James R. Harrison investigates how Paul's letter to the Romans might have been heard by an audience in Neronian Rome by examining the material and ideological culture of the city and setting prominent Pauline themes in juxtaposition with Roman ideological themes. Harrison's breakout book Paul's Language of Grace in Its Graeco-Roman Context and his follow-up on the imperial cult in Thessalonica provided a well-powered two stage launch for New Testament students on their voyage back to the world of Paul and the first hearers of his letters. Now Harrison's Reading Romans with Roman Eyes offers a slingshot boost and focus in trajectory to first century Rome and the letter Paul sent there. Reading Romans with Roman Eyes is without peer in the way it offers a stereoscopic consideration of both Jewish and Roman cultural perspectives by means of literary, archaeological, epigraphic, iconographic, and numismatic evidence. This balance of perspectives and accompanying range of evidence is unmatched by anyone else studying Romans today. With the release of Reading Romans with Roman Eyes, Harrison has become a patron of many, especially those seeking to understand Romans in its first century contexts.