Table of Contents

Volume I Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Paul and Adaptability, Clarence E. Glad, The Reykjavik Academy and the Icelandic Research Council. 2. Paul, Adoption and Inheritance, James C. Walters, Boston University, USA. Revised by Jerry L. Sumney, Lexington Theological Seminary, USA 3. Paul and Associations, Richard S. Ascough, Queen's University, Canada 4. Paul and Boasting, Duane F. Watson, Malone College, USA 5. Paul and Circumcision, Troy W. Martin, Saint Xavier University, USA 6. Paul and Commendation, Efrain Agosto, Hartford Seminary, USA 7. Paul, Exemplification, and Imitation, Benjamin Fiore, S.J, Georgetown University, USA. Revised by Thomas R. Blanton, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA 8. Paul and Rhetorical Comparison, Christopher Forbes, Macquarie University, Australia 9. Paul and Greco-Roman Education, Ronald F. Hock, University of Southern California, USA 10. Paul and Family Life, Margaret Y. MacDonald, Saint Mary's University, Canada 11. Paul and the Greek Novel, Loveday Alexander, University of Sheffield, UK 12. Paul and Frankness, J. Paul Sampley, Boston University, USA 13. Paul and Friendship, John T. Fitzgerald, University of Miami, USA 14. Paul and the Games, Alan H. Cadwallader, Australian Catholic University, Australia Index Volume 2 Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Paul. Hardships and Suffering, David E. Frederickson, Luther Seminary, USA 2. Paul, Honor and Shame, David A. deSilva, Ashland Theological Seminary, USA 3. Paul and Indifferent Things, Will Deming, University of Portland, USA 4. Paul and Literacy, John Poirier, Kingswell Theological Seminary, USA 5. Paul, Marriage and Divorce, O. Larry Yarbrough, Middlebury College, USA 6. Paul and Maxims, Rollin A. Ramsaran, Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan, USA 7. Paul and Memory, Peter-Ben Smit, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands 8. Paul and Paterfamilias, L. Michael White, University of Texas, USA 9. Paul, Patrons and Clients, Peter Lampe, University of Heidelberg, Germany 10. Paul and Performance, Glenn S. Holland, Allegheny College, USA 11. Paul and Self-Mastery, Stanley Stowers, Brown University, USA 12. Paul and Slavery, J. Albert Harrill, The Ohio State University, USA 13. Paul and Social Memory, Rafael Rodriguez, Johnson University, USA 14. Paul, Virtue, Vices and Household Codes, Stanley E. Porter, McMaster Divinity College, Canada 15. Epilog: Living in an Evil Aeon: Paul's Ambiguous Relation to Culture (Toward a Taxonomy), J. Paul Sampley, Boston University, USA Index

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This two-volume handbook provides an exceptional overview of Paul, his writings in their context, and contemporary developments in Pauline studies.

About the Author

J. Paul Sampley is Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Christian Origins at Boston University, USA. He is the co-editor of Pauline Parallels (1984) and "1 Corinthians" and "2 Corinthians" in the New Interpreter's Bible, and Walking in Love (2016).

Reviews

This massive work sheds light on many aspects in Paul's teaching, positioning him within his socio-historical world ... [The essays] cover a variety of topics that Paul addresses in his letters and offer helpful insights to their audience. They would be valuable for students researching Paul's letters and learning to understand Paul in his historical context.
*Journal for the Study of the New Testament*

The strength of the essays in this two volume handbook is that they provide a Greco-Roman context for reading Paul and then applying this to interdisciplinary studies. This revised edition, in particular, benefits from recent studies borrowed from social disciplines such as anthropology and sociology.
*Themelios*

I warmly welcome a revised and enlarged edition of Paul in the Greco-Roman World! Professor J. Paul Sampley, his accomplished colleagues. and Bloomsbury T&T Clark are to be highly commended for producing a collection of informative, interesting, and, in not a few instances, important essays. These insightful contributions - now twenty-nine in number - enable Pauline interpreters to understand better the Jewish Apostle to the Gentiles as well as his 'weighty. forceful' letters bequeathed to us.
*Todd D. Still, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, USA*

This volume, edited by Paul Sampley with contributions by the core experts in the field has become a classic which has established itself as a must in students' and scholars' libraries over the past one and half decades. This editions includes eight additional contributions on themes which has become the focus in the field since the publication of the first edition, ie on associations, circumcision, family life, Greek novels, literacy, marriage and divorce, memory, performance, social memory, and a concluding comprehensive epilogue by Paul Sampley himself which relates to the individual contributions within his proposed taxonomy. The volume is a masterpiece of knowledge and critical analysis of the Greco-Roman context of the Jewish apostle's letters and will continue to be an essential tool for Pauline scholars.
*Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, UK*

Sampley has captured the historical value of the recent surge of interest in the Greco-Roman setting of the Pauline letters. His method is novel. Twenty-one themes had been allocated to individual specialists, each working to a pattern that focussed an ancient socio-cultural phenomenon on some specific passage(s) in the letters. From 'Adaptability' to 'Virtue and Vice' they are taken in alphabetical order. But already our understanding of historical culture was moving on. Seventeen of the studies have been updated by their original authors. Four now have even radically different treatments by new authors and there are eight wholly new perspectives.
*E.A. Judge, Macquarie University, USA*

Paul's complex, often paradoxical engagement with his social and cultural world is the key to understanding his writings and his unique role in the formation of what we call Christianity. In these two volumes we have summaries of cutting-edge scholarship in that field, present in clear and lively language.
*Wayne A. Meeks, Yale University, USA*