{"product_id":"the-social-worlds-of-ancient-jews-and-christians-essays-in-honor-of-l-michael-white-9789004523913","title":"The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210852458839,"sku":"9789004523913","price":104.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-social-worlds-of-ancient-jews-and-christians-essays-in-honor-of-l-michael-white-9789004523913","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}