| Series | Society of Biblical Literature. Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; number 7, 8, 9
Society of Biblical Literature. Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; number 13 |
| Contents |
v.1. Methodological foundations. The first urban churches : introduction / James R. Harrison. Assessing the potential of archaeological discoveries for the interpretation of New Testament texts : the case of a gladiator fragment from Colossae and the letter to the Colossians / Alan Cadwallader -- The city in Roman Egypt : the evidence of the papyri / Malcom Choat -- Epigraphy and the study of Polis and Ekklēsia in the Greco-Roman world / Paul Trebilco -- Gaia, Polis, and Ekklēsia at the Miletus Market Gate : an eco-critical reimagination of Revelation 12:16 / Brigitte Kahl -- Coinage and colonial identity : Corinthian numismatics and the Corinthian correspondence / Bradley J. Bitner -- The Polis and the poor : reconstructing social relations from different genres of evidence / L.L. Welborn -- Methodological considerations in using epigraphic evidence to determine the socioeconomic context of the early Christians / Julien M. Ogereau -- Urban portraits of the "barbarians" on the fringes of the Roman Empire : the archaeological numismatic, epigraphic, and iconographic evidence / James R. Harrison -- |
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v.2. Roman Corinth. Introduction: Excavating the urban life of Roman Corinth / James R. Harrison -- Inequality in Roman Corinth : evidence from diverse sources evaluated by a neo-Ricardian model / L.L. Wellborn -- Negotiating multiple modes of religion and identity in Roman Corinth / Cavan Concannon -- Between polis, oikos, and ekklesia : the challenge of negotiating the spirit world (1 Cor. 12:1-11) / Kathy Ehrensperger -- Brother against brother : controversiae about inheritance disputes and 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 / Michael Peppard -- The changing rural horizons of Corinth's first urban Christians / David K. Pettegrew -- Mixed-language inscribing at Roman Corinth / Bradley J. Bitner -- "The God of this age" (2 Cor 4:4) and Paul's empire-resisting Gospel at Corinth / Fredrick J. Long -- Paul and the Agōnothetai at Corinth : engaging the civic values of antiquity / James R. Harrison -- |
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v.3. Ephesus. An epigraphic portrait of Ephesus and its villages / James R. Harrison -- An Ephesian tale : mystery cults, reverse theological engineering, and the triumph of Christianity in Ephesus / Guy MacLean Rogers -- The Jewish community in Ephesus and its interaction with Christ-believers in the first century CE and beyond / Paul Trebilco -- Acclaiming Artemis in Ephesus : political theologies in Acts 19 / Bradley J. Bitner -- The gladiator graveyard of Ephesus as evidence for the study of martyrdom / Mikael Haxby -- [Ekklasia] in Ephesians as godlike in the heavens, in temple, in [gamos], and in armor : idealogy and iconography in Ephesus / Fredrick J. Long -- From Zeus or by Endoios? : Acts 19:35 as a peculiar assessment of the Ephesian Artemis / Stephan Witetschek -- Ephesian cultic officials, their benefactors, and the quest for civic virtue : Paul's alternative quest for status in the epistle to the Ephesians / James R. Harrison -- Ephesus and the numismatic background to [neokoros] / Michael P. Theophilos. |
| Abstract |
This collection of essays examines the urban context of early Christian churches in the first-century Roman world. A city-by-city investigation of the early churches in the New Testament clarifies the challenges, threats, and opportunities that urban living provided for early Christians. Readers will come away with a better understanding of how scholars assemble an accurate picture of the cities in which the first Christians flourished--Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: [volume] 1 Methodological foundations 9781628371048 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015021858 |
| ISBN | 9781628371024 (v. 1 ; pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1628371021 (v. 1 ; pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781628371031 (v. 1 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | 162837103X (v. 1 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | (v. 1 ; ebook) |
| ISBN | 9780884141112 (v. 2 ; pbk.) |
| ISBN | 088414111X (v. 2 ; pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780884141136 (v. 2 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0884141136 (v. 2 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | (v. 2 ; ebook) |
| ISBN | 9780884142348 (v. 3 ; pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0884142345 (v. 3 ; pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780884142362 (v. 3 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0884142361 (v. 3 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780884143369 (v. 4 ; hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780884144182 (v. 5 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780884145059 (v. 6 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781628374445 (v. 7 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781628377088 (v. 8 ; hardcover) |
