Esther Kobel is professor of New Testament at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.Jo-Ann A. Brant is professor emeritus of Bible, Religion and Philosophy at Goshen College, USA.Meredith Warren is senior lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies and Director of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK.

• List of ContributorsAbbreviations Introduction Part I. Gospel of John Chapter One: Befriending the Beloved Disciple Requires Interventions - Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, USAChapter Two: Intimacy with Jesus: Construction of Closeness by Gender Diversity in John - Peter Wick, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, GermanyChapter Three: Was Pilate a “Friend of the Emperor? (John 19:12)? - Ruben Zimmermann, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, GermanyChapter Four: John among the Synoptics? Understanding the Institutional World of the Fourth Gospel in Light of Other Early Gospels - Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, NorwayChapter Five: False Friends in the First Gospel - R. Alan Culpepper, Mercer University, USAPart II. Letters of PaulChapter Six: “Put Out of the Synagogue”: A Pauline Unpacking of a Johannine Trope - Paula Fredriksen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelChapter Seven: Befriending Paul: The Letter to Philemon as a Test Case - Esther Kobel, University of Basel, SwitzerlandChapter Eight: Paul’s “Beloved” Friends - Stephen Westerholm, McMaster University, USAChapter Nine: “As to the Law—a Pharisee” (Phil 3:5c): Do We Have a Friend in Paul? - Kathy Ehrensperger, The University of Potsdam, GermanyChapter Ten: The Wet Nurse as a Model for Communal Relationships in 1 Thessalonians - Margaret MacDonald, Saint Mary’s University, CanadaPart III. Further Texts and Contexts in Jewish AntiquityChapter Eleven: Wine, Dine, and Bind: Sacrificial Food and Community Formation in Asia Minor - Meredith J. C. Warren, The University of Sheffield, UK and Shayna Sheinfeld, Augsburg University, USAChapter Twelve: Socializing with the Impure (or Not): Interactions and Impurity in Late Second Temple Judaism - Cecilia Wassén, Uppsala University, SwedenChapter Thirteen: How to be Better Neighbors: Rewriting the Conquest in Greek Terms - Albert I. Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University, IsraelChapter Fourteen: Negotiating National and Sectarian Identities in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of Words of the Luminaries and the Ya?ad’s Covenant Ceremony - Esther Chazon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelPart IV. Scriptures on the Silver Screen 2.0Chapter Fifteen: Lovers or (Just) Friends? Jesus and Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of John and in Film - Caroline Vander Stichele, Tilburg University, the NetherlandsChapter Sixteen: What a Friend We Have In Jesus: A Consideration of Jesus as Friend in Jesus Films - Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USAChapter Seventeen: Dividing the Red Soup: An Antimodel in Bruce Almighty - Jan Willem van Henten, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsChapter Eighteen: The Quick and the Dead in Film Treatments of the Raising of Lazarus - Jo-Ann A. Brant, Goshen College, USACollated Bibliography Reinhartz Bibliography Index

[These] essays not only honor Adele Reinhartz’s legacy but also extend her influence into new domains of inquiry. Her commitment to critical intertextuality, ethical reading, and interdisciplinary engagement is evident throughout ... [This book] testifies to the enduring value of scholarship that is both critically rigorous and intellectually generous.