Steven J. Friesen, Ph.D. (1990), Harvard University, is the Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins (Oxford, 2001).Sarah A. James, Ph.D (2010), University of Texas at Austin, is an Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research involves the material culture of Corinth during the Hellenistic and early Roman periods. Daniel N. Schowalter, Th.D. (1989) Harvard Divinity School, is Professor of Classics and Religion at Carthage College. He is co-Director of the Omrit Settlement Excavations in northern Israel and co-editor of The Roman Temple Complex at Horvat Omirt (Archaeopress, 2011).

"Methodologically, this book demonstrates how investigation of material cultural artifacts might generate insights about economic and social issues. Recommended for Roman social historians, researchers of ancient material and visual culture, and scholars of ancient Christianity." – Richard Last, Queen’s University at Kingston, in: Religious Studies Review 41/2 (June 2015)

• 1. Steven J. Friesen, Sarah A. James, and Daniel N. Schowalter, Inequality in Corinth (you say that like it’s a bad thing)Elites and Non-elites2. Sarah A. James, The Last of the Corinthians? Society and Settlement from 146 to 44 BCE 3. Benjamin W. Millis, The Local Magistrates and Elite of Roman Corinth4. Laura S. Nasrallah, “You Were Bought with a Price”: Freedpersons and Things in 1 Corinthians 5. Sarah Lepinksi, Painting Practices in Roman Corinth: Greek or Roman?Socio-economic Inequality in Corinth6. Guy D. R. Sanders, Landlords and Tenants: Sharecroppers and Subsistence Farming in Corinthian Historical Context7. David K. Pettegrew, The Diolkos and the Emporion: How a Land Bridge Framed the Commercial Economy of Roman Corinth8. William Caraher, The Ambivalent Landscape of Christian Corinth: The Archaeology of Place, Theology, and Politics in a Late Antique City9. Daniel N. Schowalter, Regilla Standing By: Reconstructed Statuary and Re-inscribed Bases in Fourth-Century Corinth.Inequalities in Gender & Religion in Roman Corinth10. Ronald S. Stroud, Religion and Magic in Roman Corinth11. Steven J. Friesen, Junia Theodora of Corinth: Gendered Inequalities in the Early Empire12. Caroline Johnson Hodges, ‘Mixed Marriage’ in Early Christianity: Trajectories from Corinth