1. Greco-Roman Culture in the History of New Testament
Interpretation: An Introductory Essay.
Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
2. Manuscripts, Scribes, and Book Production within Early
Christianity.
Michael J. Kruger
3. What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Reconstructing Early
Christianity from its Manuscripts.
Stanley E. Porter
4. Recent Efforts to Reconstruct Early Christianity on the Basis of
its Papyrological Evidence.
Stanley E. Porter
5. Jesus and Parallel Jewish and Greco-Roman Figures.
Craig S. Keener
6. The Exorcisms and Healings of Jesus within Classical
Culture.
Tony Costa
7. Cash and Release: Atonement and Release from Oppression in the
Imperial Context of Luke’s Gospel.
Matthew Forrest Lowe
8. Luke and Juvenal at the Crossroads: Space, Movement, and
Morality in the Roman Empire.
Osman Umurhan and Todd Penner
9. Jesus, the Beloved Disciple, and Greco-Roman Friendship
Conventions.
Ronald F. Hock
10. The Imitation of the “Great Man” in Antiquity: Paul’s Inversion
of a Cultural Icon.
James R. Harrison
11. Ephesians: Paul’s Political Theology in Greco-Roman Political
Context.
Fredrick J. Long
12. Exiles, Islands, and the Identity and Perspective of John in
Revelation.
Brian Mark Rapske
13. Source Citation in Greek Historiography and in Luke(-Acts).
Andrew W. Pitts
14. Ancient Greek History and its Methodology for Speeches: Is
There a Relation to Luke?
Sean A. Adams
15. Luke as a Hellenistic Historian.
Paul L. Maier
16. The Genre of the Fourth Gospel and Greco-Roman Literary
Conventions.
Andreas J. Köstenberger
17. Classical Greek Poetry and the Acts of the Apostles: Imitations
of Euripides’ Bacchae.
Dennis R. MacDonald
18. Prescripts and Greco-Roman Epistolary Conventions.
E. Randolph Richards
19. Letter Openings in Paul and Plato.
James Starr
20. Progymnasmatic Love.
R. Dean Anderson
21. “This Is A Great Metaphor!” Reciprocity in the Ephesians
Household Code.
Cynthia Long Westfall
22. Turning Κεϕαλή on its Head: The Rhetoric of Reversal in
Ephesians 5:21-33.
Michelle Lee-Barnewell
23. Frank Speech at Work in Hebrews.
Benjamin Fiore, S.J.
24. The Strategic Arousal of Emotions in the Apocalypse of John
(Part I): A Rhetorical-Critical Investigation of the Oracles to the
Seven Churches.
David A. deSilva
25. The Didache as a Christian Enchiridion.
William Varner
26. The Classroom in the Text: Exegetical Practices in Justin and
Galen.
H. Gregory Snyder
Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is
President and Dean, and Professor of New Testament, at McMaster
Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has published
numerous monographs, edited volumes, and articles in the field of
New Testament studies and related disciplines, including
Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory (2011).
Andrew W. Pitts is a Ph.D. candidate in Christian Theology at
McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and has
published articles in journals such as JBL, JGRChJ and CBR, as well
as a number of chapters in edited volumes.
... readers are given a master-class in the use of texts from
Greco-Roman and Hellenistic Jewish sources to enrich the
understanding of the emergence of Christianity.
Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh,
Expository Times 126/6, March 2015
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