Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece, Humboldt Universität, October 8–9, 2015

The conference will present an overview of the preliminary results of the research project (B-5-3) Early Christian Knowledge Claims. The emergence of religious identities and spaces of knowledge, as well as forms and strategies of authorization, will be examined in the light of literary and archaeological sources, and of the epigraphic evidence currently being compiled in the Inscriptiones Christianae Antiquae (ICA) database. Focus will be placed on targeted regions of mainland Greece and Asia Minor (e.g., Phrygia, Lycaonia, Galatia, Macedonia) in order to develop a regionally-oriented comparative analysis of the phenomena. Two monographs on “Early Christianity in Asia Minor” by U. Huttner (2014), and C. Breytenbach and C. Zimmerman (2015), will also be presented to the public and discussed by a panel of international experts.