Philippi, from Colonia Augusta to Communitas Christiana

Religion and Society in Transition
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46932-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 186, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1121 g

Reihe: Novum Testamentum, Supplements

This volume provides a review of recent research in Philippi related to archaeology, demography, religion, the New Testament and early Christianity. Careful reading of texts, inscriptions, coins and other archaeological materials allow the reader to examine how religious practice in Philippi changed as the city moved from being a Hellenistic polis to a Roman colony to a center for Christian worship and pilgrimage. The essays raise questions about traditional understandings of material culture in Philippi, and come to conclusions that reflect more complicated and diverse views of the city and its inhabitants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Friesen, Steven J.

Lychounas, Michalis

Schowalter, Daniel N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Daniel N. Schowalter

part 1: Traditional Religion and Society in Philippi

1 The Forum at Philippi: The Transformation of Public Space from the Establishment of the Colony to the Early Byzantine Period

Michel Sève

2 Reconstructing the Religious Landscape of the Roman Colony of Philippi

Athanasios Rizakis

3 Thracian, Greek, or Roman? Ethnic and Social Identities of Worshippers (and Gods) in Roman Philippi

Cédric Brélaz

4 Non-Romans in the Roman Colony of Philippi and Their Hybrid Identities: The Case of the Thracian Population

Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni

5 Numismatic History of Philippi: from the Greek City-State to the Roman Colony

Katerina Chryssanthaki-Nagle

6 Sanctuary of Hero Auloneites on Mt. Pangaion: Tracing Continuity and Change of Religious Practices in the Territory of Philippi

Chaido Koukouli-Chryssanthaki and Dimitra Malamidou

7 Maintaining the City: Enslaved Labor and Trade in Roman Philippi

Sarah E. Bond

part 2: Paul and His Influence

8 “Let Us Know Anything Further Which You Have Heard”: Mapping Philippian Connectivity

Cavan Concannon

9 Cost and Abundance in Roman Philippi: The Letter to the Philippians in Its Context

Jennifer Quigley and Laura Nasrallah

10 Echoes in the Praetorium: Place, People, and Prospects in Philippians 1:13

Michael Flexsenhar III

11 Popular Heroization in Philippian Funerary Epigraphy and Paul’s Letter to the Philippians

Peter Oakes

12 Class and Ideology in Acts 16: The Philippian Narrative as a Failed Revolution

Steven J. Friesen

13 Paul and Philippi: The Early Cult of the Apostle and the Topography of the Late Antique City

Aristotelis Mentzos

14 “The Beloved Community” after Paul: Early Christianity in Philippi from the Second to the Fourth Century

Angela Standhartinger

part 3: Late Antique and Byzantine Developments

15 New Evidence for the Civic Center from the Roman Colony to the Late Byzantine Period: Excavation of the Parking Lot at the Archaeological Museum of Philippi

Sofia Doukata-Demertzi

16 Christian Philippi: The Cases of the Fourth and Fifth Residential Insulae of the Newly Excavated Area

Emmanuela Gounari and Melina Paissidou

17 Reassessing Urban Continuity in Early Medieval Philippi

Natalia Poulou

18 Terra a mano: The Handmade Pottery of Philippi and Its Implications for the Transformation of the City during the Early Byzantine Period

Stavros Zachariadis

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven J. Friesen, Ph.D. (1990), Harvard University, is the Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. His publications include Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins (2001).

Michalis Lycounas, BA, MA (AUTH), is an archaeologist/curator with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Kavala. His interests are in Early Christian artistic expression, material culture of the Greek Orthodox community in the Ottoman period and heritage and public memory management.

Daniel N. Schowalter, Th.D. (1989), Harvard University, is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Religion at Carthage College. He works in archaeology and ancient Mediterranean religion. He is co-director of excavations at Omrit in Northern Israel and Mandeure in eastern France.

Contributors are Cédric Brélaz, Katerina Chryssanthaki-Nagle, Cavan Concannon, Sofia Doukata-Demertzi, Michael Flexsenhar III, Steven Friesen, Emmanuela Gounari, Haido Koukouli-Chryssanthaki, Dimitra Malamidou, Aristoteles Mentzos, Laura Nasrallah, Peter Oakes, Melina Paissidou, Natalia Poulou, Jennifer Quigley, Athanasios Rizakis, Daniel N. Schowalter, Michel Sève, Angela Standhartinger, Ekaterini Tsalampouni, Stavros Zachariadis.