From Roman to early Christian Thessalonikē : studies in religion and archaeology / edited by Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos Bakirtzis, and Steven J. Friesen.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, MA : Harvard Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School ; distributed by Harvard University Press, c2010.
Description
xiv, 437 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Voluntary associations in Roman Thessalonikē : in search of identity and support in a cosmopolitan society / Pantelis M. Nigdelis
  • Of memories and meals : Greco-Roman associations and the early Jesus-group at Thessalonikē / Richard S. Ascough
  • "Gazing upon the invisible" : archaeology, historiography, and the elusive women of 1 Thessalonians / Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
  • Locating purity : temples, sexual prohibitions, and "making a difference" in Thessalonikē / Christine Thomas
  • Egyptian religion in Thessalonikē / Helmut Koester
  • Social status and family origin in the sarcophagi of Thessalonikē / Theodosia Stefanidou-Tiveriou
  • Second Thessalonians, the ideology of epistles, and the construction of authority : our debt to the forger / Steven J. Friesen
  • Christianization of Thessalonikē : the making of Christian "urban iconography" / Slobodan Curcic
  • And ecclesiastical identity in Christian Thessalonikē / James Skedros
  • Ceramics in late antique Thessalonikē / Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi
  • Glassware in late antique Thessalonikē (third seventh centuries C.E.) / Anastasios Antonaras
  • Reflections on the architectural history of the Tetrarchic Palace complex at Thessalonikē / Aristotles Mentzos
  • Early Christian interpretation in image and word : canon, sacred text, and the mosaics of Moni Latomou / Laura Nasrallah
  • Late antiquity and Christianity in Thessalonikē : aspects of a transformation / Charalambos Bakirtzis.
ISBN
  • 9780674053229 (alk. paper)
  • 0674053222 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2010021681
OCLC
620115240
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