TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrison,James R.
AU  - Welborn,L.L.
TI  - The first urban churches
T2  - Society of Biblical Literature. Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series
SN  - 9781628371024
AV  - BV637 .F57 2015
PY  - 2015///-
CY  - Atlanta, GA
PB  - SBL Press
KW  - City churches
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; v.1; Methodological foundations; The first urban churches : introduction; James R. Harrison; Assessing the potential of archaeological discoveries for the interpretation of New Testament texts : the case of a gladiator fragment from Colossae and the letter to the Colossians; Alan Cadwallader --; The city in Roman Egypt : the evidence of the papyri; Malcom Choat --; Epigraphy and the study of Polis and Ekklēsia in the Greco-Roman world; Paul Trebilco --; Gaia, Polis, and Ekklēsia at the Miletus Market Gate : an eco-critical reimagination of Revelation 12:16; Brigitte Kahl --; Coinage and colonial identity : Corinthian numismatics and the Corinthian correspondence; Bradley J. Bitner --; The Polis and the poor : reconstructing social relations from different genres of evidence; L.L. Welborn --; Methodological considerations in using epigraphic evidence to determine the socioeconomic context of the early Christians; Julien M. Ogereau --; Urban portraits of the "barbarians" on the fringes of the Roman Empire : the archaeological numismatic, epigraphic, and iconographic evidence; James R. Harrison --; v.2; Roman Corinth; Introduction; Excavating the urban life of Roman Corinth; James R. Harrison --; Inequality in Roman Corinth : evidence from diverse sources evaluated by a neo-Ricardian model; L.L. Wellborn --; Negotiating multiple modes of religion and identity in Roman Corinth; Cavan Concannon --; Between polis, oikos, and ekklesia : the challenge of negotiating the spirit world (1 Cor. 12:1-11); Kathy Ehrensperger --; Brother against brother : controversiae about inheritance disputes and 1 Corinthians 6:1-11; Michael Peppard --; The changing rural horizons of Corinth's first urban Christians; David K. Pettegrew --; Mixed-language inscribing at Roman Corinth; Bradley J. Bitner --; "The God of this age" (2 Cor 4:4) and Paul's empire-resisting Gospel at Corinth; Fredrick J. Long --; Paul and the Agōnothetai at Corinth : engaging the civic values of antiquity; James R. Harrison --; v.3; Ephesus; An epigraphic portrait of Ephesus and its villages; James R. Harrison --; An Ephesian tale : mystery cults, reverse theological engineering, and the triumph of Christianity in Ephesus; Guy MacLean Rogers --; The Jewish community in Ephesus and its interaction with Christ-believers in the first century CE and beyond; Paul Trebilco --; Acclaiming Artemis in Ephesus : political theologies in Acts 19; Bradley J. Bitner --; The gladiator graveyard of Ephesus as evidence for the study of martyrdom; Mikael Haxby --; [Ekklasia] in Ephesians as godlike in the heavens, in temple, in [gamos], and in armor : idealogy and iconography in Ephesus; Fredrick J. Long --; From Zeus or by Endoios? : Acts 19:35 as a peculiar assessment of the Ephesian Artemis; Stephan Witetschek --; Ephesian cultic officials, their benefactors, and the quest for civic virtue : Paul's alternative quest for status in the epistle to the Ephesians; James R. Harrison --; Ephesus and the numismatic background to [neokoros]; Michael P. Theophilos; v.4; Roman Philippi; Excavating the urban and country life of Roman Philippi; James R. Harrisson; Rooted in heaven and resident in Philippi, but no έϰϰλησία?; Kathy Ehrensperger; The social constituency and membership of the first Christian groups at Philippi: a literary and epigraphic survey; Julien M. Ogereau; Vindolanda tablet 2.154, RPC 1651, and the provenance of Philippians /; Paul A. Holloway; Polis and Ekklēsia at Philippi: a response to Kathy Ehrensperger, Paul Holloway, and Julien Ogereau; Angela Standhartinger; First-century Philippi: contextualizing Paul's visit; Cédric Brélaz; Did the Philippian Christ group know it was a "missionary" society?; Richard S. Ascough; The imperial authorities in Paul's letter to predominantly Greek hearers in the Roman colony of Philippi; Peter Oakes; "Every knee bowed": Jesus Christ as reigning Lord over "the heavenly, the earthly, and the subterranean gods" (Philippians 2:10); Fredrick J. Long and Ryan Kristopher Giffin; Rivals, opponents, and enemies: three kinds of theological argumentation in Philippians; Samuel Vollenweider; From Rome to the colony of Philippi: Roman boasting in Philippians 3:4-6 in its Latin west and Philippian epigraphic context; James R. Harrison
N2  - This collection of essays examines the urban context of early Christian churches in the first-century Roman world. A city-by-city investigation of the early churches in the New Testament clarifies the challenges, threats, and opportunities that urban living provided for early Christians. Readers will come away with a better understanding of how scholars assemble an accurate picture of the cities in which the first Christians flourished--Publisher's website
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