2007090.Porter;prelims.Proef2.25-1-2008:10.22,page1. Paul’s World 2007090.Porter;prelims.Proef2.25-1-2008:10.22,page2. Pauline Studies Serieseditor Stanley E. Porter ProfessorofNewTestamentat McMasterDivinityCollege Hamilton,Ontario VOLUME4 2007090.Porter;prelims.Proef2.25-1-2008:10.22,page3. Paul’s World Editedby Stanley E. Porter LEIDEN(cid:127)BOSTON 2008 2007090.Porter;prelims.Proef2.25-1-2008:10.22,page4. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData AC.I.P.fileforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress ISSN 1572-4913 ISBN 9789004162723 Copyright2008byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,HoteiPublishing, IDCPublishers,MartinusNijhoffPublishersandVSP. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise,withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. 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CONTENTS Preface ................................................................. vii Abbreviations .......................................................... ix DefiningtheParametersofPaul’sWorld:AnIntroduction.......... 1 StanleyE.Porter TheProblemofPaul’sSocialClass:FurtherReflections ............ 7 RonaldF.Hock HellenisticSchoolsinJerusalemandPaul’sRhetoricalEducation.. 19 AndrewW.Pitts Greco-RomanConceptsofDeity..................................... 51 RonC.Fay PaulandtheAthleticIdealinAntiquity:ACaseStudyin WrestlingwithWordandImage................................... 81 JamesR.Harrison CrucifixionintheAncientWorld:AResponsetoL.L.Welborn....111 SeanA.Adams TheLanguages thatPaulDidNotSpeak ............................131 StanleyE.Porter PaulattheBall:EccclesiaVictor andtheCosmicDefeatof PersonifiedEvil inRomans16:20 ..................................151 MichaelJ.Thate Paul,theCultsinCorinth,andtheCorinthianCorrespondence...171 PanayotisCoutsoumpos Ephesians5:18–19andReligious IntoxicationintheWorldofPaul.181 CraigA.Evans TheLettertoPhilemon:ADiscussionwithJ.AlbertHarrill........201 TobiasNicklas SomeRhetoricalTechniquesinActs24:2–21 ........................221 CraigS.Keener 2007090.Porter.00_Prelims.Proef4.29-1-2008:11.41,page-6. vi contents IndexofAncientSources..............................................253 IndexofModernAuthors.............................................277 2007090.Porter.00_Prelims.Proef4.29-1-2008:11.41,page-7. PREFACE This fourth volume in this series, Pauline Studies, is on Paul’s world. Thethreepreviousvolumesare:ThePaulineCanon,ed.StanleyE.Porter (PAST 1; Leiden: Brill, 2004) Paul and His Opponents, ed. Stanley E. Por- ter (PAST 2; Leiden: Brill, 2005) and Paul and His Theology, ed. Stanley E. Porter (PAST 3; Leiden: Brill, 2006). The interest in this series con- tinues to grow, so that we are moving beyond the first five volumes to a further set of five more volumes. The number of different contrib- utors to these volumes continues to grow, and I would welcome any of these previous authors and certainly any new contributors to offer essays to any and all of the volumes that are being planned. I wish to thank those who have made use of the first three volumes, those who havegivensuchfavorablereviewstothesevolumes,andespeciallythose who have used these volumes to aid in their own research, writing and teaching. Like its predecessors, this volume brings together a number of different papers by scholars engaged in discussion of the topic of Paul’s world. A topic such as this can extend into virtually all areas of New Testament and related studies, and so this volume concentrates on a number of selected topics. Several of these topics are of recur- ring and constant interest, while some of them are far less well traveled in scholarly research, and so are welcome here for that reason alone. Subsequentvolumescurrentlyscheduledtoappearare asfollows: Volume5:Paul:Jew,GreekandRoman(2008) This volume will complete the original set of five volumes. The follow- ing