Steven J Friesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 161719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven J Friesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven J |
| FAMILY NAME | Friesen |
| SIGNATURE | FRIESEN S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Labours of the Saints and the Collection for Jerusalem: Precapitalist Religion, Ethnicity, and Paul's Christ Groups
to premodern societies since both terms are defined by ideological struggles between capitalism and Marxism. So I begin by reformulating the topic for a precapitalist setting and by locating it within networks of exchange in a tributary mode of production. Using this framework, the article examines an innovative and perhaps unprecedented project by the apostle Paul in which he sought to collect capital from the daily labours of his multi-ethnic n…
The Struggle over Class: Socioeconomic Analysis of Ancient Christian Texts
Religion in Ephesos Reconsidered: Archaeology of Spaces, Structures, and Objects
Religion in Ephesos Reconsidered provides a detailed overview of the current state of research on the most important Ephesian projects offering evidence for religious activity during the Roman period. Ranging from huge temple complexes to hand-held figurines, this book surveys a broad scope of materials. Careful reading of texts and inscriptions is combined with cutting-edge archaeological and architectural analysis to illustrate how the ancient …
Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family
Twice Neokoros is a case study of the Cult of the Sebastoi that was established in the city of Ephesus by the province of Asia during the late first century C.E. Epigraphic and numismatic data indicate that the Cult of the Sebastoi was dedicated in 89/90 to the Flavian imperial family. The architecture, sculpture, municipal titles, and urban setting of the cult all reflect Asian religious traditions. The image of Ephesus was significantly altered…
Junia Theodora of Corinth: Gendered Inequalities in the Early Empire
This chapter presents the case that Junia Theodora shows what influence a woman could have if she had the necessary resources - wealth, status, etc. - and if she used them to support Roman domination. It utilizes distinctions that have been developed under the rubric of intersectionality. Intersectionality is an approach developed in gender studies that focuses on the lives of African American women. The author organizes the case of Junia Theodor…
Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality
In Corinth in Contrast, archaeologists, historians, art historians, classicists, and New Testament scholars examine the stratified nature of socio-economic, political, and religious interactions in the city from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. The volume challenges standard social histories of Corinth by focusing on the unequal distribution of material, cultural, and spiritual resources. Specialists investigate specific aspects of cultu…
Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism. By Anathea Portier-Young
Portier-Young's monograph argues that “the first Jewish apocalypses emerged as a literature of resistance to empire” (xxii). The Seleucid Empire attempted to impose its values and cosmology through force, propaganda, and ideology, but the apocalyptic writers pushed back, “challenging not only the physical means of coercion, but also empire's claims about knowledge and the world” (xxii). The book makes its case in three sections: a chapter on theo…
Chapter Eight. The Wrong Erastus: Ideology, Archaeology, And Exegesis
This chapter is based upon inscriptions, many fragmentary, dating from the late 4th through the early 7th centuries CE. Most are from Christian gravestones, but the author have included some of the few secular or official documents from the same period, where they include personal names. At Corinth the gravestones that survive display certain basic information: always the name and almost always words, phrases and symbols that emphasize the Christ…
Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and Society
The Wrong Erastus: Ideology, Archaeology, And Exegesis
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such …
Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and Society
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such …
The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire
The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire
Different methods of estimating the Gross Domestic Product of the Roman Empire in the second century C.E. produce convergent results that point to total output and consumption equivalent to 50 million tons of wheat or close to 20 billion sesterces per year. It is estimated that élites (around 1.5 per cent of the imperial population) controlled approximately one-fifth of total income, while middling households (perhaps 10 per cent of the populatio…
Urban religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary approaches
This book discusses the history, topography, and urban development of Corinth with special attention to civic and private religious practices in the Roman colony. Expert analysis of the latest archaeological data is coupled with consideration of what can be known about the emergence and evolution of religions in Corinth. Several scholars consider specific aspects of archaeological evidence and ask how enhanced knowledge of such topics as burial p…
Parables of War: Reading John's Jewish Apocalypse . John W. Marshall
Imperial cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the ruins
"Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Revelation, to the understanding of the imperial cults, and to the relationship between the two, this innovative work will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the New Testament and Greco-Roman religion and history."--Jacket
