A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece
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The Future of Ancient History: Teaching the Past in the Modern Curriculum
Just got this circular via the listserve of the Association of Ancient Historians. Looks like an interesting session in the works for the 2016 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco. I don’t really know that history enrollments have declined overall in a macro sense (we’ve discussed this at length in my…
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The First Urban Churches: Roman Corinth (In the Works)
A couple of years ago, I had the good fortune of participating in a session at the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) conference on the theme of Polis and Ekklesia: Investigations of Urban Christianity. The paper I delivered outlined new perspectives on the diolkos and the implications of this research for understanding the commercial backdrop…
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2013-2014 Publications in Corinthian Studies: New Testament, Christianity, and Judaism
This is the fourth and final post in a series of bibliographic releases of new Corinthian scholarship published or digitized in 2013-2014. See this post last last Monday for further information about the sources of this bibliography and instructions for accessing the Zotero database. For earlier releases, see these posts: Prehistoric-Hellenistic Periods Roman Period Byzantine-Modern…
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Paul and the Rhetoric of Reversal in 1 Corinthians (Malcolm): A Review
As I work to gather the treasure trove of new New Testament scholarship of 2013-2014 into a long PDF report or two, the mid-Atlantic and east coast of the U.S. are gearing up for violent winter storm Juno, which shall just graze us here in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but will dump several feet of snow on our neighbors to the northeast. In…
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A Review of Dixon’s Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth, 338-196 BC
For a first review of Michael Dixon’s new book on Hellenistic Corinth, check out this post from Bill Caraher’s Archaeology of the Mediterranean World blog. Routledge has also posted an interview with Dixon about the book.
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2013-2014 Publications in Corinthian Studies: Byzantine-Modern Periods
This is the third in a series of bibliographic posts related to Corinthian scholarship published or digitized in 2013-2014: See Monday’s post for further information about the sources of this bibliography See Tuesday’s post for Prehistoric-Hellenistic period See Wednesday’s post for the Roman era This list contains new scholarship broadly related to the Corinthia in the…
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2013-2014 Publications in Corinthian Studies: Roman Period
This is the second in a series of bibliographic posts related to Corinthian scholarship published, uploaded, or digitized in 2013-2014. Today’s report contains new scholarship broadly related to the Corinthia in the Roman and Late Antique periods, but not articles and books related to the New Testament (which we will post separately next week). Download…
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2013-2014 Publications in Corinthian Studies: Prehistoric-Hellenistic Periods
This is the first in a series of bibliographic posts related to Corinthian scholarship published or digitized in 2013-2014. See yesterday’s post for further information about the sources of this bibliography. I have used Zotero’s Report feature to export bibliography to PDF so that the listing includes URLs and abstracts (when available). This list is certainly not exhaustive, but…
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Corinthian Studies Library, Version 2.0 (RIS)
As it’s a national day of service here in the U.S.A., I’m going to release this little gift of bibliography to those of you who follow Corinthian Studies. Now I realize this isn’t quite the same as going to clean up the city park, but I always hope there’s some basic value for others in maintaining this up-to-date bibliography. A couple of…
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