The first urban churches / edited by James R. Harrison and L.L. Welborn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, James R., 1952- editor.

Welborn, L. L., 1953- editor.

Series:

Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; no. 7-9.

Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; no. 13.

Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; no. 16.

Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; no. 18.

Society of Biblical Literature. Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; number 7, 8, 9, 13, 16, 18, 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City churches.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Cities and towns--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Cities and towns.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Physical Description:

volumes <1-7> : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

First urban churches 1: Methodological foundations

First urban churches: Methodological foundations

Methodological foundations

First urban churches 2: Roman Corinth

First urban churches: Roman Corinth

Roman Corinth

First urban churches 3: Ephesus

First urban churches: Ephesus

Ephesus

First urban churches 4: Roman Philippi

First urban churches: Roman Philippi

Roman Philippi

First urban churches 5: Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea

First urban churches: Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea

Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea

First urban churches 6: Rome and Ostia

First urban churches: Rome and Ostia

Rome and Ostia

First urban churches 7: Thessalonica

First urban churches: Thessalonica

Thessalonica

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : SBL Press, [2015]-<[2022]>

Summary:

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.

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

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 : controversies 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

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.

v. 4. Roman Philippi. Excavating the urban and country life of Roman Philippi and its territory / James R. Harrison

Rooted in Heaven and resident in Philippi, but no ekklēsia? / Kathy Ehrensperger

The social constituency and membership of the first Christian groups at Philippi : a literary and epigraphic survey / Julien M. Ogereau

Vindolanda Tablet 2.154, RPC 1651, and the provenance of Philippians / Paul A. Holloway

Polis and ekklēsia at Philippi : a response to Kathy Ehrensperger, Paul Holloway, and Julien Ogereau / Angela Standhartinger

First-century Philippi : contextualizing Paul's visit / Cédric Brélaz

Did the Philippian Christ group know it was a "missionary" society: / Richard S. Ascough

The imperial authorities in Paul's letter to predominantly Greek hearers in the Roman colony of Philippi / Peter Oakes

Every knee bowed : Jesus Christ as reigning Lord over "the heavenly, the earthly, and the subterranean gods" (Philippians 2:10) / Fredrick J. Long, Ryan Kristopher Giffin

Rivals, opponents, and enemies : three kinds of theological argumentation in Philippians / Samuel Vollenweider

From Rome to the colony of Philippi : Roman boasting in Philippians 3:4-6 in its Latin West and Philippian epigraphic context / James R. Harrison.

Rooted in Heaven and resident in Philippi, but no ἐκκλησία? / Kathy Ehrensperger

v. 5. Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea. Perspectives on the Lycus Valley: an inscriptional, archaeological, numismatic, and iconographic approach / Alan H. Cadwallader and James R. Harrison

Colossians, Hierapolitan coins-and the young bearers of hope / Ulrich Huttner

Unraveling the threads of identity: cloth and clothing in the Lycus Valley / Rosemary Canavan

On the question of comparative method in historical research: Colossae and Chonai in larger frame / Alan H. Cadwallader

Salience, multiple affiliation, and Christ belief in the Lycus Valley: a conversation with Ulrich Huttner's Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley / Harry O. Maier

Initiation, vision, and spiritual power: the Hellenistic dimensions of the problem at Colossae / Clinton E. Arnold

Everyday life in a Roman town like Colossae: the papyrological evidence / Peter Arzt-Grabner

A city with a message: Colossae and Colossians / Angela Standhartinger

Employing numismatic evidence in discussions of early Christianity in the Lycus valley: a case study from Laodicea / Michael P. Theophilos

Rome's market economy in the Lycus valley: soundings from Laodicea and Colossae / Michael Trainor

Has the Vita Abercii misled epigraphists in the reconstruction of the inscription? / Allen Brent

The inscriptions and oracular prophecy in the Eastern Mediterranean basin: assessing the Book of Revelation in its Graeco-Roman revelatory context / James R. Harrison.

v. 6. Rome and Ostia. The city of Rome from the late republic to the Julio-Claudian period : an epigraphic, archaeological, and numismatic portrait / James R. Harrison

Ostia, harbor port of Rome : an epigraphic and archaeological portrait / James R. Harrison

Early Christianity at Rome as reflected in the so-called First Epistle of Clement / L.L. Welborn

Friends, Romans, countrymen : reflections on the membership of the church in Rome / Thomas A. Robinson

Roman imperial coinage as the background to Paul's letter to the Romans / Michael P. Theophilos

Seeing Pharaoh and his obelisks in Rome (Rom 9:17) / Annelies Moeser

Romans 16 and the Sergii Paulli / Richard Last

How old is the synagogue at Ostia? / Mary Jane Cuyler

Romans 1:2-4 and imperial "adoption" ideology : Paul's alternative narrative to Julio-Claudian sonship and apotheosis / James R. Harrison

A traditional response to Peter Lampe's Picture of Christians in Rome / Mark Reasoner

Response to Peter Lampe's Paul to Valentinus : Christians at Rome in the first two centuries : the archaeology of Die stadtrömischen Christen in 2016 / Jutta Dresken-Weiland

From individual inscriptions and images to conceptual issues : response to Jutta Dresken-Weiland and Mark Reasoner / Peter Lampe.

v. 7. Thessalonica. An epigraphic profile of Thessalonica from the Hellenistic age to the Roman Empire / James R. Harrison

Imperial divine honors in Julio-Claudian Thessalonica and the Thessalonian correspondence / D. Clint Burnett

A return to "peace and security": the parts and the whole / Alan H. Cadwallader

"Times and seasons" or "peace and security"? Paul and the clash of eschatologies in Thessalonica / Joel R. White

Infants, orphans, children, and siblings: Strengthening the familial bonds of the ekklesia of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ / Rosemary Canavan

The emergence and development of Christianity in Thessalonica in the postapostolic age (second through sixth centuries CE): an epigraphic and archaeological perspective / Julien M. Ogereau

"Sounding forth": reading the Thessalonians as God's musicl instrument / Isaac T. Soon

Paul, the Jews, and the Thessalonians: new observations on 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 / Angela Standhartinger

Gentle philosopher, rhetorician, or selfless benefactor? Paul's apostolic image and ethos in 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 / James R. Harrison

Roman provincial coinage and Paul at Thessalonica / Michael P. Theophilos.

[Volume] 1. Methodological foundations

[volume] 2. Roman Corinth

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Methodological foundations

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OCLC:

911135010

Publisher Number:

40028723061

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