Table of Contents

Abbreviations
List of Figures
1:
2: On slaves and other things: Ephesos (and Corinth) and the Letter to Philemon
3: On travel and hospitality: The Letter to the Galatians and an Inscription from Galatia
4: On poverty and abundance: Philippi and the Letter to the Philippians
5: On grief: Roman Corinth and 1 Corinthians
6: On time, race, and obelisks: Rome and The Letter to the Romans
7: On history and love: Thessalonikē, the Thessalonian Correspondence, and the Afterlife of the Apostle Paul
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
General Index

About the Author

Laura Salah Nasrallah is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School and Yale Department of Religious Studies. Her research and teaching bring together New Testament and early Christian literature with the archaeological remains of the Mediterranean world, and often engage issues of colonialism, gender, status, and power. Her publications include An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early
Christianity (2004) and Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire (2010).

Reviews

An interesting and wide-ranging volume that attempts to bring together work on Pauline epistles and on Greek and Roman archaeology with contributions from recent feminist and post-colonial theory.
*BENJAMIN EDSALL, The Classical Review*

I recommend the book: it is filled with data and synthesis and will greatly repay academic students of Paul and the New Testament.
*James B Prothro, Religious Studies Review*

Recommended.
*J.R. Asher, CHOICE*

There is much more to all the chapters than a review can present.
*Carolyn Osiek, Brite Divinity School, Biblical Theology Bulletin*

The author's voice is poetic and reflective, making this work delightfully more than a typical "archaeology book."...In addition to Nasrallah's erudite presentation of archaeological data, her methodology makes Archaeology of the Letters of Paul recommended and essential reading for people interested in the material and social history of early Christ-beievers.
*Jason Borges, Durham University*

...this is now the best book I know of on this topic. I expect to use it soon and often in the study and in the classroom, and I would encourage interested others to do likewise.
*Matthew V. Novenson, Strata*

N[asrallah] writes as a biblical scholar, writing for biblical students and scholars...Overall, N[asrallah] raises good questions that are rarely asked in the way she does
*Thomas W. Davis, Tandy Institute of Archaeology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly*

[An] ... interesting, erudite, and distinctive book.
*Bruce W. Longenecker, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *