Benjamin H. Dunning/Laura S. Nasrallah: Introduction
I. Categories
Daniel Boyarin: Mark 7:1-23-Finally - Elaine Pagels: How John of Patmos' Readers Made Him into a Christian - T. Christopher Hoklotubbe: What is Docetism - Giovanni B. Bazzana: Beyond "Gnosticism": Pneumatology and Ecclesiology in 2 Clem 14 - Judith Hartenstein: The Designation "Gnostic" for the Gospel of Mary and Its Implications: A Critical Evaluation - Marcie Lenk: Parted Ways Meet Again: Messianic Judaism in Israel - Sarah Sentilles: As If the Way We Think about the World is the Way the World Is
II. Women and Gender
Carly Daniel-Hughes: Mary Magdalene and the Fantasy Echo: Reflections on the Feminist Historiography of Early Christianity - Adele Reinhartz: Wise Women in the Gospel of John - Angela Standhartinger: Performing Salvation: The Therapeutrides and Job's Daughters in Context - Margaret Butterfield: The Widow, the Wife, and the Priestess: Tertullian's Life Plans for Widows in Ad uxorem - Silke Petersen: Marriages, Unions, and Bridal Chambers in the Gospel of Philip - Taylor G. Petrey: Cosmic Gender: Valentinianism and Contested Accounts of Sexual Difference - Ronit Irshai: Feminist Research in Jewish Studies: What's in a Name?
III. Historiography
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza: Re-Visioning "Christian" Beginnings - Stanley Stowers: Locating the Religion of Associations - Carlin Barton: A Roman Historian Looking at Early Christian religiones: the coniuratio and the sacramentum in Second and Early Third-century North Africa - Denise Kimber Buell: This Changes Everything: Spiritualists, Theosophists, and Rethinking Early Christian Historiography - Bernadette Brooten: Courage, Betrayal, and the Roman State: Persons Enslaved to Christians in the Persecution at Lyons (177 CE) - AnneMarie Luijendijk: The Gospel of Mary at Oxyrhynchus (P.Oxy. L 3525 and P.Ryl. III 463): Rethinking the History of Early Christianity through Literary Papyri from Oxyrhynchus