Cilliers Breytenbach and Julien M. Ogereau (Eds.), Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece, Leiden: Brill, 2018

Abstract

This book explores how early Christian communities constructed, developed, and asserted their identity and authority in various socio-cultural contexts in Asia Minor and Greece in the first five centuries CE. With the help of the database Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae (ICG), special attention is given to ancient inscriptions which represent a rich and valuable source of information on the early Christians’ social and religious identity, family networks, authority structures, and place and function in society. This collection of essays by various specialists of Early Christianity, Epigraphy, and Late Antiquity, offers a broad geographical survey of the expansion and socio-cultural development of Christianity/ies in Asia Minor and Greece, and sheds new light on the religious transformation of the Later Roman Empire.

Content

3–32 Ulrich Huttner, "Pagane Relikte in der Spätantike . Griechische Katasterinschriften als religionsgeschichtliche Quellen", in: Cilliers Breytenbach and Julien M. Ogereau (Eds.), Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece , Leiden: Brill, 2018, 3–32
89–111 Patrick Krumm, "Frühes Christentum in Galatien. Inschriften aus dem südlichen Haymana-Hochland", in: Cilliers Breytenbach and Julien M. Ogereau (Eds.), Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece , Leiden: Brill, 2018, 89–111
112,143 Christiane Zimmermann, "Präsentation und Selbstrepräsentation von Christinnen auf lykaonischen Grabinschriften", in: Cilliers Breytenbach and Julien M. Ogereau (Eds.), Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece , Leiden: Brill, 2018, 112,143
144–167 Cilliers Breytenbach, "Relational Identity and Roman Name-Giving among Lycaonian Christians", in: Cilliers Breytenbach and Julien M. Ogereau (Eds.), Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece , Leiden: Brill, 2018, 144–167
168–197 Philipp Pilhofer, "Die Löwen der Berge. Lebendige, steinerne und literarische Löwen im Rauhen Kilikien", in: Cilliers Breytenbach and Julien M. Ogereau (Eds.), Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece , Leiden: Brill, 2018, 168–197
201–216 Erkki Sironen, "Early Christian Inscriptions from the Corinthia and the Peloponnese", in: Cilliers Breytenbach and Julien M. Ogereau (Eds.), Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece , Leiden: Brill, 2018, 201–216
240–266 Julien M. Ogereau, "Authority and Identity in the Early Christian Inscriptions from Macedonia: An Overview", in: Cilliers Breytenbach and Julien M. Ogereau (Eds.), Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece , Leiden: Brill, 2018, 240–266