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Title Corinth in contrast : studies in inequality / edited by Steven J. Friesen, Sarah A. James, and Daniel N. Schowalter
Published Boston : Brill, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 0167-9732 ; 155
Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 155.
Contents Inequality in Corinth / Steven J. Friesen, Sarah A. James, and Daniel N. Schowalter -- The last of the Corinthians? : society and settlement from 146 to 44 BCE / Sarah A. James -- The local magistrates and elite of Roman Corinth / Benjamin W. Millis -- "You were bought with a price" : freedpersons and things in 1 Corinthians / Laura Salah Nasrallah -- Painting practices in Roman Corinth : Greek or Roman? / Sarah Lepinski -- Landlords and tenants : sharecroppers and subsistence farming in Corinthian historical context / Guy D.R. Sanders -- The Diolkos and the Emporion : how a land bridge framed the commercial economy of Roman Corinth / David K. Pettegrew -- The ambivalent landscape of Christian Corinth : the archaeology of place, theology, and politics in a late antique city / William Caraher -- Regilla standing by : reconstructed statuary and re-inscribed bases in fourth-century Corinth / Daniel N. Schowalter -- Religion and magic in Roman Corinth / Ronald S. Stroud -- Junia Theodora of Corinth : gendered inequalities in the early empire / Steven J. Friesen -- 'Mixed marriage' in early Christianity : trajectories from Corinth / Caroline Johnson Hodge
Summary In Corinth in Contrast, archaeologists, historians, art historians, classicists, and New Testament scholars examine the stratified nature of social, economic, political, and religious interactions in the city of Corinth from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Equality -- Greece -- Corinth -- History
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
Antiquities
Equality
Manners and customs
Religion
Social conditions
SUBJECT Corinth (Greece) -- History
Corinth (Greece) -- Social life and customs
Corinth (Greece) -- Social conditions
Corinth (Greece) -- Religion
Corinth (Greece) -- Antiquities
Subject Greece -- Corinth
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Friesen, Steven J., editor
James, Sarah A., editor
Schowalter, Daniel N., 1957- editor.
ISBN 9789004261310
9004261311