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"Transactionalism in the Penitential Thought of Gregory the Great," Restoration Quarterly 21:1 (1978), 31-55.

"Scholars and Patrons: Christianity and High Society in Alexandria." Pp. 328-342 in CHRISTIAN TEACHING: Studies in Honor of LeMoine G. Lewis. Ed. E. Ferguson. Abilene, TX: ACU Press, 1981.

"Adolf Harnack and the 'Expansion' of Early Christianity: A Re-appraisal of Social History," The Second Century: A Journal of Early Christian Studies 5:2 (1985/86), 97-127.

"Sociological Analysis of Early Christian Groups: A Social Historian's Response," Sociological Analysis 47:3 (1986), 249-266.

"The Delos Synagogue Revisited: Recent Fieldwork in the Graeco-Roman Diaspora," Harvard Theological Review 80:2 (1987), 133-160.

"Scaling the Strongman's 'Court' (LK 11.21): An Index of Social Facets and Exegetical Implications," Foundations and Facets Forum 3:3 (1987), 3-28.

"Social Authority in the House Church and Ephesians 4.1-16," Restoration Quarterly 29:4 (1987), 209-228.

"Shifting Sectarian Boundaries in Early Christianity," Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 70:3 (1988), 7-24.

"Jews and Christians in a Roman World," (with E.M. Meyers) Archaeology 42:2 (1989), 26-33.

"Morality Between Two Worlds: A Paradigm of Friendship in Philippians." Pp. 201-215 in Greeks, Romans, and Christians: Essays in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe. Edited by D. L. Balch, W. A. Meeks, and E. Ferguson. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1990.

"Crisis Management and Boundary Maintenance: The Social Location of the Matthean Community." Pp. 211-247 in Social History of the Matthean Community: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches. Edited by D. L. Balch. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1991.

"Finding the Ties that Bind: Issues from Social Description." Pp. 3-23 in Social Networks in the Early Christian Environment: Issues and Methods for Social History. Edited by L. M. White. Semeia 56; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991.

"Social Networks: Theoretical Orientation and Historical Application." Pp. 24-38 in Social Networks in the Early Christian Environment (see above).

"Visualizing the 'Real' World of Acts 16: Toward Construction of a Social Index." Pp. 236-263 in The First Christians and Their Social World: Studies in Honor of Wayne A. Meeks. Edited by L.M. White and O.L. Yarbrough. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1995.

"Urban Development and Social Change in Imperial Ephesos." Pp. 27-79 in Ephesos Metropolis of Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to its Archaeology, Religion, and Culture. Edited by H. Koester. Harvard Theological Studies 41. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1995.

"Synagogue and Society in Imperial Ostia: Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence," Harvard Theological Review 90:1 (1997) 23-58.

"Regulating Fellowship in the Communal Meal: Early Jewish and Christian Evidence." Pp. 177-205 in Meals in a Social Context: Aspects of the Communal Meal in the Hellenistic and Roman World, ed. by I. Nielsen and H. Sigismund Nielsen Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity; Copenhagen: Aarhus University Press, 1998.

"Synagogue and Society in Imperial Ostia: Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence." Pp. 30-68 in Judaism and Christianity in First-Century Rome, edited by K.P. Donfried and P. Richardson Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

"Counting the Costs of Nobility: The Social Economy of Roman Pergamon," pp. 331-337 in Pergamon, Citadel of the Gods: Archaeological and Historical Studies, ed. by H. Koester Harvard Theological Studies; Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1998 331-371.

"Reading the Ostia Synagogue: A Reply to A. Runesson," Harvard Theological Review 92:4 (1999) 435-464.

"Early Christian Architecture: The First Five Centuries." pp. 693-746 in The Early Christian World, edited by P.E. Esler. London: Routledge, 2000.

"A Measure of Parresia: The State of the Manuscript of PHerc. 1471." In Philodemus and the New Testament World, edited by J.T. Fitzgerald, D. Obbink, and G. Holland. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000 (forthcoming).

"Rhetoric or Reality in Galatians: The Social Demands of Friendship," in Early Christianity and Classical Culture: New Studies of Christian Beginnings, edited by J.T. Fitzgerald, T.H. Olbricht, and L.M. White. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2000 (forthcoming).

"The Washing of Adam in the Acherusian Lake (Greek Life of Adam and Eve 37.3) in the Context of Early Christian Notions of the Afterlife" (with M. de Jonge) in ibid.

"Quod est comparandum: Classical Parallels and the 'Backgrounds' of Early Christianity" (with J.T. Fitzgerald) in ibid.

ARTICLES IN PREPARATION

"Moral Pathology: Body, Soul, and Passions in Clement of Alexandria and his Contemporaries," to appear in Control of the Passions in the Hellenistic and Early Christian World, edited by J.T. Fitzgerald and L.M. White (forthcoming).