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Name Christine M. Thomas
Position Professor
Institutional Affiliation UC Santa Barbara
Latitude 34.4139629
Longitude -119.8511357
Research Interests

Archaeological theory, archaeology of Turkey, Ancient Mediterranean Religions

Websites http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/christine-thomas/
Publications

Publications:

The Acts of Peter, Gospel Literature, and the Ancient Novel: Rewriting the Past (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
with Thomas Drew-Bear, Actes du Ier Congrès International sur Antioche de Pisidie (Paris: de Boccard, 2002).
with Thomas Drew-Bear, Phrygian Votive Steles (Ankara: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, 1999; distributed, Paris: de Boccard).

Articles:

with Pervin Büyükkolanc? and Helmut Engelmann, “Neue Ostotheken aus Ephesos,” in The Land of the Crossroads: Essays in Honor of Recep Meriç (Istanbul: Homer, 2010) 87-94.
“Locating Purity: Temples, Sexual Prohibitions, and ‘Making a Difference’ in Thessalonike,” in From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonike: Studies in Religion and Archaeology, ed. Laura Nasrallah, et al. (Harvard Theological Studies; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 2010) 109-32.
“Greek Heritage in Roman Corinth and Ephesos: Hybrid Identities and Strategies of Display in the Material Record of Traditional Mediterranean Religion,” in Corinth in Context: Comparative Perspectives on Religion and Society, ed. Steven Friesen, et al. (Novum Testamentum Supp.; Leiden: Brill, 2010) 117-147.
“Place and Memory: Response to Jonathan Z. Smith on To Take Place, on the Occasion of Its Twentieth Anniversary,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76 (2008) 773-81.
“The Ostothekai of Ephesos and the Rise of Sarcophagus Inhumation: Death, Conspicuous Consumption, and Roman Freedmen,” in G. Koch, ed., Akten des Symposiums des Sarkophag-Korpus 2001 (Sarkophag-Studien 3; Mainz: Zabern, 2007) 335-344.
“Die Rezeption der Apostelakten im frühen Christentum,” Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 18 (2006) 52-63.
“Placing the Dead: Funerary Practice and Social Stratification in the Early Roman Period at Corinth and Ephesos,” in S. Friesen and D. Schowalter, eds., Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Cambridge: Harvard University, 2005) 281-304.
“The ‘Mountain Mother’: The Other Anatolian Goddess at Ephesos,” in Guy Labarre and Jean-Marc Moret, eds., Les cultes locaux dans les mondes grec et romain (Paris: de Boccard, 2004) 249-62.
“The Scriptures and the New Prophecy: Montanism as Exegetical Crisis,” in D. Warren, E. Brock, et al., eds., Early Christian Voices in Texts, Traditions, and Symbols (Leiden: Brill, 2002) 155-65.
“The Acts of Paul as a Source for the Life of Paul,” in Actes du Ier Congrès International sur Antioche de Pisidie (Paris: de Boccard, 2002) 85-92.
“The Ephesian Ossuaries and Roman Influence on the Production of Burial Containers,” in Herwig Friesinger and Friedrich Krinzinger, eds., 100 Jahre Österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos: Akten des Symposions Wien 1995 (Denkschriften 260; Archäologische Forschungen 1; Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999) 549-554, pls. 131.3, 4; 132.1-4.
“The Sanctuary of Demeter at Pergamon: Cultic Space for Women and Its Eclipse” in Helmut Koester, ed., Pergamon Citadel of the Gods (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1998) 277-98, pls. 44-45.
“Stories Without Texts and Without Authors: The Problem of Fluidity in Ancient Novelistic Texts and Early Christian Literature,” in Ronald Hock, et al., ed., New Perspectives on Ancient Fiction and the New Testament (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998) 273-91.

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