{"id":971,"date":"2013-08-12T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?page_id=971"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:25:20","slug":"harlands-publications-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/harlands-publications-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Harland&#8217;s Books and Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><b>*Click on links for free pdf downloads*<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Books<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Last%20and%20Harland%202020%20Group%20Survival%20in%20the%20Ancient%20Mediterranean%20%28intro%20and%20ch%208%20only%29_Optimized.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean: Rethinking Material Conditions in the Landscape of <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4534 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Group-Survival-book-cover-e1587321775630.jpg\" alt=\"Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean\" width=\"232\" height=\"348\" \/>Jews and Christians<\/em><\/a> (coauthored with Richard Last; T &amp; T Clark \/ Bloomsbury, 2020).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/group-survival-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-9780567657480\/\">Buy now at Bloomsbury<\/a>: Available in paperback ($35.95), hardback ($103.50), and PDF ($28.76).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Last%20and%20Harland%202020%20Group%20Survival%20in%20the%20Ancient%20Mediterranean%20%28intro%20and%20ch%208%20only%29_Optimized.pdf\">Free sample pdf of introduction and chapter 8 on &#8220;Mutual Assistance and Group Cohesion&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>See academic reviews: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bmcr.brynmawr.edu\/2022\/2022.09.04\/\">Bryn Mawr Classical Review<\/a> <\/em>(Ross Kramer); <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0009840X21001165\"><em>Classical Review<\/em><\/a> (Sarah E. Rollins); <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0075435822000223\"><em>Journal of Roman Studies <\/em><\/a>(Ryan Boehm)<\/li>\n<li>Blurbs:\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIn this erudite and smart study, Last and Harland explore the material dynamics of associations in antiquity, which played critical social, economic, and political roles mediating the vast space between the family and imperial authorities. Judicious and accessible, this study brings to life the inner workings of these associations, throwing light in particular on how groups of both Judeans and early followers of Jesus fit into a larger cultural context.\u201d <span class=\"textSourceTitle\"><strong>Michael Satlow, Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, Brown University, USA<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cDrawing on an extensive corpus of epigraphic and papyrological sources-recently made accessible by Harland to scholars and students across the globe-Last and Harland show what can be achieved with this material. They offer a clear and systematic study of the material and financial conditions of a wide range of associations. This book is a must-read for social historians of the Graeco-Roman world.\u201d\u00a0 <span class=\"textSourceTitle\"><strong>Onno m. van Nijf, History and Classics, University of Groningen, Netherlands<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn this brilliant and methodologically sophisticated book, Last and Harland invite the reader to look beyond ideologically imaginative understandings of ancient groups devoted to Israel&#8217;s God-including followers of Jesus. They discover on the local level economic, social, and cultural factors crucial to the early formation and survival of what would develop into two world-religions: Judaism and Christianity. An outstanding contribution to scholarship and a must-read for anyone interested in early Judaism and Christian origins, as well as more generally ancient Mediterranean society.\u201d\u00a0 <span class=\"textSourceTitle\"><strong>Anders Runesson, Christian Origins and Jewish Studies, University of Oslo, Norway<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2014 Greco-Roman Associations, Bosporos and Asia Minor (intro and Bosporos only).pdf\"><i>Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary.\u00a0 II. North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor<\/i><\/a>. BZNW, 204.\u00a0 Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014. (Click for sample pdf with intro and Bosporan inscriptions, pp. 1-67).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland%202013%20Associations-Synagogues-Congregations.pdf\">Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society<\/a><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/AssociationsSynagoguesCongregations\/buy.html\">.<\/a> Second revised edition with links to inscriptions.\u00a0 Kitchener, ON: Philip A. Harland, 2013 (original edition: Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003.)\u00a0 *Winner of the F. W. Beare Book Award, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, 2004*.