Groups and Individuals
Few studies deal with the role of imperial cults in human maturation. Evidence for imperial hymnodes from Pergamon and elsewhere, for imperial mysteries, and for individual votive offerings shows that imperial cults often played a part in rituals for mourning, socialization, agricultural cycles, family, gender, and other issues in the cultivation of personhood
Religious Criticism
Lays out a theoretical orientation that allows Friesen to compare the evidence for the imperial cult institutions of mainstream society with a visionary religious text like Revelation, which was produced by a marginal group in society. The chapter begins with a review of critiques of modernity found in the work of three scholars of religion – Mircea Eliade, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, and Charles Long. The chapter then draws on the comparative model …
The origins of Lei Day: Festivity and the construction of ethnicity in the territory of Hawaii
1996). The origins of Lei Day: Festivity and the construction of ethnicity in the territory of Hawaii. History and Anthropology: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-36
Revelation, Realia, and Religion: Archaeology in the Interpretation of the Apocalypse
The use of archaeological materials for interpreting New Testament texts poses many problems. While many archaeologists have interpreted the Hebrew Bible, this early interface of archaeology and the study of the Hebrew scriptures is due in part to the fact that the relation-ship between biblical texts and the realia from Palestine seemed more direct. Since archaeological materials tend to deal with mainstream culture and since the texts from Isra…
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire
Different methods of estimating the Gross Domestic Product of the Roman Empire in the second century C.E. produce convergent results that point to total output and consumption equivalent to 50 million tons of wheat or close to 20 billion sesterces per year. It is estimated that élites (around 1.5 per cent of the imperial population) controlled approximately one-fifth of total income, while middling households (perhaps 10 per cent of the populatio…
Imperial cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the ruins
"Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Revelation, to the understanding of the imperial cults, and to the relationship between the two, this innovative work will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the New Testament and Greco-Roman religion and history."--Jacket
Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and Society
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such …
The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire
Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality
In Corinth in Contrast, archaeologists, historians, art historians, classicists, and New Testament scholars examine the stratified nature of socio-economic, political, and religious interactions in the city from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. The volume challenges standard social histories of Corinth by focusing on the unequal distribution of material, cultural, and spiritual resources. Specialists investigate specific aspects of cultu…
The origins of Lei Day: Festivity and the construction of ethnicity in the territory of Hawaii
1996). The origins of Lei Day: Festivity and the construction of ethnicity in the territory of Hawaii. History and Anthropology: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-36
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
Revelation, Realia, and Religion: Archaeology in the Interpretation of the Apocalypse
The use of archaeological materials for interpreting New Testament texts poses many problems. While many archaeologists have interpreted the Hebrew Bible, this early interface of archaeology and the study of the Hebrew scriptures is due in part to the fact that the relation-ship between biblical texts and the realia from Palestine seemed more direct. Since archaeological materials tend to deal with mainstream culture and since the texts from Isra…
The origins of Lei Day: Festivity and the construction of ethnicity in the territory of Hawaii
1996). The origins of Lei Day: Festivity and the construction of ethnicity in the territory of Hawaii. History and Anthropology: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-36
Imperial cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the ruins
"Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Revelation, to the understanding of the imperial cults, and to the relationship between the two, this innovative work will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the New Testament and Greco-Roman religion and history."--Jacket
Groups and Individuals
Few studies deal with the role of imperial cults in human maturation. Evidence for imperial hymnodes from Pergamon and elsewhere, for imperial mysteries, and for individual votive offerings shows that imperial cults often played a part in rituals for mourning, socialization, agricultural cycles, family, gender, and other issues in the cultivation of personhood
Religious Criticism
Lays out a theoretical orientation that allows Friesen to compare the evidence for the imperial cult institutions of mainstream society with a visionary religious text like Revelation, which was produced by a marginal group in society. The chapter begins with a review of critiques of modernity found in the work of three scholars of religion – Mircea Eliade, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, and Charles Long. The chapter then draws on the comparative model …
