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

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