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Book SynopsisThis 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 essays are grouped into three topic areas: Paul and his Legacy, Social Relations, and Material Culture. The essays are united by an interest in reconstructing the social worlds of ancient Jews and Christians through careful analysis of literary sources and material culture in their most precise ancient contexts.
Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Jaimie Gunderson, Tony Keddie, and Douglas Boin Selected Publications of L. Michael White Part 1: Paul and His Legacy 1 Are Paul’s Moral Teachings Designed for Ordinary Humans? Stanley Stowers 2 Gods and Non-Gods in Galatians: Reconsidering Paul’s Stoicheia Emma Wasserman 3 Crisis Management and Boundary Maintenance Gentile Christ-Followers, Multiple Identities, and Sacrificial Practices in Corinth Richard A. Wright 4 Corinthian PDA Medea Monuments, 2 Corinthians, and the Negotiation of Grief Jaimie Gunderson 5 The Function of Paul’s Grief in Romans 9:1–2 in Light of Hellenistic Moral Philosophy Transforming Gentiles’ Misunderstanding and Boasting Jin Young Kim 6 Reading between Two Worlds Philippians and the Formation of Pauline Letter Collections Angela Standhartinger Part 2: Social Relations 7 Dining in Martial’s World John T. Fitzgerald 8 The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence about Christians as Epistolary Fiction Tony Keddie 9 Did Paganism’s First Intellectual Encounter with Christianity Include a Jew? Celsus and Philo Gregory E. Sterling 10 Social Relations between Jews and Christians in the Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity Ross S. Kraemer Part 3: Material Culture 11 Greek Tragedy, Pompeian Amphitheater Art, and Christian Martyrs in Nero’s Gardens 1 Clem. 6.2 and Tacitus, Ann. 15.44 David L. Balch 12 Putting Gods in Their Place Terracotta Figurines Discovered in the Synagogue Complex at Ostia Mary Jane Cuyler 13 The Production of Late-Antique Lamps with Jewish Symbols in Rome and Ostia Letizia Ceccarelli 14 The Archaeology of Two Early Gospels P.Oxy. 1 and 2 and the Trash Mounds of Oxyrhynchus Geoffrey S. Smith 15 The Latinity of the Muratorian Fragment “Life to the Reader, Forgiveness to the Scribe, Salvation to the Possessor” Clare K. Rothschild Index of Ancient Sources Index of Subjects
