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OverviewBell, Albert A. Exploring the New Testament World: An Illustrated Guide to the

World of Jesus and the First Christians. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998.Bruce, F. F. New Testament History. London: Nelson, 1969.Burge, Gary, Lynn Cohick, and Gene Green. The New Testament in Antiquity:

A Survey of the New Testament within Its Cultural Context. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009.

Cohen, Shaye. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah. LEC. Philadelphia: West-minster, 1987.

Esler, Philip F. The First Christians in Their Social World. London: Routledge, 1994.Ferguson, Everett. Backgrounds of Early Christianity. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids:

Eerdmans, 1993.Hubbard, Moyer V. Christianity in the Greco-Roman World: A Narrative Introduc-

tion. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011.Jagersma, Henk. A History of Israel from Alexander the Great to Bar Kochba.

Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.Koester, Helmut. Introduction to the New Testament. Vol. 1, History, Culture, and

Religion of the Hellenistic Age. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982.Lohse, Eduard. The New Testament Environment. Nashville: Abingdon, 1976.Luker, Lamontte, ed. Passion, Vitality, and Foment: The Dynamics of Second

Temple Judaism. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001.Magness, Jodi. Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus.

Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.Malina, Bruce. Windows on the World of Jesus: Time Travel to Ancient Judea.

Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1993.Murphy, Frederick, Jr. The Religious World of Jesus: An Introduction to Second

Temple Palestinian Judaism. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.Neufeld, Dietmar, and Richard E. DeMaris, eds. Understanding the Social World

of the New Testament. London: Routledge, 2010.Neyrey, Jerome H., and Eric C. Steward, eds. The Social World of the New Testa-

ment: Insights and Models. Peabody, MA : Hendrickson, 2008.Punton, Anne. The World Jesus Knew. Oxford: Monarch, 2009.Reicke, Bo. The New Testament Era: The World of the Bible from 500 B.C. to A.D.

100. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1968.Roetzel, Calvin J., and David L. Tiede. The World That Shaped the New Testament.

Rev. ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.Schürer, Emil. A History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.–

A.D. 135). Rev. ed. 3 vols. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1973–1987.Simmons, William A. Peoples of the New Testament World: An Illustrated Guide.

Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2008.Smallwood, E. Mary. The Jews under Roman Rule: From Pompey to Diocletian; A

Study in Political Relations. 2nd ed. Leiden: Brill, 1981.Stambaugh, John, and David Balch. The New Testament in Its Social Environ-

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Stegemann, Ekkehard W., and Wolfgang Stegemann. The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

Vamosh, Miriam Feinberg. Daily Life at the Time of Jesus. Nashville: Abingdon, 2003.

The Jewish World

PalestineHanson, K. C., and Douglas E. Oakman. Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social

Structures and Social Conflicts. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008.Horbury, William. Herodian Judaism and New Testament Study. WUNT 193.

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.Rocca, Samuel. Herod’s Judaea: A Mediterranean State in the Classical World.

TSAJ 122. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008.

GalileeChancey, Mark. Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus. SNTSMS 134. New

York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Freyne, Sean. Jesus the Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus Story. Edinburgh:

T&T Clark, 2005.

The Jewish PartiesSaldarini, Anthony J. Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Society: A

Sociological Approach. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1988.Stemberger, Günter. Jewish Contemporaries of Jesus: Pharisees, Sadducees, Es-

senes. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

PhariseesFinkelstein, Louis. The Pharisees: The Sociological Background of Their Faith. 3rd

ed. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1966.Neusner, Jacob. From Politics to Piety: The Emergence of Pharisaic Judaism. Engle-

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Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007.Saldarini, Anthony J. Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Society: A

Sociological Approach. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1988.

SynagoguesCatto, Stephen K. Reconstructing the First-Century Synagogue: A Critical Analysis

of Current Research. LNTS 363. London: T&T Clark, 2007.Fine, Steven, ed. Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient

World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.------. This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue during the Greco-Roman

Period. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1998.Harland, Philip. Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place

in Ancient Mediterranean Society. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.Kee, Howard Clark, and Lynn H. Cohick. Evolution of the Synagogue. Harrisburg,

PA: Trinity Press International, 1999.


