Text and artifact in the religions of Mediterranean antiquity : essays in honour of Peter Richardson / edited by Stephen G. Wilson and Michel Desjardins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richardson, Peter, 1935-

Wilson, S. G. (Stephen G.)

Desjardins, Michel R. (Michel Robert), 1951-

Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.

Series:

Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; no. 9.

Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; no. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Richardson, Peter, 1935-.

Richardson, Peter.

Bible. New Testament--History of contemporary events.

Bible.

Bible. New Testament--History of Biblical events.

Bible. New Testament.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

History.

Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).

Jews in the New Testament.

History of Biblical events.

History of contemporary events.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 612 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2000]

Contents:

Part 1 Peter Richardson: Writer and Teacher

1. Giving to Peter What Has Belonged to Paul / Michel Desjardins 3

2. The Professor's House / Laurence Broadhurst 31

Part 2 Text and Artifact in the New Testament World

3. Reading the Text and Digging the Past: The First Audience of Romans / Lloyd Gaston 35

4. Peter in the Middle: Galatians 2:11-21 / L. Ann Jervis 45

5. Phoebe, the Servant-Benefactor and Gospel Traditions / Roman Garrison 63

6. Paul and the Caravanners: A Proposal on the Mode of "Passing Through Mysia" / Robert Jewett 74

7. Benefaction Gone Wrong: The "Sin" of Ananias and Sapphira in Context / Richard S. Ascough 91

8. Isaiah 5:1-7, the Parable of the Tenants and Vineyard Leases on Papyrus / John S. Kloppenborg Verbin 111

9. The Parable of the Tenants and the Class Consciousness of the Peasantry / William E. Arnal 135

10. Placing Jesus of Nazareth: Toward a Theory of Place in the Study of the Historical Jesus / Halvor Moxnes 158

11. Irony, Text and Artifact: Cross and Superscription in the Passion Narratives / Paul W. Gooch 176

12. On the Relation of Text and Artifact: Some Cautionary Tales / James D. G. Dunn 192

Part 3 Text and Artifact in the World of Christian Origins

13. Physiotherapy of Femininity in the Acts of Thecla / Willi Braun 209

14. Sex and the Single God: Celibacy as Social Deviancy in the Roman Period / Calvin J. Roetzel 231

15. "Good Luck on Your Resurrection": Beth She'arim and Paul on the Resurrection of the Dead / Richard N. Longenecker 249

16. The Earliest Evidence of an Emerging Christian Material and Visual Culture: The Codex, the Nomina Sacra and the Staurogram / Larry W. Hurtado 271

17. The Aesthetic Origins of Early Christian Architecture / Graydon F. Snyder 289

18. "Ascent and Descent" in the Constantinian Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem / Wendy Pullan 308

Part 4 Text and Artifact in the World of Late-Antique Judaism

19. Better Homes and Gardens: Women and Domestic Space in the Books of Judith and Susanna / Adele Reinhartz 325

20. Tyros, the "Floating Palace" / Ehud Netzer 340

21. OI IIOTE IO[gamma] [Delta]AIOI: Epigraphic Evidence for Jewish Defectors / Stephen G. Wilson 354

22. Jerusalem Ossuary Inscriptions and the Status of Jewish Proselytes / Terence L. Donaldson 372

23. Behind the Names: Samaritans, Ioudaioi, Galileans / Sean Freyne 389

24. Friendship and Second Temple Jewish Sectarianism / Wayne O. McCready 402

25. What Josephus Says about the Essenes in his Judean War / Steve Mason 423

26. The Archaeological Artifacts of Masada and the Credibility of Josephus / William Klassen 456

27. Mishnah's Rhetoric, Other Material Artifacts of Late-Roman Galilee and the Social Formation of the Early Rabbinic Guild / Jack N. Lightstone 474

Part 5 Text and Artifact in the Greco-Roman World

28. Some Thoughts on Theurgy / Alan F. Segal 505

29. Apuleius to Symmachus (and Stops in Between): Pietas, Realia and the Empire / Harold Remus 527

30. Apuleius the Novelist, Apuleius the Ostian Householder and the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres: Further Explorations of an Hypothesis of Filippo Coarelli / Roger Beck 551.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0889203563 :

OCLC:

43791250