From Roman to early Christian Thessalonikē : studies in religion and archaeology / edited by Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos Bakirtzis, and Steven J. Friesen.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Nasrallah, Laura Salah, 1969-
• Bakirtzēs, Ch. (Charalampos)
• Friesen, Steven J.

Series:

• Harvard theological studies ; no. 64.
• Harvard theological studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Bible. Thessalonians.
• Romans.
• Architecture.
• Excavations (Archaeology).
• Thessalonikē (Greece)--Civilization.
• Thessalonikē (Greece)--Church history.
• Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
• Church history.
• Church history--Primitive and early church.
• Bible. Thessalonians--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Thessalonikē (Greece)--Antiquities.
• Thessalonikē (Greece)--Antiquities, Roman.
• Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Thessalonikē.
• Architecture--Greece--Thessalonikē.
• Romans--Greece--Thessalonikē.
• Greece--Thessalonikē.

Physical Description:

xiv, 437 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School : distributed by Harvard University Press, [2010]

Contents:

• Voluntary associations in Roman Thessalonikē : in search of identity and support in a cosmopolitan society / Pantelis M. Nigdelis
• Of memories and meals : Greco-Roman associations and the early Jesus-group at Thessalonikē / Richard S. Ascough
• "Gazing upon the invisible" : archaeology, historiography, and the elusive women of 1 Thessalonians / Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
• Locating purity : temples, sexual prohibitions, and "making a difference" in Thessalonikē / Christine Thomas
• Egyptian religion in Thessalonikē / Helmut Koester
• Social status and family origin in the sarcophagi of Thessalonikē / Theodosia Stefanidou-Tiveriou
• Second Thessalonians, the ideology of epistles, and the construction of authority : our debt to the forger / Steven J. Friesen
• Christianization of Thessalonikē : the making of Christian "urban iconography" / Slobodan Curcic
• And ecclesiastical identity in Christian Thessalonikē / James Skedros
• Ceramics in late antique Thessalonikē / Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi
• Glassware in late antique Thessalonikē (third seventh centuries C.E.) / Anastasios Antonaras
• Reflections on the architectural history of the Tetrarchic Palace complex at Thessalonikē / Aristotles Mentzos
• Early Christian interpretation in image and word : canon, sacred text, and the mosaics of Moni Latomou / Laura Nasrallah
• Late antiquity and Christianity in Thessalonikē : aspects of a transformation / Charalambos Bakirtzis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780674053229
• 0674053222

OCLC:

620115240