The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology

David K. Pettegrew is a scholar of the ancient Mediterranean and Early Christian world. He has participated in and directed archaeological research programs in the United States, Greece, and Cyprus, and authored articles and books on Greek, Roman, and Late Antique cities and landscapes. William R. Caraher is an associate professor of history at the University of North Dakota. His interests include the archaeology of Late Antique and Early Christian worlds and the archaeology of contemporary America. Thomas W. Davis is an archaeologist with more than three decades of field experience in Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, Kazakhstan, and the United States. A specialist in the New Testament world of Paul, he served as Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) in Nicosia, Cyprus.

1. The Archaeology of Early Christianity: The History, Methods, and State of a Field
William R. Caraher and David K. Pettegrew

PART I. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY
2. Archaeology of the Gospels
James F. Strange
3. New Testament Archaeology beyond the Gospels
Thomas W. Davis

PART II. SACRED SPACE AND MORTUARY CONTEXTS
4. The Catacombs
Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai
5. Martyria
David L. Eastman
6. Burials and Human Remains in Early Christian Context
Sherry C. Fox and Paraskevi Tritsaroli
7. Churches
Charles Stewart
8. The Archaeology of Early Monastic Communities
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
9. Baptisteries in Ancient Sites and Rites
H. Richard Rutherford
10. Baths, Christianity, and Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity
Dallas DeForest

PART III. ART AND ARTIFACTS IN CONTEXT
11. The Art of the Catacombs
Fabrizio Bisconti
12. Visual Rhetoric of Early Christian Reliquaries
Galit Noga-Banai
13. An Anarchéologie of Icons
Gleen Peers
14. Spolia, its Viewers, and the 'Victory of Christianity'
Jon Michael Frey
15. Early Christian Mosaics in Context
Karen C. Britt
16. Pottery
R. Scott Moore
17. Lamps
Maria Parani
18. Statues
Troels Myrup Kristensen
19. Amulets and the Ritual Efficacy of Christian Symbols
Rangar H. Cline

PART IV. CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE
20. Christian Archaeology in Palestine: the Roman and Byzantine Periods
Joan E. Taylor
21. Jordan
Robert Schick
22. Syria
Emma Loosley
23. The Church of the East until the 8th century
Stefan R. Hauser
24. Armenia
Christina Maranci
25. The Holy Island: An Archaeology of Early Christian Cyprus
Jody Michael Gordon and William R. Caraher
26. Asia Minor
Peter Talloen
27. Community, Church and Conversion in the prefecture of Illyricum and the Cyclades
Rebecca Sweetman
28. The Early Christian Archaeology of the Balkans
William Bowden
29. The Archaeology of Early Italian Churches in Context, AD 313-569
Alexandra Chavarría
30. The Christianization of Gaul: Buildings and Territories
Bastien Lefebvre
31. Britain and Ireland, AD 100-700
David Petts
32. Constructing Christian Landscapes in the Iberian Peninsula: The Archaeological Evidence (4th-6th centuries)
Alexandra Chavarría
33. Incorporating Christian communities in North Africa. Churches as bodies of communal history
Susan T. Stevens
34. Archaeology of Early Christianity in Egypt
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom

Index