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Hauptbeschreibung How are archaeology and art related to understanding New Testament texts, for example, narratives of the Lord's Supper and other meals? An international group of archaeologists, art historians, and New Testament scholars investigate the function of spaces in Roman houses and temples in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Corinth, Rome, Ostia, Ephesus, and Judaea. Another concern is more fully to understand the relationship between different architectural forms, Roman domus, villae, and insulae, in relation to Paul's letters and the gospels, in order to enable informed interpreta

Title Contested spaces [electronic resource] : houses and temples in Roman Antiquity and the New Testament / edited by David L. Balch and Annette Weissenrieder.
Edition 1. Aufl.
Publisher Tübingen Mohr Siebeck
Creation Date 2012
Notes Proceedings originating from the June 2009 conference, Celebrating the Centenary of the Pontifical Biblical Institute at the Ponitfical Gregorian University. --Preface.
Mixed media.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
Content Cover
Preface
Table of Contents
A. Interpretive Issues
John R. Clarke: Representations of Worship at Rome, Pompeii, Heraculaneum, and Ostia in the Imperial Period. A Model of Production and Consumption
1. Who paid for it?
2. How Does the Visual Representation Address the Viewer?
3. What Does the Viewer Know about the Representation?
Captions to figures
Irene Bragantini: The Cult of Isis and Ancient Egyptomania in Campania
Fabrizio Pesando: The Properties and Social Role of Pompeiian Feminae Nobiles in Italy During the Early Imperial Age
The Public Sphere
Paestum, Basilica of Mineia (fig. 1)Paestum, Temple of Venus Iovia (fig. 3)
Veleia, calchidicum of Baebia Bassilla (fig. 5)
Ostia, crypta and calchidicum of Terentia (fig. 6)
Pompeii. Chalcidicum, crypta and porticus ofEumachia and Numistrius Fronto and Temple VII 9,2(of the Genius of Augustus) of Mamia (fig. 7)
Domestic Life
Conclusions
Annette Weissenrieder: Contested Spaces in 1 Corinthians 11:17-33 and 14:30: Sitting or Reclining in Ancient Houses, in Associations and in the Space of ekklesia
1. Introduction
1. Cor 11:17-34 and 14:30 and the representation of space through sittingand reclining2. Implications of seated and reclining meals in antiquity
2.1 Visual Examples
Realistic Scenes: The Tavern Frieze
Sitting and Reclining: The Amiternum
2.2 Literary Sources
3. Space for the Lord's Supper andthe Meeting of the Assembly
3.1 Space for the Lord's Supper: The House
3.2 Spaces for the Lord's Supper: Associations
4. Meeting space for the ekklesía
4.1 Space for the Lord's Supper: the gathering room of the ekklesía
4.2 Space of the ekklesía and the meaning of kathemenai
4.3 Space of the ekklesía in Corinth4.4 The meaning of ekklesía in non-Christian sources and 1 Corinthians
Laura Salah Nasrallah: Grief in Corinth: The Roman City and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence
1. Grief in the Corinthia
2. The Corinthians
3. The City of Corinth: A Topography of Grief
4. Medea, Demeter, and the Vulnerability of Women and Children
5. Grief in 1 Corinthians
6. Conclusions
Captions of figures
Eleanor Winsor Leach: Rhetorical Inventio and the Expectations of Roman Continuous Narrative Painting
Captions for figures
B. Contested Domestic Spaces
I. DomusIvan Varriale: Architecture and Decoration in the House of Menander in Pompeii
2. The owner
3. General description
4. Architecture and decoration
5. The atrium complex
6. The peristyle complex
7. The bath
8. Conclusions
Mario Grimaldi: Charting the urban development of the Insula Occidentalis and the Casa di Marcus Fabius Rufus at Pompeii
2. Fortifications and Colonial Domus
3. The Casa di Marcus Fabius Rufus: Structural changes, decorative embellishments, and ownership
4. Owners and decorative themes
5. Mosaics
6. Painting
Series Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 0512-1604
285
Extent 1 online resource (901 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997012635660205171
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