1. Introduction
Section I: Modeling Christ Groups
2. Greco-Roman philosphic, religious, and voluntary associations
3. Paul, synagogues, and associations: Reframing the question of models for Pauline Christ Groups
4. Voluntary associations and the formation of Pauline Christian communities: Overcoming the objections
5. Translocal relationships among voluntary associations and Early Christianity
6. "Map-maker, map-maker, make me a map ...": Redescribing Greco-Roman "Elective Social Formations"
7. The Thessalonian Christian community as a professional voluntary association
8. Matthew and community formation
Section II: Recruitment
9. Redescribing the Thessalonians "Mission" in light of Greco-Roman associations
10. Defing community-ethos in light of the 'Other': Recruitment rhetoric among Greco-Roman associations
11. "A place to stand, a place to grow": Architectural and epigraphic evidence for expansion in Greco-Roman associations
Section III: Meals and Memorials
12. Forms of commensality in Greco-Roman associations
13. Social and political charateristics of Greco-Roman association meals
14. The Apostolic decree of Acts and Greco-Roman associations: Eating in the shadow of the Roman Empire
15. A question of death: Paul's community-building language in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
16. Of memories and meals: Greco-Roman associations and the early Jesus-group at Thessalonikē
17. Benefaction gone wrong: The "sin" of Ananias and Sapphira in context.