From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē: A Conference on Religion and Archaeology

Map of Ancient Thessalonikē

Map of Ancient Thessalonikē, from O. Tafrali, Topographie de Thessalonique (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1913).

May 10-14, 2007

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Thessalonikē was an important metropolis in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian periods and beyond. This conference is an interdisciplinary venture, bringing together Greek archaeologists and scholars of Thessaloniki with scholars of the New Testament, early Christianity and the Byzantine world, and the religions of antiquity. It will include a photographic exhibit of archaeological evidence, entitled "Studying, Conserving, and Displaying Early Christian Thessalonikē." The new data and new interpretations set forth in the conference papers will be published as an edited volume.

Participants in the conference are: Anastasios Antonaras, Richard Ascough, Charalambos Bakirtzis, Slobodan Ćurčić, Steven Friesen, Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Helmut Koester, Christine Kondoleon, Aristotelis Mentzos, Laura Nasrallah, Pantelis M. Nigdelis, Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi, James Skedros, Thea Stefanidou-Tiveriou, Christine Thomas, and Christos Zachopoulos.

Conference organizers: Laura Nasrallah, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Harvard Divinity School; Steven Friesen, Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies, University of Texas, Austin; and Charalambos Bakirtzis, director, Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities, Thessaloniki.

Conference sponsors: the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School; the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins, University of Texas, Austin; and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

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