Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and Rhetoric

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70199-1
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 194, 570 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 1118 g

Reihe: Novum Testamentum, Supplements

David P. Moessner has pioneered the study of early Christian narrative both through the investigation of the principles and methods of good storytelling outlined by ancient authors, and through the demonstration that Christians, especially the author of Luke-Acts, used these principles and methods in crafting their own stories. The contributors to this volume recognize Moessner’s enormously valuable research and warm collegiality with twenty-one essays on narrative hermeneutics, characterization, genre, intertextuality, and reception history. Several focus fittingly on Luke and Acts, while others press the implications of Moessner’s work for comprehension of the wider world of Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman storytelling.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Calhoun, Robert Matthew

Mitchell, Margaret M.

Nicklas, Tobias

Spittler, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

David P. Moessner’s Publications (1978–2023)

Introduction

Robert Matthew Calhoun, Margaret M. Mitchell, Tobias Nicklas and Janet E. Spittler

Part 1: Narrative Hermeneutics

1 Bending Time: Time and Eternity in the Fourth Gospel

Harold W. Attridge

2 The Beheading of John the Baptizer and the Mutilation of Masistes’s Wife (Mark 6:17–29, Esther, Josephus, Ant. 18.116–119, and Herodotus, Hist. 9.109–112)

Cilliers Breytenbach

3 Metalepsis in Narrative Charms and Miracle Stories

Robert Matthew Calhoun

4 Repetition and Narrative Progress: on the Arrangement of Doublets in the Gospel of Luke

Wolfgang Grünstäudl

5 Hopes of Resurrection in Greek Texts of Early Judaism

Narrative Theology in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve in Light of the Septuagint Translation of the Psalms, Sirach, and Job

Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr

6 Messianic Interpretation of Israel’s Scripture and the Recognition of Jesus’s Identity in Luke 24

Lidija Novakovic

7 Corpse Care in the Lukan Corpus: the Rhetoric of Ritual

Mikeal C. Parsons

Part 2: Characterization

8 Character Studies: What Theophrastus Could Have Learned from Luke

C. Clifton Black

9 Paul the Mystic in His Letters and Acts

Predrag Dragutinovic

10 Love and the Lukan Jesus

Jan G. van der Watt

11 Imperial Characters and Imperial Language in Luke-Acts

Michael Wolter

Part 3: Genre

12 Prioritizing Process over Product: toward a Genre of Matthew’s Gospel

Thomas R. Hatina

13 Is Acts History? The Dog That Didn’t Bark

Carl R. Holladay

14 Acts as a Construction of Social Memory

Daniel Marguerat

15 The Acts of Peter (Actus Vercellenses): a Jesus Christ Story?

Tobias Nicklas

16 The Bioi of Pythagoras as Gospels

Johan C. Thom

Part 4: Intertextuality and Reception History

17 The Form of God and the Emotional Qualities of Piety in the Greek Pseudo-Clementine Novel

Patricia A. Duncan

18 Reading the Rhetoric of Papias and Eusebius on Mark, Once More

Margaret M. Mitchell

19 The Lukan Character of Extensively Rewritten Passages in 127 and D05

Clare K. Rothschild

20 The Acts of Timothy, Luke’s Prologue, and Gospel Prologues: Accounts of the Composition of Early Christian Narratives

Janet E. Spittler

21 A Faint Echo of Acts with No Small Implication in Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho

Joseph Verheyden

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Matthew Calhoun, Ph.D. (2011), University of Chicago, is Research Assistant to the Bradford Chair at Texas Christian University. He has recently published articles on Pauline literature (both authentic and pseudepigraphic) and early Christian apotropaic practices.

Margaret M. Mitchell, Ph.D. (1989), is Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on and analyzes the development of an early Christian literary and religious culture, from the letters of Paul to the late fourth century.

Tobias Nicklas, Dr. theol. (2000), is Professor of New Testament and Director of the Centre of Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon" at Universität Regensburg, Germany. He is author of more than 250 scholarly publications centering, among other topics, on Christian apocrypha, early Christian Gospels, the Book of Revelation, Jewish-Christian Dialogue, and Biblical Hermeneutics.

Janet E. Spittler, Ph.D. (2007), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Her research centers around early Christian apocrypha, particularly the apocryphal acts of the apostles.