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EssenesMartínez, F. García, and J. Trebolle Barrera. The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls:

Their Writings, Beliefs, and Practices. Translated by Wilfred G. E. Watson. Leiden: Brill, 1995.

Dead Sea ScrollsCharlesworth, James H., ed. The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Second

Princeton Symposium on Judaism and Christian Origins. Waco: Baylor Uni-versity Press, 2006.

Collins, John C., and Craig A. Evans, eds. Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls. ASBT. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.

Collins, John J. Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.

Cross, Frank M. The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies. Rev. ed. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1995.

Fields, Weston. The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Full History. Leiden: Brill, 2009.------. The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Short History. Leiden: Brill, 2006.Fitzmyer, Joseph A. A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Rev.

ed. SDSSRL. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. ------. The Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Paulist, 2009.------. Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Paulist

Press, 1992.Freedman, David Noel, and Pam Fox Kuhlken. What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls

and Why Do They Matter? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.Grossman, Maxine L, ed. Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Assessment

of Old and New Approaches and Methods. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.Hempel, Charlotte, ed. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Text and Context. STDJ 90. Leiden:

Brill, 2010.Roo, Jacqueline C. R. de. Works of the Law at Qumran and in Paul. New Testa-

ment Monographs 13. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2007.Schiffman, Lawrence H. Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls

and the History of Judaism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.Schuller, Eileen M. The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned? Louisville:

Westminster John Knox, 2006.Thomas, Samuel I. The “Mysteries” of Qumran: Mystery, Secrecy, and Esotericism in

the Dead Sea Scrolls. SBL Early Judaism and Its Literature 25. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.

VanderKam, James C. The Dead Sea Scrolls Today. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerd-mans, 2010.

VanderKam, James, and Peter Flint. The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance for Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Vermes, Geza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 2004.

------. Scrolls, Scriptures and Early Christianity. London: T&T Clark, 2005.------. Searching for the Real Jesus: Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Religious

Themes. London: SCM, 2009.


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The ZealotsHengel, Martin. The Zealots. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1989.Horsley, Richard A., with John S. Hanson. Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular

Movements in the Time of Jesus. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985.

SamaritansAnderson, Robert T., and Terry Giles. The Keepers: An Introduction to the History

and Culture of the Samaritans. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002.Chang, Choon Shik. The Samaritan Origin and Identity. Taejon, Korea: PaiChai

University Publishers, 2004.Coggins, R. J. Samaritans and Jews: The Origins of the Samaritans Reconsidered.

Oxford: Blackwell, 1975.

Jews and GentilesDonaldson, Terence L. Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism

(to 135 CE). Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007.Feldman, Louis H. Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions

from Alexander to Justinian. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.Gager, John G. The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes toward Judaism in Pagan

and Christian Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.Sevenster, Jan Nicolaas. The Roots of Pagan Anti-Semitism in the Ancient World.

NovTSup 41. Leiden: Brill, 1975.

Hellenistic JudaismBowerstock, G. W. Hellenism in Late Antiquity. Ann Arbor, MI: University of

Michigan Press, 1990.Donaldson, Terence L. Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism

(to 135 CE). Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007.Hengel, Martin. Jews, Greeks, and Barbarians: Aspects of the Hellenization of

Judaism in the Pre-Christian Period. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980. ------. Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine during the

Early Hellenistic Period. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974.

DiasporaBarclay, John M. G. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan

(323 BCE–117 CE). Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996.

TargumsBeattie, Derek R. G., and Martin J. McNamara, eds. The Aramaic Bible: Targums

in Their Historical Context. JSOTSup 166. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.