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/greco-roman-associations\/\"><i>Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook<\/i><\/a>, co-authored with Richard Ascough and John S. Kloppenborg. Baylor University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/travel-and-religion-in-antiquity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travel and Religion in Antiquity<\/a><\/i>. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 21. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2009 Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians (book).pdf\"><i>Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians: Associations, Judeans, and Cultural Minorities<\/i><\/a>. New York \/ London: T &amp; T Clark International \/ Continuum Press, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><b>Articles in Refereed Journals and Books<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2025 Putting the Persian Back in Magic (MTSR).pdf\">Putting the Persian Back in &#8216;Magic&#8217;: Problems with Ignoring Ancient Ethnographic Discourses<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Method and Theory in the Study of Religion<\/em> (2025), advanced article.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2023 Subject Peoples and Civilizational Priority (HTR).pdf\">\u2018From that time, nothing else has been discovered\u2019: Subject Peoples and Civilizational Priority<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Harvard Theological Review <\/em>116 (2023): 317\u201339.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland%202021%20Ethnic%20Relations%20and%20Circulating%20Legends%20in%20the%20Villages%20of%20Egypt%20%28JNES%29.pdf\">\u2018Syrians call you Astarte . . . Lycian peoples call you Leto\u2019: Ethnic Relations and Circulating Legends in the Villages of Egypt<\/a>.\u201d <em>Journal of Near Eastern Studies<\/em> 80 (2021): 357\u201376.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland%202021%20Most%20Ignorant%20Peoples%20-%20Ancient%20Ethnic%20Hierarchies%20and%20Pontic%20Peoples.pdf\">The most ignorant peoples of all\u2019: Ancient Ethnic Hierarchies and Pontic Peoples<\/a>.\u201d In <i>Ethnic Constructs, Royal Dynasties and Historical Geography around the Black Sea Littoral<\/i>, edited by Altay Co\u015fkun, 75\u201398. Geographica Historica 43. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland%202020%20Pontic%20Diasporas%20%28ZPE%20215%29.pdf\">Pontic Diasporas in the Classical and Hellenistic Eras<\/a>.&#8221; <em>Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Papyrologie und Epigraphik <\/em>[<em>Journal for Papyrology and Epigraphy<\/em>]\u00a0 214 (2020): 1-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland%202019%20Ethnic%20Hierarchies%20and%20Judean%20Responses%20JBL.pdf\">Climbing the Ethnic Ladder: Ethnic Hierarchies and Judean Responses<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0 <em>Journal of Biblical Literature <\/em>138 (2019): 665-686.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland%202019%20The%20most%20sacred%20society%20%28thiasos%29%20of%20the%20Pythagoreans%20%28J%20of%20Ancient%20History%29.pdf\">The most sacred society (<em>thiasos<\/em>) of the Pythagoreans:\u201d Philosophers Forming Associations<\/a>,&#8221; <em>Journal of Ancient History <\/em>7 (2019): 207-232.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2017 Violence in Greek Novels and Apocryphal Acts (Ancient Narrative).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Do Not Deny Me This Noble Death\u2019: Depictions of Violence in the Greek Novels and Apocryphal Acts<\/a>.\u201d <em>Ancient Narrative<\/em> 14 (2017): 129-147.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2015 Economics of Group Life SE\u00c5 80.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associations and the Economics of Group Life: A Preliminary Case Study of Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<em>Svensk exegetisk \u00e5rsbok<\/em> [<em>Swedish Exegetical Yearbook<\/em>] 80 (2015): 1-37.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">German translation: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland%202018%20Wirtschaftliche%20Dimensionen%20des%20Vereinsleben%20%28Economics%20and%20asssociations%20trans%29.pdf\">Die wirtschaftlichen Dimensionen des Vereinslebens<\/a>,\u201d in <i>Juden, Christen und Vereine im R\u00f6mischen Reich<\/i>, ed. Benedikt Eckhardt and Clemens Leonhard, RVV 75 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 219\u201354.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland%202013%20Thessalos%20Haber%20volume.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018The days seemed like years\u2019: Thessalos Prepares to Encounter the God Asklepios<\/a>.\u201d In <em>Purity, Holiness, and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber<\/em>, edited by Carl S Ehrlich, Anders Runesson, and Eileen M Schuller, 208\u2013223. WUNT 305. T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2012 Banqueting values.pdf\">Banqueting Values in the Associations: Rhetoric and Reality<\/a>,\u201d in <em>Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table<\/em>, edited by Dennis E. Smith and Hal Taussig, 73\u201386. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2011 01 Travel intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pausing at the Intersection of Religion and Travel<\/a>,&#8221; in <i>Travel and Religion in Antiquity<\/i>, edited by Harland (see books above for full information).