five volumes have also been proposed, and we are moving forward withthem: Volume6:PaultheLetterWriter(2009) Volume7:PaulandhisSocialRelations(2010) Volume8:PaulandPseudepigraphy(2011) Volume9:PaulandGnosis(2012) Volume10:PaulandScripture(2013) As notedabove, Iwould like toinvite any scholarsinterestedin making contributions to one of more of these volumes to be in contact with me regarding submission. Contact information is provided below. The usual pattern is for submission of an article by January 15 of the year 2007090.Porter.00_Prelims.Proef4.29-1-2008:11.41,page-8. viii preface in which the volume is to appear. The topics of the volumes are being defined and interpreted broadly, so that papers that deal, for example, with clearly related subjects are welcome. Papers for volumes 5 and 6 are already being gathered, and they promise to continue the pattern already established in previous volumes of providing a range of inter- esting papers on a variety of topics important to Pauline studies. I look forward to producing these volumes in a timely manner to keep the seriesmovingforward withonevolumeappearing eachyear. I would again like to thank all of the individual authors for their worthy contribution to this fourth volume of essays in the PAST series. There is still surprisingly little overlap in the contributors from the first three volumes, although the number of repeat contributors is growing steadily. I am hoping that we can continue to welcome essays from scholars who have contributed to previous volumes while welcoming new authors as well. There is no pre-decided or prescribed balance to fresh and repeat contributors. A volume such as this incurs many debts of gratitude and more tangible support. I wish first of all to thank the individual institutions that have supported the work of their scholars so that they can contribute to volumes such as these. I also wish tothanktheseveral people at Brillwith whom Ihave worked over the years, including especially Louise Schouten and Ivo Romein, who have continued to be an encouragement and direct help as this project has taken shape and continued to develop and come to fruition. My desire is for this volume, like the others before it, to make a significant contributiontothetopicofPaul’sworld. StanleyE.Porter McMasterDivinityCollege 1280MainSt.W. Hamilton,ON,CanadaL8S4K1 [email protected] 2007090.Porter.00_Prelims.Proef4.29-1-2008:11.41,page-9. ABBREVIATIONS AB AnchorBibleCommentary ABD AnchorBibleDictionary ABR AustralianBiblicalReview AGJU ArbeitenzurGeschichtedesantikenJudentumsunddes Urchristentums AJA AmericanJournalofArchaeology AJBI AnnualoftheJapaneseBiblicalInstitute AnBib Analectabiblica ANTC AbingdonNewTestamentCommentaries ATANT AbhandlungenzurTheologiedesAltenundNeuenTestaments BBR BulletinforBiblicalResearch BDAG W.Bauer,F.W.Danker,W.F.Arndt,andF.W.Gingrich,Greek- EnglishLexiconoftheNewTestamentandOtherEarlyChristian Literature,3ded.,1999 BDF F.BlassandA.Debrunner,AGreekGrammaroftheNewTestament andOtherEarlyChristianLiterature,ed.R.Funk BECNT BakerExegeticalCommentaryontheNewTestament BETL Bibliothecaephemeridumtheologicarumlovaniensium BEvT BeiträgezurevangelischenTheologie BHT BeiträgezurhistorischenTheologie Bib Biblica BibInt BiblicalInterpretation BibLeb BibelundLeben BibSac BibliothecaSacra BNTC Black’sNewTestamentCommentaries BR BibleReview BT TheBibleTranslator BTB BiblicalTheologyBulletin BWANT BeiträgezurWissenschaftvomAltenundNeuenTestament BZ BiblischeZeitschrift BZNW BeiheftezurZeitschriftfürdieneutestamentlicheWissenschaft CBC CambridgeBibleCommentary CBET ContributionstoBiblicalExegesisandTheology CBQ CatholicBiblicalQuarterly CC ContinentalCommentaries CNT CommentaireduNouveauTestament ConBNT Coniectaneaneotestamentica:NewTestament CQ ClassicalQuarterly CRINT CompendiarerumiudaicarumadNovumTestamentum CSR ChristianScholar’sReview CTR CriswellTheologicalReview