David C. Sim is Associate Professor in Theology at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia.

Professor Pauline Allen is Research Associate at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Introduction Pauline Allen
Part I: Jewish Texts
Chapter 1: Living under Foreign Rule: Josephus on the Art of Compromised Defiance, James S. McLaren
Chapter 2: Coping with the Present by Reinventing the Future: Apocalyptic Texts as Crisis Management Literature David C. Sim
Part II: New Testament Texts
Chapter 3: Fighting on all Fronts: Crisis Management in the Gospel of Matthew David C. Sim
Chapter 4: Luke-Acts and the World Stage: Crisis Strategies in the Lukan Double Work Elizabeth Dowling
Chapter 5: Nicodemus: Discovering Possibilities in a Time of Crisis in the Gospel of John Mary Coloe
Chapter 6: Setting the Record Straight in Galatia: Paul's Use of the Letter as a Crisis Management Tool Ian J. Elmer
Chapter 7: Death as Social Disintegration: Pauline Strategies of Eschatological Existence in 1 Thessalonians David Luckensmeyer
Part III: Late Antique Christian Texts
Chapter 8: The Letters of John Chrysostom as Evidence of Episcopal Crisis Management Wendy Mayer
Chapter 9: The Roman Response to the Ecclesiastical Crises in the Antiochene Church in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries Geoffrey D. Dunn
Chapter 10: Cyril of Alexandria's Responses to Crisis: The Evidence of His Festal Letters Pauline Allen
Chapter 11: Leo the Great's Use of Social Exclusion as a Response to Crisis Bronwen Neil
Chapter 12: Response Strategies to Crisis in the Letters of Fulgentius of Ruspe Stephen Lake
Conclusions David C. Sim