Greco-Roman Culture and the New Testament

Focusing on a strength of the faculty of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, this volume is a collection of nine essays by an international group of scholars who have used texts from the Greco-Roman world to illuminate various aspects of the New Testament.

Justin Taylor, S.M, The Role of Rhetorical Elaboration in the Formation of Mark's Passion Narrative (Mark 14:43-16:8): An Inquiry
Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Logos and Pneuma in the Fourth Gospel
Bruce W. Winter, The Enigma of Imperial Cultic Activities and Paul in Corinth
Dieter Zeller, Pauline Paranesis in Romans 12 and Greek Gnomic Wisdom
Frederick E. Brenk, Most Beautiful and Divine: Graeco-Romans (especially Plutarch) and Paul on Love and Marriage
Gretchen Reydams-Schils, Clement of Alexandria on Woman and Marriage in the Light of the New Testament Household Codes
Adela Yarbro Collins, Traveling Up and Away: Journeys to the Upper and Outer Regions of the World
David E. Aune, The Polyvalent Imagery of Rev 3:20 in the Light of Graeco-Egyptian Divination Texts
John J. Collins, The Sibyl and the Apocalypses: Generic Relationships in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity