Stones, bones, and the sacred :

Stones, bones, and the sacred : essays on material culture and ancient religion in honor of Dennis E. Smith / edited by Alan H. Cadwallader. - 1 online resource (xxi, 365 pages). - Early Christianity and its literature ; number 21 . - Early Christianity and its literature ; no. 21. .

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

The scholarship of Dennis E. Smith / Embodied inequalities : diet reconstruction and Christian origins / Food crises in Corinth? Revisiting the evidence and its possible implications in reading 1 Cor 11:17-34 / Don't take it lying down : nondining features of the Omrit temple excavations / Eating words in the New Testament / Ancient drinking in modern Bible translation / Making men in Rev 2-3 : reading the seven messages in the Bath-gymnasiums of Asia Minor / At the origins of Christian apologetic literature : the politics of patronage in Hadrianic Athens / One grave, two women, one man : complicating family life at Colossae / The Corinthian [KAINAI KTISEIS]? Second Corinthians 5:17 and the Roman refoundation of Corinth / Women as leaders in the gatherings of early Christian communities : a sociohistorical analysis / The political charges against Paul and Silas in Acts 17:6-7: Roman benefaction in Thessalonica / Paul's walk to Assos : a hodological inquiry into its geography, archaeology, and purpose / The Baptists of Corinth : Paul, the partisans of Apollos, and the history of baptism in nascent Christianity / A response / Hal E. Taussig -- Steven J. Friesen -- Ma. Marilou S. Ibita -- Daniel N. Schowalter -- Keith Dyer -- Jorunn Økland -- Lynn R. Huber -- William Rutherford -- Alan H. Cadwallader -- Dominika Kurek-Chomycz and Reimund Bieringer -- Valeriy A. Alikin -- Jeffrey A. D. Weima -- Glen L. Thompson and Mark Wilson -- Stephen J. Patterson -- Dennis E. Smith.

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Religion and politics.
Christians--Miscellanea.
Material culture--Religious aspects--Christians.
Religion and social problems.
Religion, Prehistoric.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Gaia & Earth Energies
RELIGION / Christianity / General


Electronic books.

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