In The Lost Letters of Pergamum: a Story from the New Testament World (Baker Academic, $14.99) Bruce W. Longenecker writes an epistolary novel narrating the last year of Antipas's life (name from Rev 2:13) to illustrate the social, economic, and religious climate and attitudes of first-century people. The correspondence is between Antipas, a non-Jewish native of Pergamum and Calpurnius of Ephesus and Luke, resident in Calpurnius' home. The correspondence tells how Antipas, in ...