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 Whites 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.
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| Introduction |
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| Selected Publications of L. Michael White |
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Part 1 Paul and His Legacy |
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1 Are Paul's Moral Teachings Designed for Ordinary Humans? |
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2 Gods and Non-Gods in Galatians: Reconsidering Paul's Stoicheia |
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3 Crisis Management and Boundary Maintenance Gentile Christ-Followers, Multiple Identities, and Sacrificial Practices in Corinth |
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4 Corinthian PDA Medea Monuments, 2 Corinthians, and the Negotiation of Grief |
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5 The Function of Paul's Grief in Romans 9:1-2 in Light of Hellenistic Moral Philosophy Transforming Gentiles' Misunderstanding and Boasting |
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6 Reading between Two Worlds Philippians and the Formation of Pauline Letter Collections |
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7 Dining in Martial's World |
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8 The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence about Christians as Epistolary Fiction |
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9 Did Paganism's First Intellectual Encounter with Christianity Include a Jew? Celsus and Philo |
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10 Social Relations between Jews and Christians in the Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity |
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11 Greek Tragedy, Pompeian Amphitheater Art, and Christian Martyrs in Nero's Gardens 1 Clem. 6.2 and Tacitus, Ann. 15.44 |
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12 Putting Gods in Their Place Terracotta Figurines Discovered in the Synagogue Complex at Ostia |
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13 The Production of Late-Antique Lamps with Jewish Symbols in Rome and Ostia |
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14 The Archaeology of Two Early Gospels Poxy. 1 and 2 and the Trash Mounds of Oxyrhynchus |
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15 The Latinity of the Muratorian Fragment "Life to the Reader, Forgiveness to the Scribe, Salvation to the Possessor" |
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| Index of Ancient Sources |
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Jaimie Gunderson, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow of Teaching and Research in the Religious Studies Department at George Mason University. Her published work focuses on embodiment and emotion in early Christian texts.
Tony Keddie, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins (Cambridge, 2019).
Douglas Boin, Ph.D., Classics, is Associate Professor of History at Saint Louis University. His is the author, most recently, of Alaric the Goth: An Outsiders History of the Fall of Rome (W. W. Norton, 2020).
