Text, image, and Christians in the Graeco-Roman world
Subtitle: a festschrift in honor of David Lee Balch
By: edited by Aliou Cissé Niang and Carolyn Osiek
Series: Princeton theological monograph series -- 176; Princeton theological monograph series -- 176.
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781610975247
Subjects: Bible; Social scientific criticism; Criticism, interpretation; Religion and sociology; Church history; Biblical Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Professor David Lee Balch : a bibliography": p. xv-xxv.
Table of contents: title: Professor David Lee Balch: a biographical sketch -- -- pt. 1. Text and house churches. -- The; title: house church as social environment  -- Dennis E. Smith; title: Placing the Corinthian common meal  -- Edward Adams; title: Reading 1 Corinthians 7 through the eyes of families  -- Margaret Y. MacDonald; title: Interfacing house and church : converting household codes to church order  -- Turid Karlsen Seim; title: Overseers as household managers in the pastoral epistles  -- Abraham J. Malherbe; title: "Houses made with hands" : the triumph of the private in New Testament scholarship  -- Davina C. Lopez, -- Todd Penner -- The; title: Greek novel and literary ethnography : the household in the world of the New Testament  -- Ronald F. Hock; title: Egnatius, the breathalyzer kiss, and an early instance of domestic homicide at Rome  -- John T. Fitzgerald -- From archaeology to commentary writing via house churches / -- Peter Oakes -- pt. 2.; title: Creating images, verbal and visual. 1.; title: Constructions of the "other."  Matthew's others : scholarly identity-construction and absentee gentile great men (Matt 20:24-27)  -- Warren Carter; title: Seeing Jesus Christ crucified in Galatians 3:1 under watchful imperial eyes -- Aliou Cissé Niang; title: Rhetoric and the art of persuasion in the wisdom of Solomon  -- Leo G. Perdue; title: Standing together : the murder of lesbians and the martyrdom of saints Perpetua and Felicity  -- Stephen V. Sprinkle; title: Image and religion : a Christian in the Temple of Isis at Pompeii  -- Frederick Brenk -- The; title: shadow of an ass : on reading the Alexamenos Graffito  -- Oliver Larry Yarbrough -- 2.; title: Constructing the visual world.; title: Constructing the spaces of epiphany in ancient Greek and Roman visual culture  -- John R. Clarke; title: Melancholy, colonialism, and complicity : complicating counterimperial readings of Aphrodisias' Sebasteion  -- Hal Taussig; title: Nudity in early Christian art  -- Robin M. Jensen; title: Bible translation and ancient visual culture : divine nakedness and the "Circumcision of Christ" in Colossians 2:11  -- Yancy W. Smith; title: Jonah in early Christian art : death, resurrection, and immortality -- Everett Ferguson -- "Created in the image of God" : Greco-Roman Jewish art - new perspectives from archaeology /-- Richard Freund.