Classics

How did Christian communities across time and space engage with religious others? Informed by current debates on global history, the studies in this volume cover Eastern and Western Christian traditions stretching from the second to the twentieth century and portray Christianity as a fluid, relational, and globally entangled religion.

How did urban life in ancient Corinth shape early Christianity - and vice versa? This handbook integrates archaeology, ancient history, and biblical studies to offer an accessible, authoritative guide to one of the Roman world's most important cities.

This volume contributes to the reconstruction of the history of ancient Christians on the basis of an exemplary selection of Greek inscriptions. Fifteen essays discussing inscriptions from Asia Minor and Greece offer striking insights into the lives, beliefs, and diversity of Christian communities that literary sources largely pass over.

Twenty-five essays - some newly published - by one of the leading voices in the study of early Greek theology. Ranging across Homer, Hesiod, and the lyric poets, Jenny Strauss Clay examines how the archaic Greeks thought about their gods, about the place of mortals in a world ordered by Zeus, and about the poet's authority to speak of either.