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Corinth in context : comparative studies on religion and society / edited by Steven J. Friesen, Daniel N. Schowalter, and James C. Walters.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 134.
- Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 0167-9732 ; v. 134
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian antiquities.
- Christian sociology.
- History.
- Religion and sociology.
- Christianity and culture.
- Greece--Corinth.
- Corinth (Greece)--Religion--Congresses.
- Corinth (Greece).
- Christianity and culture--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.
- Christianity and culture--Greece--Corinth--Congresses.
- Religion and sociology--Greece--Corinth--History--Congresses.
- Christian sociology--Greece--Corinth--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.
- Corinth (Greece)--Church history--Congresses.
- Corinth (Greece)--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Christian antiquities--Greece--Corinth--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 517 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction : context, comparison / Steven J. Friesen
- The social and ethnic origins of the colonists in early Roman Corinth / Benjamin W. Millis
- Asklepios in Greek and Roman Corinth / Bronwen L. Wickkiser
- The emperor in a Roman town : the base of the Augustales in the forum at Corinth / Margaret L. Laird
- Greek heritage in Roman Corinth and Ephesos : hybrid identities and strategies of display in the material record of traditional Mediterranean religions / Christine M. Thomas
- Image and cult : the coinage of Roman Corinth / Mary E. Hoskins Walbank
- Ceres, [korē], and cultural complexity : divine personality definitions and human worshippers in Roman Corinth / Jorunn Økland
- The wrong Erastus : ideology, archaeology, and exegesis / Steven J. Friesen
- Where have all the names gone? : the Christian community in Corinth in the late Roman and early Byzantine eras / Michael B. Walbank. Appendix : the Corinthian census
- Seeking shelter in Roman Corinth : archaeology and the placement of Paul's communities / Daniel N. Schowalter
- Paul and the politics of meals in Roman Corinth / James C. Walters
- The sacred spring : landscape and traditions / Guy D.R. Sanders
- Religion and society at Roman Kenchreai / Joseph L. Rife
- Religion and society in the Roman eastern Corinthia / Timothy E. Gregory.
- Ceres, κόρη, and cultural complexity : divine personality definitions and human worshippers in Roman Corinth / Jorunn Økland
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a conference held Jan. 10-14, 2007, at the University of Texas at Austin, under the auspices of the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins along with the Dept. of Religious Studies and the Dept. of Classics.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004181977
- 9004181970
- OCLC:
- 496282300
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