Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook

J. Paul Sampley is Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Christian Origins at Boston University, USA. He is the co-editor of Pauline Parallels (1984) and "1 Corinthians" and "2 Corinthians" in the New Interpreter's Bible, and Walking in Love (2016).

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Paul. Hardships and Suffering, David E. Frederickson, Luther Seminary, USA2. Paul, Honor and Shame, David A. deSilva, Ashland Theological Seminary, USA3. Paul and Indifferent Things, Will Deming, University of Portland, USA4. Paul and Literacy, John Poirier, Kingswell Theological Seminary, USA5. Paul, Marriage and Divorce, O. Larry Yarbrough, Middlebury College, USA6. Paul and Maxims, Rollin A. Ramsaran, Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan, USA7. Paul and Memory, Peter-Ben Smit, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands8. Paul and Paterfamilias, L. Michael White, University of Texas, USA9. Paul, Patrons and Clients, Peter Lampe, University of Heidelberg, Germany10. Paul and Performance, Glenn S. Holland, Allegheny College, USA11. Paul and Self-Mastery, Stanley Stowers, Brown University, USA12. Paul and Slavery, J. Albert Harrill, The Ohio State University, USA13. Paul and Social Memory, Rafael Rodriguez, Johnson University, USA14. Paul, Virtue, Vices and Household Codes, Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada15. Epilog: Living in an Evil Aeon: Paul's Ambiguous Relation to Culture (Toward a Taxonomy), J. Paul Sampley, Boston University, USAIndex

I warmly welcome a revised and enlarged edition of Paul in the Greco-Roman World! Professor J. Paul Sampley, his accomplished colleagues. and Bloomsbury T&T Clark are to be highly commended for producing a collection of informative, interesting, and, in not a few instances, important essays. These insightful contributions - now twenty-nine in number - enable Pauline interpreters to understand better the Jewish Apostle to the Gentiles as well as his 'weighty. forceful' letters bequeathed to us.