Associations in the Greco-Roman World

Richard S. Ascough is Associate Professor and Director at the School of Religion, Queen's University, Kingston.Philip A. Harland is Associate Professor of Religion and Ancient History at York University, Toronto.John S. Kloppenborg is a specialist in Christian origins and Second Temple Judaism, and the social world of the early Jesus movement in Jewish Palestine and in the cities of the eastern Empire. He has written extensively on the Synoptic Sayings Gospel (Q) and the Synoptic Problem. He currently resides in Toronto, Canada.

• List of IllustrationsEpigraphic and Papyrological AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsMap of the Ancient Mediterranean with RegionsIntroductionINSCRIPTIONS AND PAPYRISouthern and Central GreeceMacedoniaThraciaLower Danube and Bosporan KingdomAsia MinorGreek Islands of the AegeanGreater Syria and the EastEgyptCyrenaicaItaly and the Western ProvincesBUILDINGS AND MEETING-PLACESSouthern and Central GreeceMacedoniaAsia MinorGreek Islands of the AegeanItalyLITERARY REFERENCESGeneral ReferencesDealings with Civic or Imperial AuthoritiesLegal Documents in the Digest of Justinian (ca. 527-565 CE)Annotated BibliographyConcordance and Indices

"This is a valuable sourcebook that makes available in English a representative and comprehensive collection of texts on the associations in the Greco-Roman world." --Everett Ferguson, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Abilene Christian University