Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise

Annewies van den Hoek, Ph.D (1988), is lecturer in Jewish and Early Christian Greek at Harvard Divinity School. Among her works are a monograph on Clement of Alexandria and Philo (Brill, 1988) and a Greek text edition of Stromateis IV in Sources Chrétiennes (Cerf, 2001). John J. Herrmann, Jr., Ph.D. (1973), is Curator of Classical Art Emeritus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His articles, books, and contributions to exhibition catalogues range through Greek, Roman, and Early Christian art and architectural decoration.

"... series of highly interesting and original articles that attempt to explicate the theological significance of [...] images produced in the Roman empire at the beginning of the Christian era. [...] The authors' methodology typically combines a skillful review of literary sources with a wide-ranging survey of the pictorial images of late antiquity. The results are often enlightening and the essays are a pleasure to read." – Jeffrey Spier, University of Arizona, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 27 (2014)"Der große Verdienst der hier versammelten Texte liegt darin, dieses häufig vernachlässigte Bildmedium zur Erforschung der spätantiken Kunstgeschichte zu nutzen." – Armin Bergmeier, München, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)

• I.Paulinus of Nola, Courtyards, and Canthari: A Second LookII.Thecla the Beast Fighter: A Female Emblem of Deliverance in Early Christian Popular ArtIII.“Two Men in White:” Observations on an Early Christian Lamp from North Africa with the Ascension of ChristIV.Anicius Auchenius Bassus, African Red Slip Ware, and the ChurchV.The Sphinx: An Egyptian Theological Symbol in Clement of AlexandriaVI.Clement of Alexandria, Acrobats, and the EliteVII.Celsus’ Competing Heroes: Jonah, Daniel, and their RivalsVIII.Divine Twins or Saintly Twins: The Dioscuri in an Early Christian ContextIX.The Saga of Peter and Paul: Emblems of Catholic Identity in Christian Literature and ArtX.Apocalyptic Themes in the Monumental and Minor Art of Early ChristianityXI.Odysseus Wanders into Late AntiquityXII.Execution as Entertainment: The Roman Context of Martyrdom