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

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Superior document:Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus / Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments
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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)
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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.

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