Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture
Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament
Biographical note
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.
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.
Readership
All interested in Christian origins, Greco-Roman history, early Christianity, social description of New Testament literature and the intersection of any of these.
Table of contents
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 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
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