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Roman Culture in a Near Eastern City
Ephesus, Turkey
 
Ephesus

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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
 
Aurenhammer, Maria.  "Sculptures of Gods and Heroes from Ephesos."  In Ephesos, Metropolis of Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Its Archaeology, Religion, and Culture (ed. Helmut Koester; Harvard Theological Studies 41; Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1995) 251-80.
 
Erdemgil, Selahattin.  Ephesus.  Istanbul: Net, 1986.
 
Fant, Clyde E. and Mitchell G. Reddish.  "Ephesus."  In A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) 177-207.
 
Friesen, Steven.  "The Cult of the Roman Emperors in Ephesos: Temple Wardens, City Titles, and the Interpretation of the Revelation of John."  In Ephesos, Metropolis of Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Its Archaeology, Religion, and Culture (ed. Helmut Koester; Harvard Theological Studies 41; Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1995) 229-50.
 
--------.  "Ephesian Women and Men in Public Office during the Roman Imperial Period."  In 100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995, 3 vols. (ed. Herwig Friesinger, Fritz Krinzinger, Barbara Brandt and Karl R. Krierer; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften 260/Archäologische Forschungen 1; Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999) 1.107-113, 728 [Turkish abstract].
 
--------.  Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993.
 
Friesinger, Herwig, Fritz Krinzinger, Barbara Brandt and Karl R. Krierer, eds.  Excerpts from Plates.  In 100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995, vol. 2, Tafelband (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften 260/Archäologische Forschungen 1; Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999). [the pdf file is stored on ERes in the later Ephesus cluster folder]
 
George, Michele.  "Domestic Architecture and Household Relations: Pompeii and Roman Ephesos."  Journal for the Study of the New Testament 27:1 (2004) 7-25.
 
Harland, Philip A.  "Honours and Worship: Emperors, Imperial Cults and Associations at Ephesus (First to Third Centuries CE)."  Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 25:3 (1996) 319-34.
 
Harrison, James R. and L. L. Welborn, eds.  The First Urban Churches 3: Ephesus, Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement 9.  Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018.
 
Horsley, G. H. R.  "The Inscriptions of Ephesos and the New Testament."  Novum Testamentum 34:2 (1992) 105-168.
 
Jones, C. P.  "The Olympieion and the Hadrianeion at Ephesos."  The Journal of Hellenic Studies 113 (1993) 149-52.
 
Judge, Edwin A.  "The Teacher as Moral Exemplar in Paul and in the Inscriptions of Ephesus."  In In the Fullness of Time: Biblical Studies in Honour of Archbishop Donald Robinson (ed. David Peterson and John Pryor: Homebush West, NSW: Lancer, 1992) 185-201.
 
Kearsley, Rosalinde A.  "Bilingual Inscriptions at Ephesos: The Statue Bases from the Harbour Gymnasium."  In 100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995, 3 vols. (ed. Herwig Friesinger, Fritz Krinzinger, Barbara Brandt and Karl R. Krierer; Denkschriften: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 260/Archäologische Forschungen 1; Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999) 1.147-55, 730 [Turkish abstract].
 
Koester, Helmut, ed.  Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament Archaeology Project.  CD-ROM.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
 
Lendering, Jona.  "Legio IIII Scythica."  In Livius: Articles on Ancient History (6 February 1985).  Online, http://www.livius.org/a/turkey/ephesus/ library_celsus/ephesus_inscr.JPG, 1 February 2009.
 
Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome.  St. Paul's Ephesus: Texts and Archaeology.   Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2008.
 
Oster, Richard E., Jr.  "Ephesus as a Religious Center under the Principate, I: Paganism before Constantine."  In Principat 18:3 (New York: de Gruyter, 1990) 1661-1728.
 
Parrish, David.  "House (or Wohneinheit) 2 in Hanghaus 2 at Ephesos: A Few Issues of Interpretation."  In 100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995, 3 vols. (ed. Herwig Friesinger, Fritz Krinzinger, Barbara Brandt and Karl R. Krierer; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften 260/Archäologische Forschungen 1; Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999) 1.507-513, 743-4 [Turkish abstract]; vol. 2, pls. 114-118 (+ 119–127).
 
Pollini, John.  "Gods and Emperors in the East: Images of Power and the Power of Intolerance."  In Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (ed. Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland and Sharon Herbert; Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 9; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, 2008) 165-94.
 
Porter, Stanley E.  "Ephesians 5.18-19 and its Dionysian Background."  In Testimony and Interpretation: Early Christology in its Judeo-Hellenistic Milieu: Studies in Honour of Petr Pokorný (ed. Jiří Mrázek and Jan Roskovec; New York: T & T Clark International, 2004) 68-80.
 
