Bruce W. Winter is the former warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge, and a respected authority on the historical background to the New Testament. His previous books include After Paul Left Corinth: The Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change and Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women and the Pauline Communities.
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Journal for the Study of The New Testament Booklist "A finely written monograph mining many ancient sources to provide a clear picture of the Christians' first-century world. . . . Immensely informative." Andrew D. Clarke -- University of Aberdeen "This volume presents Winter's careful re-evaluation of the extraordinarily rapid spread of social pressure among both Gentiles and Jews, across the first-century Greek East, publicly to honour living Roman emperors as divine beings. His geographically and chronologically focused approach especially reveals a diverse range of responses to this phenomenon both among the Jews and among the first Christians whose primary allegiance was to Jesus as Messiah. By analysing the primary, non-literary sources and building on the scholarship of other ancient historians, this study advances the field in particular and important ways." Stephen Mitchell -- University of Exeter "Takes account of much important new research on emperor worship and will be required reading for ancient historians as well as for students of the New Testament."