Preface -- Introduction: Social and Cognitive Perspectives in the Study of Christian Origins and Early Judaism (Petri Luomanen, Ilkka Pyysiäinen, and Risto Uro) -- PART ONE THE PROMISE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION -- The Promise of Cognitive Science for the Study of Early Christianity (Luther H. Martin) -- The Mystery of the Stolen Body: Exploring Christian Origins (Ilkka Pyysiäinen) -- The Emergence of Early Christian Religion: A Naturalistic Approach (István Czachesz) -- A Cognitive Approach to Ritual Systems in First-Century Judaism (Kimmo Ketola) -- Gnostic Rituals from a Cognitive Perspective (Risto Uro) -- PART TWO CONCEPTUAL BLENDING IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY -- Conceptual Blending in the Exegesis on the Soul (Hugo Lundhaug) -- Conceptual Blending and Early Christian Imagination (Vernon K. Robbins) -- PART THREE SOCIO-COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO CHRISTIAN ORIGINS AND EARLY JUDAISM -- The Sociology of Knowledge, the Social Identity Approach and the Cognitive Science of Religion (Petri Luomanen) -- "Remember My Fetters": Memorialisation of Paul's Imprisonment (Philip F. Esler) -- Social Identities and Group Phenomena in Second Temple Judaism (Raimo Hakola) -- Social Identity in the Qumran Movement: The Case of the Penal Code (Jutta Jokiranta) -- Epilogue (Troels Engberg-Pedersen) -- Index.