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Many of the pertinent articles in Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible and Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11 ed., and in similar works are written by specialists and are valuable.
A. Harnack: Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte, I, 4 ed., 1909; English translation from the third German edition, I and II, 1901. The most valuable book on the subject. F. Loofs: Leitfaden zum Studium der Dogmengeschichte, 4 ed., Halle, 1906. The opening chapters cover the early period. G. B. Stevens: The Theology of the New Testament, 1903. H. Holtzmann: Lehrbuch der neutestamentlichen Theologie, 2 vols., 2 ed., 1911.
A. C. McGiffert: History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age, 1897. J. H. Ropes: The Apostolic Age, 1906.
S. J. Case: The Evolution of Early Christianity, 1914. K. Lake: The Earlier Epistles of St. Paul, 1911; The Stewardship of Faith, 1915. T. R. Glover: The Conflict of Religions in the Roman Empire, 1909.
J. Geffcken: Zwei griechischen Apologeten, 1907. An important commentary to Aristides and Athenagoras, preceded by an introduction dealing with the history and characteristics of the Greek Apologists, and followed by a sketch of the development of the apologetic literature after Athenagoras to Augustine. A. Puech: Les apologistes grecs du IIe siècle de notre ère, 1912.
H. S. Mansel: The Gnostic Heresies, 1875. E. de Faye: Gnostiques et gnosticisme, 1913.
C. Bigg: The Christian Platonists of Alexandria, 1886. E. de Faye: Clément d’Alexandrie, 2 ed., 1906.
P. Wendland: Die hellenistisch-römische Kultur in ihren Beziehungen zu Judentum und Christentum, 2 ed., 1912. A book of prime importance on the conditions of the ancient world during the beginnings of Christianity. E. Hatch: The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages upon the Christian Church, 8 ed., 1901. G. Anrich, Das antike Mysterienwesen in seinem Einfluss auf das Christentum, 1894. G. Wobbermin: Religionsgeschichtliche Studien zur Frage der Beeinflussung des Urchristentums durch das antike Mysterienwesen, 1896. C. Clemen: Religionsgeschichtliche Erklärung des Neuen Testaments, 1909; English translation: Primitive Christianity and its Non-Jewish Sources, 1912; Der Einfluss der Mysterienreligionen auf das älteste Christentum, 1913. C. H. Moore: Greek and Roman Ascetic Tendencies in Harvard Essays on Classical Subjects, pp. 97-140, 1912. H. Streithman: Geschichte der frühchristlichen Askese in der Umgebung des werdenden Christentums, 1914. This book I have been unable to see. A. Deissman: Licht vom Osten, 3 ed., 1909; English translation, Light from the Ancient East, chap. iv, 1910. R. Reitzenstein: Die hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen, 1910. E. Maass: Orpheus. Untersuchungen zur grieschischen, römischen, altchristlichen Jenseitsdichtung und Religion, 1895. A. Dieterich: Nekyia, 2 ed., 1913.
A. Harnack: Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten, 2 vols., 3 ed., 1915; English translation: The Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, 2 ed., 2 vols., 1908.
APPENDIX II
SPECIMEN OF A ROMAN CALENDAR
Taken from the Fasti Praenestini, which were composed between 4 and 10 a.d.
The letters of the first column show the eight days of the Roman nundinae, which are repeated for the successive nundinal periods; the second column gives the number of days before the Calends, Nones, or Ides as the case may be; in the third column the character of the day is indicated by C = comitialis, F = fastus, N and NP = nefastus, and the oldest festivals are given: VIN = Vinalia, ROB = Robigalia, etc.; the small capitals give the festivals added within the historical period and sundry other notices.
| A | VIIII | VIN F | [VINI OMNIS NOVI LIBAMENTVM IOVI] CONSECRATVM [EST CVM LATINI BELLO PREME] RENTVR AB·RVTILIS·QVIA·MEZENTIVS·REX·ETRV[SCO]RVM PACISCEBATVR·SI·SVBSIDIO VENISSIT·OMNIVM·ANNORVM VINI·FRVCTVM·SIG·DIVO·AVGVSTO·PATRI·AD·THEATRVM·MARC[ELLI] IVLIA·AVGVSTA·ET·TI·AVGVSTVS·DEDICARVNT |
| B | VIII | CTI· | CAESAR·TOGAM·VIRILEM·SVMPSIT·IMP·CAESARE·VII·AGRIPPA III·COS·FERIAE·ROBIGO·VIA·CLAVDIA·AD·MILLIARIVM |
| C | VII | ROB | NP V·NE·ROBIGO·FRVMINTIS·NOCEAT·SACRIFICIV[M] ET·LVDI·CVRSORIBVS·MAIORIBVS·MINORIBVSQ FIVNT·FESTVS·EST PVERORVM LLNONIORVM QVIA PROXIMVS·SVPERIOR MERETRICVM EST |
| D | VI | F | HVNC·DIEM·DIVVS·CAESAR·ADDIDIT |
| E | V | C | |
| F | IIII | NP | LVDI·FLORAE FERIAE·EX·S·C·QVOD·EO·DI[E AEDICVL]A·ET·[ARA] VESTAE·IN·DOMV·IMP·CAESARIS·AVGV[STI PO]NTIF·MA[X] DEDICATAST·QVIRINIO ET VALGIO CoS EODEM DIE·AEDIS·FLORAE·QVAE·REBVS·FLORESCENDIS PRAEEST DEDICATA·EST·PROPTER STERILITATEM·FRVGVM |
| G | III | C | LVDI |
| H | PR | C | LVDI |
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