Publications and Online Articles
by Philip A. Harland

Books

2007 (in progress)

Dynamics of Identity and Early Christianity: Associations and Cultural Minorities in the Roman Empire (in preparation).

Associations in the Ancient World: Cults, Guilds and Collegia, co-authored with John S. Kloppenborg and Richard Ascough (in process, forthcoming with de Gruyter).

2003

Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003.

(Winner of the F. W. Beare Book Award, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, 2004)

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Articles in Refereed Journals

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2007

Familial Dimensions of Group Identity (II): ‘Mothers’ and ‘Fathers’ in Associations and Synagogues of the Greek World,” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period 38 (2007) 57-79.

2006

Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and ‘Pagan’ Guilds at Hierapolis,”  Journal of Jewish Studies 57 (2006) 222-244.

2005

Familial Dimensions of Group Identity: ‘Brothers’ (ΑΔΕΛΦΟΙ) in Associations of the Greek East,” Journal of Biblical Literature 124 (2005) 491-513.

2003

Christ-bearers and Fellow-initiates: Local Cultural Life and Christian Identity in Ignatius’ Letters,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (2003) 481-99.

Imperial Cults within Local Cultural Life: Associations in Roman Asia,” Ancient History Bulletin / Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 17 (2003) 85-107.

2000         

“Honouring the Emperor or Assailing the Beast: Participation in Civic Life among Associations (Jewish, Christian and Other) in Asia Minor and the Apocalypse of John,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 77 (2000) 99-121.

1996

“Honours and Worship: Emperors, Imperial Cults and Associations at Ephesus (first to third centuries c.e.), Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 25 (1996) 319-34.

Articles in Books and Reference Works

2007

"‘These people are . . . Men Eaters’: Banquets of the Anti-Associations and Perceptions of Minority Cultural Groups"  in  Identity and Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians and Others. Essays in Honour of Stephen G. Wilson, edited by Zeba A. Crook and Philip A. Harland. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.

 

2006

“The Declining Polis? Religious Rivalries in Ancient Civic Context,”  in Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, edited by Leif E. Vaage.  Studies in Judaism and Christianity, volume 18.  Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

2005

“Spheres of Contention, Claims of Preeminence: Rivalries Among Associations in Sardis and Smyrna,” in Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna, edited by Richard Ascough, pp. 53-63.  Studies in Judaism and Christianity, volume 18.  Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.

2002

“Connections with Elites in the World of the Early Christians,” in Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches, edited by Anthony J. Blasi, Paul-André  Turcotte, and Jean Duhaime, pp. 385-408.  Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2002.

“The Economy of First Century Palestine: The State of Scholarly Discussion,” in Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches, edited by Anthony J. Blasi, Paul-André  Turcotte, and Jean Duhaime, pp. 511-27.  Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2002.

2000

“Bithynia,” “Mysia,” “Pamphylia,” and “Perga,” in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, edited by D.N. Freedman, A.B. Beck and A.C. Myers.  Grand Rapids: Eerdman, 2000.

Book Reviews

2005

Review of Susan Elliott, Cutting Too Close for Comfort: Paul’s Letter to the Galatian’s in its Anatolian Cultic Context (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, 248. London: T & T Clark, 2003) in Phoenix 40 (2006): 154-55.

Review of Judith M. Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) in Biblical Theology Bulletin 35 (2005): 152-53.

Review of “Richard A. Horsley, ed., Paul and the Roman Imperial Order (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2004) in Religious Studies Review 31 (2005): 92.

2004

Review of Richard S. Ascough, Paul’s Macedonian Associations: The Social Context of Philippians and 1 Thessalonians (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 161. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003) in Toronto Journal of Theology 20 (2004): 205-206.

2003

Review of Richard N. Longenecker, Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period (2nd edition; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999) in Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 31 (2002):126

2001

Review of Greg Carey, Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1999) in The Journal of Religion 81 (2001): 454-55.

1997

Review of Steven J. Friesen, Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993) in Toronto Journal of Theology 13 (1997): 272-73.

Review of Edith McEwan Humphrey, The Ladies and the Cities: Transformation and Apocalyptic Identity in Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, the Apocalypse and the Shepherd of Hermas (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995) in Toronto Journal of Theology 13 (1997): 279-81.