"The one who sows bountifully"
Subtitle: essays in honor of Stanley K. Stowers
By: edited by Caroline Johnson Hodge, Saul M. Olyan, Daniel Ullucci, Emma Wasserman
Series: Brown Judaic studies -- no. 356
Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Providence, Rhode Island
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781930675872
Subjects: Judaism; Influence; History; Church history; Civilization, Greco-Roman; Christianity and culture
Other titles: Essays in honor of Stanley K. Stowers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface:; title: Stanley K. Stowers: historian, theorist, teacher, colleague -- -- I. Theory and history of interpretation.; title: Reassessing "religious practices": a reflection on sociological notions and vocabulary  -- Adriana Destro; title: Fixed texts, sociohistorical contexts, and hermeneutical implications  -- John T. Fitzgerald; title: The rehabilitation of Paul in Jewish tradition  -- John G. Gager; title: Daily devotions: Stowers's modes of religion meet Tertullian's ad Uxorem  -- Caroline Johnson Hodge; title: "Normally non-observable": some thoughts on cognitive science, theory of religion, practice theory, and gender  -- Ross S. Kraemer; title: Theorizing circumstantially dependent rites in and out of war contexts  -- Saul M. Olyan; title: The beginning of historical research on Jesus in the modern age  -- Mauro Pesce; title: Toward a typology of religious experts in the ancient Mediterranean -- Daniel Ullucci-- II. Israelite religion and ancient Judaism.; title: Revising a myth: the Targum of Psalm 74 and the Exodus tradition  -- Debra Scoggins Ballentine; title: [Ḥataʼat] as "sin offering": a reconsideration  -- William K. Gilders; title: Biblical beauty: Hebrew, Greek, and Latin  -- David Konstan; title: Artifact burial in the ancient Near East  -- Nathaniel B. Levtow; title: Home is where the hearth is? A consideration of Jewish household sacrifice in antiquity  -- Jordan D. Rosenblum; title: Jew or Judaean?  -- Michael L. Satlow; title: Vandals or pilgrims? Jews, travel culture, and devotional practice in the Pan Temple of Egyptian El-Kanais  -- Karen B. Stern; title: Beyond apocalyptic dualism: ranks of divinities in 1 Enoch and Daniel  -- Emma Wasserman -- III. Greco-Roman world.; title: Wine and spirits: observations on the Athenian anthesteria  -- Nathaniel DesRosiers; title: The moralizing of discourse in Greco-Roman associations  -- John S. Kloppenborg; title: When size matters: social formations in the early Roman Empire -- Luther H. Martin; title: Tailoring rhetoric: verbalizing philosophical dress in the Second Sophistic  -- Arthur P. Urbano; title: "Thus the sage constantly reminds himself": personal epistolary paraenesis in Galen and Paul  -- L. Michael White -- IV. Early Christianity.; title: Blessed are the solitary: textual practices and the mirage of a Thomas "community"  -- William Arnal; title: Redescribing the religion of Hebrews  -- Pamela Eisenbaum; title: Philosophy and ideology in John 9-10  -- Troels Engberg-Pedersen; title: Christians who sacrifice and those who do not? Discursive practices, polemics, and ritualizing  -- Karen L. King; title: Peter's daughter--daddy dearest?  -- Christopher R. Matthews; title: History writing, Paul's "opponents," and 1 Corinthians 4:8  -- Erin Roberts; title: The sounds of silence: hearing the music in Pauline assemblies -- Richard A. Wright.