Corinth in context
Subtitle: comparative studies on religion and society
By: edited by Steven Friesen, Dan Schowalter, and James Walters.
Contributors: Friesen, Steven J.; Schowalter, Daniel N., 1957-; Walters, James C.
Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 134
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004181977
Subjects: Religion and sociology -- Greece -- Corinth -- History -- Congresses; Christian sociology -- Greece -- Corinth -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses; Corinth (Greece) -- Religion -- Congresses; Corinth (Greece) -- Church history -- Congresses; Corinth (Greece) -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Christian antiquities -- Greece -- Corinth -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
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 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 Okland; 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 Walbank; title: Local religion; title: Seeking shelter in Roman Corinth : archaeology and the placement of Paul's communities / Daniel Neal 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.