Cadwallader / Trainor Colossae in Space and Time

Linking to an Ancient City. EBook
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-647-53397-1
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 94, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus / Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments

The ancient site of Colossae in south-west Turkey has been sorely neglected by archaeologists and biblical commentators. It has never been excavated. Modern scholarship in general has been content to repeat nineteenth century assessments, especially those of J.B. Lightfoot and W.M. Ramsay. This is the first modern contribution to gather the archaeological, historical, classical and biblical materials related to the site and its region, some of which is published in English for the first time. It marks a major step forward in scholarship on Colossae, and is designed to restore Colossae to time and space, to its material and comparative significance. Colossae emerges as a site of uninterrupted human activity in dynamic interaction with its neighbours from before the Achaemenid period to beyond the end of Byzantine control. Evidence of a chalcolithic origin of Colossae is presented along with an assessment of the relationship of the site to the modern city of Honaz. An array of international scholars have brought their specialisations in various periods and disciplines to yield a radically new assessment of the history and importance of the site. All future scholarship will be able to use this volume as the necessary foundation for research. The volume includes the first chronology of the ancient site and the first English translation of the key Byzantine text centred on the ancient city, as well as major new insights into the text of the Epistle to the Colossians.

Alan H. Cadwallader is a Research Professor at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture at Charles Sturt University in Canberra. Recent monographs have been Beyond the Word of a Woman (ATF, 2008), Fragments of Colossae (ATF, 2015), The Politics of the Revised Version (T&T Clark, 2019). He has edited a number of volumes on the interface of early Christianity, ancient culture and contemporary issues: Colossae in Space and Time (V & R, 2011), Pieces of Ease and Grace (ATF, 2013), Where the Wild Ox Roams (Sheffield Phoenix, 2013), and Stones, Bones and the Sacred (SBL, 2016), The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity (T&T Clark, 2023). He holds memberships of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Society of Biblical Literature, the Australian Classical Studies Association, the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, and the Fellowship of Biblical Studies. He is the New Testament Editor for the Australian Biblical Review.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cadwallader, Alan H.

Trainor, Michael

Weitere Mitwirkende

Trebilco, Paul

Erdemir, Hatice P.

Maier, Harry

Konakci, Erim

Duman, Bahadir

Kearsley, Rosalinde A.

Strelan, Rick

Sekunda, Nicolas V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Title Page;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;8
6;Alan H. Cadwallader / Michael Trainor: Colossae in Space and Time: Overcoming Dislocation, Dismemberment and Anachronicity;10
7;Nicholas Sekunda: Changing Patterns of Land-Holding in the South-Western Border Lands of Greater Phrygia in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods ;49
8;Rick Strelan: The Languages of the Lycus Valley;78
9;Hatice Erdemir: Woollen Textiles: An International Trade Good in the Lycus Valley in Antiquity;105
10;Rosalinde A. Kearsley: Epigraphic Evidence for the Social Impact of Roman Government in Laodicea and Hierapolis;131
11;Alan H. Cadwallader: Refuting an Axiom of Scholarship on Colossae: fresh insights from new and old inscriptions;152
12;Paul Trebilco: Christians in the Lycus Valley: the view from Ephesus and from Western Asia Minor;181
13;Harry O. Maier: Reading Colossians in the Ruins: Roman Imperial Iconography, Moral Transformation, and the Construction of Christian Identity in the Lycus Valley;213
14;Michael Trainor: Excavating Epaphras of Colossae;233
15;Bahad r Duman / Erim Konakçi: The Silent Witness of the Mound of Colossae: Pottery Remains;248
16;Alan H. Cadwallader: A stratigraphy of an ancient city through its key story: the archistrategos of Chonai;283
17;Appendix 1a: A Chronology of Colossae/Chonai;300
18;Appendix 1b: Colossae (Chonai) ’Nin Kronolojìk Tarihçesi;317
19;Appendix 2: The Story of the Archistrategos, St Michael of Chonai;324
20;Turkish Abstracts;332
21;Abbreviations;339
22;List of Figures;341
23;Contributors;343
24;Index of Ancient Texts;345
25;Index of Biblical References;349
26;Index of Inscriptions and Papyri;351
27;Modern Author Index;353
28;Index of Main Subjects;362
29;Back Cover;370