Method and Meaning

Biographical note Table of contents

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Biographical note

Andrew B. McGowan is Warden and President of Trinity College, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne College of Divinity. He is author of Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals (Clarendon) and co-editor of God in Early Christian Thought: Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson (Brill).

Kent Harold Richards is Executive Director Emeritus of the Society of Biblical Literature and was Professor of Old Testament. He is currently serving as pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Mystic, CT, and is president of a consulting firm, Strategy Points, Inc. He is the co-author of Interpreting Hebrew Poetry (Augsburg Fortress) and co-editor of Second Temple Studies 2: Temple Community in the Persian Period (Sheffield Academic Press) and Method Matters: Essays on the Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David L. Petersen (Society of Biblical Literature).

Bibliography of the Works of Harold W. Attridge
Abbreviations
Many Methods: The Diversity of New Testament Scholarship, Andrew B.
McGowan and Kent Harold Richards

1 T exts and Method
Historical Jesus Research: The Challenge of Sources and Methods,
Craig A. Evans
Form Criticism and New Testament Interpretation,
Edgar V. McKnight
Source Criticism of Acts,
Joseph B. Tyson
Redaction Criticism in Theory and Practice,
Adela Yarbro Collins
Textual Criticism and New Testament Interpretation,
Eldon Jay Epp
Narrative Criticism of the New Testament,
David Rhoads
Oral Communication, Oral Performance, and New Testament Interpretation,
Richard A. Horsley
The Synoptic Gospels as Social History,
James M. Robinson
The Synoptic Problem: John the Baptist and Jesus,
Mark Goodacre
Ancient Rhetorical and Epistolary Theory: Second Corinthians as Deliberative Discourse,
Thomas D. Stegman, S.J.
Rhetorical Criticism in Hebrews Scholarship: Avenues and Aporias,
Gabriella Gelardini
Apocalyptic and New Testament Interpretation,
David E. Aune
God and Planning: Footprints of Providence in Acts and in the Acts of Paul,
Richard I. Pervo

2 Context and Method
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament: The Case of the Suffering Servant,
John J. Collins
Gnosticism and the New Testament: The Apocryphon of James (NHC I,2) from Nag Hammadi,
Elaine Pagels
Jewish Apocrypha and the New Testament,
James VanderKam
Traditions about Mary in the Apocryphal New Testament,
J. Keith Elliott
Ancient Philosophy and the New Testament: “Exemplar” as Example,
David T. Runia
Hellenistic Judaism and the New Testament,
Thomas H. Tobin, S.J.
The Spirit of the Letter: Scriptural Interpretation in the Early Church,
Rowan A. Greer
Marcion and the New Testament,
Judith M. Lieu
The New Testament and Its Palestinian Background: Essaying Mark’s Gospel,
Sean Freyne
Romans 1:23 and Greco-Roman Religion,
Everett Ferguson

3 M ethod and Meaning
Did Jesus Confess His Sins at Baptism? Evidence from the Book of Tobit,
Gary A. Anderson
Judean Ethnic Identity and the Purpose of Hebrews,
Philip F. Esler
Gender and the Body of Christ: Problems in 1 Corinthians,
Pheme Perkins
Reflections on the Canon, Its Origins, and New Testament Interpretation,
James Hamilton Charlesworth
New Testament Studies and Postcolonialism: Placing Johannine Studies within the Discourse,
Francisco Lozada, Jr.

List of Contributors
Index of Sources
Author Index

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