Table of Contents

1. Phrygia in the New Testament; 2. Hierapolis (Pamukkale); 3. Teachers of Asia: Ignatius, Polycarp, Paul and Thecla; 4. Montanism part 1: the origins of the new prophecy; 5. Montanism part 2: pepuza and tymion; 6. Aberkios of Hierapolis (Kochisar) and his gravestone; 7. Aberkios and the Vita Abercii; 8. Apollonia (Uluborlu); curiales and their families; 9. Eumeneia and the Eumeneian Formula; 10. Christians for christians; 11. The great persecution and the Phrygian fourth century; Appendix 1. The life-story and the way life of our father St Aberkios, the equal of the apostles; Appendix 2. Dated Eumeneian formula gravestones.

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Explores the growth of Christianity in inland Roman Asia, as cities and rural communities moved away from polytheistic Greco-Roman religion.

About the Author

Paul McKechnie is an associate professor in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of The First Christian Centuries (2001).

Reviews

'Ancient Phrygia was as complex and diverse to the Roman mind as it appears to us today. That complexity runs through the rise of early Christianity. Paul McKechnie brings a much-needed forensic clarity to the intricacies of evidence, handling material and textual data with judicious and insightful care – from archaeology to hagiographies, inscriptions to conciliar rulings. This book is a crucial contribution to the study of Christianity in Asia Minor and enables us to see more vividly the distinctive and variegated character of the sacred canopy shaped by its Phrygian setting.' Alan Cadwallader, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales