• ISRAEL, TWELVE TRIBES
• J
• JAMES, LETTER OF
• JAMES THE JUST.
• JERUSALEM, ZION, HOLY CITY
• JESUS TRADITIONS
• JEWISH CHRISTIANITY
• JEWISH WARS.
• JOHANNINE COMMUNITY/SCHOOL.
• JOHN, LETTERS OF
• JOSEPH THE PATRIARCH.
• JOSEPHUS
• JOY
• JUDAISM, POST-A.D. 70
• JUDE
• JUDGMENT
• JUSTIFICATION
• K
• KERYGMA AND DIDACHE
• KINGDOM OF GOD
• KNOWLEDGE
• KOINONIA
• L
• LAMB
• LAND IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
• LAST DAYS.
• LAW
• LAWLESSNESS.
• LETTER OF PETER TO PHILIP.
• LETTER, LETTER FORM
• LIBERTY
• LIFE AND DEATH
• LIGHT AND DARKNESS
• LITURGICAL ELEMENTS
• LITURGY
• LOGOS CHRISTOLOGY
• LORD
• LORD'S DAY
• LORD'S SUPPER, LOVE FEAST
• LOT.
• LOVE
• LOVE FEAST.
• LUKE-ACTS.
• LUST.
• M
• MAGIC AND ASTROLOGY
• MAN.
• MANDATES OF HERMAS.
• MARANATHA.
• MARCION
• MARK, SECRET GOSPEL OF
• MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND ADULTERY
• MARTYRDOM
• MARTYRDOM OF POLYCARP.
• MARY
• MATTHEAN COMMUNITY
• MELCHIZEDEK
• MELITO OF SARDIS
• MERCY
• MESSIAH.
• MIDRASH.
• MILK, SOLID FOOD
• MILLENNIUM
• MIND.
• MINISTRY
• MIRACLES IN ACTS
• MISHNAH.
• MISSION, EARLY NON-PAULINE
• MONARCHICAL BISHOP.
• MONOTHEISM.
• MONTANISM.
• MORALITY.
• MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY
• MOSES
• MYSTERY
• MYSTERY RELIGIONS.
• N
• NAG HAMMADI TEXTS.
• NAME
• NARRATIVE CRITICISM
• NATIONS.
• NAZOREANS.
• NEW BIRTH
• NEW COVENANT.
• NEW HEAVENS.
• NEW TESTAMENT THEOLOGY
• NOAH.
• NONCANONICAL WRITINGS, CITATIONS IN THE GENERAL EPISTLES
• O
• OBEDIENCE AND LAWLESSNESS
• ODES OF SOLOMAN.
• OFFERINGS.
• OLD TESTAMENT IN ACTS
• OLD TESTAMENT IN APOSTOLIC FATHERS
• OLD TESTAMENT IN GENERAL EPISTLES
• OLD TESTAMENT IN HEBREWS
• OLD TESTAMENT IN REVELATION
• OPPONENTS.
• ORACLES.
• P
• PARABLES OF HERMAS.
• PARAENESIS.
• PAROUSIA
• PASCHAL HOMILY.
• PASCHAL LAMB.
• PASTORAL THEOLOGY
• PAUL AND PAULINISMS IN ACTS
• PAULINE LEGACY AND SCHOOL
• PEACE
• PELLA, FLIGHT TO
• PENTECOST
• PERSECUTION
• PERSEVERANCE.
• 1 PETER
• 2 PETER
• PETER, GOSPEL OF
• PHILIP THE EVANGELIST
• PHILO
• POLEMIC, JEWISH-CHRISTIAN.
• POLYCARP OF SMYRNA
• POSTMODERNISM
• POSTSTRUCTURALISM.
• POVERTY.
• POWER
• PRAYER
• PRAYER ACCLAMATIONS.
• PREACHING, APOSTOLIC.
• PREACHING FROM ACTS, HEBREWS, GENERAL EPISTLES AND REVELATION
• PREACHING OF PETER.
• PREEXISTENCE
• PRESBYTERS.
• PRIDE AND HUMILITY
• PRIEST, HIGH PRIEST
• PRISCILLA
• PROMISE
• PROPHECY, PROPHETS, FALSE PROPHETS
• PROPHETS.
• PROSELYTISM, JEWISH.
