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Women & Prophecy in the Cults of Corinth
Corinth, Greece
 
Corinth

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Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files; many of the books are on hard copy reserve at the Circulation Desk in the Learning Commons.
 
Archaeological & Epigraphic Evidence
 
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.  Corinth: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1932-.
 
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.  "Digital Corinth."  The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2008). Online, http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/excavationcorinth/digital-corinth, 27 January 2009.
 
Biers, J. C.  The Great Bath on the Lechaion Road, Corinth XVII.   Oxford/ Oakville, Connecticut: American School of Classical Studies/David Brown, 1985.
 
Clarke, Andrew D.  "Another Corinthian Erastus Inscription."  Tyndale Bulletin 42:1 (1991) 146-151.
 
Cook, B. F.  Greek Inscriptions.  London/Berkeley, California: British Museum/ University of California Press, 1987.
 
D'Angelo, Mary Rose.  "Veils, Virgins, and the Tongues of Men and Angels: Women's Heads in Early Christianity."  In Off With Her Head: The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion and Culture (ed. Howard Eilberg Schwartz and Wendy Doniger; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) 131-64.
 
DeMaris, Richard E.  "Demeter in Roman Corinth: Local Development in a Mediterranean Religion."  Numen 42:2 (1995) 105-117.
 
Engels, Donald.  Roman Corinth: An Alternative Model for the Classical City.   Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
 
Fant, Clyde E. and Mitchell G. Reddish.  "Corinth."  In A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) 45-67.
 
Friesen, Steven J. and Daniel E. Schowalter, eds.  Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Harvard Theological Studies 53. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005.
 
Friesen, Steven J., Daniel N. Schowalter and James Walters, eds.  Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and Society, NovTSup 134.  Leiden: Brill, 2010.
 
Friesen, Steven J., Sarah James and Daniel N. Schowalter, eds.  Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality, NovTSup 155.  Leiden: Brill, 2014.
 
Harrison, James R. and L. L. Welborn, eds.  The First Urban Churches 2: Roman Corinth, Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplements 8.  Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2016.
 
Horrell, David G.  "Domestic Space and Christian Meetings at Corinth: Imagining New Contexts and the Buildings East of the Theatre."  New Testament Studies 50:3 (2004) 349-69.
 
Hultgren, Arland J.  "Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament Archaeology Project."  Interpretation 59:4 (2005) 432, 434.
 
Koester, Helmut, ed.  Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament Archaeology Project.  CD-ROM.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
 
Malcolm, Matthew R.  The World of 1 Corinthians: An Exegetical Source Book of Literary and Visual Backgrounds.  Eugene, Oregon: Cascade, 2013
 
McRay, John.  "Inscriptions at Corinth."  In Archaeology in the Biblical World 2 (1994) 5-7.
 
Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome.  St. Paul's Corinth: Texts and Archaeology, 3rd rev. ed. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2002.
 
Oster, Richard E., Jr.  "Use, Misuse and Neglect of Archaeological Evidence in Some Modern Works on 1 Corinthians (1 Cor 7,1-5, 8,10, 11,2-16, 12,14-26)."  Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 83 (1992) 52-73.
 
Papahatzis, Nicos.  Ancient Corinth: The Museums of Corinth, Isthmia and Sicyon.   Oxford/Oakville, Connecticut: David Brown, 1978.
 
Pemberton, Elizabeth.  "Wealthy Corinth: The Archaeological Evidence for Cult Investment at Greek Corinth."  In Religion in the Ancient World: New Themes and Approaches (ed. Matthew Dillon; Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1996) 353-66.
 
Sanders, Guy D. R.  "Argolid Corinthia Trip (corinth_trip_main.pdf)."  The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (n.d.).  Online, http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/ExcavationCorinth/argolid-corinthia-trip, accessed 9 October 2015.
 
Sanders, Guy D. R., N. Bookidis, C. K. Williams II and A. Rohn.  Corinth Excavations: Archaeological Site Manual.  Athens: American School of Classical Studies, 2002.
 
