Roman Provincial Coinage and Paul at Thessalonica

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Theophilos, Michael Peter. (2022). Roman Provincial Coinage and Paul at Thessalonica. In The First Urban Churches 7 - Thessalonica pp. 313-337 Society of Biblical Literature. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv31zqj91

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Authors	Theophilos, Michael Peter
Abstract	New Testament commentators have often overlooked the relevance of numismatic evidence for their interpretive task.¹ Ancient coinage, however, preserves a microcosm of language, culture, and otherwise inaccessible insight into significant aspects of Greco-Roman thought. One consideration in employing numismatic data in the interpretive task is the extent to which the ancients noticed, examined, or even understood the inscriptions and iconography on the coins they handled daily. Literary evidence suggests that people did in fact pay attention to coinage and were aware, to some extent, of the images, symbols, inscriptions and their meanings.
Keywords	History; Religion
Page range	313-337
Year	01 Jan 2022
Book title	The First Urban Churches 7 - Thessalonica
Publisher	Society of Biblical Literature
Place of publication	United States
Series	Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement
ISBN	978-1-62-837443-8
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv31zqj91
Web address (URL)	https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv31zqj91
Open access	Published as non-open access
Research or scholarly	Research
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Print	2022
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Accepted	29 Jan 2024
Deposited	06 Feb 2024
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