An invitation from the god Sarapis: Banqueting with the gods
Associations of Immigrants: Thracians and the goddess Bendis near Athens
‘Come! Plunge the knife into the baby’: Tertullian’s not-so-subtle retort
Bandits and their wild banquets: Lapiths and Centaurs
Banqueting under the protection of your gods
Banquets of the anti-associations: “They sacrificed a human being and partook of the flesh”
Beate Dignas, Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (2002)
Breaking news: Early Christians were impious atheists . . . (NT 3.2)
Consulting the gods about your favourite blanket
Contexts of early Christianity (NT 3.1)
For the gods of the homeland: Immigrants from Beirut on a Greek island
Golden rule: Do unto others according to the “pagans”
Greco-Roman deities: Artemis of Ephesus 1
Greco-Roman deities: Artemis of Ephesus 2
Greco-Roman deities: Artemis of Ephesus 3
Human sacrifice and cannibalism again — oh, and sexual perversion too
Multiple memberships in the world of the early Christians
Oenomaus of Gadara on Detection of Deceivers and on Divination
On Sexual Indulgence: Paul and contemporaries like Musonius Rufus
Paintings of Pompeii 1: Villa of the Mysteries of Dionysos (Villa Item)
Pompeii 2: Rivalries among associations and a riot at Pompeii
Sophia’s mistake: The Sophia of Jesus Christ and Eugnostos (NT Apocrypha 16)
Sophia’s repentance: The Apocryphon of John (NT Apocrypha 20)
The anti-imperial Paul “coalition” — John Barclay’s response to N.T. Wright
Thessalos’ travels and his “magical” cures
Those other (“pagan”) synagogues
Was Paul a man of his time?: Contemporaries on the treatment of slaves (NT 2.11)
Worshiping the Beast / Honouring the Emperor