Urban religion in Roman Corinth : interdisciplinary approaches / edited by Daniel N. Schowalter and Steven J. Friesen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-498) and indexes.

Urban Corinth : an introduction / G.D.R. Sanders -- Urban and rural planning in Roman Corinth / David Gilman Romano -- Favorinus's "Corinthian oration" : a piqued panorama of the hadrianic forum / L. Michael White -- Fountains and the formation of cultural identity at Roman Corinth / Betsey A. Robinson -- Religion in Corinth : 146 B.C.E. to 100 C.E. / Nancy Bookidis -- Rites for Melikertes-Palaimon in the early Roman Corinthia / Elizabeth R. Gebhard -- The stones don't speak and the texts tell lies : sacred sex at Corinth / John R. Lanci -- Roman Corinth : the final years of pagan cult facilities along East Theater Street / Charles K. Williams II -- Unquiet graves : burial practices of the Roman Corinthians / Mary E. Hoskins Walbank -- Placing the dead : funerary practice and social stratification in the early Roman period at Corinth and Ephesos / Christine M. Thomas -- Paul's letters to Corinth : the interpretive intertwining of literary and historical reconstruction / Margaret M. Mitchell -- The silence of the apostle / Helmut Koester -- Prospects for a demography of the Pauline mission : Corinth among the churches / Steven J. Friesen -- Paul's assembly in Corinth : an alternative society / Richard A. Horsley -- Identity in Roman Corinth and its impact on early Christians / James Walters -- Archaeological evidence for early Christianity and the end of hellenistic religion in Corinth / G.D.R. Sanders -- Ecclesiastical ambiguities : Corinth in the fourth and fifth centuries / Vasiliki Limberis.