TY - BOOK AU - HARRISON, James R. AU - WELBORN, L. L. TI - The First Urban Churches 3: Ephesus SN - 9780000000000 PY - 2018/// CY - Atlanta, GA PB - SBL Press KW - Church architecture--Turkey--Ephesus (Extinct city) KW - Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Cities and towns--Religious aspects--Christianity--History KW - City churches KW - Ephesus (Extinct city)--Religious life and customs N1 - Ephesus. An epigraphic portrait of Ephesus and its villages / James R. Harrison -- An Ephesian tale : mystery cults, reverse theological engineering, and the triumph of Christianity in Ephesus / Guy MacLean Rogers -- The Jewish community in Ephesus and its interaction with Christ-believers in the first century CE and beyond / Paul Trebilco -- Acclaiming Artemis in Ephesus : political theologies in Acts 19 / Bradley J. Bitner -- The gladiator graveyard of Ephesus as evidence for the study of martyrdom / Mikael Haxby -- [Ekklasia] in Ephesians as godlike in the heavens, in temple, in [gamos], and in armor : idealogy and iconography in Ephesus / Fredrick J. Long -- From Zeus or by Endoios? : Acts 19:35 as a peculiar assessment of the Ephesian Artemis / Stephan Witetschek -- Ephesian cultic officials, their benefactors, and the quest for civic virtue : Paul's alternative quest for status in the epistle to the Ephesians / James R. Harrison -- Ephesus and the numismatic background to [neokoros] / Michael P. Theophilos ER -