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Dictionary of New Testament Background: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship eds. Evans, Craig A.; Porter, Stanley E. 1328 IVPBDS 2000
John Keener, Craig S. 272 ZIBBC 2019
Acts Arnold, Clinton E. 304 ZIBBC 2019
Readings from the First-Century World: Primary Sources for New Testament Study Elwell, Walter A.; Yarbrough, Robert W. 224 EBS 1998
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins Fitzmyer, Joseph A. 308 SDSSRL 2000
Corinthian Wisdom, Stoic Philosophy and the Ancient Economy Brookins, Timothy A. 288 SNTSMS 2014
The Judaean Poor and the Fourth Gospel Ling, Timothy J. M. 264 SNTSMS 2006
The Myth of a Gentile Galilee Chancey, Mark A. 248 SNTSMS 2004
The New Testament Christological Hymns: Their Historical Religious Background Sanders, Jack T. 176 SNTSMS 2004
Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times Kee, Howard Clark 188 SNTSMS 1988
Attitudes to Gentiles in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Sim, David C.; Runia, David T.; Collins, John J.; McLaren, James S.; Theophilos, Michael P.; McLaren, James S.; Binder, Donald; Tuckett, Christopher M.; Winter, Sean F.; Elmer, Ian J.; Sim, David C.; Dowling, Elizabeth V.; Coloe, Mary L.; Cadwallader, Alan; Draper, Jonathan A.; Sim, David C. 320 LNTS 2013
Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World: 1 Corinthians in its Greco-Roman Social Setting Finney, Mark T. 312 LNTS 2013
Religious Diversity in the Graeco-Roman World Cohn-Sherbok, Dan; Court, John M. 240 UBW 2005
Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus Millard, Alan R. 188 UBW 2004
The Septuagint Dines, Jennifer 216 UBW 2004
Illiterate Apostles: Uneducated Early Christians and the Literates Who Loved Them Hilton, Allen 224 LNTS 2018
The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview Grabbe, Lester L.; Boccaccini, Gabriele; Atkinson, Kenneth; Oegema, Gerbern S.; Portier-Young, Anathea E.; Gruen, Erich; Grabbe, Lester L. 272 LSTS 2016
Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition Huttunen, Niko; Thorsteinsson, Runar M.; Pitts, Andrew W.; Ajluni, Bahij; Briones, David E.; Gupta, Nijay K.; McFarland, Orrey; Buch-Hansen, Gitte; Worthington, Jonathan; Brookins, Timothy A.; Dodson, Joseph R.; Tabb, Brian J.; Nygaard, Matthias; Pierce, Madison N. 288 LNTS 2017
Composite Citations in Antiquity: Volume 2: New Testament Uses Adams, Sean A.; Ehorn, Seth M.; Menken, Maarten J. J.; Moyise, Steve P.; Porter, Stanley E.; Williams, Catrin H.; Reasoner, Mark; Ciampa, Roy E.; Adams, Sean A.; Ehorn, Seth M. 224 LNTS 2017
Memory in Jewish, Pagan and Christian Societies of the Graeco-Roman World Mendels, Doron 181 LSTS 2004
The Noble Death: Graeco-Roman Martyrology and Paul's Concept of Salvation Seeley, David 190 LNTS 1990
Herod Antipas Hoehner, Harold W. 436 SNTSMS 1972
Power and Politics in Palestine: The Jews and the Governing of Their Land, 100 BC-AD 70 McLaren, James S. 248 LNTS 1991
Striking New Images: Roman Imperial Coinage and the New Testament World Kreitzer, Larry J. 258 LNTS 1996
The Graeco-Roman Context of Early Christian Literature Garrison, Roman 130 LNTS 1997
Paul, Luke and the Graeco-Roman World: Essays in Honour of Alexander J.M. Wedderburn Räisänen, Heikki; Bell, Richard H.; Jewett, Robert; Thrall, Margaret E.; Wischmeyer, Oda; Klein, Hans; Hoegen-Rohls, Christian; Hahn, Ferdinand; Aune, David E.; Moessner, David P.; Porter, Stanley E.; Wolff, Christian; Bauckham, Richard J.; Kuhn, Heinz-Wolfgang; Dunn, James D. G. 314 LNTS 2003
Christians as a Religious Minority in a Multicultural City: Modes of Interaction and Identity Formation in Early Imperial Rome Kunst, Christiane; Lampe, Peter; Williams, Margaret H.; Noy, David; Labahn, Michael; Hodge, Caroline Johnson; Pitta, Antonio; O'Neill, J. C.; Zangenberg, Jürgen K.; Meiser, Martin; Dunderberg, Ismo; Wehnert, Jürgen 216 LNTS 2004
The Gospel of Matthew in its Roman Imperial Context Riches, John K.; Sim, David C. 212 LNTS 2005
Competing Identities: The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Christian Literature Seesengood, Robert 192 LNTS 2007
The Roman Empire in Luke's Narrative Yamazaki-Ransom, Kazuhiko 256 LNTS 2010
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