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Spiritual Marriages in 4th-century Antioch
Antioch, Syria/Turkey
 
Antioch

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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
 
New archaeological initiatives are underway (see Andrea U. De Giorgi, "Antioch on the Orontes 2.0. New Stories from an Ancient City," ASOR Blog: The Ancient Near East Today 4:12 (December 2016), online, http://asorblog.org/antioch-orontes-ancient-city/, accessed 16 January 2017):
 
  • Princeton University Art Museum, New Committee for the Excavations of Antioch and its Vicinity

  • Catherine Saliou, Lexicon Topographicum Project (a catalogue of Antiochene antiquities based on the literary sources)

  • Tabula Imperii Byzantini

  • University of Chicago, Amuq Valley Regional Project (AVRP)

  • University of Halle-Wittenberg, Survey of Mt. Silpius and Mt. Staurin
 
Brinkerhoff, Dericksen M.  A Collection of Sculpture in Classical and Early Christian Antioch, Monographs on Archaeology and Fine Arts 22.  New York: New York University Press for the College Art Association of America, 1970.
 
De Giorgi, A.  Ancient Antioch: From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
 
Downey, Glanville.  A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1961.
 
Eger, Asa.  "(Re)Mapping Medieval Antioch: Urban Transformations from teh Early Islamic to the Crusader Periods."  DOP 67 (2014) 95-134.
 
Fant, Clyde E. And Mitchell G. Reddish.  "Antioch on the Orontes."  In A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) 143-52.  [available on Camino : Files in the Research Materials folder]
 
Hanfmann, George M. A.  "Notes on the Mosaics from Antioch."  American Journal of Archaeology 43 (1939) 229-46.
 
Kondoleon, Christine, ed.  Antioch: The Lost Ancient City.  Princeton, New Jersey/Worcester, Massachusetts: Princeton University Press/Worcester Art Museum, 2000.
 
Levi, Doro.  Antioch Mosaic Pavements, 2 vols.  Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1971.  Reprint of the 1947 edition by arrangement with Princeton University Press.
 
Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G.  Antioch: City and Imperial Administration in the Later Roman Empire.  Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1972.
 
Morey, Charles R.  "The Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes."  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 76:5 (1936) 637-51.
 
Weir, Robert G. A.  "Antiochene Grave Stelai in Princeton."  In Roman Sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University (ed. J. Michael Padgett; Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001) 274-311.
 
Stillwell, R.  Antioch-on-the-Orontes, III: The Excavations, 1937-1939.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1941.
 
Van Elderen, Bastian.  "Some Archaeological Observations on Paul’s First Missionary Journey."  In Apostolic History and the Gospel: Biblical and Historical Essays Presented to F. F. Bruce on His 60th Birthday (ed. W. Ward Gasque and Ralph P. Martin; Exeter: Paternoster, 1970) 150-61.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
Chrysostom, John.  "Chrysostom's Treatises on the Subintroductae."  In Elizabeth A. Clark, Jerome, Chrysostom, and Friends: Essays and Translations (Studies in Women and Religion 2, 2d ed.; New York: Edwin Mellen, 1982; original 1979) 158-248.
 
Clark, Elizabeth A., trans.  "John Chrysostom, On Virginity 14.3, 5-6, 15.1, 56.1-2; On the Necessity of Guarding Virginity 10-11; Tertullian, Exhortation to Chastity 9, 12, 17; John Chrysostom, On Not Marrying Again 1, 5."  In Women in the Early Church (ed. Elizabeth A. Clark; Message of the Fathers of the Church 13; Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, 1983) 122-6, 144-55.  [In required readings folder on Camino : Files]
 
Libanius.  Antioch as a Centre of Hellenic Culture as Observed by Libanius, trans. A. F. Norman.  Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000.
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Brown, Peter R. L.  "Sexuality and the City: John Chrysostom."  In The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Lectures on the History of Religions n-s. 13; New York: Columbia University Press, 1988) 305-322.
 
Castelli, Elizabeth A.  "Virginity and Its Meaning for Women's Sexuality in Early Christianity."  Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 2:1 (1986) 61-88.  [In required readings folder on Camino : Files]
 
Christensen-Ernst, Jørgen.  Antioch on the Orontes: A History and a Guide.   Lanham, Maryland: Hamilton Books, 2012.
 
Elm, Susanna.  "Virgins of God": The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity, Oxford Classical Monographs.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000; original, 1994.
 
Leyerle, Blake.  Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom's Attack on Spiritual Marriage.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
 
Meeks, Wayne A. and Robert L. Wilken.  Jews and Christians in Antioch in the First Four Centuries of the Common Era, Sources for Biblical Study 13.  Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1978.
 
Wallace-Hadrill, David Sutherland.  Christian Antioch: A Study of Early Christian Thought in the East.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
 
Zetterholm, Magnus.  The Formation of Christianity in Antioch: A Social-scientific Approach to the Separation between Judaism and Christianity.  New York: Routledge, 2003.
 
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