Table of Contents:
  • Perspectives on the Lycus Valley: an inscriptional, archaeological, numismatic, and iconographic approach / Alan H. Cadwallader and James R. Harrison
  • Colossians, Hierapolitan coins-and the young bearers of hope / Ulrich Huttner
  • Unraveling the threads of identity: cloth and clothing in the Lycus Valley / Rosemary Canavan
  • On the question of comparative method in historical research: Colossae and Chonai in larger frame / Alan H. Cadwallader
  • Salience, multiple affiliation, and Christ belief in the Lycus Valley: a conversation with Ulrich Huttner's Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley / Harry O. Maier
  • Initiation, vision, and spiritual power: the Hellenistic dimensions of the problem at Colossae / Clinton E. Arnold
  • Everyday life in a Roman town like Colossae: the papyrological evidence / Peter Arzt-Grabner
  • A city with a message: Colossae and Colossians / Angela Standhartinger
  • Employing numismatic evidence in discussions of early Christianity in the Lycus valley: a case study from Laodicea / Michael P. Theophilos
  • Rome's market economy in the Lycus valley: soundings from Laodicea and Colossae / Michael Trainor
  • Has the Vita Abercii misled epigraphists in the reconstruction of the inscription? / Allen Brent
  • The inscriptions and oracular prophecy in the Eastern Mediterranean basin: assessing the Book of Revelation in its Graeco-Roman revelatory context / James R. Harrison