List of tables | p. viii |
List of figures | p. ix |
Preface and acknowledgements | p. xi |
Craftworkers' houses, a bar and a mansion | p. 1 |
The House of the Stoneworkers (I.10.6) | p. 1 |
Sabina the stoneworker | p. 10 |
The Insula of the Menander as a whole | p. 11 |
The House of the Cabinet-Maker (I.10.7) | p. 15 |
Holconius the cabinet-maker | p. 32 |
Iris's bar (I.10.2-3) | p. 33 |
Iris the barmaid | p. 36 |
The non-elite in the House of the Menander (I.10.4) | p. 37 |
Primus the bath-stoker | p. 42 |
Pompeian houses and the study of Pauline Christianity: some initial reflections | p. 44 |
Pompeian houses and first-century society | p. 46 |
Wallace-Hadrill's survey of housing in Pompeii and Herculaneum | p. 47 |
A space-distribution model and its implications | p. 49 |
A socio-economic model | p. 56 |
Comparison with other models | p. 62 |
The space-distribution model and the study of Pauline Christianity | p. 67 |
A model craftworker house church for reading Romans | p. 69 |
Specific social types in Pompeii and among the expected hearers of Romans | p. 71 |
The expected hearers of Romans | p. 73 |
Towards a Pompeian model house church | p. 80 |
A Pompeian model craftworker house church | p. 84 |
A model craftworker house church for reading Romans | p. 89 |
Romans 12 for a model craftworker house church | p. 98 |
Romans 12.1-2: A communal living sacrifice | p. 99 |
Romans 12.3: A new scale of value | p. 100 |
Romans 12.4-5: Symmetrical relationships in Christ across household boundaries | p. 102 |
Romans 12.6-8: The diverse gifts that make a house church work | p. 104 |
Romans 12.9-10a: Family love beyond family boundaries | p. 107 |
Romans 12.10b: Mutual honouring in a hierarchical world | p. 110 |
Romans 12.11: Hard work | p. 112 |
Romans 12.12: Hope, endurance and prayer | p. 113 |
Romans 12.13: Giving and hospitality | p. 115 |
Romans 12.14: Bless, rather than curse, your persecutors | p. 118 |
Romans 12.15-16: Family sympathy beyond family boundaries; involvement with the poor | p. 119 |
Romans 12.17-21: Against Christian retributive violence | p. 123 |
At the end of Romans 12 | p. 126 |
Primus, Sabina, Iris: justice, survival, tension | p. 127 |
A campaign speech, a sermon, and Romans | p. 127 |
Four hearers and Paul's ideas of salvation | p. 130 |
Primus and the God of justice | p. 132 |
Justice | p. 132 |
New status | p. 135 |
Sabina and the gospel of survival | p. 137 |
Help for endurance | p. 138 |
Eternal life | p. 141 |
Iris and the redemption of the body | p. 143 |
The body: dead or alive? | p. 144 |
Holconius and the Jewish salvation of a holy people | p. 150 |
The Jewish salvation of Jews and gentiles | p. 152 |
Romans 1-4 | p. 152 |
Romans 5-8 | p. 156 |
Romans 9-11 | p. 159 |
Romans 12-15 | p. 161 |
The creation of a holy people | p. 163 |
Reading Romans in view of first-century social diversity | p. 175 |
Bibliography | p. 180 |
Index of biblical references | p. 187 |
Index of modern authors | p. 190 |
Index of subjects | p. 192 |
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