Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture

1. Michael J. Kruger: Manuscripts, Scribes, and Book Production within Early Christianity
2. Stanley E. Porter: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Reconstructing Early Christianity from its Manuscripts
3. Stanley E. Porter: Recent Efforts to Reconstruct Early Christianity on the Basis of Its Papyrological Evidence
4. Craig S. Keener: Jesus and Parallel Jewish and Greco-Roman Figures
5. Tony Costa: The Exorcisms and Healings of Jesus within Classical Culture
6. Matthew Forrest Lowe: Cash and Release: Atonement and Release from Oppression in the Imperial Context of Luke's Gospel
7. Osman Umurhan and Todd Penner: Luke and Juvenal at the Crossroads: Space, Movement, and Morality in the Roman Empire
8. Ronald F. Hock: Jesus, the Beloved Disciple, and Greco-Roman Friendship Conventions
9. James R. Harrison: The Imitation of the "Great Man" in Antiquity: Paul's Inversion of a Cultural Icon
10. Fredrick J. Long: Ephesians: Paul's Political Theology in Greco-Roman Political Context
11. Brian Mark Rapske: Exiles, Islands, and the Identity and Perspective of John in Revelation
12. Andrew W. Pitts: Source Citation in Greek Historiography and in Luke(-Acts)
13. Sean A. Adams: On Sources and Speeches: Methodological Discussions in Ancient Prose Works and Luke-Acts
14. Benjamin Fiore: Frank Speech at Work in Hebrews
15. David A. deSilva: How Greek was the Author of ‘Hebrews’? A Study of the Author’s Location in Regard to Greek παιδεία
16. H. Gregory Snyder: The Classroom in the Text: Exegetical Practices in Justin and Galen

In Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture , Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms.