Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts as Crisis Management Literature

David C. Sim is Associate Professor in Theology at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. Professor Pauline Allen is Research Associate at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

• Introduction Pauline AllenPart I: Jewish TextsChapter 1: Living under Foreign Rule: Josephus on the Art of Compromised Defiance, James S. McLarenChapter 2: Coping with the Present by Reinventing the Future: Apocalyptic Texts as Crisis Management Literature David C. SimPart II: New Testament TextsChapter 3: Fighting on all Fronts: Crisis Management in the Gospel of Matthew David C. Sim Chapter 4: Luke-Acts and the World Stage: Crisis Strategies in the Lukan Double Work Elizabeth DowlingChapter 5: Nicodemus: Discovering Possibilities in a Time of Crisis in the Gospel of John Mary ColoeChapter 6: Setting the Record Straight in Galatia: Paul's Use of the Letter as a Crisis Management Tool Ian J. ElmerChapter 7: Death as Social Disintegration: Pauline Strategies of Eschatological Existence in 1 Thessalonians David LuckensmeyerPart III: Late Antique Christian TextsChapter 8: The Letters of John Chrysostom as Evidence of Episcopal Crisis Management Wendy MayerChapter 9: The Roman Response to the Ecclesiastical Crises in the Antiochene Church in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries Geoffrey D. DunnChapter 10: Cyril of Alexandria's Responses to Crisis: The Evidence of His Festal Letters Pauline AllenChapter 11: Leo the Great's Use of Social Exclusion as a Response to Crisis Bronwen NeilChapter 12: Response Strategies to Crisis in the Letters of Fulgentius of Ruspe Stephen LakeConclusions David C. Sim