Worth More Than Many Sparrows

Sarah E Rollens is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College. Patrick Hart is is a professor in the Religious Studies department at University of Alberta. Sarah E Rollens is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College. Patrick Hart is is a professor in the Religious Studies department at University of Alberta.

• IntroductionSarah E. Rollens and Patrick Hart 1. Partaking in the Great Supper of God: Figuring Birds in the Apocalypse of JohnSarah E. Rollens 2. Authority and Canon: I Fight Authority, but Does Authority Always Win? Patrick Hart 3. Ornitheology Francis Landy, University of Alberta 4. Shipwrecked on a Desert Island: The Barren Isolation of “Christian Origins”William Arnal, University of Regina 5. The Ontological and Zoomorphic Semiotics of Two Hellenistic Saviour Deities ComparedDarlene Juschka, University of Regina 6. From Liturgy to Polemic and Back: Social Identity Issues in the Use of Two PsalmsSteven Muir, Concordia University of Edmonton 7. “The Spirit Descended like a Dove”: Bird Divination, Carrier Pigeons, and the Baptism of JesusJennifer Eyl, Tufts University 8. Syriac Dialogue Hymns and New ComedyRobyn Faith Walsh, University of Maimi 9. Diamonds and Rust: Q, Mythic Marcion, and the (De)Contextualization of Divine WisdomGlen Fairen, Oklahoma State University 10. The Past as Simulacrum: Shifting Our Focus in Studying “Religion” in the Ancient WorldVaia Touna, University of Alabama11. The Corinthian Funerary Cultural Context and Baptism on Behalf of the Dead Ritual Mark Wheller, University of Alberta 12. Reconstructing Socio-Cultural Institutions in the Gospel of MarkAllan Wright, Universit of Alberta 13. “After This, Nothing Happened”: Historical Vulnerability and the End of (Cultural) Time in the Gospel of MarkJohn Parrish, University of Alberta 14. Farm to (School)table: The Cultivation of Paideia in the Gospel of Thomas Ian P. Brown, University of Regina 15. Transgressing New Testament Classrooms with Thecla Anna Cwikla, University of Toronto