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).

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.

Bible.

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