This Festschrift dedicated to S. Scott Bartchy comes on the occasion of his retirement from the Department of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. This volume contains seventeen essays contributed by Professor Bartchys esteemed colleagues, associates, friends, and former graduate students.

Beginning with his groundbreaking work on Greco-Roman slavery, Bartchys teaching and research have been marked both by his use of social-scientific methods for studying the New Testament and by an interest in the social history of early Christianity, including the role of women in the...