New Testament Texts and the Roman World: A Festschrift in Honor of Gerald L. Stevens for His Life and Work as Professor of New Testament and Greek, and Minister of the Gospel

New Testament Texts and the Roman World encapsulates the rich teaching and ministry career of Dr. Gerald Stevens. This Festschrift serves to celebrate this career and Stevens’s contributions to the academic guild. The essays in this work resonate with the interests of Stevens—studies in the text of Acts, in Pauline texts, and in John’s Apocalypse. Contributors present studies using intertextuality, social-scientific approaches, theological approaches, literary studies in Roman, Jewish, and mythological texts, and consideration of the cultural and historical settings of the texts.

Renate Viveen Hood is professor of Christian studies and program coordinator for intercultural studies at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. She is the chair of the academic teaching and biblical studies of the Society of Biblical Literature and former president of the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. Hood was a student of Dr. Stevens from 1995 to 2002. Wm. Craig Price is adjunct professor of bible exposition in the John W. Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University. He is the author of Biblical Exegesis of New Testament Greek: James. Price was a colleague of Dr. Stevens from 2005 to 2020.