Notes on Contributors
Michel Sève
was a member of the École française d’Athènes (1975–1980) and successively assistant professor of Archaeology at the University of Paris I (1981–1991), then Professor of Ancient Greek History and Archaeology at the University of Metz until his retirement (2013). Since 1977 he has been studying the Forum at Philippi, together with the Architect Patrick Weber.
A.D. Rizakis
is honorary professor of French universities and emeritus Director of Research at the National Research Foundation (Athens/Greece). His research – combining the use of textual and material sources has mainly focused on the economic and social history of the Greek cities under the Roman rule. His interest has, for some years, shifted particularly to social change as well as to cultural and religious life in the framework of the multicultural Mediterranean Empire of Rome.
Cédric Brélaz
(PhD University of Lausanne 2004, Dr. habil. École pratique des hautes études, Paris, 2013) is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He is the author, among others, of volume II.1 of the Corpus des inscriptions grecques et latines de Philippes (Athens, 2014), of Philippes, colonie romaine d’Orient. Recherches d’histoire institutionnelle et sociale (Athens, 2018), the editor of L’héritage grec des colonies romaines d’Orient: interactions culturelles dans les provinces hellénophones de l’empire romain (Paris, 2017), and the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Epigraphic Studies.
Ekaterini Tsalampouni
is associate professor of the New Testament at the School of Social Theology and Christian Culture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Katerina Chryssanthaki-Nagle
is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History of Art and Archaeology at the University Paris Nanterre and member of the research team UMR 7041, Archéologies and Sciences pour l’Antiquité. She is specialist in Ancient Greek Coinage of Ancient Thrace.
Haido Koukouli-Chryssanthaki
is Director Emeritus of Antiquities, Greek Ministry of Culture.
Dimitra Malamidou
is Director of the Ephorate of Serres, Greek Ministry of Culture.
Sarah E. Bond
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. She is interested in late Roman history, epigraphy, late antique law, Roman topography and GIS, and the socio-legal experience of ancient marginal peoples. Her book, Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professionals in the Roman Mediterranean, was published with the University of Michigan Press in 2016. She is a public historian who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, and Hyperallergic.
Cavan W. Concannon
is associate professor of religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Profaning Paul (Chicago 2021), Assembling Early Christianity: Trade, Networks, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth (Cambridge 2017), and ‘When you were Gentiles’: Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul’s Corinthian Correspondence (Yale 2014). He is the co-director of the Mediterranean Connectivity Initiative and has excavated at Corinth and Ostia Antica.
Jennifer Quigley
is Visiting Assistant Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Huron University College at Western University. She is the author of Divine Accounting: Theo-Economics in Early Christianity (Yale University Press, 2021). She previously held a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at Drew University.
Laura S. Nasrallah
is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University. Her most recent book is Archaeology and the Letters of Paul (Oxford University Press).
Michael Flexsenhar III
is an expert on the social history of Christianity in the Roman Empire. He is the author of Christians in Caesar’s Household: The Emperors’ Slaves in the Makings of Christianity (Penn. St Press, 2019), as well as many articles and essays on the New Testament world. He has written extensively about the apostle Paul and Philippians. He teaches at Rhodes College.
Peter Oakes
is Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester. His publications include Philippians: From People to Letter (SNTSMS110; Cambridge: CUP, 2001, 2007); Reading Romans in Pompeii: Paul’s Letter at Ground Level (Minneapolis: Fortress/London: SPCK, 2009, 2013); Empire, Economics, and the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020); ‘The Christians and their Politeuma in Heaven: Philippians 3:20 and the Herakleopolis Papyri’, in In the Crucible of Empire: The Impact of Roman Citizenship upon Greeks, Jews and Christians. Katell Berthelot and Jonathan Price, eds. (Leuven: Peeters, 2019); ‘The Imperial Authorities in Paul’s Letter to Predominantly Greek Hearers in the Roman Colony of Philippi’, in The First Urban Churches 4: Philippi, James R. Harrison and L.L. Welborn, eds. (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018).
Steven J. Friesen
is the Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Aristotelis Mentzos
was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1950. In 1968 he studied in the Faculty of Humanities and Letters of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During the course of his studies he oriented towards Archaeology and History of Ancient Greek and Byzantine Art.
He has participated in the excavations of Philippi and Dion in Macedonia and also worked in the Superintendency of Classical and Roman Antiquities of Central Macedonia, Greece.
Angela Standhartinger
is professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg in Germany. Among other books and articles on Pauline and Deutero-Pauline writings, Jewish intertestamental literature, social practice of early Easter movements and gender studies, she recently finished a commentary to Philippians.
Sofia Doukata-Demertzi
is an archaeologist and excavator. She holds a Bachelor from the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Master in Byzantine Archeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She worked from 1986 to 2012 in the former 12th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities of Kavala/Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and has been Head of the Museums, Exhibitions and Educational Programs department since 2008. Her excavation work includes the sites of Philippi, Maronia, Amphipolis, Paggaio, Xanthi, Thasos, Drama, Ferres (Evros) and is accompanied by relevant publications. Her main excavation and scientific work focuses on the Early Christian and Byzantine Maroneia.
Emmanuela Gounari
works at the Department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as Laboratory Teaching Staff. She holds a PhD in Classical Archaeology from the Aristotle University of Thessalonki and a PhD in Byzantine Archaeology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Her research interests include Roman sculpture and iconography, mosaic pavements and domestic architecture with an emphasis in the area of Macedonia. She participates in the Excavation of the University of Thessaloniki in Philippi since 1991 and in Research Projects on Roman sculpture and Roman and Late Antique Architecture. Her publications refer to Roman and Late Antique sculpture and mosaics, as well as Late Antique domestic architecture.
Melina Paissidou
is an Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology at the Department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her teaching experience in Greek and foreign Universities concerns courses and seminars in Byzantine Archaeology, Byzantine Painting, Byzantine Manuscripts Illuminations, Monumental Topography of Macedonia and Thessaloniki and Art of the Early Renaissance.
She participated in Regional and European research projects, in the excavation of Philippi and she conducts an excavation of a castle in Western Macedonia. Her publications concern byzantine and post byzantine monumental painting, excavation results and researches in the area of Central and Western Macedonia and the urban space and topography of Thessaloniki. .
Natalia Poulou
is Associate Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Director of the University of Thessaloniki excavations at the Byzantine site of Loutres, Mochlos/Crete.
Zachariadis Stavros
is an archaeologist working in a variety of sites in northern Greece, amongst which Philippi and Thessaloniki. He specializes in Late Roman and Early Byzantine pottery.