From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonike

This volume brings together international scholars of religion, archaeologists, and scholars of art and architectural history to investigate social, political,

Over the past two and a half decades there has been an increasing interest in how the data from the associations—known primarily from inscriptions and papyriâ

While scholars of the New Testament and its Roman environment have recently focused attention on ethnicity, on the one hand, and gender on the other, the two qu

"This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to

This handbook encapsulates the whole field of research around the apostle Paul - the authentic texts, other ancient texts falsely attributed to him, the numerou

Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian writers, rea

All Things to All Cultures sets Paul in his first-century context and illuminates his interactions with Jews, Greeks, and Romans as he spread the gospel in the

This study illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote. It articulates a method for bringing togeth

The modern cult of celebrity, commencing with Garibaldi, Byron, and Whitman, is compared to the quest for glory in late republican and early imperial Roman soci

Paul's conflict with viscous enemies, human and otherwise, led him to employ efficacious powers, charismata (charismatic powers), and controversial and sometime