Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and Rhetoric

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.

• AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsDavid P. Moessner’s Publications (1978–2023)IntroductionRobert Matthew Calhoun, Margaret M. Mitchell, Tobias Nicklas and Janet E. SpittlerPart 1: Narrative Hermeneutics1 Bending Time: Time and Eternity in the Fourth GospelHarold W. Attridge2 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 Breytenbach3 Metalepsis in Narrative Charms and Miracle StoriesRobert Matthew Calhoun4 Repetition and Narrative Progress: on the Arrangement of Doublets in the Gospel of LukeWolfgang Grünstäudl5 Hopes of Resurrection in Greek Texts of Early JudaismNarrative Theology in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve in Light of the Septuagint Translation of the Psalms, Sirach, and JobKarl-Wilhelm Niebuhr6 Messianic Interpretation of Israel’s Scripture and the Recognition of Jesus’s Identity in Luke 24Lidija Novakovic7 Corpse Care in the Lukan Corpus: the Rhetoric of RitualMikeal C. ParsonsPart 2: Characterization8 Character Studies: What Theophrastus Could Have Learned from LukeC. Clifton Black9 Paul the Mystic in His Letters and ActsPredrag Dragutinović10 Love and the Lukan JesusJan G. van der Watt11 Imperial Characters and Imperial Language in Luke-ActsMichael WolterPart 3: Genre12 Prioritizing Process over Product: toward a Genre of Matthew’s GospelThomas R. Hatina13 Is Acts History? The Dog That Didn’t BarkCarl R. Holladay14 Acts as a Construction of Social MemoryDaniel Marguerat15 The Acts of Peter (Actus Vercellenses): a Jesus Christ Story?Tobias Nicklas16 The Bioi of Pythagoras as GospelsJohan C. ThomPart 4: Intertextuality and Reception History17 The Form of God and the Emotional Qualities of Piety in the Greek Pseudo-Clementine NovelPatricia A. Duncan18 Reading the Rhetoric of Papias and Eusebius on Mark, Once MoreMargaret M. Mitchell19 The Lukan Character of Extensively Rewritten Passages in 127 and D05Clare K. Rothschild20 The Acts of Timothy, Luke’s Prologue, and Gospel Prologues: Accounts of the Composition of Early Christian NarrativesJanet E. Spittler21 A Faint Echo of Acts with No Small Implication in Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with TryphoJoseph VerheydenIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Modern Authors