Crossing the Boundaries
Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honour of Michael D. Goulder
Edited by Stanley E. Porter, Paul Joyce and David E. Orton
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Biographical note
Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988) in Biblical Studies and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, is President, Dean and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario. He has published extensively in New Testament and related subjects. These include The Paul of Acts (1999) and the edited volume, with Jacqueline C.R. de Roo, The Concept of the Covenant in the Second Temple Period (Brill, 2003)
Paul M. Joyce, Ph.D. (1983), University of Oxford, formerly Lecturer in Theology in the University of Birmingham, is (from October 1994) Lecturer in Theology, University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford. His publications include Divine Initiative and Human Response in Ezekiel (1989).
David E. Orton, Ph.D. (Sheffield 1987), is Director of Deo Publishing. He is founding editor of a number of journals and book series, including the journal Biblical Interpretation and the Biblical Interpretation series, and he is translation editor of the English edition of RGG, Religion Past and Present. His own publications include The Understanding Scribe. Matthew and the Apocalyptic Ideal (1989, pbk 2004).
Paul M. Joyce, Ph.D. (1983), University of Oxford, formerly Lecturer in Theology in the University of Birmingham, is (from October 1994) Lecturer in Theology, University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford. His publications include Divine Initiative and Human Response in Ezekiel (1989).
David E. Orton, Ph.D. (Sheffield 1987), is Director of Deo Publishing. He is founding editor of a number of journals and book series, including the journal Biblical Interpretation and the Biblical Interpretation series, and he is translation editor of the English edition of RGG, Religion Past and Present. His own publications include The Understanding Scribe. Matthew and the Apocalyptic Ideal (1989, pbk 2004).
Readership
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and New Testament scholars and students, Theologians, Historians of Religion.
Reviews
'...this is a good collection of essays which form a worthy tribute to Michael Goulder.'
Maurice Casey, Theology, 1995.
Maurice Casey, Theology, 1995.
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The question ‘Which is the real Jesus’ is approached from different perspectives, illustrating the role the quest for the historical Jesus plays within a wider framework, including not only historical, but also philosophical and hermeneutical issues.
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In Revelation 21-22 in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Utopianism, Eric J. Gilchrest offers a creative and compelling reading of Revelation 21-22 as understood through the lenses of ancient Greco-Roman and Jewish utopianism.
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Ancient Jewish Interpreters read and rewrote the biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel to address various challenges to the identity of 'Israel' in the Second Temple and early rabbinic periods.
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Die Darstellung der erzählten Welten im Richterbuch zeigt anhand einer narratologische Analyse der einzelnen Erzählzyklen wie die (Re)konstruktion einer Epoche Israels in einem vielstimmigen Diskurs zwischen Bewunderung und Befremden entfaltet wird.
The analysis of the narrated worlds in the ...
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In The Questions of Jesus in John Douglas Estes crafts a theory of question-asking based on insights from ancient rhetoric and modern linguistics in order to investigate the logical and rhetorical purposes of Jesus' questions in the Fourth Gospel.
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In Prayer in the Gospels Mathias Nygaard offers a text-centred reading of the prayer materials of the Gospels. His approach provides for exegesis and theology in a single discussion.
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In Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the-world-as-it-ought- and -ought-not-to-be Abigail Pelham examines the perspectives on creation presented by Job’s characters and explores the challenges to their certainties about creative agency and power raised by its epilogue.
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Drawing on the Polanyian categories of reciprocity, redistribution and market trade, this book examines the exchange narratives within 1 and 2 Kings in an effort to clarify the nature of the economic structures behind the biblical text.
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Multiple and sometimes unexpected forms of closure in biblical narratives bring their stories to satisfactory close. Knowledge of these conventions and how they affect their stories is valuable to students of Bible and of narrative.
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