1. Methodological foundations

Includes bibliographical references

[volume] 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 --

Volume 2. Roman Corinth. Introduction: excavating the urban life of Roman Corinth -- Inequality in Roman Corinth: evidence from diverse sources evaluated by a neo-Ricardian model -- Negotiating multiple modes of religion and identity in Roman Corinth -- Between polis, oikos, and ekklesia: the challenge of negotiating the spirit world (1 Cor. 12:1-11) -- Brother against brother: Controversiae about inheritance disputes and 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 -- The changing rural horizons of Corinth's first urban Christians -- Mixed-language inscribing at Roman Corinth -- "The God of this age" (2 Cor 4:4) and Paul's empire-resisting Gospel at Corinth -- Paul and the Agōnothetai at Corinth: engaging the civic values of antiquity