Roman Burial and Memorial Practices and Earliest Christianity: Reading Texts and Inscriptions in Context
This project is a two-year interdisciplinary endeavor to investigate, read and interpret inscriptional remains and catacombs in light of early Christian texts.
The goals of this project are:
to study burial epitaphs and their iconography along with the art work of the catacombs, in order to investigate the particular character and emergence of early Christianity within its various religious and socio-historic contexts; and
to foster an environment where scholars talk across the divide of disciplines so as
to pave the way for future collaborative efforts among the next generation of scholars.
Recognizing that scholars of Roman history, Christian history and the New Testament benefit from interdisciplinary academic research, dialogue and consultation, this project will include:
Rome Working Conference (June 2004)—to include site visits in Rome , its environs, and Tunisia with scholars from a variety of disciplines,
The scholars' papers that resulted from this collaborative effort have been published in , ed. Laurie Brink and Deborah Green, published in 2008 by de Gruyter.
The following scholars are participating in the project:
David Balch,
Brite
Divinity
School
John Bodel,
Brown
University
Deborah Green,
University
of
Oregon
Robin M. Jensen,
Vanderbilt
University
Divinity
School
Margaret Mitchell, The
Divinity
School
,
University
of
Chicago
Carolyn Osiek,
Brite
Divinity
School
Richard Saller,
University
of
Chicago
Susan Stevens, Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, The
British
School
at
Rome
