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Archaeology and the Letters of Paul (Paperback)
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Archaeology and the Letters of Paul illuminates the social,
political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the
apostle Paul wrote. Roman Ephesos provides evidence of slave
traders and the regulation of slaves; it is a likely setting for
household of Philemon, to whom a letter about the slave Onesimus is
addressed. In Galatia, an inscription seeks to restrain the demands
of travelling Roman officials, illuminating how the apostolic
travels of Paul, Cephas, and others disrupted communities. At
Philippi, a list of donations from the cult of Silvanus
demonstrates the benefactions of a community that, like those in
Christ, sought to share abundance in the midst of economic
limitations. In Corinth, a landscape of grief extends from
monuments to the bones of the dead, and provides a context in which
to understand Corinthian practices of baptism on behalf of the dead
and the provocative idea that one could live "as if not" mourning
or rejoicing. Rome and the Letter to the Romans are the grounds for
an investigation of ideas of time and race not only in the first
century, when we find an Egyptian obelisk inserted as a timepiece
into the mausoleum complex of Augustus, but also of a new Rome
under Mussolini that claimed the continuity of Roman racial
identity from antiquity to his time and sought to excise Jews.
Thessalonike and the early Christian literature associated with the
city demonstrates what is done out of love for Paul-invention of
letters, legends, and cult in his name. The book articulates a
method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological
remains. This method reconstructs the lives of the many adelphoi
--brothers and sisters-- whom Paul and his co-writers address. Its
project is informed by feminist historiography and gains
inspiration from thinkers such as Claudia Rankine, Judith Butler,
Giorgio Agamben, Wendy Brown, and Katie Lofton.
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