Rogers, Guy MacLean.  The Sacred Identity of Ephesos: Foundation Myths of a Roman City.  New York: Routledge, 1991.
 
Scherrer, Peter.  "The City of Ephesos from the Roman Period to Late Antiquity."  In Ephesos, Metropolis of Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Its Archaeology, Religion, and Culture (ed. Helmut Koester; Harvard Theological Studies 41; Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1995) 1-25.
 
Schowalter, Daniel N.  "Honoring the Emperor: The Ephesians Respond to Trajan."  In 100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995, 3 vols. (ed. Herwig Friesinger, Fritz Krinzinger, Barbara Brandt and Karl R. Krierer; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften 260/Archäologische Forschungen 1; Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999) 1.121-6, 729 [Turkish abstract].
 
Takács, Sarolta A.  "Isis and Sarapis in Ephesos."  In 100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995, 3 vols. (ed. Herwig Friesinger, Fritz Krinzinger, Barbara Brandt and Karl R. Krierer; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften 260/Archäologische Forschungen 1; Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999) 1.269-74, 734-5 [Turkish abstract].
 
White, L. Michael.  "Urban Development and Social Change in Imperial Ephesos."  In Ephesos, Metropolis of Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Its Archaeology, Religion, and Culture (ed. Helmut Koester; Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1995) 27-79.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
Metzger, Bruce M and Roland E. Murphy., eds.  "Ephesians; 1 Timothy 2."  In THe New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 204-208, 224.  [In required readings folder on Camino and also below]
 
Secondary Literature
 
Balch, David L.  "Household Codes."  In Greco-Roman Literature and the New Testament: Selected Forms and Genres (ed. David E. Aune; SBLSBS 21; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988) 25-50.
 
Baugh, Steven M.  "Cult Prostitution in New Testament Ephesus: A Reappraisal."   Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 42:3 (1999) 443-60.
 
-------.  "A Foreign World: Ephesus in the First Century."  In Women in the Church: An Analysis and Application of 1 Timothy 2:9-15 (ed. Andreas J. Köstenberger and Thomas R. Schreiner; 2nd ed.; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2005) 13-38, 181-195.
 
Gritz, Sharon Hodgin.  Paul, Women Teachers, and the Mother Goddess at Ephesus: A Study of 1 Timothy 2:9-15 in Light of the Religious and Cultural Milieu of the First Century.  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1991.
 
Hylen, Susan E.  "Women διάκονοι and Gendered Norms of Leadership."   Journal of Biblical Literature 138:3 (2019) 687-702.
 
Joshel, Sandra R.  "Female Desire and the Discourse of Empire: Tacitus's Messalina."  In Roman Sexualities (ed. Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner; Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997) 221-54.
 
Keith, Alison M.  "Tandem venit amor: A Roman Woman Speaks of Love."  In Roman Sexualities (ed. Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner; Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997) 295-310.
 
Le Roux, Christiaan R.  "Ephesus in the Acts of the Apostles: A Geographical and Theological Appraisal."  In 100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995, 3 vols. (ed. Herwig Friesinger, Fritz Krinzinger, Barbara Brandt and Karl R. Krierer; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften 260/Archäologische Forschungen 1; Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999) 1.307-313, 736 [Turkish abstract].
 
MacDonald, Margaret Y.  The Pauline Churches: A Socio-historical Study of Institutionalization in the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline Writings.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
 
Osiek, Carolyn and Margaret Y. MacDonald.  "Ephesians 5 and the Politics of Marriage."  In A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006) 118-43, 279-85.  [In the required readings folder on Camino]
 
Strelan, Rick.  Paul, Artemis and the Jews in Ephesus, Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 80.  Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996.
 
Trebilco, Paul.  "Christian Communities in Western Asia Minor into the Early Second Century: Ignatius and Others as Witnesses against Bauer."  Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 49:1 (2006) 17-44.
 
--------.  The Early Christians in Ephesus from Paul to Ignatius.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004.
 
--------.  "Jews, Christians and the Associations in Ephesos: A Comparative Study of Group Structures."  In 100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995, 3 vols. (ed. Herwig Friesinger, Fritz Krinzinger, Barbara Brandt and Karl R. Krierer; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften 260/Archäologische Forschungen 1; Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999) 1.325-34, 736 [Turkish abstract].
 
Walters, James.  "The Coincidence of the Expansion of Christianity and the Egyptian Cults in Imperial Ephesos."  In 100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995, 3 vols. (ed. Herwig Friesinger, Fritz Krinzinger, Barbara Brandt and Karl R. Krierer; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften 260/Archäologische Forschungen 1; Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999) 1.315-24, 736 [Turkish abstract].
 
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