In Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture, Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms.

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