Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41079-4
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 109, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

Reihe: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity / Early Christianity in Asia Minor

This volume is part of the Berlin Topoi project re-examing the early Christian history of Asia Minor, Greece and the South Balkans, and is concerned with the emergence of Christianity in Asia Minor and in Cyprus. Five essays focus on the east Anatolian provinces, including a comprehensive evaluation of early Christianity in Cappadocia, a comparative study of the Christian poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus and his anonymous epigraphic contemporaries and three essays which pay special attention to the hagiography of Cappadocia and Armenia Minor. The remaining essays include a new analysis of the role of Constantinople in episcopal elections across Asia Minor, a detailed appraisal of the archaeological evidence from Sagalassus in Pisidia, a discussion of the significance of inscriptions in Carian sanctuaries through late antiquity, and a survey of Christian inscriptions from Cyprus.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mitchell, Stephen

Pilhofer, Philipp

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Stephen Mitchell and Philipp Pilhofer

1 Between Paganism and Judaism: Early Christianity in Cappadocia

Margherita Cassia

2 Hagiography and the Great Persecution in Sebastea and Armenia Minor

Stephen Mitchell

3 Martyrs, Monks, and Heretics in Rocky Cappadocia

Gaetano Arena

4 The Origins and Development of the Cults of Saint Gordius and Saint Mamas in Cappadocia

Aude Busine

5 Faith and Verse: Gregory of Nazianzus and Early Christian Village Poetry

Christiane Zimmermann

6 Constantinople and Asia Minor: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in the Fourth Century

Turhan Kaçar

7 The Rise of Christianity at Sagalassus

Peter Talloen

8 Inscribing Caria: the Perseverance of Epigraphic Traditions in Late Antiquity

Anna M. Sitz

9 The Christian Epigraphy of Cyprus: a Preliminary Study

Daniela Summa

Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Mitchell FBA, DPhil (Oxford, 1975) is meritus Professor of Hellenistic Culture, Exeter University and Dr Theol h.c. at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He has published extensively on the epigraphy, archaeology and history of Asia Minor, including The Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Ankara (Ancyra), 2 vols. (Munich, 2012 and 2019).

Philipp Pilhofer, Dr.theol. (2017), is a research assistant at the chair of Ancient Christianity at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His dissertation Das frühe Christentum im kilikisch-isaurischen Bergland (Berlin, 2018) focuses on Christianity in Cilicia and Isauria up to the fifth century.