The University of Chicago Martin Marty Center

Papers will be posted as they become available.

	"Sweet Spices in the Tomb: An Initial Study on the Use of Perfume in Jewish Burials" by Deborah Green
	"Dining with the Dead" by Robin Jensen
	"The Patronage of Women and Roman and Christian Burial Practices" by Carolyn Osiek
	"From Endymion in Roman domus, Houses of the Living, to Jonah in Christian Catacombs: Iconography and Religion in Transition. A Preliminary Study" by David L. Balch
	The Mortuary Landscape of Roman and post-Roman Carthage (1st-7th c AD) by Susan T. Stevens
	Housing the Dead: the tomb as house in Roman Italy by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
	The Intellectual History of Catacomb Archaeology by Amy K. Hirschfeld
	“Looking for Abercius: Re-Imagining Contexts of Interpretation of the Earliest Christian Inscription” by Margaret M. Mitchell
	“From Columbarium to Catacomb: Communities of the Dead in Pagan and Christian Rome ” by John Bodel

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