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Title The first urban churches 2 : Roman Corinth / edited by James R. Harrison and L.L. Welborn
Published Atlanta : SBL Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 353 pages)
Series Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; number 8
Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series ; no. 8.
Contents Introduction: excavating the urban life of Roman Corinth / James R. Harrison -- Inequality in Roman Corinth: evidence from diverse sources evaluated by a neo-Ricardian model / L.L. Welborn -- Negotiating multiple modes of religion and identity in Roman Corinth / Cavan Concannon -- Between polis, oikos, and ekklesia: the challenge of negotiating the spirit world (1 Cor. 12:1-11) / Kathy Ehrensperger -- Brother against brother: Controversiae about inheritance disputes and 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 / Michael Peppard -- The changing rural horizons of Corinth's first urban Christians / David K. Pettegrew -- Mixed-language inscribing at Roman Corinth / Bradley J. Bitner -- "The God of this age" (2 Cor 4:4) and Paul's empire-resisting Gospel at Corinth / Fredrick J. Long -- Paul and the Agōnothetai at Corinth: engaging the civic values of antiquity / James R. Harrison
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject City churches.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Church history -- Primitive and early church
Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
City churches
Form Electronic book
Author Harrison, James R., 1952- editor.
Welborn, L. L., 1953- editor.
ISBN 0884141128
9780884141129