The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians : : Essays in Honor of L. Michael White.

"This volume contains fifteen essays in honor of L. Michael White, whose work has been influential in exploring the social histories of ancient Jews and Christians within the Graeco-Roman world. Following an introduction that highlights some of White's main scholarly contributions, the ess...

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Superior document:Novum Testamentum, Supplements
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Novum Testamentum, Supplements
Physical Description:1 online resource (390 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Selected Publications of L. Michael White
  • Part 1 Paul and His Legacy
  • Chapter 1 Are Paul's Moral Teachings Designed for Ordinary Humans?
  • Chapter 2 Gods and Non-Gods in Galatians: Reconsidering Paul's Stoicheia
  • Chapter 3 Crisis Management and Boundary Maintenance Gentile Christ-Followers, Multiple Identities, and Sacrificial Practices in Corinth
  • Chapter 4 Corinthian PDA Medea Monuments, 2 Corinthians, and the Negotiation of Grief
  • Chapter 5 The Function of Paul's Grief in Romans 9:1-2 in Light of Hellenistic Moral Philosophy Transforming Gentiles' Misunderstanding and Boasting
  • Chapter 6 Reading between Two Worlds Philippians and the Formation of Pauline Letter Collections
  • Part 2 Social Relations
  • Chapter 7 Dining in Martial's World
  • Chapter 8 The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence about Christians as Epistolary Fiction
  • Chapter 9 Did Paganism's First Intellectual Encounter with Christianity Include a Jew? Celsus and Philo
  • Chapter 10 Social Relations between Jews and Christians in the Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity
  • Part 3 Material Culture
  • Chapter 11 Greek Tragedy, Pompeian Amphitheater Art, and Christian Martyrs in Nero's Gardens 1 Clem. 6.2 and Tacitus, Ann. 15.44
  • Chapter 12 Putting Gods in Their Place Terracotta Figurines Discovered in the Synagogue Complex at Ostia
  • Chapter 13 The Production of Late-Antique Lamps with Jewish Symbols in Rome and Ostia
  • Chapter 14 The Archaeology of Two Early Gospels P.Oxy. 1 and 2 and the Trash Mounds of Oxyrhynchus
  • Chapter 15 The Latinity of the Muratorian Fragment "Life to the Reader, Forgiveness to the Scribe, Salvation to the Possessor"
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Index of Subjects.