{"product_id":"authority-and-identity-in-emerging-christianities-in-asia-minor-and-greece-9789004363151","title":"Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210748289367,"sku":"9789004363151","price":139.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/authority-and-identity-in-emerging-christianities-in-asia-minor-and-greece-9789004363151","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}