Introduction, Jillian D. Nelson Chapter One: The Narratives of Roman Imperial Power, Warren Carter Chapter Two: New Insights into the Genre of the Canonical Gospels and Their Composition, Elizabeth J. B. Corsar Chapter Three: "Not Like Them": (Re) Considering the Gospel of Mark as Subversive-Political Biography, Justin Marc Smith Chapter Four: Building Disciples or Discipling Building?: Construction Scenes in Luke's Gospel, Anna M. V. Bowden Chapter Five: The Money Could Have Been Given to the Poor: The Military and the Monetization of the Economy in the Gospel of Mark, Christopher B. Zeichmann Chapter Six: Gospels, Ritual, Purity, and Ethnicity and the Roman World, R. Alan Streett Chapter Seven: A Palm Parade, Hidden Transcripts, and the Politics of Peace in the Fourth Gospel, Arthur M.

Wright, Jr. Chapter Eight: Assessing Bodies in Matthew's Gospel: How Matthew "Fleshes Out" Claims for Jesus's Status and Authority, Annelies Gisela Moeser Chapter Nine: There is neither Jew nor Greek? Postcolonial Trauma and the Destruction of the Second Temple, Joseph McDonald Chapter Ten: The Herodians and Roman Imperial Engagement in the Synoptic Gospels, Adam Winn.