Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Early Christianity in Its Hellenistic Context: A Critical Survey of 20th Century Research -- Early Christianity in Its Jewish Context: A Brief Look at 20th Century Research -- Finding a Basis for Interpreting New Testament Ethos from a Greco-Roman Philosophical Perspective -- Some Issues behind the Ethics in the Qumran Scrolls and Their Implications for New Testament Ethics -- The Relevance of Jewish Inscriptions for New Testament Ethics -- The Importance of Hellenistic Judaism for the Study of Paul's Ethics -- "Ethical" Traditions, Family Ethos, and Love in the Johannine Literature -- Good As a Moral Category in the Early Jesus Tradition -- Ethics and Anthropology in the Letter of James: An Outline -- Essentials of Ethics in Matthew and the Didache: A Comparison at a Conceptual and Practical Level -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages -- Subject Index.