St. Paul's Ephesus

In this new volume, renowned scholar Jerome Murphy-OConnor does for Ephesus what he did for Corinth in his award-winning St. Pauls Corinth. He combs the works of twenty-six ancient authors for information about ancient Ephesus, from its beginnings to the end of the biblical era. Readers can now picture for themselves this second of the two major centers of Pauls missionary work, with its houses, shops, and monuments, and above al the world-renowned temple of Artemis. After presenting the textual and archaeological evidence, Murphy-OConnor leads the reader on a walk through St. Pauls Ephesus and describes the history of Pauls years in the city. Although Ephesus has been a ruin for many hundreds of years, readers of this book will find themselves transported back to the days of its flourishing.