In Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts experts from various fields analyze the process of transformation of early Christian ethics because of the ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman and Christian traditions.

List of Contributors Preface Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden Introduction Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden Chapter One: Early Christianity in Its Hellenistic Context: A Critical Survey of 20th Century Research Reinhard Feldmeier Chapter Two: Early Christianity in Its Jewish Context: A Brief Look at 20th Century Research Gerbern S. Oegema Chapter Three: Finding a Basis for Interpreting New Testament Ethos from a Greco-Roman Philosophical Perspective Anders Klostergaard Petersen Chapter Four: Some Issues behind the Ethics in the Qumran Scrolls and Their Implications for New Testament Ethics George J. Brooke Chapter Five: The Relevance of Jewish Inscriptions for New Testament Ethics Andrew Chester Chapter Six: The Importance of Hellenistic Judaism for the Study of Paul’s Ethics Thomas H. Tobin Chapter Seven: “Ethical” Traditions, Family Ethos, and Love in Johannine Literature Jörg Frey Chapter Eight: Good as a Moral Category in the Early Jesus Tradition Hermut Löhr Chapter Nine: Ethics and Anthropology in the Letter of James: An Outline Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr Chapter Ten: Essentials of Ethics in Matthew and the Didache: A Comparison at a Conceptual and Practical Level Huub van de Sandt Bibliography Index of Passages Subject Index