Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Early Roman Empire
Chapter One - Voluntary Associations in Roman Thessalonikē: In Search of Identity and Support in a Cosmopolitan Society
Chapter Two - Of Memories and Meals: Greco-Roman Associations and the Early Jesus-Group at Thessalonikē
Chapter Three - “Gazing Upon the Invisible”: Archaeology, Historiography, and the Elusive Women of 1 Thessalonians
Chapter Four - Locating Purity: Temples, Sexual Prohibitions, and “Making a Difference” in Thessalonikē
Chapter Five - Egyptian Religion in Thessalonikē: Regulation for the Cult
Chapter Six - Social Status and Family Origin in the Sarcophagi of Thessalonikē
Chapter Seven - Second Thessalonians, the Ideology of Epistles, and the Construction of Authority: Our Debt to the Forger
The Later Roman Empire and the Early Byzantine Period
Chapter Eight - Christianization of Thessalonikē: The Making of Christian “Urban Iconography”
Chapter Nine - Civic and Ecclesiastical Identity in ChristianThessalonikē
Chapter Ten - Ceramics in Late Antique Thessalonikēi
Chapter Eleven - Glassware in Late Antique Thessalonikē (Third to Seventh Centuries c.e.)
Chapter Twelve - Reflections on the Architectural History of theTetrarchic Palace Complex at Thessalonikē
Chapter Thirteen - Early Christian Interpretation in Image and Word: Canon, Sacred Text, and the Mosaic of Moni Latomou
Chapter Fourteen - Late Antiquity and Christianity in Thessalonikē: Aspects of a Transformation
Index