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2011 07 Thessalos.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journeys in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Thessalos and Other Seekers<\/a>,&#8221; in\u00a0 <i>Travel and Religion in Antiquity<\/i>, edited by Harland (see books above for full information).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjc8YD32cDWAhVBz2MKHVu4CPAQFggoMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jgrchj.net%2Fvolume5%2FJGRChJ5-11_Instone.pdf&amp;usg=AFQjCNFgN4D65kTB3mwyFzTzsZmKbgMlJQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Associations in Roman Palestine: Evidence from the Mishnah<\/a>,\u201d <em>Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism<\/em> 5 (2008): 200-221 (coauthored with David Instone-Brewer).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2007 MothersFathers JSJ.pdf\">Familial Dimensions of Group Identity (II): \u2018Mothers\u2019 and \u2018Fathers\u2019 in Associations and Synagogues of the Greek World<\/a>,\u201d <i>Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period <\/i>38 (2007) 57-79.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2007 Men-Eaters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018These people are . . . Men Eaters\u2019: Banquets of the Anti-Associations and Perceptions of Minority Cultural Groups<\/a>,&#8221; in <i>Identity and Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians and Others<\/i>, pp. 56-75, 2007 (see edited books above for full information).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2006 Declining Polis.pdf\">The Declining Polis? Religious Rivalries in Ancient Civic Context<\/a>,&#8221; in <i>Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity<\/i>, edited by Leif E. Vaage. Studies in Judaism and Christianity, volume 18. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2006 Acculturation Hierapolis.pdf\">Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and \u2018Pagan\u2019 Guilds at Hierapolis<\/a>,\u201d <i>Journal of Jewish Studies<\/i> 57 (2006) 222-244.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2005 Brothers JBL.pdf\">Familial Dimensions of Group Identity: \u2018Brothers\u2019 (\u0391\u0394\u0395\u039b\u03a6\u039f\u0399) in Associations of the Greek East<\/a>,\u201d <i>Journal of Biblical Literature<\/i> 124 (2005) 491-513.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2005 Contention.pdf\">Spheres of Contention, Claims of Preeminence: Rivalries Among Associations in Sardis and Smyrna<\/a>,&#8221; in <i>Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna<\/i>, edited by Richard Ascough, pp. 53-63. Studies in Judaism and Christianity, volume 18. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a title=\"Discussion Notes for Visions of the End Course\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2003 Christ-bearers JECS.pdf\">Christ-bearers and Fellow-initiates: Local Cultural Life and Christian Identity in Ignatius\u2019 Letters<\/a>,\u201d <i>Journal of Early Christian Studies <\/i>11 (2003) 481-99.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2003 AHBImperialCult.pdf\">Imperial Cults within Local Cultural Life: Associations in Roman Asia<\/a>,\u201d<i> Ancient History Bulletin \/ Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Alte Geschichte<\/i> 17 (2003) 85-107.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2002 Connections.pdf\">Connections with Elites in the World of the Early Christians<\/a>,&#8221; in <i>Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches<\/i>, edited by Anthony J. Blasi, Paul-Andr\u00e9 Turcotte, and Jean Duhaime, pp. 385-408. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2002 Economy Palestine.pdf\">The Economy of First Century Palestine: The State of Scholarly Discussion<\/a>,&#8221; in <i>Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches<\/i>, edited by Anthony J. Blasi, Paul-Andr\u00e9 Turcotte, and Jean Duhaime, pp. 511-27. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 2000 Apocalypse John.pdf\">Honouring the Emperor or Assailing the Beast: Participation in Civic Life among Associations (Jewish, Christian and Other) in Asia Minor and the Apocalypse of John<\/a>,&#8221; <i>Journal for the Study of the New Testament<\/i> 77 (2000) 99-121.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/publications\/Harland 1996 Honours Ephesos.pdf\">Honours and Worship: Emperors, Imperial Cults and Associations at Ephesus (first to third centuries C.E.)<\/a>,&#8221; <i>Studies in Religion\/Sciences religieuses<\/i> 25 (1996) 319-34.<\/p>\n<p>Note: All articles are reproduced here with permission from the copyright holders, publishers, journals and\/or editors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Click on links for free pdf downloads* Books Group Survival in the Ancient Mediterranean: Rethinking Material Conditions in the Landscape of Jews and Christians (coauthored with Richard Last; T &amp; T Clark \/ Bloomsbury, 2020).\u00a0 Buy now at Bloomsbury: Available in paperback ($35.95), hardback ($103.50), and PDF ($28.76). 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