Contents

Location of Original Publications

Editors’ Foreword

Abbreviations

Notes to Readers

Introduction

Volume 1

Part One Neotestamentica

Chapter One The Corinthian Contribution

Chapter Two The Task and Method of Exegesis

Chapter Three The Beasts at Ephesus

Chapter Four “Gentle as a Nurse”: The Cynic Background to 1 Thessalonians 2

Chapter Five The Inhospitality of Diotrephes

Chapter Six Social Level and Literary Culture of Early Christianity

Chapter Seven ΜΗ ΓΕΝΟΙΤΟ in the Diatribe and Paul

Chapter Eight Medical Imagery in the Pastoral Epistles

Chapter Nine Antisthenes and Odysseus, and Paul at War

Chapter Ten Exhortation in First Thessalonians

Chapter Eleven “In Season and Out of Season”: 2 Timothy 4:2

Chapter Twelve Paul: Hellenistic Philosopher or Christian Pastor?

Chapter Thirteen “Not in a Corner”: Early Christian Apologetic in Acts 26:26

Chapter Fourteen “Pastoral Care” in the Thessalonian Church

Chapter Fifteen Did the Thessalonians Write to Paul?

Chapter Sixteen Traditions and Theology of Care in the New Testament

Chapter Seventeen Paulus Senex

Chapter Eighteen Determinism and Free Will in Paul: The Argument of 1 Corinthians 8 and 9

Chapter Nineteen God’s New Family at Thessalonica

Chapter Twenty Paul’s Self-Sufficiency (Philippians 4:11)

Chapter Twenty-One The Christianization of a Topos (Luke 12:13–34)

Chapter Twenty-Two Conversion to Paul’s Gospel

Chapter Twenty-Three Anti-Epicurean Rhetoric in 1 Thessalonians

Chapter Twenty-Four The Apostle Paul as a Pastor

Chapter Twenty-Five Paraenesis in the Epistle to Titus

Chapter Twenty-Six “Christ Jesus Came into the World to Save Sinners”: Soteriology in the Pastoral Epistles

Chapter Twenty-Seven The Virtus Feminarum in 1 Timothy 2:9–15

Chapter Twenty-Eight How to Treat Old Women and Old Men: The Use of Philosophical Traditions and Scripture in 1 Timothy 5

Chapter Twenty-Nine Godliness, Self-Sufficiency, Greed, and the Enjoyment of Wealth: 1 Timothy 6:3–19 – Part 1

Chapter Thirty Godliness, Self-Sufficiency, Greed, and the Enjoyment of Wealth: 1 Timothy 6:3–19 – Part 2

Chapter Thirty-One Overseers as Household Managers in the Pastoral Epistles

Chapter Thirty-Two Ethics in Context: The Thessalonians and Their Neighbors

Volume 2

Part Two Philosophica

Chapter One Pseudo-Heraclitus, Epistle 4: The Divinization of the Wise Man

Chapter Two Self-Definition among the Cynics

Chapter Three Heracles

Chapter Four Hellenistic Moralists and the New Testament

Chapter Five The Cultural Context of the New Testament: The Graeco-Roman World

Part Three Patristica

Chapter Six Apologetic and Philosophy in the Second Century

Chapter Seven Towards Understanding the Apologists: Review Article

Chapter Eight The Structure of Athenagoras, Supplicatio pro Christianis

Chapter Nine Athenagoras on Christian Ethics

Chapter Ten The Holy Spirit in Athenagoras

Chapter Eleven Athenagoras on the Location of God

Chapter Twelve Athenagoras on the Poets and Philosophers

Chapter Thirteen The Apologetic Theology of the Preaching of Peter

Chapter Fourteen Justin and Crescens

Chapter Fifteen A Physical Description of Paul

Chapter Sixteen “Seneca” on Paul as Letter Writer

Part Four Theologica and Miscellanea

Chapter Seventeen A People under the Word: Theological Interpretation

Chapter Eighteen Continuities in Scholarship: The Work of Nils Dahl

Chapter Nineteen A Review of Hans Dieter Betz, ed., Plutarch’s Ethical Writings and Early Christian Literature

Chapter Twenty A Review of Helmut Koester, Introduction to the New Testament

Chapter Twenty-One On the Writing of Commentaries

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Names and Subjects

Index of Ancient Sources

Biblical Citations

Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Rabbinic Sources

Philo

Josephus

Early Christian Writings

Greek and Roman Authors

Papyri

Inscriptions

Index of Greek Words

Index of Latin Words