• PROVIDENCE
• PSEUDEPIGRAPHAL WRITINGS, CHRISTIAN NONCANONICAL.
• PSEUDEPIGRAPHAL WRITINGS, JEWISH.
• PSEUDEPIGRAPHY
• PSEUDO-CLEMENTINES.
• PSYCHOLOGY
• PUNISHMENT.
• PURITY AND IMPURITY
• Q
• QUMRAN
• QUOTATIONS OF OLD TESTAMENT.
• R
• RABBINICAL SCHOOLS.
• RAHAB.
• READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM.
• REDEMPTION
• REIGN OF GOD.
• RELATIVES OF JESUS
• RELIGIONS, GRECO-ROMAN
• REPENTANCE, SECOND REPENTANCE
• REST.
• RESURRECTION
• REVEAL, REVELATION
• REVELATION.
• REVELATION, BOOK OF
• REVERENCE.
• REWARDS
• RHETORIC, RHETORICAL CRITICISM
• RICHES AND POVERTY
• RIGHTEOUS ONE.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
• ROMAN ADMINISTRATION.
• ROMAN CHRISTIANITY.
• ROMAN EMPIRE, CHRISTIANS AND THE
• ROME AND ROMAN CHRISTIANITY
• RULE OF FAITH.
• RULER OF THIS AGE.
• S
• SABBATH.
• SABORAIM.
• SACRED SPACE.
• SACRIFICE, OFFERINGS, GIFTS
• SALVATION
• SAMARIA
• SANCTUARY.
• SATAN, DEVIL
• SAVIOR
• SCROLLS, SEALS
• SEA.
• SEALS.
• SECOND APOCALYPSE OF JAMES.
• SECOND REPENTANCE.
• SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK.
• SERMONIC GENRE.
• SERVANT, SERVICE
• SERVICE.
• SEVEN, THE.
• SEXUAL ETHICS.
• SEXUALITY, SEXUAL ETHICS
• SHALOM.
• SHEEP.
• SHEKINAH.
• SHEPHERD, FLOCK
• SHEPHERD OF HERMAS.
• SIBYLLINE ORACLES.
• SIGNS AND WONDERS
• SIMILITUDES OF HERMAS.
• SIMON MAGUS.
• SIN, WICKEDNESS
• SISTERS OF JESUS.
• SLAVE, SLAVERY
• SOCIAL SETTING OF EARLY NON-PAULINE CHRISTIANITY
• SOLID FOOD
• SON OF GOD
• SONGS.
• SONSHIP, CHILD, CHILDREN
• SOUL.
• SPEAKING IN TONGUES.
• SPEECHES OF ACTS.
• SPIRITS
• SPIRITUAL HOUSE.
• STEPHEN
• STONE, CORNERSTONE
• STRANGERS.
• STRUCTURALISM AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
• SUFFERING
• SYNAGOGUE
• SYNCRETISM
• SYRIA, SYRIAN CHRISTIANITY
• T
• TABERNACLE, SANCTUARY
• TABLE FELLOWSHIP.
• TALMUD.
• TANNAIM
• TARGUM.
• TEACHING, PARAENESIS
• TEACHINGS OF SILVANUS.
• TEMPLE
• TEMPTATION
• TER SANCTUS.
• TESTAMENTARY LITERATURE.
• TEXTUAL CRITICISM
• THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS.
• THOMAS, APOSTLE.
• THOMAS, GOSPEL OF
• TONGUES
• TORAH.
• TRADITION.
• TRAVEL AND COMMERCE.
• TRIBULATION, MESSIANIC WOES
• TRUMPETS
• TRUTH
• TWELVE, THE.
• TWELVE TRIBES.
• TWO WAYS.
• TYPOLOGY.
• U
• UNCLEAN.
• UNIVERSALISM
• V
• VALENTINUS.
• VIALS.
• VICES.
• VIRTUES AND VICES
• VISIONS, ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE
• VISIONS OF HERMAS.
• VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS, GRECO-ROMAN.
• W
• WATCHFULNESS
• WICKEDNESS.
• WIDOWS.
• WISDOM
• WITNESS
• WOES, MESSIANIC.
• WOMAN AND MAN
• WOMEN IN THE EARLY CHURCH
• WORKS.
• WORLD
• WORSHIP AND LITURGY
• WRATH, DESTRUCTION
• Z
• ZION.