List of ContributorsTranslationsAbbreviationsChapter 1: Introduction - John M.G. Barclay, Durham University, UK, and B.G. White, The King's College, New York, USA Chapter 2: ‘O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us’: Method and Purpose in Comparing the New Testament - John M.G. Barclay, Durham University, UK Chapter 3: Making Friends and Comparing Lives - C. Kavin Rowe, Duke University Divinity School, USA Chapter 4: The Past is a Foreign Country: On the Shape and Purposes of Comparison in New Testament Scholarship - Troels Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Chapter 5: The Possibility of Comparison, the Necessity of Anachronism and the Dangers of Purity - Dale B. Martin, Yale University, USA Chapter 6: Beyond Compare, or: Some Recent Strategies for How Not to Compare Early Christianity with Other Things - Matthew V. Novenson, University of Edinburgh, UK Chapter 7: On Comparing and Calling the Question - Margaret M. Mitchell, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA Chapter 8. A Response to Friend-Critics - C. Kavin Rowe, Duke University Divinity School, USA Chapter 9. Relational Hermeneutics and Comparison as Conversation - Jonathan A. Linebaugh, University of Cambridge, UKChapter 10: Comparing Like with Like? The New Testament in its Christian Literary Environment - Francis Watson, Durham University, UK Chapter 11: Resemblance and Relation: Comparing the Gospels of Mark, John and Thomas - Simon Gathercole, University of Cambridge, UK BibliographyIndex

Formerly the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement, a book series that explores the many aspects of New Testament study including historical perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural and contextual approaches. The Early Christianity in Context series, a part of JSNTS, examines the birth and development of early Christianity up to the end of the third century CE. The series places Christianity in its social, cultural, political and economic context. The European Seminar on Christian Origins and Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Supplement are also part of JSNTS.