TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrison,James R.
TI  - The First urban churches
T2  - Society of Biblical Literature. Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series
SN  - 9781628371024 (v. 1 : pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BV637 .F57 2015
U1  - 270.109173/2 23
KW  - City churches
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
N1  - 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
ER  -