Religion in Ephesos Reconsidered

Religion in Ephesos Reconsidered

Author: Daniel N. Schowalter

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004401129

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This volume reviews the current state of research on the most important Ephesian projects offering evidence for religious activity during the Roman period. The essays cover a wide range of materials and question traditional understandings of material culture in Ephesos.


Religion in Ephesos Reconsidered

Religion in Ephesos Reconsidered

Author: Daniel Schowalter

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-10-14

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 900440113X

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Religion in Ephesos Reconsidered provides a detailed overview of the current state of research on the most important Ephesian projects offering evidence for religious activity during the Roman period. Ranging from huge temple complexes to hand-held figurines, this book surveys a broad scope of materials. Careful reading of texts and inscriptions is combined with cutting-edge archaeological and architectural analysis to illustrate how the ancient people of Ephesos worshipped both the traditional deities and the new gods that came into their purview. Overall, the volume questions traditional understandings of material culture in Ephesos, and demonstrates that the views of the city and its inhabitants on religion were more complex and diverse than has been previously assumed.


Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East

Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East

Author: Nathan Leach

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1003800416

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This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John’s Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East. Readers will gain new perspectives on the interpretation of John’s Apocalypse, the religion of Hellenistic cities in the Roman Empire, and the political and economic forces that shaped life in the Eastern Mediterranean. The chapters in this volume examine texts and material culture through carefully localized analysis that attends to ideological and socioeconomic contexts, expanding upon aspects of Friesen’s research and methodology while also forging new directions. The book brings together a diverse and international set of experts including emerging voices in the fields of biblical studies, Roman social history, and classical archeology, and each essay presents fresh, critically informed analysis of key sites and texts from the periods of Christian origins and Roman imperial rule. Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East is of interest to students and scholars working on Christian origins, ancient Judaism, Roman religion, classical archeology, and the social history of the Roman Empire, as well as material religion in the ancient Mediterranean more broadly. It is also suitable for religious practitioners within Christian contexts.


Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity

Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-07

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9004680829

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The essays in the present volume celebrate the work of Margaret M. Mitchell (University of Chicago) by engaging, extending, and challenging her ground-breaking research in three areas: (1) the letters of Paul the Apostle, both authentic and pseudepigraphic; (2) the emergence and rapid development of early Christian literary culture over the first few centuries of the cult’s existence; and (3) Late Antique interpretive practices and perspectives, particularly among patristic readers of the scriptures.


New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 11A

New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 11A

Author: James R. Harrison

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2024-10-04

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1628375825

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This volume of the New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity series introduces scholars and students to the historical, political, civic, religious, cultural, and social context of Ephesian inscriptional evidence. Each of the twenty-five entries in this volume includes one or more original inscriptions, English translation, and a commentary that sheds light on early Christianity, particularly as it relates to Ephesians, Acts, Revelation, and the Pastoral Epistles. Contributors Bradley J. Bitner, James R. Harrison, Phillip Ort, and Isaac T. Soon examine topics such as the gods and the founder of Ephesus, the political and economic relationship between Ephesus and Rome, Ephesian elites and the dynamics of honor, building activity, local sites, and graffiti.


Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside

Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside

Author: Markus Tiwald

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Published: 2021-04-12

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 364756494X

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Ever since Jesus walked the hills of Galilee and Paul travelled the roads of Asia Minor and Greece, Christianity has shown a remarkable ability to adapt itself to various social and cultural environments. Recent research has demonstrated that these environments can only be very insufficiently termed as "rural" or "urban". Neither was Jesus' Galilee only rural, nor Paul's Asia only "urban". On the background of ongoing research on the diversity of social environments in the Early Empire, this volume will focus on various early Christian "worlds" as witnessed in canonical and non-canonical texts. How did Early Christians experience and react to "rural" and "urban" life? What were the mechanisms behind this adaptability? Papers will analyze the relation between urban Christian beginnings and the role of the rural Jesus-tradition. In what sense did the image of Jesus, the "Galilean village Jew", change when his message was carried into the cities of the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem to Athens or Rome? Papers will not only deal with various personalities or literary works whose various attitudes towards urban life became formative for future Christianity. They will also explore the different local milieus that demonstrate the wide range of Christian cultural perspectives.


Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers

Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers

Author: Anna M. Sitz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0197666434

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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2017, under the title: The writing on the wall: inscriptions and memory in the temples of late antique Greece and Asia Minor.


Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity

Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-21

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9004517723

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This Festschrift presents original research and new lines of inquiry on subjects related to Hellenistic philosophical texts and traditions, as well as early Christian literature and its cultural and intellectual environment.


Highlights of Ephesus

Highlights of Ephesus

Author: Izabela Miszczak

Publisher: ASLAN Izabela Sobota-Miszczak

Published: 2024-03-03

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 8366950034

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Situated in the Aegean region of Turkey, Ephesus is probably one of the best-preserved ancient cities in the Mediterranean. In ancient times, both in the Greek and in the Roman periods, it was a bustling trading city and a centre of worship of Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt and the wilderness, but also childbirth and chastity. Later, it became a thriving Christian city with the first of the churches dedicated to Mary, the mother of Christ. To imagine what life was like in the ancient city of the Roman Empire, walk the streets of Ephesus, visit public toilets and residential houses, and then sit back in the great theatre or have a look at the splendid library. Ephesus offers all these things, and many more, to curious travellers who want to be sure that they can make the most of their visit there. This book offers a guided tour of the most important sights in Ephesus, the absolutely must-see ones. It was created with the thought of the visitors who have limited time on their hands and want to be sure that they will not miss any highlights of the famous ancient city. There are 18 chapters devoted to particular locations within Ephesus, and they are organised geographically.