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ZEBA A. CROOK and PHILIP A. HARLAND, Identity and Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians and Others; Essays in Honour of Stephen G. Wilson (New Testament Monographs 18; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2007). Pp. xvi + 292. $100.
After a list of Stephen G. Wilson's publications (pp. xv-xvi), Zeba A. Crook's "Introduction" (pp. 1-14), and Peter Richardson's brief "Stephen G. Wilson 35 Years On" (pp. 1517), this volume presents sixteen essays: Kimberly B. Stratton, "Curse Rhetoric and the Violence of Identity in Early Judaism and Christianity" (pp. 18-30); Adele Reinhartz, "Who Cares about Caiaphas?" (pp. 31-40); Willi Braun, '"Our Religion Compels Us to Make a Distinction': Prolegomena on Meals and Social Formation" (pp. 41-55); Philip A. Harland, '"These People are . . . Men Eaters': Banquets of the Anti- Associations and Perceptions of Minority Cultural Groups" (pp. 56-75); Richard S. Ascough, "A Place to Stand, a Place to Grow': Architectural and Epigraphic Evidence for Expansion in Greco-Roman Associations" (pp. 76-98); John M. G. Barclay, "Constructing Judean Identity after 70 CE.: A Study of Josephus's Against Apion" (pp. 99-112); John S. Kloppenborg, "Judaeans or Judaean Christians in James?" (pp. 113-35); Laurence Broadhurst, '"Where My Interests and Ignorance Coincide': Early Christian Music and Other Musics" (pp. 136-48); L. W. Hurtado, "The 'Meta-Data' of Earliest Christian Manuscripts" (pp. 149-63); Edith M. Humphrey, "On Visions, Arguments, and Naming: The Rhetoric of Specificity and Mystery in the Apocalypse" (pp. 164-78); Michele Murray, "Christian Identity in the Apostolic...