Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Voluntary associations in Roman Thessalonikē : in search of identity and support in a cosmopolitan society / Pantelis M. Nigdelis --
Of memories and meals : Greco-Roman associations and the early Jesus-group at Thessalonikē / Richard S. Ascough --
"Gazing upon the invisible" : archaeology, historiography, and the elusive women of 1 Thessalonians / Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre --
Locating purity : temples, sexual prohibitions, and "making a difference" in Thessalonikē / Christine M. Thomas --
Egyptian religion in Thessalonikē : regulation for the cult / Helmut Koester --
Social status and family origin in the sarcophagi of Thessalonikē / Thea Stefanidou-Tiveriou --
Second Thessalonians, the ideology of epistles, and the construction of authority : our debt to the forger / Steven J. Friesen --
Christianization of Thessalonikē : the making of Christian "urban iconography" / Slobodan Ćurčić --
Civic and ecclesiastical identity in Christian Thessalonikē / James Skedros --
Ceramics in late antique Thessalonikē / Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi --
Glassware in late antique Thessalonikē (third to seventh centuries C.E.) / Anastassios C. Antonaras --
Reflections on the architectural history of the Tetrarchic Palace complex at Thessalonikē / Aristotles Mentzos --
Early Christian interpretation in image and word : canon, sacred text, and the mosaics of Moni Latomou / Laura Nasrallah --
Late antiquity and Christianity in Thessalonikē : aspects of a transformation / Charalambos Bakirtzis.