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- Title: Corinth, The First City of Greece: An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2002
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 185 KB
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Corinth, The First City of Greece: An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion, by Richard M. Rothaus. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 139. Leiden: Brill, 2000. Pp. x + 173. $75.00 (cloth). Readers may well wonder whether a book whose subject matter lies outside the ordinary purview of NT studies deserves notice. Rothaus looks at Corinth in the fourth through sixth centuries, only occasionally touching on earlier centuries. Yet the book merits attention, and not simply because its geographical focus is near and dear to the hearts of those interested in the first urban Christians. What the author undertakes has obvious ramifications for NT scholars: he writes a history of religion in Corinth and its environs (Kenchreai, Isthmia, Lechaion), focusing on the interaction between polytheism and Christianity; he bases this history on the rich archaeological record of the Corinthia and attempts to integrate it with the literary record; and, as he leads readers through the many categories of archaeological data, he evaluates excavation reports and challenges many of the reigning interpretations of the data. Thus, the book, which is not without serious flaws, is significant to NT scholars for several reasons. First, Rothaus offers synthetic and integrative treatment of a topic that lacks such studies. Second, he models the kind of history writing NT scholars would do well to emulate as they situate early Christian communities socially. In addition, the book is a serviceable map both to Corinth's archaeological record and to the excavations that unearthed and assembled it, making it as relevant to scholars of early Roman Corinth as to scholars of late antiquity.
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