Studies on Patristic Texts and Archaeology: If These Stones Could Speak... Essays in Honor of Dennis Edward Groh

Throughout his career as a scholar and teacher, Dennis E. Groh held the underlying conviction that ’received wisdom’ on the relations between textual and material studies needs to be unsettled so that history might be truly engaged and the lives of ordinary people allowed to emerge. This collection of essays by a distinguished team of scholars celebrated Groh’s ability to inspire his students and colleagues and offers new perspectives on some of the crucial questions in the fields of Patristics and the study of early Jewish and Christian archaeology, material culture, history, and theology.