Aliou Cissé Niang & Carolyn Osiek 
Text, Image, and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World [PDF ebook] 
A Festschrift in Honor of David Lee Balch

Twenty-four scholars join their efforts to congratulate David Lee Balch for a long career of dedication to scholarship and teaching. Topics range from the life of early Christian house churches to the kinds of challenges that early Christians needed to negotiate in their artistic and literary worlds as they established their own identity.

Contributors
Edward Adams
Frederick E Brenk
Warren Carter
John R. Clarke
Everett Ferguson
John T. Fitzgerald
Richard A. Freund
Ronald F. Hock
Robin M. Jensen
Davina C. Lopez
Margaret Y. Mac Donald
Abraham J. Malherbe
Aliou Cisse Niang
Peter Oakes
Todd Penner
Leo G. Perdue
Turid Karlsen Seim
Dennis E. Smith
Yancy W. Smith
Stephen V. Sprinkle
Hal Taussig
Oliver Larry Yarbrough

Om författaren

Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ, is archivist of the Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S.-Canada Province and former Professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, and Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. She is past president of the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature.