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English and German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Christians, Jews, and Roman Power; Outi Lehtipuu & Michael Labahn; Part I -- Jewish Communities in the Shadows of the Empire; The Kittim and Hints of Hybridity in the Dead Sea Scrolls; George J. Brooke, University of Manchester; The Politics of Exclusion; Expulsions of Jews and Others from Rome; Birgit van der Lans, University of Groningen; Μεμορια Iudati patiri; Some Notes to the Study of the Beginnings of Jewish Presence in Roman Pannonia; Nóra Dávid, University of Vienna; Part II -- Contextualizing New Testament Texts with the Empire

Imperial Politics in PaulScholarly Phantom or Actual Textual Phenomenon?; Anders Klostergaard Petersen, University of Aarhus; Das Markusevangelium -- eine ideologie- und imperiumskritische Schrift?; Ein Blick in die Auslegungsgeschichte; Martin Meiser, Universität des Saarlandes; "Ein Beispiel habe ich euch gegeben..." (Joh 13,15); Die Diakonie Jesu und die Diakonie der Christen in der johanneischen Fußwaschungserzählung als Konterkarierung römischer Alltagskultur*; Klaus Scholtissek, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Part III -- Imperial Ideology and Other Early Christian Texts

The Shepherd of Hermas and the Roman EmpireMark R. C. Grundeken, Catholic University of Leuven; Noble Death or Death Cult?; Pagan Criticism of Early Christian Martyrdom; Paul Middleton, University of Chester; Nero Redivivus as a Subject of Early Christian Arcane Teaching; Marco Frenschkowski, University of Leipzig; A Selection of Ancient Sources