Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XVII
Section I Aspects of Early Christianity
1. Why Did Jesus’ Followers Call Themselves ‘Christians’? . . . . . . . 3
2. The Social and Religious Capital of the Early Christians . . . . . . . 13
3. Why Did Early Christianity Attract Upper-class Women? . . . . . . 33
4. Pauper or Patroness: the Widow in the Early Christian Church . . . 43
5. Peregrinus’ Christian Career . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
6. The Domestication of Early Christian Prophecy . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Section II Studies in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and Pseudo-Clementines
7. Women in the Acts of John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
8. Man, Magic, and Martyrdom in the Acts of Andrew . . . . . . . . . . 115
9. Aspects of the Acts of Peter: Women, Magic, Place and Date . . . . . 133
10. Magic, Martyrdom and Women’s Liberation in the Acts of Paul and Thecla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
11. The Acts of Thomas: Place, Date and Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
12. Conversion in the Oldest Apocryphal Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
13. Magic in the Apocryphal Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Section III Apocalypses and Tours of Hell
17. The Apocalypse of Peter: Greek or Jewish? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
18. The Apocalypse of Peter: Place, Date and Punishments . . . . . . . . 281
19. Christian Hell: From the Apocalypse of Peter to the Apocalypse of Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
20. Tours of Hell: Greek, Jewish, Roman and Early Christian . . . . . . 313
21. Descents to Hell and Ascents to Heaven in Apocalyptic Literature . 329
Section IV The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas
22. Perpetua and her Diary: Authenticity, Family and Visions . . . . . . 349
23. Felicitas: The Martyrdom of a Young African Woman . . . . . . . . 387
24. The Motivation of Martyrs: Perpetua and the Palestinians . . . . . . 403
25. Passio Perpetuae 2, 16 and 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
26. The Vision of Saturus in the Passio Perpetuae . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
27. Contextualising Heaven in Third-Century North Africa . . . . . . . 455
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Index of Names, Places and Passages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
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