Colossae, colossians, philemon : : the interface / / Alan H. Cadwallader.

• Superior document: Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus / Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments
• VerfasserIn: Cadwallader, Alan H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus / Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (815 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Colossae and a material life -- The beginnings of modern material awareness of Colossae -- Colossae in the ancient material world -- The elision of Colossae from materialist investigation. -- Restoring Colossae to material existence. -- Restoring Second Testament letters to a material context -- A skeletal overview -- Chapter One | Colossae, a name in search of a city -- The testimonia -- Toponymy and other confusions -- Topography and other confusions -- Inscriptions and a possible material mooring for Colossae -- The undervalued potential of numismatics -- Destruction as an explanation -- Rethinking Chonai and Colossae -- Confirmation of location and continuing life from material witness -- Chapter Two | Colossae, a city in search of a name -- The punishment of Colossae -- A colossal segue -- Relocating Colossae again -- The name in material culture -- Confronting a toponym with different spellings -- A Phrygian explanation? -- A colossal explanation -- The Hittite/Luwian option -- The appropriation of a colossal etymology -- The opening of the letter to the Colossians and heliotic Colossae -- Chapter Three | Holding together city and country -- Herodotos and the first literary glimpse of Colossae -- An early inscription from Colossae's territory -- The foundation of Laodikeia and the reduction of Colossae's territory -- A dispute over fishing rights -- The twin rivers on the coins of two cities -- Exploring Colossae's territory -- A view from the village -- Foundation myths, festival markets and territory cohesion -- A Colossian foundation narrative -- An alternate foundation story for the Christ-followers at Colossae -- Chapter Four | Rivals and Neighbors: competing Cities in the Lycus Valley -- Bronze coins and the costs of civic life.

Slaves, apprentices and returns -- Monetary exchange in first century Colossae -- Coinage and contest in civic life -- Civic mints and competition in the Lycus Valley -- Comparative insights from Sestos -- A further Colossian example of the Sestos rationale: Artemis -- City pride and prosperity -- The role and returns for benefaction of provincial mints -- Colossae's coins and the city's distinction from Laodikeia -- Multiple homonoia-types from the time of Elagabalus -- Colossae's numismatic territorial claim -- The continuation of antagonism between Colossae and Laodikeia -- Christ-followers within contesting cities -- Chapter Five | The Shadow of a Mountain: cosmic control -- Lost and found: a Colossian intaglio -- The inscription -- The iconography of Tyche -- Tyche and a highly-credentialed leader at Colossae. -- Tyche, cosmic order and the zodiac -- The owl and the kithara -- The elements -- The fickleness of Tyche - earthquakes -- Christos Prototokos -- Chapter Six | Cosmic Visions, Cosmic Learning -- A Colossian student in Smyrna -- Pressing the philologoi -- Theon of Smyrna and the critical components for higher learning -- Cosmic hymn and mundane harmony -- Meter and its absence in ancient hymns -- Hymns and the reinforcement of mundane realities -- The hymn in the letter to the Colossians -- Chapter Seven | Purity, Pollution, Penalties and Power at Colossae: sacred laws and their (monetary) significance for the Colossians -- Illustrative purity concerns in Colossae and the letter to the Colossians -- The application of grasping, tasting, touching -- From purity and pollution to penalties and power -- Bronze coinage, the record of debt and the sacred, and a Christian repudiation -- Competing gospels and the religious consequences -- Debt, religious regulations, and cancellation in a Colossian context -- Religious observance at Colossae.

Distinguishing the Christ-followers from the religious environment of Colossae -- Chapter Eight | Cursing Colossians -- The Kaklık curse diptych -- A village of Colossae near Kaklık -- Daemons, deities and the dead -- Defixiones and the Letter to the Colossians -- Christ the circuit-breaker -- Chapter Nine | Who's Who at Colossae: onomastics, ethnicities and status -- Theaters and spectators -- Small returns of names -- The contribution of onomastics -- Apphia and the Phrygian inheritance -- Phrygian and/to Greek -- The unique "race code" of the letter to the Colossians -- The names in the Letters and one in particular -- Apphia again: the tracking of a Phrygian Lallname. -- Chapter Ten | Christian Identity, the Gymnasium and Gladiatorial Conflict -- Honors for Zenon -- Junior honors for Kastor -- Athletic imagery in the Letter to the Colossians? -- Enter the gladiator … -- Christ-followers and gladiators at Colossae -- Chapter Eleven | Slavery and its Governance at Colossae -- Multiple legal systems at Colossae. -- Memorialization of individuals at Colossae -- Penalties for grave interference -- A bureaucracy for managing pluralities of (commercial and legal) interests -- Drawing implications: slavery and the conflict of laws -- Onesimos and the runaway slave hypothesis -- Manumission of Onesimos? -- Chapter Twelve | Death and Families at Colossae -- The necropolis at Colossae -- The variety of tombs in the Colossian necropolis -- Chamosoria and their bomoi -- The tumuli -- Valuing the dead at Colossae -- Dion the leatherworking specialist -- The anonymous dealer in pigs large and small -- Community and death -- Funerary inscriptions, households and families -- Peter Thonemann and close reading for diversity in families -- Esen Öğüş and the gendered hierarchy of family relationships -- Impressions of Colossian families and households.

The Colossian household code and social realities -- Afterword -- Appendix 1 | Ancient Testimonia for Colossae -- Appendix 2 | A Concordance of the coin types in von Aulock's Catalogue and Roman Provincial Coinage online. -- Appendix 3 | List of Greek names from Colossae -- Appendix 4 | Concordance of Colossian inscriptions -- Map of Asia Minor and the Mediterranean -- Map of the Lycus Valley and environs -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient, Early Christian and Byzantine Literature -- Index of Inscriptions and Papyri -- Index of Coins -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Place Names, Ancient and Modern -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Key Greek and Latin Words -- Greek -- Latin -- Body.