Introduction -
Bart J. Koet/Edwina Murphy/Murray J. Smith:
1. Presbyters, Not Priests: The Early Church and Its Contexts
Old Testament
Katherine Davis:
2. Zaqenim in the Torah -
Gregory Goswell:
3. Zaqenim in the Former Prophets, Chronicles, and Ezra-Nehemiah -
Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen:
4. Zaqenim in the Latter Prophets -
Susan Docherty:
5. Presbuteroi in the Septuagint
Jewish and Greco-Roman Background
Albert Hogeterp:
6. Zaqenim in the Qumran Text -
Lydia Gore-Jones:
7. Sages as Elders in 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch -
Gregory E. Sterling:
8. When the Younger is the Older: Presbuteros in Philo of Alexandria -
Lyn M. Kidson:
9. Elders in Documentary Sources -
Arco den Heijer:
10. Presbuteroi in Greek and Roman Prose Literature from the Turn of the Eras -
Michael P. Theophilos:
11. Presbuteroi in Light of Numismatic Inscriptional Evidence
New Testament
Gudrun Guttenberger:
12. Presbuteroi in the Gospel of Mark -
Bart J. Koet:
13. Presbuteroi in the Writings of Flavius Josephus and in Luke-Acts: Acts 20:17-35 Revisited -
Murray J. Smith:
14. Presbuteroi in Paul's Letters to Timothy and Titus: God's Stewards, Entrusted with the Gospel for the Church and its Mission -
Benjamin L. Merkle:
15. Presbuteroi in the Catholic Epistles -
Hanna Roose:
16. Presbuteroi in the Book of Revelation: A Window into John's Ecclesiology and Eschatology
Early Church
L. L. Welborn:
17. Presbyters in First Clement -
Allen Brent:
18. Presbuteroi in Ignatius -
Paul F. Bradshaw:
19. Presbyters in the Apostolic Tradition -
Stephen C. Carlson:
20. The Presbuteroi in Papias -
Mark Grundeken:
21. Presbuteroi in the Shepherd of Hermas -
Charles E. Hill:
22. Presbyters in Justin and Irenaeus -
Annewies van den Hoek:
23. Presbuteroi in Clement of Alexandria -
Anni Maria Laato:
24. Presbyters in Tertullian and the
Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis
Conclusion -
Frances M. Young
: Presbyters: Now and Then
