Charalambos bakirtzis biography of abraham

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From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē succeeds admirably in bringing together specialists in various disciplines – archaeology, New Testament studies, ancient history, epigraphy – to cast new light on this important ancient city.

These papers were presented at what must have been a stimulating conference at the Harvard Divinity School in 2007. The publication belongs to a series in which volumes on Ephesos, Pergamon and Corinth have already appeared.

Charalambos bakirtzis biography of abraham

Religious change is the central theme but this work, like its forerunners, is broad in scope and touches on political, socio-economic and cultural history. All of the papers are in English and the bibliographies are thorough and up-to-date.

Particularly for the more archaeological topics, where most research has been published in Greek, the book is useful in making scholarship on the city accessible to a wider audience. The work is divided into two halves, with seven chapters on the Early Roman Empire, seven on Late Anti