Corinth in context
Subtitle: comparative studies on religion and society
By: edited by Steven J. Friesen, Daniel N. Schowalter, and James C. Walters
Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 134; Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 134.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9789004181977; 9789004182110
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Context, comparison  -- Steven J. Friesen; title: The social and ethnic origins of the colonists in early Roman Corinth  -- Benjamin W. Millis; title: Asklepios in Greek and Roman Corinth  -- Bronwen L. Wickkiser; title: The emperor in a Roman town : the base of the Augustales in the forum at Corinth  -- Margaret L. Laird; title: Greek heritage in Roman Corinth and Ephesos : hybrid identities and strategies of display in the material record of traditional Mediterranean religions  -- Christine M. Thomas; title: Image and cult : the coinage of Roman Corinth  -- Mary E. Hoskins Walbank; title: Ceres and cultural complexity : divine personality definitions and human worshippers in Roman Corinth  -- Jorunn Økland; title: The wrong Erastus : ideology, archaeology, and exegesis  -- Steven J. Friesen; title: Where have all the names gone? The Christian community in Corinth in the late Roman and early Byzantine eras  -- Michael B. Walbank; title: Seeking shelter in Roman Corinth : archaeology and the placement of Paul's communities  -- Daniel N. Schowalter; title: Paul and the politics of meals in Roman Corinth  -- James C. Walters; title: The sacred spring : landscape and traditions  -- Guy D.R. Sanders; title: Religion and society at Roman Kenchreai  -- Joseph L. Rife; title: Religion and society in the Roman Eastern Corinthia -- Timothy E. Gregory.