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Editorial Statement, vi Prologue: A Door Thrown Open by Hal Taussig, 1 New Testament and Roman Empire Paul and Rome: The Challenge of a Just World Order by John Dominic Crossan, 6 Reading Galatians and Empire at the Great Altar of Pergamon by Brigitte Kahl, 21 Jesus and Empire by Richard A. Horsley, 44 Response to New Testament and Roman Empire by Emilie M. Townes, 75 Currents in Research Reading Hebrews in Flavian Rome by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, 82 Matthew and Empire by Warren Carter, 86 Paul, Gentiles, and Gender Paradigms by Davina C. Lopez, 92 Origen of Alexandria by Delman L. Coates, 107 Recontextualizing Resistance: The Revelation to John by David A. S nchez, 113 Shifting Paradigms for Interpretation Of Walls and Words: Twenty-First Century Empire and New Testament Studies by Jean-Pierre Ruiz, 122 Empire and Christian Testament Studies by Elisabeth Sch ssler Fiorenza, 131 Empire, Alter-Empire, and the Twenty-First Century by Margaret P. Aymer, 140 Contemporary Empire and Resistance Nietzsche, Paul, and the Subversion of Empire by Jan Rehmann, 147 Responses of the Poor to Empire, Then and Now by Willie Baptist, Noelle Damico, and Liz Theoharis, 162 Further Considerations Reflections on New Testament and Roman Empire by Susan M. (Elli) Elliott, 172 Epilogue: Beyond the Threshold by Davina C. Lopez, 177 Book Reviews Alain Badiou. Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism by Trevor Eppehimer, 187 Susan M. (Elli) Elliot. Cutting Too Close for Comfort: Paul s Letter to the Galatians in its Anatolian Cultic Context by Richard B. Cook, Esq., 192 Richard A. Horsley. Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder and John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed. In Search of Paul: How Jesus s Apostle Opposed Rome s Empire with God s Kingdom by Stamenka E. Antonova, 196 Richard A. Horsley, ed. Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society, John Dominic Corssan. Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, and Elisabeth Sch ssler Fiorenza. Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation by Liz Theoharis, 203 About the Contributors, 209