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
Description: Twenty-four scholars join their efforts to congratulate David Lee Balch for a long career of dedication to scholarship and teaching. Topics range from the life of early Christian house churches to the kinds of challenges that early Christians needed to negotiate in their artistic and literary worlds as they established their own identity.
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.