Monthly Archives: February 2011

Polycarp and Socrates in Corinth

Posted on February 24, 2011 by

The martyrdom of Polycarp bishop of Smyrna, celebrated yesterday in both eastern and western churches, is remarkable in many respects.  It is not often that old men got martyred for religious beliefs in antiquity, let alone 86 year old men, … Continue reading →

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Corinthian Scholarship (Winter 2011)

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

Google Scholar has a very useful alert feature for staying up on research although one has to filter to remove all the junk for words like Corinth.  Some recent and forthcoming papers and publications related to things Corinthian A number … Continue reading →

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Corinthiaka

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

Some interesting Corinthiaka (Corinthian Matters) for this Wednesday morning: Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner, authors of a new commentary on 1 Corinthians, talk about St. Paul and Roman sexual ethics in the Corinthian community in a two part video here and here.  Michael Bird’s … Continue reading →

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From Corinth, with love

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

The choices for Valentine’s Day were anecdotes about courtesans and Aphrodite or some love verses from St. Paul.  I felt that 1 Corinthians 13 had a bit more substance.  Some images of the modern church of the Koimesis in the … Continue reading →

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Three new papers on the Roman Corinthia and Isthmus

Posted on February 7, 2011 by

A new book on Hellenistic to Roman Corinth called Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality is now in the works.  The volume is edited by Friesen, James, and Schowalter and is based on the conference in Austin in early October which … Continue reading →

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Pauline and Early Christian Corinth: Recent Publications

Posted on February 5, 2011 by

Some very interesting scholarship from 2010 related to St. Paul’s Christian community, including the social and political context of Roman Corinth and individuals within the Pauline community.  A dissertation on Apollos and some three articles on Erastus. Margaret Mitchell’s Paul, … Continue reading →

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1 Corinthians – 2010 Publications

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

Keeping up with the scholarship on 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians must require a lot of work.  The following list is not comprehensive but it does give a sense of some of the currents in scholarship on 1 Corinthians in … Continue reading →

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