Peter Oakes (DPhil, University of Oxford) is Greenwood Senior Lecturer in the New Testament at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. He is the author of "Reading Romans in Pompeii: Paul's Letter at Ground Level" and" Philippians: From People to Letter", and has contributed to many books. He is also the editor of "Rome in the Bible and the Early Church" and the coeditor of "Torah in the New Testament".