Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-328) and indexes.

Philippian (pre)occupations and peopling possibilities: an introduction / Joseph A. Marchal -- Priestesses and other female cult leaders at Philippi in the early Christian era / Valerie Abrahamsen -- The economic situation of the Philippian Christians / Peter Oakes -- Collaboration of "Samothrakiasts" and Christians in Philippi / Eduard Verhoef -- Response: broadening the socioeconomic and religious context at Philippi / Richard S. Ascough -- Letter from prison as hidden transcript: what it tells us about the people at Philippi / Angela Standhartinger -- Slaves as wo/men and unmen: reflecting upon Euodia, Syntyche, and Epaphroditus in Philippi / Joseph A. Marchal -- Response / Antoinette Clark Wire -- Out-howling the cynics: reconceptualizing the concerns of Paul's audience from his polemic in Philippians 3 / Mark D. Nanos -- An alternative community and an oral encomium: traces of the people in Philippi / Robert L. Brawley -- Determining what is best: the campaign for fair food and the nascent assembly in Philippi / Noelle Damico and Gerardo Reyes Chavez -- Response: a component community of an alternative society / Richard A. Horsley.