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Author Balch, David L

Title Contested Spaces : Houses and Temples in Roman Antiquity and the New Testament
Published Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (901 pages)
Series Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament - Band 285 ; v. 285
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament - Band 285
Contents Cover; Preface; Table of Contents; A. Interpretive Issues; John R. Clarke: Representations of Worship at Rome, Pompeii, Heraculaneum, and Ostia in the Imperial Period. A Model of Production and Consumption; 1. Who paid for it?; 2. How Does the Visual Representation Address the Viewer?; 3. What Does the Viewer Know about the Representation?; Captions to figures; Irene Bragantini: The Cult of Isis and Ancient Egyptomania in Campania; Captions to figures; Fabrizio Pesando: The Properties and Social Role of Pompeiian Feminae Nobiles in Italy During the Early Imperial Age; The Public Sphere
Paestum, Basilica of Mineia (fig. 1)Paestum, Temple of Venus Iovia (fig. 3); Veleia, calchidicum of Baebia Bassilla (fig. 5); Ostia, crypta and calchidicum of Terentia (fig. 6); Pompeii. Chalcidicum, crypta and porticus ofEumachia and Numistrius Fronto and Temple VII 9,2(of the Genius of Augustus) of Mamia (fig. 7); Domestic Life; Conclusions; Captions to figures; Annette Weissenrieder: Contested Spaces in 1 Corinthians 11:17-33 and 14:30: Sitting or Reclining in Ancient Houses, in Associations and in the Space of ekklesia; 1. Introduction
1. Cor 11:17-34 and 14:30 and the representation of space through sittingand reclining2. Implications of seated and reclining meals in antiquity; 2.1 Visual Examples; Realistic Scenes: The Tavern Frieze; Sitting and Reclining: The Amiternum; 2.2 Literary Sources; 3. Space for the Lord's Supper andthe Meeting of the Assembly; 3.1 Space for the Lord's Supper: The House; 3.2 Spaces for the Lord's Supper: Associations; 4. Meeting space for the ekklesía; 4.1 Space for the Lord's Supper: the gathering room of the ekklesía; 4.2 Space of the ekklesía and the meaning of kathemenai
4.3 Space of the ekklesía in Corinth4.4 The meaning of ekklesía in non-Christian sources and 1 Corinthians; Captions to figures; Laura Salah Nasrallah: Grief in Corinth: The Roman City and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence; 1. Grief in the Corinthia; 2. The Corinthians; 3. The City of Corinth: A Topography of Grief; 4. Medea, Demeter, and the Vulnerability of Women and Children; 5. Grief in 1 Corinthians; 6. Conclusions; Captions of figures; Eleanor Winsor Leach: Rhetorical Inventio and the Expectations of Roman Continuous Narrative Painting; Captions for figures; B. Contested Domestic Spaces
I. DomusIvan Varriale: Architecture and Decoration in the House of Menander in Pompeii; 1. Introduction; 2. The owner; 3. General description; 4. Architecture and decoration; 5. The atrium complex; 6. The peristyle complex; 7. The bath; 8. Conclusions; Captions to figures; Mario Grimaldi: Charting the urban development of the Insula Occidentalis and the Casa di Marcus Fabius Rufus at Pompeii; 1. Introduction; 2. Fortifications and Colonial Domus; 3. The Casa di Marcus Fabius Rufus: Structural changes, decorative embellishments, and ownership; 4. Owners and decorative themes; 5. Mosaics
Summary HauptbeschreibungHow are archaeology and art related to understanding New Testament texts, for example, narratives of the Lord's Supper and other meals? An international group of archaeologists, art historians, and New Testament scholars investigate the function of spaces in Roman houses and temples in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Corinth, Rome, Ostia, Ephesus, and Judaea. Another concern is more fully to understand the relationship between different architectural forms, Roman domus, villae, and insulae, in relation to Paul's letters and the gospels, in order to enable informed interpretation of lead
Analysis New Testament Roman Empire Archaeology Space Neues Testament Antike Antike Religionsgeschichte Editionen, Textausgaben Religionswissenschaft
Notes 6. Painting
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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SUBJECT Bible -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Bible fast
Subject Temples -- Rome -- Congresses
Architecture, Domestic -- Rome -- Congresses
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Congresses
Antiquities
Architecture, Domestic
Cities and towns, Ancient
Religion
Temples
SUBJECT Rome -- Religion -- Congresses
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Weissenrieder, Annette
ISBN 3161520262
9783161510267
3161510267
9783161520266