SeptuagintHengel, Martin. The Septuagint as Christian Scripture: Its Prehistory and the Prob-

lem of Its Canon. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2002.Jobes, Karen, and Moisés Silva. Introduction to the Septuagint. Grand Rapids:

Baker Academic, 2000.Sundberg, Albert C., Jr. The Old Testament of the Early Church. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 1964.


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ApocryphadeSilva, David A. Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and Significance.

Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.Harrington, Daniel J. An Invitation to the Apocrypha. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,

1999.Kaiser, Otto. The Old Testament Apocrypha: An Introduction. Peabody, MA: Hen-

drickson, 2004.Metzger, Bruce. An Introduction to the Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University

Press, 1957.

Wisdom TheologyCollins, John J. Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age. OTL. Louisville: Westminster

John Knox, 1997.

ApocalypticismAune, David E., ed. Apocalypticism, Prophecy, and Magic in Early Christianity:

Collected Essays. WUNT 199. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.Carey, Greg. Ultimate Things: Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic

Literature. St. Louis: Chalice, 2005.Carey, Greg, and L. Gregory Bloomquist, eds. Vision and Persuasion: Rhetorical

Dimensions of Apocalyptic Discourse. St. Louis: Chalice, 2005.Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix

of Christianity. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.Cook, Stephen L. The Apocalyptic Literature. IBT. Nashville: Abingdon, 2003.Daly, Robert J. Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker

Academic, 2009.Himmelfarb, Martha. The Apocalypse: A Brief History. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell,

2010.Lewis, Scott. What Are They Saying about New Testament Apocalyptic? Mahwah,

NJ: Paulist Press, 2003.McGinn, Bernard, John J. Collins, and Stephen J. Stein, eds. The Encyclopedia

of Apocalypticism. 3 vols. New York: Continuum, 1999.McGinn, Bernard, John J. Collins, and Stephen Stein, eds. The History of Apoca-

lypticism. New York: Continuum, 2003.Nicholas, William C., Jr. I Saw the World End: An Introduction to the Bible’s Apoca-

lyptic Literature. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2007.Rowland, Christopher. The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and

Early Christianity. London: SPCK, 1982.Russell, D. S. The Method and Message of Jewish Apocalyptic. Philadelphia: West-

minster, 1964.Weber, Eugen. Apocalypses: Prophesies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the

Ages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

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Ancient HistoriansGrant, Michael. Greek and Roman Historians: Information and Misinformation.

New York: Routledge, 1995.


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Mason, Steve. Josephus and the New Testament. 2nd ed. Peabody, MA: Hen-drickson, 2003.

Roman EmpireAldrete, Gregory S. Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. Nor-

man: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.Brucia, Margaret A., and Gregory N. Daugherty. To Be a Roman: Topics in Roman

Culture. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2007.Carter, Warren. The Roman Empire and the New Testament: An Essential Guide.

Nashville: Abingdon, 2006.Cassidy, Richard J. Christians and Roman Rule in the New Testament: New Per-

spectives. New York: Crossroad, 2001.Goodman, Martin. Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations. New

York: Vintage, 2008.Jeffers, James S. The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era: Exploring the

Background of Early Christianity. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999.Kim, Seyoon. Christ and Caesar: The Gospel and the Roman Empire in the Writings

of Paul and Luke. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008.Potter, David S., ed. A Companion to the Roman Empire. BCAW. Malden, MA:

Blackwell, 2006.

Herod the GreatKnoblet, Jerry. Herod the Great. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005.Richardson, Peter. Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans. Minneapolis:

Fortress, 1996.

Herod AntipasHoehner, Harold W. Herod Antipas: A Contemporary of Jesus Christ. SNTSMS 17.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Pontius PilateBond, Helen K. Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation. SNTSMS 100. Cam-

bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.Carter, Warren. Pontius Pilate: Portraits of a Roman Governor. Collegeville, MN:

Liturgical Press, 2004.

