Jintae Kim. The Concept of Atonement in the Gospel of John -- Craig S. Keener. Human Stones in a Greek Setting: Luke 3.8; Matthew 3.9; Luke 19.40 --Erlend D. MacGillivray. Re-Evaluating Patronage and Reciprocity in Antiquity and New Testament Studies -- Martin M. Culy. Double Case Constructions in Koine Greek -- Mark A. Jennings. Patronage and Rebuke in Paul's Persuasion in 2 Corinthians 8-9 -- David Lincicum. The Origin of 'Alpha and Omega' (Revelation 1.8; 21.6; 22.13): A Suggestion -- Greg Goswell. Early Readers of the Gospels: The KEPHALAIA and TITLOI of Codex Alexandrinus -- Craig...

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism originates from McMasterDivinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1. It publishes studies of thetexts, languages and cultures of the Greco-Roman world of early Christianityand Judaism. The scope of this journal is broad, with articles welcome on many areas of relevance to the journal s aims. Nevertheless, the approach of the journal is also specific - to publish only the highest quality articles that examine the ways in which the Greco-Roman world was the world of the New Testament and early Judaism. The emphasis in the journal is thus on a...

This substantial new commentary, expounding the letter paragraph by paragraph, is distinctive among commentaries on Romans in foregrounding a linguistic and literary approach. To comprehend the letter, Porter shows, we must always be aware of the letter-writing and linguistically based rhetorical conventions its author was deploying. The commentary is organized around the five-part epistolary structure that Paul developed for this fundamental letter, a structure that gives shape to its logically unfolding theological argument. Recognizing this structure is vital for interpreting the...