New Testament Studies. Peter Oakes, ‘Popular Heroization in Philippian Funerary Epigraphy and Paul’s Letter to the Philippians’, Philippi, From Colonia Augusta to Communitas Christiana:
Religion and Society in Transition, Steven J. Friesen, Michalis Lychounas, Daniel Schowalter, eds. (Supplements to Novum Testamentum; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2022), 252-77. In this contribution to the published version of a major international conference held at Philippi in Greece in 2015, Peter Oakes looks at ideas about afterlife as represented on gravestones from Philippi, considering how they can inform debates about ideas of afterlife in Paul’s letter to the Philippians and in the New Testament more widely. Further information.
