Thompson, Leonard L. The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire. 1990; reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. In my opinion, Thompson’s study is one of the most important studies on Revelation written in the last decade. Thompson argues strongly that the traditional pejorative view on Domitian is due not to balanced arguments in modern [...]
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Asia Minor
Mitchell, Stephen. Anatolia. Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor. Volume 1: The Celts in Anatolia and the Impact of Roman Rule. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995. (= 1993)-: Anatolia. Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor. Volume 2: The Rise of the Church. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995 (= 1993) These two volumes are presentations of the Anatolian [...]
Magie, David. Roman Rule in Asia Minor to then End of the Third Century after Christ. 2 volumes. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1950. A monumental work (almost 1500 pages) scrutinizing the Roman rule in Asia.
Jones, A.H.M.: The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1983.
Jones, A.H.M.: The Cities of the Eastern Roman Empire. Revised by Michael Avi-Yonah, George Bean, Michael Gough, T.B. Mitford, George Mihailov, Joyce Reynolds, Henri Seyrig, J. David Thomas, David Wilson. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971 2nd ed.
Gates, M. “Archaeology in Turkey.” AJA 99 (1995) 207-55.Gates, M. “Archaeology in Turkey.” AJA 100 (1996) 277-335.
Friesen, Steven J.: Twice Neokoros. Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 116. E.J. Brill: Leiden; New York; Köln 1993. Friesen’s Ph.D. dissertation is a well argued treatment of the problem that Ephesus was granted the honour of being “temple warden” twice, which was quite unusual. On [...]
Bean, G.E.: Aegean Turkey. An Archaeological Guide. London: Ernest Benn, 1966.