Category Archives: Greco-Roman religions and culture

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)

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