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Mark’s Other Gospel
Did the evangelist Mark write two versions of his gospel? According to a letter ascribed to Clement of Alexandria, Mark created a second, more spiritual edition of his gospel for theologically advanced ...
Whose Historical Jesus?
The figure of Jesus has fascinated Western civilization for centuries. As the year 2000 approaches, eliciting connections with Jesus’ birth and return, excitement grows — as does the number of studies ...
Parables of War
What makes the Book of Revelation so hard to understand?
How does the Book of Revelation fit into Judaism and the beginning of
Christianity?
John W. Marshall proposes a radical reinterpretation of ...
Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna
This volume, one in a series of books examining religious rivalries, focuses in detail on the religious dimension of life in two particular Roman cities: Sardis and Smyrna. The essays explore the relationships ...
The Social Setting of the Ministry as Reflected in the Writings of Hermas, Clement and Ignatius
Focussing on three first- and early-second-century documents (the Shepherd of Hermas, 1 Clement and the Ignatian epistles), this work contributes to a growing body of literature concerned with the social ...
Dangerous Food
Recognizing the social meaning of food and meals in Greco-Roman culture and, in particular, the social meaning of idol-food, is an integral part of understanding the impact of Paul’s instructions to ...
Law in Religious Communities in the Roman Period
The role and function of law in religious communities in the Roman period—especially in Judaism—has been a key issue among scholars in recent years. This thought-provoking work is the first full-scale ...
Mishnah and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild
Where do the origins of the rabbinic movement lie, and how might evidence from the early rabbinic literature be made to reveal those origins?
In order to shed light on the early social formation of the ...
Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima
We know how the story of the Roman Empire ended with the "triumph" of Christianity and the eventual Christianization of the Roman Mediterranean. But how would religious life have appeared to an observer ...
Society, the Sacred and Scripture in Ancient Judaism
This work explores the relationship between religion, social patterns, and the perception of the character of scripture in four modes of Ancient Judaism: (1) the Jerusalem community of the fifth to fourth ...