Social Institution of SlaveryBradley, K. R. Slavery and Society at Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1994.Callahan, Allen Dwight, Richard A. Horsley, and Abraham Smith, eds. Slavery

in Text and Interpretation. Semeia 83/84. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2001.Glancy, Jennifer A. Slavery in Early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press,

2002.Harrill, J. Albert. The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity. HUT 32. Tübin-

gen: Mohr Siebeck, 1995.------. Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral Dimensions.

Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006.Westermann, William L. The Slave System of Greek and Roman Antiquity. Phila-

delphia: American Philosophy Society, 1955.


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Philosophical SchoolsBrennan, T. The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate. Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 2005.Desmond, William. Cynics. AP 3. Berkeley: University of California, 2008.Engberg-Pedersen, Troels. Paul and the Stoics. Louisville: Westminster John

Knox, 2000.Holowchak, M. Andrew. The Stoics: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Con-

tinuum, 2008.Long, A. A. Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics. 2nd ed. Berkeley:

University of California Press, 1986.Rasimus, Tuomas, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, and Ismo Dunderberg, eds. Stoicism

in Early Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011.Sharples, R. W. Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics: An Introduction to Hellenistic

Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1996.Thorsteinsson, Runar M. Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism: A Comparative

Study of Ancient Morality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Roman ReligionFeeney, Denis. Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.Johnson, Luke T. Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity.

AYBRL. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.Kaizer, Ted, ed. The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East in the Hellenistic

and Roman Periods. RGRW 164. Leiden: Brill, 2008.Klauck, Hans-Josef. The Religious Context of Early Christianity: A Guide to Graeco-

Roman Religions. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.Macmullen, Ramsay. Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven: Yale Univer-

sity Press, 1981.Rives, James B. Religion in the Roman Empire. BAR. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.Scheid, John. An Introduction to Roman Religion. Bloomington, IN: Indiana

University Press, 2003.Tripolitis, Antonía. Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age. Grand Rapids: Eerd-

mans, 2001.Turcan, Robert. The Cults of the Roman Empire. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996.Warrior, Valerie M. Roman Religion. CIRC. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2006.

Emperor WorshipPrice, S. R. F. Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Mystery ReligionBurkett, Walter. Ancient Mystery Cults. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press, 1987.Cosmopoulos, Michael B. Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology of Ancient Greek

Secret Cults. New York: Routledge, 2003.Reitzenstein, Richard. Hellenistic Mystery Religions: Their Basic Ideas and Signifi-

cance. Pittsburgh: Pickwick, 1978.


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MagicAune, David E., ed. Apocalypticism, Prophecy, and Magic in Early Christianity:

Collected Essays. WUNT 199. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.Dickie, Matthew W. Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World. New York:

Routledge, 2003.Graf, Fritz. Magic in the Ancient World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press, 1998.Janowitz, Naomi. Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews, and Christians. New

York: Routledge, 2001.Klauck, Hans-Josef. Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity: The World of the

Acts of the Apostles. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.Labahn, Michael. A Kind of Magic: Understanding Magic in the New Testament

and Its Religious Environment. London: T&T Clark, 2000.Luck, Georg. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds;

A Collection of Ancient Texts. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

AuguryAune, David E., ed. Apocalypticism, Prophecy, and Magic in Early Christianity:

Collected Essays. WUNT 199. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.------. Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Mediterranean World. Grand Rap-

ids: Eerdmans, 1983.Parke, H. W. Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity. Edited by B. C.

McGing. New York: Routledge, 1988.

Supernaturalism (Miracles)Cotter, Wendy. Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook. New York:

Routledge, 1999.Kee, Howard Clark. Miracle in the Early Christian World: A Study in Socio-Historical

Method. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Divine MenAnderson, Graham. Sage, Saint, and Sophist: Holy Men and Their Associates in

the Early Roman Empire. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Christian Evangelization of Roman EmpireBrown, Peter. Authority and Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman

World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.Hinson, E. Glen. The Evangelization of the Roman Empire: Identity and Adapt-

ability. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1981.Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul.

2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Roman Attitudes toward ChristianityBenko, Stephen. Pagan Rome and the Early Christians. Bloomington, IN: Indiana

University Press, 1984.Hubbard, Moyer V. Christianity in the Greco-Roman World: A Narrative Introduc-

tion. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2010.


