Corinthian Matters

Category: Engravings

  • Conybeare and Howson, on the True and Faithful Representation of the Apostle (1852)

    For Friday’s picture of Corinth, I offer another vision from 19th century New Testament scholars. This one comes from W.J. Conybeare and Howson’s The Life and Epistles of St. Paul (1852), a major work of biography in its day and a source for Coleman’s sketch of a “most hopeless city” posted two weeks ago. Conybeare…

  • Corinth, Christian Encyclopedia 1866

    For this Friday photo blog, I direct the viewer to this steel plate engraving from James Gardner’s The Christian Cyclopedia, or A Repertory of Biblical and Theological Literature, published in London 1866. The image, posted by Andy Brill here on flickr shows village of Corinth from the west, with the Temple of Apollo on a…