Description
This volume brings together international scholars of faith, archaeologists, and scholars of art and architectural history to analyze social, political, and spiritual life in Roman and early Christian Thessalonike, the most important metropolis within the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian periods and beyond. This volume is the primary broadly interdisciplinary investigation of Roman and early Christian Thessalonike in English and offers new data and new interpretations by scholars of ancient religion and archaeology. The book covers materials frequently treated by a broad range of disciplines: New Testament and early Christian literature, art historical materials, urban planning in antiquity, subject matter culture and day by day life, and archaeological artifacts from the Roman to the overdue antique period.