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Contents<br />

Preface vii<br />

Abbreviations ix<br />

1. Sett<strong>in</strong>g the Scene: Stoicism and Platonism <strong>in</strong> the Transitional Period<br />

<strong>in</strong> Ancient Philosophy 1<br />

Troels Engberg-Pedersen<br />

2. Stoicism as a Key to Paul<strong>in</strong>e Ethics <strong>in</strong> Romans 15<br />

Runar M. Thorste<strong>in</strong>sson<br />

3. Stoic Law <strong>in</strong> Paul? 39<br />

Niko Huttunen<br />

4. Jesus the Teacher and Stoic Ethics <strong>in</strong> the Gospel of Matthew 59<br />

Stanley K. Stowers<br />

5. An “Emotional” Jesus and Stoic Tradition 77<br />

Harold W. Attridge<br />

6. The Emotional Jesus: Anti-Stoicism <strong>in</strong> the Fourth Gospel? 93<br />

Gitte Buch-Hansen<br />

7. Stoic Physics, the Universal Conflagration, and the Eschatological<br />

Destruction of the “Ignorant and Unstable” <strong>in</strong> 2 Peter 115<br />

J. Albert Harrill<br />

8. The Stoics and the Early Christians on the Treatment of Slaves 141<br />

John T. Fitzgerald<br />

9. Fac<strong>in</strong>g the Beast: Just<strong>in</strong>, Christian Martyrdom, and Freedom of the Will 176<br />

Nicola Denzey<br />

Tuomas Rasimus, Troels Engberg-Pedersen and Ismo Dunderberg, Stoicism <strong>in</strong> Early Christianity<br />

<strong>Baker</strong> Academic, a division of <strong>Baker</strong> Publish<strong>in</strong>g <strong>Group</strong>, © 2010. Used by permission.

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