Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The good" and "the best" in Paul's thinking -- Names and numbers in early Christianity -- The ethics of the first Christians : between memory and oblivion -- Variety and authority of the first Christian ethics -- Missionary practice and transmission of the Gospel in early Christianity -- Christ in the book of Revelation -- John's self-presentation in Rev. 1:9-10 -- Tracing the trajectory of Luke 13:22-30 back to Q : a study in Lukan redaction -- Tradition and redaction in Acts 10:1-11:18 -- Moses in Luke-Acts -- The death of Jesus in Luke-Acts -- Sayings specific to Luke in the Gospel of Thomas -- Fragment Oxyrhynchus 840, fragment of a lost Gospel, witness of an early Christian controversy over purity -- Canonical and apocryphal Acts of the Apostles -- The child and the beast : fighting violence in ancient Christianity -- Women priestesses in the apocryphal Acts of Philip -- Mary Magdalene in the Acts of Philip -- Facing the Scriptures : mimesis and intertextuality in the Acts of Philip -- The reception and use of the Gospel of Luke in the second century -- Paul as document and Paul as monument -- Canonical, rejected, and useful books -- Scripture as promise and as closure.