The social worlds of ancient Jews and Christians : essays in Honor of L. Michael White / edited by Jaimie Gunderson, Tony Keddie, Douglas Boin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, L. Michael, honouree.

Gunderson, Jaimie, editor.

Keddie, G. Anthony, editor.

Boin, Douglas, editor.

Series:

Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 189.

Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 0167-9732 ; volume 189.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Biblical.

Jews--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.

Jews.

Christianity and culture--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Christianity and culture.

Rome--Social life and customs.

Rome.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 354 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"This 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" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. Paul and his legacy: Are Paul's moral teachings designed for ordinary humans? / Stanley Stowers

Gods and non-gods in Galatians: reconsidering Paul's stoicheia / Emma Wasserman

Crisis management and boundary maintenance: Gentile Christ-followers, multiple identities, and sacrificial practices in Corinth / Richard A. Wright

Corinthian PDA: Medea monuments, 2 Corinthians, and the negotiation of grief / Jaimie Gunderson

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

Reading between two worlds: Philippians and the formation of Pauline letter collections / Angela Standhartinger

Part 2. Social Relations: Dining in Martial's world / John T. Fitzgerald

The Pliny-Trajan correspondence about Christians as epistolary fiction / Tony Keddie

Did paganism's first intellectual encounter with Christianity include a Jew? Celsus and Philo / Gregory E. Sterling

Social relations between Jews and Christians in the Mediterranean diaspora in Late Antiquity / Ross S. Kraemer

Part 3. Material Culture: Greek tragedy, Pompeian amphitheater art, and Christian martyrs in Nero's gardens: 1 Clem. 6.2 and Tacitus, Ann. 15.44 / David L. Balch

Putting gods in their place: terracotta figurines discovered in the synagogue complex at Ostia / Mary Jane Cuyler

The production of Late-Antique lamps with Jewish symbols in Rome and Ostia / Letizia Ceccarelli

The archaeology of two early Gospels: P.Oxy. 1 and 2 and the trash mounds of Oxyrhynchus / Geoffrey S. Smith

The Latinity of the Muratorian fragment: "Life to the reader, forgiveness to the scribe, salvation to the possessor" / Clare K. Rothschild.

Notes:

Includes selected bibliography (pages xxxii-xxxv), bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Social worlds of ancient Jews and Christians

ISBN:

9789004523913

900452391X

OCLC:

1347362160