Category Archives: Corinth in the Mind

Conybeare and Howson, on the True and Faithful Representation of the Apostle (1852)

Posted on September 21, 2012 by

For Friday’s picture of Corinth, I offer another vision from 19th century New Testament scholars. This one comes from W.J. Conybeare and Howson’s The Life and Epistles of St. Paul (1852), a major work of biography in its day and … Continue reading →

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Augustus Neander, on the reason for Paul’s sojourn (1844)

Posted on September 14, 2012 by

Last week, I excerpted a text from Lyman Coleman’s historical atlas of the bible (1855) about the Paul’s visit to the “most hopeless city of Corinth.” I decided to trace Coleman’s ideas about Corinth and the consequences of geography. Coleman … Continue reading →

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Dissertation Corner: A Guide to “Corinth on the Isthmus”

Posted on September 12, 2012 by

I recently discovered by accident that my doctoral dissertation on the Late Antique Corinthia was available for free download through OhioLink. When I completed this study in 2006 at Ohio State University, there was concern among graduate students that our … Continue reading →

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Lyman Coleman, on the most hopeless city of Corinth (1855)

Posted on September 7, 2012 by

One of the projects I’m working on this year is a study of how ancient and modern writers have interpreted the historical fortunes of Corinth through the lens of its eastern landscape, the Isthmus. How did a land bridge become … Continue reading →

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Easter Reflections

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

It’s been a busy couple of weeks.  Traveling, work shops on digitization and information fluency, pressing publication schedules, and the grind of the semester have reduced the output from this site.  I have lots in the work that I hope … Continue reading →

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Corinthian Exceptionalism in Western Civ Textbooks

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

In the comments to my post last week on Athens, Sparta, and Corinth in Western Civilization texts, Dimitri Nakassis pressed me to say a little more about how Corinth has figured differently into western civ textbooks over time—how changing times … Continue reading →

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Athens, Sparta, and Corinth in Western Civilization Texts

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

Every February, the Center for Public Humanities at Messiah College—where I teach—sponsors a symposium devoted to discussing a theme broadly relevant to faculty and student interest.  In the past, the center has sponsored themes on the subjects of culture and … Continue reading →

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Two Corinthian Christmases

Posted on December 26, 2011 by

Happy Holidays from Corinthian Matters! Surprising amounts of Corinthiaka in my feeds over the last few days.  Here are two very different Corinthian Christmases, an impressionistic rumination of modern Corinth in terms of its ancient classical image, the second a … Continue reading →

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Corinth at the Tate

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

Museums are increasingly posting collections of images and artwork online which, on occasion, deal with Corinthian topics.  In the midst of the end-of-semester madness, I learned of Tate’s extensive online collection of art through alerts sparked by the posting of … Continue reading →

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Corinthiaka

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Some varied Corinthiaka to start off the week. The western liturgical calendar flipped this weekend with the first Sunday of Advent.  Yesterday’s epistle reading from 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 appropriate describes the anticipation accentuated in the advent season.  More on scholars … Continue reading →

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