From Roman to early Christian Thessalonikē : studies in religion and archaeology / edited by Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos Bakirtzis, and Steven J. Friesen.

Title: 
From Roman to early Christian Thessalonikē : studies in religion and archaeology / edited by Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos Bakirtzis, and Steven J. Friesen.

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Publisher: 
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School ; distributed by Harvard University Press, c2010.
Description: 
xiv, 437 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Other Authors: 
Nasrallah, Laura Salah, 1969-
Bakirtzēs, Ch. (Charalampos)
Friesen, Steven J.
Format of Material: 
Books
Bib ID: 
123724
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Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
DF261.T49F76 2010z
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.
ISBN: 
9780674053229 (alk. paper)
0674053222 (alk. paper)
Series: 
Harvard theological studies ; no. 64.
Harvard theological studies ; 64