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This volume of the New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity series includes essays exploring aspects of the political, religious, social, and cultural life of ancient Ephesus and surrounding villages as well as essays that address exegetical issues in Acts, Ephesians, and 1 Timothy from a documentary and historical perspective. Contributors Richard S. Ascough, Bradley J. Bitner, James R. Harrison, Michael Immendorfer, Elif Hilal Karaman, R. A. Kearsley, Stephen Llewelyn, Will Robinson, Guy MacLean Rogers, and Stephan Witetschek examine a range of topics, including the goddess Artemis, the imperial cult, civic associations, women, widows, slaves, confession inscriptions, benefaction and citizenship, and virtue.

James R. Harrison is Distinguished Professor at the Sydney College of Divinity. He is the author of Paul and the Imperial Authorities at Thessalonica and Rome (2011), Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit (2019), and Reading Romans with Roman Eyes (2020) and coeditor of SBL Press’s The First Urban Churches volumes (2015–).

Bradley J. Bitner is Associate Professor of New Testament at Westminster Seminary California. He is the author of Paul’s Political Strategy in 1 Corinthians 1:1–4:6: Constitution and Covenant (2015). He has published articles in Novum Testamentum and Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies.