The ebooks@cambridge team is pleased to announce the purchase of another Brill online reference work: the Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online. Funded jointly by the UL’s Collections and Academic Liaison, the ebooks@cambridge service, and the Divinity Faculty Library, it will eventually comprise 1300 articles, with planned completion in 2022. We have perpetual access to this resource, and hope that it will be valuable for both students and researchers.
From the Brill website: The Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (BEEC) focuses on the history of early Christianity, covering texts, authors, and ideas. The BEEC aims both to provide a critical review of the methods used in Early Christian Studies and also to update the history of scholarship.
The BEEC addresses a range of traditions, including iconographic, martyrological, ecclesiastical, and Christological traditions, as well as cultic phenomena, such as the veneration of saints. The history of the transmission of texts and the attention to recent scholarship will play an important role. The BEEC focuses on early Christianity from a historical perspective in order to uncover the lasting legacy of the authors and texts until the present day. Its content is intended to bridge the gap between the fields of New Testament studies and patristics, covering the whole period of early Christianity up to 600 CE.
If you have any questions about this resource, please do get in touch with the ebooks@cambridge team.
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