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Johnson, Luke T. Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity. AYBRL. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Whittaker, Molly. Jews and Christians: Greco-Roman Views. Cambridge: Cam-bridge University Press, 1984.

Wilken, Robert L. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Early Christian World

GnosticismKing, Karen L. What Is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,

2003.Makschies, Christoph. Gnosis: An Introduction. London: T&T Clark, 2003.Pearson, Birger A. Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature. Minneapolis:

Fortress, 2007.Perkins, Pheme. Gnosticism and the New Testament. Minneapolis: Augsburg

Fortress, 1993.Roukema, Reimer. Gnosis and Faith in Early Christianity: An Introduction to Gnosti-

cism. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1999.

Gnostic Literature (Nag Hammadi)Evans, Craig A., et al. Nag Hammadi Texts and the Bible: A Synopsis and Index.

NTTS 18. Leiden: Brill, 1993.Meyer, Marvin, ed. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Definitive International

Version. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006.Robinson, James M. The Nag Hammadi Library. 3rd ed. San Francisco: Harper &

Row, 1988.

Social Systems and Cultural ValuesdeSilva, David. Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity: Unlocking New Testament

Culture. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.Malina, Bruce J. The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology.

3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.Neufeld, Ditmar, and Richard E. Demaris, eds. Understanding the Social World

of the New Testament. Oxon, Canada: Routledge, 2010.Neyrey, Jerome H., and Eric C. Stewart, eds. The Social World of the New Testa-

ment: Insights and Models. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2008.

Wealth and PovertyHolman, Susan R., ed. Wealth and Poverty in Early Christianity. HCSPTH. Grand

Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008.Longenecker, Bruce W. Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty, and the Graeco-Roman

World. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.Oakman, D. E. Jesus and the Peasants. Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context.

Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2008.

PurityDouglas, Mary. Purity and Danger. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966.


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Wenell, Karen J. Jesus and Land: Sacred and Social Space in Second Temple Juda-ism. LNTS 334. London: T&T Clark, 2007.

PatronageMarshall, Jonathan S. Jesus, Patrons, and Benefactors: Roman Palestine and the

Gospel of Luke. WUNT 2. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. A revised doctoral dissertation discusses Hellenistic reciprocity, friendship, and benefaction in Jesus’ social world, arguing that Jesus would have been more familiar with this system than that of Roman patronage.

Saller, Richard P. Personal Patronage under the Early Empire. Cambridge: Cam-bridge University Press, 1982.

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. Patronage in Ancient Society. London: Routledge, 1989.

Honor and ShameCampbell, Barth L. Honor, Shame and the Rhetoric of 1 Peter. SBLDS 160. Atlanta:

Scholars Press, 1998.Neyrey, Jerome H. Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew. Louisville: West-

minster John Knox, 1998.Watson, David F. Honor among Christians: The Cultural Key to the Messianic

Secret. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010.

Role of WomenKraemer, Ross S. Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-

Roman Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxford University, 2011.Osiek, Caroline, and Margaret Y. MacDonald, with Janet H. Tulloch. A Woman’s

Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.

Other Academic StudiesBalla, Peter. The Child-Parent Relationship in the New Testament and Its Environ-

ment. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2006.Bauckham, Richard. The Jewish World around the New Testament. Grand Rapids:

Baker Academic, 2010. Twenty-four essays on miscellaneous topics. Conway, Colleen M. Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity. Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 2008.Ebeling, Jennie R. Women’s Lives in Biblical Times. New York: T&T Clark, 2010.Fitzgerald, John T., ed. Greco-Roman Perspectives on Friendship. SBLRBS 34.

Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.Hultin, Jeremy F. The Ethics of Obscene Speech in Early Christianity and Its Envi-

ronment. SNT 128. Leiden: Brill, 2008.Millard, Alan R. Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus. BibSem 69. Sheffield:

Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.


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