Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

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The scholarship of Dennis E. Smith / Hal E. Taussig -- Embodied inequalities : diet reconstruction and Christian origins / Steven J. Friesen -- Food crises in Corinth? Revisiting the evidence and its possible implications in reading 1 Cor 11:17-34 / Ma. Marilou S. Ibita -- Don't take it lying down : nondining features of the Omrit temple excavations / Daniel N. Schowalter -- Eating words in the New Testament / Keith Dyer -- Ancient drinking in modern Bible translation / Jorunn Økland -- Making men in Rev 2-3 : reading the seven messages in the Bath-gymnasiums of Asia Minor / Lynn R. Huber -- At the origins of Christian apologetic literature : the politics of patronage in Hadrianic Athens / William Rutherford -- One grave, two women, one man : complicating family life at Colossae / Alan H. Cadwallader -- The Corinthian [KAINAI KTISEIS]? Second Corinthians 5:17 and the Roman refoundation of Corinth / Dominika Kurek-Chomycz and Reimund Bieringer -- Women as leaders in the gatherings of early Christian communities : a sociohistorical analysis / Valeriy A. Alikin -- The political charges against Paul and Silas in Acts 17:6-7: Roman benefaction in Thessalonica / Jeffrey A. D. Weima -- Paul's walk to Assos : a hodological inquiry into its geography, archaeology, and purpose / Glen L. Thompson and Mark Wilson -- The Baptists of Corinth : Paul, the partisans of Apollos, and the history of baptism in nascent Christianity / Stephen J. Patterson -- A response / Dennis E. Smith.

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