Parables of War: Reading John's Jewish Apocalypse . John W. Marshall
Urban religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary approaches
This book discusses the history, topography, and urban development of Corinth with special attention to civic and private religious practices in the Roman colony. Expert analysis of the latest archaeological data is coupled with consideration of what can be known about the emergence and evolution of religions in Corinth. Several scholars consider specific aspects of archaeological evidence and ask how enhanced knowledge of such topics as burial p…
The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire
The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire
Different methods of estimating the Gross Domestic Product of the Roman Empire in the second century C.E. produce convergent results that point to total output and consumption equivalent to 50 million tons of wheat or close to 20 billion sesterces per year. It is estimated that élites (around 1.5 per cent of the imperial population) controlled approximately one-fifth of total income, while middling households (perhaps 10 per cent of the populatio…
Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and Society
The Wrong Erastus: Ideology, Archaeology, And Exegesis
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such …
Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and Society
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. Specialists in the study of inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins, tombs, pottery, and texts collaborate to produce new portraits of religion and society in the ancient city of Corinth. The studies focus on groups like the early Roman colonists, the Augustales (priests of Augustus), or the Pauline house churches; on specific cults such …
Chapter Eight. The Wrong Erastus: Ideology, Archaeology, And Exegesis
This chapter is based upon inscriptions, many fragmentary, dating from the late 4th through the early 7th centuries CE. Most are from Christian gravestones, but the author have included some of the few secular or official documents from the same period, where they include personal names. At Corinth the gravestones that survive display certain basic information: always the name and almost always words, phrases and symbols that emphasize the Christ…
Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism. By Anathea Portier-Young
Portier-Young's monograph argues that “the first Jewish apocalypses emerged as a literature of resistance to empire” (xxii). The Seleucid Empire attempted to impose its values and cosmology through force, propaganda, and ideology, but the apocalyptic writers pushed back, “challenging not only the physical means of coercion, but also empire's claims about knowledge and the world” (xxii). The book makes its case in three sections: a chapter on theo…
Junia Theodora of Corinth: Gendered Inequalities in the Early Empire
This chapter presents the case that Junia Theodora shows what influence a woman could have if she had the necessary resources - wealth, status, etc. - and if she used them to support Roman domination. It utilizes distinctions that have been developed under the rubric of intersectionality. Intersectionality is an approach developed in gender studies that focuses on the lives of African American women. The author organizes the case of Junia Theodor…
Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality
In Corinth in Contrast, archaeologists, historians, art historians, classicists, and New Testament scholars examine the stratified nature of socio-economic, political, and religious interactions in the city from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. The volume challenges standard social histories of Corinth by focusing on the unequal distribution of material, cultural, and spiritual resources. Specialists investigate specific aspects of cultu…
Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family
Twice Neokoros is a case study of the Cult of the Sebastoi that was established in the city of Ephesus by the province of Asia during the late first century C.E. Epigraphic and numismatic data indicate that the Cult of the Sebastoi was dedicated in 89/90 to the Flavian imperial family. The architecture, sculpture, municipal titles, and urban setting of the cult all reflect Asian religious traditions. The image of Ephesus was significantly altered…
Religion in Ephesos Reconsidered: Archaeology of Spaces, Structures, and Objects
Religion in Ephesos Reconsidered provides a detailed overview of the current state of research on the most important Ephesian projects offering evidence for religious activity during the Roman period. Ranging from huge temple complexes to hand-held figurines, this book surveys a broad scope of materials. Careful reading of texts and inscriptions is combined with cutting-edge archaeological and architectural analysis to illustrate how the ancient …
The Struggle over Class: Socioeconomic Analysis of Ancient Christian Texts
Labours of the Saints and the Collection for Jerusalem: Precapitalist Religion, Ethnicity, and Paul's Christ Groups
to premodern societies since both terms are defined by ideological struggles between capitalism and Marxism. So I begin by reformulating the topic for a precapitalist setting and by locating it within networks of exchange in a tributary mode of production. Using this framework, the article examines an innovative and perhaps unprecedented project by the apostle Paul in which he sought to collect capital from the daily labours of his multi-ethnic n…
History (17 works) · Art (14 works) · Ancient history (12 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (11 works) · Classics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (7 works)