Introduction Pauline Allen
Part I: Jewish Texts
Chapter 1: Living under Foreign Rule: Josephus on the Art of Compromised Defiance, James S. McLaren
Chapter 2: Coping with the Present by Reinventing the Future: Apocalyptic Texts as Crisis Management Literature David C. Sim
Part II: New Testament Texts
Chapter 3: Fighting on all Fronts: Crisis Management in the Gospel of Matthew David C. Sim
Chapter 4: Luke-Acts and the World Stage: Crisis Strategies in the Lukan Double Work Elizabeth Dowling
Chapter 5: Nicodemus: Discovering Possibilities in a Time of Crisis in the Gospel of John Mary Coloe
Chapter 6: Setting the Record Straight in Galatia: Paul's Use of the Letter as a Crisis Management Tool Ian J. Elmer
Chapter 7: Death as Social Disintegration: Pauline Strategies of Eschatological Existence in 1 Thessalonians David Luckensmeyer
Part III: Late Antique Christian Texts
Chapter 8: The Letters of John Chrysostom as Evidence of Episcopal Crisis Management Wendy Mayer
Chapter 9: The Roman Response to the Ecclesiastical Crises in the Antiochene Church in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries Geoffrey D. Dunn
Chapter 10: Cyril of Alexandria's Responses to Crisis: The Evidence of His Festal Letters Pauline Allen
Chapter 11: Leo the Great's Use of Social Exclusion as a Response to Crisis Bronwen Neil
Chapter 12: Response Strategies to Crisis in the Letters of Fulgentius of Ruspe Stephen Lake
Conclusions David C. Sim