is Professor of New Testament Theology and Exegesis and leads the Corpus Hellenisticum Institute at the Martin-Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg.

• IntroductionI. Borders, Frontiers, and Boundaries of Land and City: Terms, Performances and IdeologiesAnnette Schellenberg: "And God Separated the Light from the Darkness" (Gen 1:4) - On the Role of Borders in the Priestly Texts of the Pentateuch - Martina Kepper: What to Do with Borders When They Become Obsolete? Strategies of Re-defining Border Concepts in the Greek Text of Genesis - David L. Balch: Borders: Terms, Ideologies, and Performances. Jesus and the Samaritan/Judean Border - Harry O. Maier: Histoire Croisée, Entangled Bodies, Boundaries, and Socio-Political Geography in the Letter to the Colossians - Alexander Sokolicek: Betwixt and Between - The Cultural Roles of the Magnesian Gate in Greek-Roman Ephesus - Christine M. Thomas: The Magnesian Gate at Ephesos: Variant Readings of Monumentality at the Borders of the City - Stephan Esders: Deditio and Baptism: Religious Borders and the Integration of Barbarians in the Later Roman Empire - Susanna Elm: Response to Stefan Esders: Deditio and BaptismII. Borders and Boundaries of Temples: Terms, Performances, and IdeologiesBarbara Schmitz: Space, Borders and Boundaries in the Letter of Aristeas - Georgia Petridou: Amorphous Epiphanies and Divine Bilingualism: Crossing Physical and Cultural Borders on the Battlefield - Anna-Katharina Rieger: Gods on the Rocks - Material Approaches to the Rock-Face at Caesarea Philippi (Mount Hermon) - Annette Weissenrieder: "Tear Down the Middle Wall of the Temple": The Meaning of mesotoichon in Ephesians 2:14III. Borders and Boundaries of Houses: Terms, Performances, and IdeologiesFrank Ueberschaer: Borders between Privacy and Public in the Thinking of Ben Sira - Bart Bruehler: Open and Shut: The Real and Metaphorical Doors of the New Testament in their Mediterranean Context - Ivan Varriale: Otium and negotium, a Border Breaks Down in the Imperial Villas. The study case of PausilyponIV. Borders and BoundariesBarbara Böck: On the Ancient Mesopotamian Concept of "Taboo": Transgression and Delimitation - Ingrid Lilly: Rȗaḥ Embodied: Job's Internal Disease from the Perspective of Mesopotamian Medicine - Gert J. Steyn: Crossing the Border - Reflections on Heb 13:13. "Let us then go to him outside the camp..." - Michael Bachmann: Important and Delicate: Borders According to Paul - James R. Harrison: Who is the "Lord of Grace"? Jesus' Parables in Imperial Context - Holger Zellentin: Jewish Dreams Between Roman Palestine and Sasanian Babylonia: Cultural and Geographic Borders in Rabbinic Discourse (Yerushalmi Ma'aser Sheni 55c, 15‒22 and Bavli Berakhot 56a‒b)