Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism

1. Lee Martin McDonald: Hellenism and the Biblical Canons: Is There a Connection?
2. Adam Kolman Marshak: Glorifying the Present through the Past: Herod the Great and His Jewish Royal Predecessors
3. Preston M. Sprinkle: Beyond Covenant Nomism: Revisiting Palestinian Judaism in Light of Pseudo-Philo's Biblical Antiquities
4. C.D. Elledge: Resurrection and Immortality in Hellenistic Judaism: Navigating the Conceptual Boundaries
5. Andrew W. Pitts and Seth Pollinger: The Spirit in Second Temple Jewish Monotheism and the Origins of Early Christology
6. Christopher D. Stanley: The Ethnic Context of Paul's Letters
7. Tony Costa: "Is Saul of Tarsus also among the Prophets?" Paul's Calling as Prophetic Divine Commissioning
8. Peter Frick: Monotheism and Philosophy: Notes on the Concept of God in Philo and Paul (Romans 1:18-21)
9. Emma Wasserman: Paul Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Divide? The Case of Pauline Anthropology in Romans 7 and 2Corinthians 4-5
10. Stanley E. Porter: Was John the Baptist a Member of the Qumran Community? Once More
11. Wally V. Cirafesi: The Temple Attitudes of John and Qumran in the Light of Hellenistic Judaism
12. Leo G. Perdue: Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion in the Wisdom of Solomon
13. Jacob Neusner¨Dialectics: Philosophical and Talmudic
14. Catherine Hezser: Ancient "Science Fiction:" Journeys into Space and Visions of the World in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Literature of Antiquity
15. Carl Mosser: Torah Instruction, Discussion, and Prophecy in First-Century Synagogues
16. William Varner: On the Trail of Trypho: Two Fragmentary Jewish-Christian Dialogues from the Ancient Church

In Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism , Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through reference to Hellenistic Judaism and its literary forms.