Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East

Nathan Leach is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Texas State University at San Marcos. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His current research analyzes the Revelation of John as part of the wider social landscape of divinatory rituals. Daniel Charles Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Whitman College. He earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. His research investigates how imperial and material processes shaped religion in the Roman Empire, including the Apocalypse of John. Tony Keddie is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Fellow of the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also received his Ph.D. He researches the intersections of religion and labor among Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire.

Introduction - Daniel Charles Smith, Nathan Leach, and Tony Keddie;Selected Publications of Steven J. Friesen; Part I - Materializing Revelation; 1. Apocalypse beyond Dualism: Connectivity and Metamorphose among Modes of Existence - Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira; 2. Reading Enslavement in Revelation - Lynn R. Huber; 3. Disabling the Laodikean Assembly: Power of Sight as Site of Power in Revelation 3:14–22 - Daniel Charles Smith; 4. Paul and the ‘Other’ in Revelation’s Letters to the Seven Churches Revisited - Geoffrey S. Smith; 5. Subversive Consumption: Revelation’s Food Discourse within Roman Narratives of Invasive Foreignness - Nathan Leach; 6. Blood Sacrifice in Revelation and Roman Asia: Encoding and Decoding Embodied Experience - Tony Keddie; 7. (Inc)sensing Revelation: Incense, Senses, and the Agency of Incense Utensils in the Apocalypse of John - Dominika Kurek-Chomycz; Part II - Spatializing Religion and Power; 8.The Institutional Function of the Agora and Its Relevance to New Testament Studies: A New Institutional Economics Approach to the Athenian Agora and the New Testament - Alex Hon Ho Ip; 9. Disposable or Transforming Body? 1 Cor 15:35–57 in the Context of Gladiatorial Games in Ancient Corinth - Jin Young Kim; 10. The Terrace Houses at Ephesos, Domestic Religion, and Pauline Discourses of Space - Christine Thomas; 11. ‘We’re Going to Need a Bigger Altar!’ Evidence for a Massive Sacrifice of Young Sheep/Goats at Omrit in Northern Israel - Daniel N. Schowalter; 12. Untempled Altars: Ritualized Space beyond the Temenos in Ancient Priene - Adeline Harrington; Part III - Politicizing Memory; 13. Hera in the North-Eastern Peloponnese: Cult Epithets as Containers of Cultural Memory - Jorunn Økland; 14. The Lust for Recognition and Influence: Laodikeia and the Quest for Neokorate Status - Alan H. Cadwallader; 15. Vibrant Pomegranates: Urbanism and New Materialism in Ancient Side - Jaimie Gunderson; 16. Problematizing the ‘Discovery’ of Pepouza and Tymion - Caroline Crews; 17. Partaking of the Death-Proclaiming Meal for Life: Re-Reading 1 Cor 11:17–34 from the Lens of Post-Traumatic Growth - Ma. Marilou S. Ibita.