Corinthian Matters

Category: Periods, Roman

  • RBL Reviews: Four New Books on Paul and Pauline Studies

    Freshly printed by the Review of the Biblical Literature, four new books related to Paul, Pauline studies, writings, theology, themes, mission, and interpretation—plenty of 1 and 2 Corinthians here. Celebrating Paul: Festschrift in Honor of Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, O.P., and Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J.Spitaler, Peter, editorWashington: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2011 pp. xxviii + 439.…

  • The Isthmus of Corinth Project

    No end in sight for winter here in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but a new semester is under way, and with that, you should see a little more activity here at Corinthian Matters. Over the last six weeks, I’ve been busy bringing to completion a book on Corinth’s eastern landscape titled — at least for the moment…

  • Two Reviews of Recent Books on 1 and 2 Corinthians

    The Review of Biblical Literature has recently posted two reviews of books published in 2013 related to 1 and 2 Corinthians. The first review by Matthew Malcolm of Cryptotheology, reviews Yung Suk Kim (ed.), 1 and 2 Corinthians: Texts @ Contexts, Minneapolis 2013: Fortress Press. The Fortress Press page describes the book this way: “The…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (November 2013)

    Your latest round of new Corinthian scholarship published or posted online in the last month – just in time for the holiday season. Feel free to reply to this post if you have something to add. If you are interested and qualified to review any of the following, contact me at corinthianmatters@gmail.com. For comprehensive bibliography…

  • Urban Space and Economic Life in Saint Paul’s Balkan Stops, 4th–7th Centuries

    I won’t be anywhere near Hellenic College Holy Cross on December 3, but this lecture (from Brandie Rantliff via the Byzantine Studies Association) looks interesting. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the first talk in its 2013-2014 lecture series. On December 3, 2013, at 4pm, Dr. Eurydice Georganteli…

  • Two Recent Finds from the Corinthia

    The Googlebots are proving less reliable than they once were. Here are two news stories from the last week or so that I just learned about via FB. These should be of obvious interest to Roman history and archaeology folk. First, another Roman chamber tomb has been found in Corinth. This tomb, like the Roman…

  • SBL Baltimore 2013

    I will not be able to attend the annual meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Society of Biblical Literature that begin this week in Baltimore, but I will offer, as in years past, an index of papers and sessions related in some way to Corinth. I did not see any obvious…

  • Inequality in Corinth

    It didn’t take long for the Googlebots to find Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality, fresh off the press  of Brill publishing company. Google Books has made available the Introductory matter, Table of Contents, and Chapter 1 (Inequality in Corinth) by editors Steven Friesen, Sarah James, and Daniel Schowalter. In their introductory chapter, the editors…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (October 2013)

    Here’s the round-up of new Corinthiaka scholarship for the month of October. Happy Reading. You can also find these entries at the Corinthian Studies Group Library Page in Zotero. Bronze Age Pullen, Daniel. “The Life and Death of a Mycenaean Port Town: Kalamianos on the Saronic Gulf.” Journal of Maritime Archaeology no. October (2013): 1–18.…

  • The Haunted House of Kraneion: A Corinthian Ghost Story

    Spooky Thursday again. A couple of years ago, I noted the corpus of ancient ghost stories having something to do with the Corinthia and wondered aloud whether this had something to do with Corinth’s reputation as an exotic place, its particular history as a destroyed city, or whether the pattern was common to most ancient…