Corinthian Matters

Category: Religion, St. Paul

  • Going to San Francisco for the Society of Biblical Literature? An Invitation to Contribute

    The annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature runs this week from Saturday to Tuesday and will offer more than 50 papers related in some way to the study of Corinth.  In August, I posted a comprehensive list of these Corinthiaka papers that deal with, variously, the history and archaeology of the city, the…

  • The Unqualified Apostle

    Gary Shogren at JustinofNablus wins the prize for most creative (recent) Apostle-Paul-in-Corinth blog post.  In “Dear Paul,” he describes how the apostle failed to satisfy what Corinthian Christians thought most important and would fail to qualify today for the typical ministry job.  This post draws from Paul’s own rhetoric in 1 and 2 Corinthians about…

  • Corinthiaka

    Some various Corinthiaka have appeared in different blogs over the last month. Diana Wright at Surprised by Time gives some attention to the death and estate of Nerio Acciaiuoli, the (late 14th century) Lord of Corinth. Kostis Kourelis at Objects-Buildings-Situations discusses graffiti at the Lechaion basilica From Matthew Malcolm at Cryptotheology: Malcolm has announced that…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (October)

    Bronze Age A recent M.S. thesis on the site of Kalamianos in the the southern Corinthia: some beautiful images of the site: Peter Dao, “Marine Geophysical and Geomorphic Survey of Submerged Bronze Age Shorelines and Anchorage sites at Kalamianos (Korphos, Greece),” M.S. Thesis, McMaster University 2011. Archaic-Hellenistic Some Corinthian B amphoras in: Brendan P. Foley,…

  • Oscar Broneer, St. Paul, and Wicked Corinth (and a new blog)

    In a recent blog post at Objects-Buildings-Situations, Kostis Kourelis has pointed out that Ohians have the tendency to blog about Greece, and especially post-classical Greece and their experiences with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.  He refers to Bill Caraher’s Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Katie Rask’s Antiquated Vagaries, and now Dallas DeForest’s…

  • The Debate on Erastus Continues

    In August, I covered the recent debate among New Testament scholars over the status and rank of an individual (or individuals) by the name of Erastus.  The post, called “The Search for the Historical Erastus,” summarized the work of three articles by different scholars that appeared in 2010: John Goodrich (NTS), Steve Friesen (Corinth in…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (September)

    Archaic-Hellenistic Corinthiaka in discussions of Pindar: L. Athanassaki and E. Bowie (eds.), Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (de Gruyter 2011) More Corinthiaka in E. Carney and D. Ogden, Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives (Oxford 2010) Byzantine Chryssi Bourbou, Benjamin T. Fuller Sandra J. Garvie-Lok, Michael…

  • Corinthiaka

    Odds, ends, miscellany and fun: After my post on extreme sports at the Isthmus, I realize I left out the Isthmia Open!  Imagine 160 chess players from countries everywhere.  I love the choice of venue with its gesture to the ancient games.  St. Paul’s Corinth as reality TV show: “But wait–actually, there is a place…

  • Histories of Peirene

    There are no monuments of ancient Corinth more famous and iconic than the Fountain of Peirene.  Any modern visitor who has wandered among the ruins will likely have shot a photo like the one below of the Roman spring facade and court.  And anyone who walks into a tourist shop will have seen plenty of…

  • Were the First Christians Rich or Poor?

    It’s the question that Greg Carey of neighboring Lancaster Theological Seminary asks in an essay in yesterday’s Huffington Post.  Carey follows up on an essay last month titled “Imagining the First Christians,”  and promises a third one on the “contribution of women” to early Christian communities.  This essay on the question of rich and poor…