Journal of Early Christian Studies, 4.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - ein sehr gutes Exemplar / a very good copy. - all four issues of 1996 included / Contents The Piety of a Persecutor James Rives Sacred Bonding: Mothers and Daughters in Early Syriac Hagiography Susan Ashbrook Harvey Gentiles of the Soul: Maximus the Confessor on the Substructure and Transformation of the Human Passions Paul M. Blowers Problems in the History of Christian Friendship David Konstan The Use of Scripture in Gnostic Literature Louis Painchaud The Cross as Ransom Eugene Teselle Pagan Apologetics and Christian Intolerance in the Ages of Themistius and Augustine Clifford Ando Jerome�s Centaur: A Hyper-Icon of the Desert Patricia Cox Miller The Man of God of Edessa, Bishop Rabbula, and the Urban Poor: Church and Society in the Fifth Century Han J. W. Drijvers Body / Power / Identity: The Passion of the Martyrs Brent D. Shaw A New Look at the Itinerarium Burdigalense Laurie Douglass Another Exception to the Later Fourth-Century �Arian� Typologies: The Case of Germinus of Sirmium Daniel H. Williams Sympatheia in Basil of Caesarea�s Hexameron-. A Plotinian Hypothesis N. Joseph Torchia Special Issue The Markings of Heresy: Body, Text, and Community in Late Ancient Christianity Introduction Virginia Burrus �Pierced by Bronze Needles�: Anti-Montanist Charges of Ritual Stigmatization in Their Fourth-Century Context Susanna Elm �Manichee!�: Leo the Great and the Orthodox Panopticon Harry O. Maier �Equipped for Victory�: Ambrose and the Gendering of Orthodoxy Virginia Burrus From Palladius to Maximinus: Passing the Arian Torch Neil McLynn The Forging of Orthodoxy in Latin Christian Literature: A Case Study Mark Vessey Note�One Stone on Another: Towards an Understanding of Symbolism in The Epistle of Barnabas Ken Derry Book Reviews New Editions and Special Items Books Received.