The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Pettegrew, David K.; Davis, Thomas W.; Caraher, William R.

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the Roman world in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The thirty-four contributions to this volume survey Christian material culture and ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in archaeological method, theory, and research. The essays emphasize the link between archaeological fieldwork, methods, and regional and national traditions in constructing our knowledge of the Early Church and Christian communities within the context of the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, and Europe. Three sweeping introductory essays provide historical perspectives on the archaeology of the Early Christian world. These are followed by a series of topical treatments that focus on monuments and environments ranging from Christian churches to catacombs, martyria, and baths, as well as classes of objects of religious significance such as ceramics, lamps, and icons. Finally, the volume locates the archaeology of the Early Christian world in fifteen regional studies stretching from Britain to Persia, highlighting the unique historical contexts that have shaped scholarly discussion across time and space. The thorough, carefully-researched essays offer the most intensive, state-of-the-art treatment of recent research into the archaeology of Early Christianity available.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 816
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190917562
• Artikelnr.: 54753857

Autorenporträt

David K. Pettegrew is a scholar of the ancient Mediterranean and Early Christian world. He has participated in and directed archaeological research programs in the United States, Greece, and Cyprus, and authored articles and books on Greek, Roman, and Late Antique cities and landscapes. William R. Caraher is an associate professor of history at the University of North Dakota. His interests include the archaeology of Late Antique and Early Christian worlds and the archaeology of contemporary America. Thomas W. Davis is an archaeologist with more than three decades of field experience in Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, Kazakhstan, and the United States. A specialist in the New Testament world of Paul, he served as Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. The Archaeology of Early Christianity: The History, Methods, and
State of a Field
* William R. Caraher and David K. Pettegrew
* PART I. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY
* 2. Archaeology of the Gospels
* James F. Strange
* 3. New Testament Archaeology beyond the Gospels
* Thomas W. Davis
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* PART II. SACRED SPACE AND MORTUARY CONTEXTS
* 4. The Catacombs
* Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai
* 5. Martyria
* David L. Eastman
* 6. Burials and Human Remains in Early Christian Context
* Sherry C. Fox and Paraskevi Tritsaroli
* 7. Churches
* Charles Stewart
* 8. The Archaeology of Early Monastic Communities
* Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
* 9. Baptisteries in Ancient Sites and Rites
* H. Richard Rutherford
* 10. Baths, Christianity, and Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity
* Dallas DeForest
* PART III. ART AND ARTIFACTS IN CONTEXT
* 11. The Art of the Catacombs
* Fabrizio Bisconti
* 12. Visual Rhetoric of Early Christian Reliquaries
* Galit Noga-Banai
* 13. An Anarchéologie of Icons
* Gleen Peers
* 14. Spolia, its Viewers, and the 'Victory of Christianity'
* Jon Michael Frey
* 15. Early Christian Mosaics in Context
* Karen C. Britt
* 16. Pottery
* R. Scott Moore
* 17. Lamps
* Maria Parani
* 18. Statues
* Troels Myrup Kristensen
* 19. Amulets and the Ritual Efficacy of Christian Symbols
* Rangar H. Cline
* PART IV. CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE
* 20. Christian Archaeology in Palestine: the Roman and Byzantine
Periods
* Joan E. Taylor
* 21. Jordan
* Robert Schick
* 22. Syria
* Emma Loosley
* 23. The Church of the East until the 8th century
* Stefan R. Hauser
* 24. Armenia
* Christina Maranci
* 25. The Holy Island: An Archaeology of Early Christian Cyprus
* Jody Michael Gordon and William R. Caraher
* 26. Asia Minor
* Peter Talloen
* 27. Community, Church and Conversion in the prefecture of Illyricum
and the Cyclades
* Rebecca Sweetman
* 28. The Early Christian Archaeology of the Balkans
* William Bowden
* 29. The Archaeology of Early Italian Churches in Context, AD 313-569
* Alexandra Chavarría
* 30. The Christianization of Gaul: Buildings and Territories
* Bastien Lefebvre
* 31. Britain and Ireland, AD 100-700
* David Petts
* 32. Constructing Christian Landscapes in the Iberian Peninsula: The
Archaeological Evidence (4th-6th centuries)
* Alexandra Chavarría
* 33. Incorporating Christian communities in North Africa. Churches as
bodies of communal history
* Susan T. Stevens
* 34. Archaeology of Early Christianity in Egypt
* Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
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* Index