Exploring the sometimes heated exchanges found in the letters of Paul, Calvin Roetzel compares Paul’s Jewish background and the cultures of his converts. Roetzel brings alive Paul’s intriguing and sometimes…

In this book, Calvin Roetzel explores the social, political, religious, and intellectual environment of the New Testament writers. Roetzel maps the major features of the first-century landscape so that the…

This volume analyzes the emergence of Jewish and Christian discourses of religious violence within their Roman imperial context with an emphasis on the shared textual practices through which authoritative scriptural…