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Book SynopsisThis book explores how early Christian communities constructed, developed, and asserted their identity and authority in various socio-cultural contexts in Asia Minor and Greece in the first five centuries CE. With the help of the database Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae (ICG), special attention is given to ancient inscriptions which represent a rich and valuable source of information on the early Christians’ social and religious identity, family networks, authority structures, and place and function in society. This collection of essays by various specialists of Early Christianity, Epigraphy, and Late Antiquity, offers a broad geographical survey of the expansion and socio-cultural development of Christianity/ies in Asia Minor and Greece, and sheds new light on the religious transformation of the Later Roman Empire.
Trade ReviewThis is an unusually important collection of papers. It offers a wealth of new evidence on the development of Early Christianity, put together substantially on the basis of the new Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae database. (...) This collection represents only the beginning of what will no doubt be a substantial and sustained move forward in the study of early Christianity in the Greek-speaking sphere. Peter Oakes, Journal for the Study of the new Testament, 2019
Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part 1 Early Christianity in Asia Minor 1 Pagane Relikte in der Spätantike: Griechische Katasterinschriften als religionsgeschichtliche Quellen Ulrich Huttner 2 The Acts of John and Christian Communities in Ephesus in the Mid-Second Century AD Paul Trebilco 3 Graeco-Roman Associations, Judean Synagogues and Early Christianity in Bithynia-Pontus Markus Öhler 4 Frühes Christentum in Galatien: Inschriften aus dem südlichen Haymana-Hochland Jennifer Krumm 5 Präsentation und Selbstrepräsentation von Christinnen auf lykaonischen Grabinschriften Christiane Zimmermann 6 Relational Identity and Roman Name-Giving among Lycaonian Christians Cilliers Breytenbach 7 Die Löwen der Berge: Lebendige, steinerne und literarische Löwen im Rauhen Kilikien Philipp Pilhofer Part 2 Early Christianity in Greece, the Southern Balkans, and Beyond 8 Early Christian Inscriptions from the Corinthia and the Peloponnese Erkki Sironen 9 Authority and Identity in the Early Christian Inscriptions from Macedonia Julien M. Ogereau 10 The Authority of Paul’s Memory and Early Christian Identity at Philippi Cédric Brélaz 11 Stobi in Late Antiquity: Epigraphic Testimonia Slavica Babamova 12 The Formation of a Pauline Letter Collection in Light of Roman Epigraphic Evidence Laura S. Nasrallah 13 The Use of Greek in the Early Christian Inscriptions from Rome and Italy (3rd–4th Cent.) Antonio E. Felle 14 From Aphrodite(s) to Saintly Bishops in Late Antique Cyprus Georgios Deligiannakis Indices
