The fifth volume on urban churches has been released - First urban churches 5: Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea. Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplements 16. (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2019) which is reviewed here.
It includes chapters on Everyday Life in a Roman Town Like Colossae: The Papyrological Evidence, Employing Numismatic Evidence in Discussions of Early Christianity in
the Lycus Valley: A Case Study from Laodicea and
The Inscriptions and Oracular Prophecy in the Eastern Mediterranean
Basin: Assessing the Book of Revelation in Its Graeco–Roman Revelatory
Context:
Overall, the book provides a summary of the Greco–Roman archaeological, numismatic, and inscriptional evidence from Colossae, Laodicea, and Hierapolis and its relationship with the documents of the New Testament associated with the region (Colossians, Philemon, and the message to the assembly at Laodicea described in Rev. 3:14-22).