This volume brings together essays by scholars in various sub-disciplines of early Christian studies, with the aim of situating the Acts of the Apostles in the second century. Rather than addressing t
Religious scholars, classicists, and historians reflect on ancient conceptions of gender, with an emphasis on how constructions of gender can be understood to intersect with religious discourses in an
Scholars of religion, theology, and the classics explore and interrogate ancient conceptions of gender, emphasizing how they can be understood to intersect with religious discourses in antiquity and t
Most of the 12 essays were originally presented as papers in sessions on Recent Approaches to Acts at international meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature in Rome in 2001 and Berlin in 2002. T