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Ephesos metropolis of Asia : an interdisciplinary approach to its archaeology, religion, and culture
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Ephesos metropolis of Asia : an interdisciplinary approach to its archaeology, religion, and culture

Author: Helmut Koester; Harvard Divinity School.; Harvard University. Dept. of the Classics.; Harvard University. Dept. of Fine Arts.
Publisher: Valley Forge, Pa. : Trinity Press International, ©1995.
Series: Harvard theological studies, no. 41.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume brings together studies of Ephesos - a major city in the Greco-Roman period and a primary center for the spread of Christianity into the Western world - by an international array of scholars from the fields of classics, fine arts, history of religion, New Testament, ancient Christianity, and archaeology.
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Helmut Koester; Harvard Divinity School.; Harvard University. Dept. of the Classics.; Harvard University. Dept. of Fine Arts.
ISBN: 1563381567 9781563381560
OCLC Number: 33133132
Notes: Includes most of the papers presented at a symposium organized by Harvard Divinity School and cosponsored by the Harvard University Departments of Classics and Fine Arts, March 1994.
Map on folded leaf inserted at end.
Description: xix, 357 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Contents: The city of Ephesos from the Roman period to late antiquity / Peter Scherrer --
Urban development and social change in imperial Ephesos / L. Michael White --
At home in the city of Artemis: religion in Ephesos in the literary imagination of the Roman period / Christine Thomas --
Ephesos in early Christian literature / Helmut Koester --
Via Sacra Ephesiaca: new aspects of the cult of Artemis Ephesia / Dieter Knibbe --
The processional way in Ephesos as a place of cult and burial / Hilke Thür --
Preliminary views of the Ephesian harbor / Heinrich Zabehlicky --
Subsidiary factories of Italian sigillata potters: the Ephesian evidence / Susanne Zabehlicky-Scheffenegger --
The cult of the Roman emperors in Ephesos: temple wardens, city titles, and the interpretation of the Revelation of John / Steven Friesen --
Sculptures of gods and heroes from Ephesos / Maria Aurenhammer --
Egyptian religions in Ephesos / James Walters --
The church of Mary and the temple of Hadrian Olympios / Stefan Karwiese --
The Council of Ephesos: the demise of the See of Ephesos and the rise of the cult of the Theotokos / Vasiliki Limberis.
Series Title: Harvard theological studies, no. 41.
Responsibility: edited by Helmut Koester.

Abstract:

This volume brings together studies of Ephesos - a major city in the Greco-Roman period and a primary center for the spread of Christianity into the Western world - by an international array of scholars from the fields of classics, fine arts, history of religion, New Testament, ancient Christianity, and archaeology.

The studies were presented at a spring 1994 Harvard Divinity School symposium on Ephesos, focusing on the results of one hundred years of archaeological work at Ephesos by members of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. The contributors to this volume discuss some of the most interesting and controversial results of recent investigations: the Processional Way of Artemis, the Hadrianic Olympieion and the Church of Mary, the so-called Temple of Domitian, and the heroa of Androklos and Arsinoe.

Since very little about the Austrian excavations at Ephesos has been published in English, this volume should prove useful in introducing the archaeology of this metropolis to a wider readership.

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