Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley
By: by Ulrich Huttner ; translation by David Green
Series: Ancient Judaism and early Christianity -- volume 85; Early Christianity in Asia Minor (ECAM) -- volume 1; Ancient Judaism and early Christianity -- v. 85.; Ancient Judaism and early Christianity -- v. 1.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9789004264168; 9789004264281
Subjects: Primitive and early church; Church history; Frühchristentum
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-450) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Starting points --; title: Sources and chronological framework --; title: Questions : community formation and the search for a position --; title: Historyof research --; title: Fundamentals, surveys, conclusions --; title: Epigraphy and archaeology --; title: Archaeological perspectives --; title: Theology --; title: Geography and natural resources --; title: Basic geography --; title: Infrastructure --; title: Agriculture and textile production --; title: Building trades and technologies --; title: Settlement geography I : Carura, Attouda, Trapezopolis, Tripolis --; title: Settlement geography II : Laodicea, Hierapolis, Colossae --; title: Historical background --; title: Cultural and social background : identities and associations --; title: Political background --; title: Colossae in the "early period" --; title: The Lycus Valley in the Hellenistic period : new foundations and political changes --; title: Laodicea as a central city of the Roman province --; title: Indigenous and Greek cults --; title: Cults of Zeus --; title: Cults of Apollo --; title: The sanctuary of Lairbenos --; title: Men --; title: The mother of the Gods --; title: The Hellenistic ruler cult --; title: The Roman emperor cult --; title: Jewish communities --; title: Judaism in the Lycus Valley : the beginnings --; title: Laodicea as a Jewish Center --; title: Conflicts between Jews and Greeks --; title: Symbiosis of Jews and Greeks in the Imperial Period --; title: Pauline influence : Philemon and Colossians --; title: Persons and networks --; title: Paul's journeys in Asia minor --; title: The prosopography of Philemon and Colossians --; title: The network of churches and the Epistle to the Laodiceans --; title: Nympha of Laodicea --; title: First summary : social networks and Paul's authority --; title: The Epistle to Philemon --; title: Date --; title: The social status of Onesimus --; title: The religious service of Onesimus --; title: Second summary : symbiosis of Christians and Pagans --; title: The Epistle to the Colossians --; title: The Pseudepigraphic problem of Colossians --; title: Date --; title: Addressee and author --; title: Knowledge of Christ --; title: The christological Hymn --; title: The admonition against "philosophy" --; title: Angel worship --; title: Local color in the catalog of Vices --; title: Renewal and liberation --; title: Liturgical Hymns --; title: The domestic code and stabilization of the social order --; title: Mission through rhetoric --; title: Third summary : the quest for a Christian position in Colossians --; title: Summary regarding the Pauline Epistles --; title: The letter in the apocalypse of John --; title: Context --; title: Historical Imponderables --; title: Geographical setting.; title: Philadelphia --; title: The Lukewarm Laodiceans --; title: Material prosperity and self-righteousness --; title: Pure gold --; title: White robes --; title: Eye salve --; title: Invitation to a banquet --; title: Christian participation in God's dominion --; title: Summary : local color and open questions --; title: Philip and his daughters --; title: John and Philip : apostolic competition in the Lycus Valley? --; title: Laodicea in the Acts of John --; title: Early references to Philip in Hierapolis --; title: The daughters of Philip : prophecies from Hierapolis --; title: Divergent traditions --; title: The prophetic activity of the daughters of Philip --; title: The institutionalized prophets of Apollo --; title: Competing kinds of prophecy? --; title: The message of Philip's daughters : miracle stories --; title: Pagan miracle stories --; title: Rival tombs --; title: Summary : vague memories of a Holy Family --; title: Papias and Apollinaris : bishops in Hierapolis --; title: Bishop Papias : a separate Christian path? --; title: Historical placement --; title: The Judas tradition --; title: The work and its sources --; title: The problem of oral tradition --; title: Eschatology --; title: The Hebrew Ur-Matthew --; title: Bishop Apollinarius : conflict resolution through communication --; title: The rain and lightning miracle --; title: Chronological placement and catalog of works --; title: The apology --; title: Against the Hellenes --; title: Against the Jews --; title: On the Paschal feast --; title: On truth --; title: Against the Montanists --; title: The plague --; title: Summary : defining the place of Papias and Apollinarius --; title: Institutionalization : clerical offices, synods, and councils --; title: Processes of institutionalization --; title: Early bishops and the institutionalization of the clergy --; title: The potential for communication in the pre-constantinian era --; title: Administrative consideration --; title: The synod of ancyra (314) --; title: The council of nicea --; title: The participants --; title: The date of easter --; title: Metropolitan privileges --; title: Christological conflicts after nicea --; title: The Synod of Laodicea --; title: Province and Diocese --; title: The date of the Synod --; title: The decisions --; title: The 5th-century councils --; title: The first council of Ephesus (431) and the competition between Laodicea and Hierapolis --; title: The second council of Ephesus (449) --; title: The council of Chalcedon --; title: Summary : conflict resolution through institutions --; title: Persecution and legends --; title: Persecution in the Lycus Valley --; title: Byzantine accounts of Martyrdom in the Apostolic Age --; title: Sagaris --; title: Christians or Crypto-Christians : Pre-Constantinian inscriptions --; title: Persecutions and lists of Martyrs --; title: The legends of the saints : genesis and impact --; title: Trophimus and Thallus --; title: Artemon : an itinerant legend --; title: The Acts of Philip --; title: The legend of St. Michael from Colossae/Chonae --; title: Legend and cult --; title: Summary : legends in differing contexts --; title: Conclusion : communitization and the search for a standpoint --; title: Christian communities in the Lycus Valley : socialization and communitization --; title: Search for a standpoint ---- Sources and bibliography-- Sources-- Bibliography-- Indexes-- Persons-- Places / geographical terms-- Subjects-- Passages-- Old Testament-- New Testament-- Apocryphal works-- Talmud-- Legal texts-- Acts of councils / Canon law-- Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval authors and works-- Inscriptions-- Clergy and functionaries (prosopographic index).