Text and artifact in the religions of Mediterranean antiquity : essays in honour of Peter Richardson / edited by Stephen G. Wilson and Michel Desjardins. [print]

Part 1 Peter Richardson: Writer and Teacher -- 1. Giving to Peter What Has Belonged to Paul Michel Desjardins 3 -- 2. Professor's House Laurence Broadhurst 31 -- Part 2 Text and Artifact in the New Testament World -- 3. Reading the Text and Digging the Past: The First Audience of Romans Lloyd Gaston 35 -- 4. Peter in the Middle: Galatians 2:11-21 L. Ann Jervis 45 -- 5. Phoebe, the Servant-Benefactor and Gospel Traditions Roman Garrison 63 -- 6. Paul and the Caravanners: A Proposal on the Mode of "Passing Through Mysia" Robert Jewett 74 -- 7. Benefaction Gone Wrong: The "Sin" of Ananias and Sapphira in Context Richard S. Ascough 91 -- 8. Isaiah 5:1-7, the Parable of the Tenants and Vineyard Leases on Papyrus John S. Kloppenborg Verbin 111 -- 9. Parable of the Tenants and the Class Consciousness of the Peasantry William E. Arnal 135 -- 10. Placing Jesus of Nazareth: Toward a Theory of Place in the Study of the Historical Jesus Halvor Moxnes 158 -- 11. Irony, Text and Artifact: Cross and Superscription in the Passion Narratives Paul W. Gooch 176 -- 12. On the Relation of Text and Artifact: Some Cautionary Tales James D. G. Dunn 192 -- Part 3 Text and Artifact in the World of Christian Origins -- 13. Physiotherapy of Femininity in the Acts of Thecla Willi Braun 209 -- 14. Sex and the Single God: Celibacy as Social Deviancy in the Roman Period Calvin J. Roetzel 231 -- 15. "Good Luck on Your Resurrection": Beth She'arim and Paul on the Resurrection of the Dead Richard N. Longenecker 249 -- 16. Earliest Evidence of an Emerging Christian Material and Visual Culture: The Codex, the Nomina Sacra and the Staurogram Larry W. Hurtado 271 -- 17. Aesthetic Origins of Early Christian Architecture Graydon F. Snyder 289 -- 18. "Ascent and Descent" in the Constantinian Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem Wendy Pullan 308 -- Part 4 Text and Artifact in the World of Late-Antique Judaism -- 19. Better Homes and Gardens: Women and Domestic Space in the Books of Judith and Susanna Adele Reinhartz 325 -- 20. Tyros, the "Floating Palace" Ehud Netzer 340 -- 21. OI IIOTE IO[gamma] [Delta]AIOI: Epigraphic Evidence for Jewish Defectors Stephen G. Wilson 354 -- 22. Jerusalem Ossuary Inscriptions and the Status of Jewish Proselytes Terence L. Donaldson 372 -- 23. Behind the Names: Samaritans, Ioudaioi, Galileans Sean Freyne 389 -- 24. Friendship and Second Temple Jewish Sectarianism Wayne O. McCready 402 -- 25. What Josephus Says about the Essenes in his Judean War Steve Mason 423 -- 26. Archaeological Artifacts of Masada and the Credibility of Josephus William Klassen 456 -- 27. Mishnah's Rhetoric, Other Material Artifacts of Late-Roman Galilee and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild Jack N. Lightstone 474 -- Part 5 Text and Artifact in the Greco-Roman World -- 28. Some Thoughts on Theurgy Alan F. Segal 505 -- 29. Apuleius to Symmachus (and Stops in Between): Pietas, Realia and the Empire Harold Remus 527 -- 30. Apuleius the Novelist, Apuleius the Ostian Householder and the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres: Further Explorations of an Hypothesis of Filippo Coarelli Roger Beck 551.

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