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Twenty-four scholars join their efforts to congratulate David Lee Balch for a long career of dedication to scholarship and teaching. Topics range from the life of early Christian house churches to the kinds of challenges that early Christians needed to negotiate in their artistic and literary worlds as they established their own identity.<br/><br/>Contributors<br/>Edward Adams<br/>Frederick E Brenk<br/>Warren Carter<br/>John R. Clarke<br/>Everett Ferguson<br/>John T. Fitzgerald<br/>Richard A. Freund<br/>Ronald F. Hock<br/>Robin M. Jensen<br/>Davina C. Lopez<br/>Margaret Y. MacDonald<br/>Abraham J. Malherbe<br/>Aliou Cisse Niang<br/>Peter Oakes<br/>Todd Penner<br/>Leo G. Perdue<br/>Turid Karlsen Seim<br/>Dennis E. Smith<br/>Yancy W. Smith<br/>Stephen V. Sprinkle<br/>Hal Taussig<br/>Oliver Larry Yarbrough