Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians

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 Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome (W. W. Norton, 2020).

• ContentsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJaimie Gunderson, Tony Keddie, and Douglas BoinSelected Publications of L. Michael WhitePart 1: Paul and His Legacy1 Are Paul’s Moral Teachings Designed for Ordinary Humans?Stanley Stowers2 Gods and Non-Gods in Galatians: Reconsidering Paul’s StoicheiaEmma Wasserman3 Crisis Management and Boundary MaintenanceGentile Christ-Followers, Multiple Identities, and Sacrificial Practices in CorinthRichard A. Wright4 Corinthian PDAMedea Monuments, 2 Corinthians, and the Negotiation of GriefJaimie Gunderson5 The Function of Paul’s Grief in Romans 9:1–2 in Light of Hellenistic Moral PhilosophyTransforming Gentiles’ Misunderstanding and BoastingJin Young Kim6 Reading between Two WorldsPhilippians and the Formation of Pauline Letter CollectionsAngela StandhartingerPart 2: Social Relations7 Dining in Martial’s WorldJohn T. Fitzgerald8 The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence about Christians as Epistolary FictionTony Keddie9 Did Paganism’s First Intellectual Encounter with Christianity Include a Jew?Celsus and PhiloGregory E. Sterling10 Social Relations between Jews and Christians in the Mediterranean Diaspora in Late AntiquityRoss S. KraemerPart 3: Material Culture11 Greek Tragedy, Pompeian Amphitheater Art, and Christian Martyrs in Nero’s Gardens1 Clem. 6.2 and Tacitus, Ann. 15.44David L. Balch12 Putting Gods in Their PlaceTerracotta Figurines Discovered in the Synagogue Complex at OstiaMary Jane Cuyler13 The Production of Late-Antique Lamps with Jewish Symbols in Rome and OstiaLetizia Ceccarelli14 The Archaeology of Two Early GospelsP.Oxy. 1 and 2 and the Trash Mounds of OxyrhynchusGeoffrey S. Smith15 The Latinity of the Muratorian Fragment“Life to the Reader, Forgiveness to the Scribe, Salvation to the Possessor”Clare K. RothschildIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Subjects