Description: Twenty-four scholars join their efforts to
congratulate David Lee Balch for a long career of dedication to
scholarship and teaching. Topics range from the life of early
Christian house churches to the kinds of challenges that early
Christians needed to negotiate in their artistic and literary
worlds as they established their own identity. Contributors Edward
Adams Frederick E Brenk Warren Carter John R. Clarke Everett
Ferguson John T. Fitzgerald Richard A. Freund Ronald F. Hock Robin
M. Jensen Davina C. Lopez Margaret Y. MacDonald Abraham J. Malherbe
Aliou Cisse Niang Peter Oakes Todd Penner Leo G. Perdue Turid
Karlsen Seim Dennis E. Smith Yancy W. Smith Stephen V. Sprinkle Hal
Taussig Oliver Larry Yarbrough Endorsements: ""From captivating
glimpses into the microcosm of ancient households to the broader
question of a hermeneutics of images, from Christian house churches
to visual representations and archeology in the interaction with
texts-this is a strikingly rich collection of stimulating essays
that each in their own way illustrate the breadth and fecundity of
David Balch's scholarship, as well as his great capacity to impel
multi-faceted questions and inquiries that are re-defining New
Testament Studies."" --Brigitte Kahl Union Theological Seminary
""Richly decorated with images, this remarkably diverse yet unified
collection of twenty-one essays serves up a fitting tribute to
David Lee Balch. As David Balch has noted throughout his research
career, material culture, visual and constructed worlds, and texts
are deliberate acts of communication and persuasion. Thus,
convinced that archaeology, art, literary documents, and the
iconography of the Greeks and Romans situate text in context, each
of the essayists picks up on these social-cultural elements and
covers a stunning variety of texts, topics, representative artistic
images, sculptures, reliefs, and epigraphic remains. Stimulating,
provocative, and challenging are the operative words for this
festschrift and the person to whom it gives honor."" --Dietmar
Neufeld University of British Columbia ""Text, Image, and
Christians in the Greco-Roman World provides a vivid mosaic of
Christian ritual and regalia, reimagined and reconstructed through
the lenses of eminent scholars, and serves as a fitting festschrift
honoring David Balch's myriad interests in the relationships
between early Christianity and the dominant cultural matrix of
Imperial Rome."" --Laurie Brink, OP Catholic Theological Union
""David Balch's academic interests in households, archaeology,
architecture, and visual representation in antiquity are the
catalyst for this engaging collection of studies honoring him . . .
Anyone interested in the social world of early Christianity at any
level will find this book immensely rewarding and satisfying.""
--Dennis Duling Canisius College, Emeritus About the
Contributor(s): Aliou Cisse Niang is Assistant Professor of New
Testament at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He is the author
of Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal. Carolyn Osiek is
Charles Fischer Catholic Professor of New Testament Emerita at
Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University, Fort Worth,
Texas. She is now an archivist in St. Louis. She is the author,
co-author, and editor of numerous works, including A Woman's Place:
Houses Churches in Earliest Christianity (with Margaret Y.
MacDonald and Janet H. Tulloch).
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