Sturgeon, Mary C.  Sculpture: The Assemblage from the Theater (Corinth).   Oxford/Oakville, Connecticut: American School of Classical Studies/David Brown, 2004.
 
Thompson, Cynthia L.  "Hairstyles, Head-Coverings, and St. Paul: Portraits from Roman Corinth."  Biblical Archaeologist 51 (1988) 99-115.
 
Whitley, James, Sophia Germanidou, Dusanka Urem-Kotsou, Anastasia Dimoula, Irene Nikolakopoulou, Artemis Karnava, and Don Evely.  "Archaeology in Greece 2006-2007."  The Journal of Hellenic Studies supp 2006/2007 Archaeological Reports: 1-121.
 
Williams, Charles K., II and Nancy Bookidis, eds.  Corinth 20: The Centenary, 1896-1996.  Oxford/Oakville, Connecticut: American School of Classical Studies/David Brown, 2003.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
Metzger, Bruce M. and Roland E. Murphy, eds.  "Genesis 1–3; Romans 16; 1 Corinthians 1; 7; 11; Galatians 3:28."  In The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 1-4, 173-4, 177-8, 181-2.  [In the required readings folder on Camino and also below]
 
Secondary Literature
 
Beard, Mary and John Henderson.  "With This Body I Thee Worship: Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity."  In Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean (ed. Maria Wyke; Gender and History; Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1998) 56-79. [Originally published in Gender and History 9:3 (1997) 480-503]
 
Collins, Raymond F.  Accompanied by a Believing Wife: Ministry and Celibacy in the Earliest Christian Communities.  Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2013.
 
Coutsoumpos, Panayotis.  Community, Conflict, and the Eucharist in Roman Corinth: The Social Setting of Paul's Letter.  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2006.
 
--------.  Paul, Corinth, and the Roman Empire.  Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2015.
 
D'Angelo, Mary Rose.  "Veils, Virgins, and the Tongues of Men and Angels: Women's Heads in Early Christianity."  In Off with Her Head! The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion and Culture (ed. Howard Eilberg Schwartz and Wendy Doniger; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) 131-64.
 
Grant, Robert M.  Paul in the Roman World: The Conflict at Corinth.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.
 
Harrison, James R. and L. L. Welborn, eds.  The First Urban Churches 2: Roman Corinth, Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series 8.  Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016.
 
Larson, Jennifer.  "Paul's Masculinity."  Journal of Biblical Literature 123:1 (2004) 85-97.
 
Marchal, Joseph A.  "Mimicry and Colonial Differences: Gender, Ethnicity, and Empire in the Interpretation of Pauline Imitation."  In Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies (ed. Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009) 101-127.
 
Miller, Anna C.  Corinthian Democracy: Democratic Discourse in 1 Corinthians, Princeton Theological Monograph Series 220.  Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick, 2015.
 
Osiek, Carolyn and Margaret Y. MacDonald, with Janet H. Tulloch.  A Woman's Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity.  Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2005.
 
Padgett, Alan.  "Paul on Women in the Church: The Contradictions of Coiffure in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16."  Journal for the Study of the New Testament 20 (1984) 69-86.
 
Townsley, Gillian.  "Gender Trouble in Corinth: Que(e)rying Constructs of Gender in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16."  The Bible and Critical Theory 2:2 (2006) 17.1-17.14.
 
Vander Stichele, Caroline and Todd C. Penner.  "Paul and the Rhetoric of Gender."  In Her Master's Tools?: Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse (ed. Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd C. Penner; Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 9; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005) 287-310.
 
Wire, Antoinette C.  The Corinthian Women Prophets: A Reconstruction through Paul's Rhetoric.  Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1990.
 
Yeo Khiok-khng.  "Differentiation and Mutuality of Male-Female Relations in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16."  Biblical Research 43 (1998) 7-21.
 
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