From Roman to early Christian Thessalonikē
Subtitle: studies in religion and archaeology
By: edited by Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos Bakirtzis, and Steven J. Friesen
Contributors: Bakirtzēs, Ch. (Charalampos)
Series: Harvard theological studies -- 64
Publisher: Harvard Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School; distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780674053229
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Voluntary associations in Roman Thessalonikē : in search of identity and support in a cosmopolitan society / Pantelis M. Nigdelis; title: Of memories and meals : Greco-Roman associations and the early Jesus-group at Thessalonikē / Richard S. Ascough; title: "Gazing upon the invisible" : archaeology, historiography, and the elusive women of 1 Thessalonians / Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre; title: Locating purity : temples, sexual prohibitions, and "making a difference" in Thessalonikē / Christine Thomas; title: Egyptian religion in Thessalonikē / Helmut Koester; title: Social status and family origin in the sarcophagi of Thessalonikē / Theodosia Stefanidou-Tiveriou; title: Second Thessalonians, the ideology of epistles, and the construction of authority : our debt to the forger / Steven J. Friesen; title: Christianization of Thessalonikē : the making of Christian "urban iconography" / Slobodan Curcic; title: And ecclesiastical identity in Christian Thessalonikē / James Skedros; title: Ceramics in late antique Thessalonikē / Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi; title: Glassware in late antique Thessalonikē (third seventh centuries C.E.) / Anastasios Antonaras; title: Reflections on the architectural history of the Tetrarchic Palace complex at Thessalonikē / Aristotles Mentzos; title: Early Christian interpretation in image and word : canon, sacred text, and the mosaics of Moni Latomou / Laura Nasrallah; title: Late antiquity and Christianity in Thessalonikē : aspects of a transformation / Charalambos Bakirtzis.