Table of Contents Part A: Religious Minorities and the Roman Rule George Brooke, University of Manchester The Kittim and Hybridity in the Dead Sea Scrolls Birgit van der Lans, University of Groningen The Politics of Exclusion: Expulsions of Jews and Others from the Roman Community Heidi Wendt, Brown University “Ea Superstitione”: Christian Martyrdom and the Regulation of Independent Religious Specialists Paul Middleton, University of Chester Noble Death or Death Cult? Pagan Criticism of Early Christian Martyrdom Nóra Dávid, University of Vienna, Institute for Jewish Studies emoria Iudati Patiri – New Directions in the Study of Jews in Roman Pannonia Part B: Anti-Imperialism in the New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings Justin Hardin, University of Oxford Anti-Imperial Polemic in Paul? Romans 13.1-7 as a Test Case Anders Klostergaard Petersen, University of Aarhus Politics in Paul: Scholarly Phantom or Actual Textual Phenomenon? Martin Meiser, University of Saarland The Gospel of Mark and Criticism toward the Roman Empire: A Look at the History of Interpretation (in German) Marco Frenschkowski, University of Leipzig Overturning Mythologies of Empire: Nero Redivivus in Revelation, the Sibylline Oracles and Other Sources Mark R.C. Grundeken, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven The Shepherd of Hermas and the Roman Empire