Introduction: Christians, Jews, and Roman Power Part I: Jewish Communities in the Shadow of the Empire George Brooke The Kittim and Hybridity in the Dead Sea Scrolls Birgit van der Lans The Politics of Exclusion: Expulsions of Jews and Others from the Roman Community Nóra Dávid Memoria Iudati Patiri - New Directions in the Study of Jews in Roman Pannonia Part II: Contextualizing New Testament Texts with the Empire Anders Klostergaard Petersen Politics in Paul: Scholarly Phantom or Actual Textual Phenomenon? Martin Meiser Das Markusevangelium - eine ideologie- und imperiumskritische Schrift? Ein Blick in die Auslegungsgeschichte Klaus Scholtissek "Ein Beispiel habe ich euch gegeben?" (Joh 13,15): Die Diakonie Jesu und die Diakonie der Christen in der Fußwaschungserzählung des Johannesevangeliums Part III: Imperial Ideology and Other Early Christian Texts Mark R.C. Grundeken The Shepherd of Hermas and the Roman Empire Paul Middleton Noble Death or Death Cult? Pagan Criticism of Early Christian Martyrdom Marco Frenschkowski Nero Redivivus as a Subject of Early Christian Arcane Teaching