Christian origins and the New Testament in the Greco-Roman context
Subtitle: essays in honor of Dennis R. MacDonald
By: edited by Margaret Froelich, Michael Kochenash, Thomas E. Phillips, and Ilseo Park
Contributors: MacDonald, Dennis Ronald, 1946-
Series: Claremont studies in New Testament & Christian origins -- 1; Claremont studies in New Testament & Christian origins -- 1.
Publisher: Claremont Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Claremont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781946230003
Subjects: Bible; Relation to the New Testament; Intertextuality in the Bible; Criticism, interpretation; New Testament; Greek literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Thomas E. Phillips -- Introduction / -- Margaret Froelich; title: Reconsidering Luke-Acts and Virgin's Aeneid: Negotiating Ethnic Legacies  -- Michael Kochenash; title: What has Galilee to do with Jerusalem?  -- Gregory Riley; title: Shabbat: An Epistemological Principle for Holiness, Sustainability, and Justice in the Pentateuch  -- Marvin A. Sweeney; title: Can Homer Be Read with Profit?  -- Richard I. Pervo; title: James 3:7-8, Genesis 1:26, and the Linguistic Register of the Letter of James  -- John S. Kloppenborg; title: Irony and Interpretability in Mark's Passion Narrative  -- Margaret Froelich; title: The Forgotten Playground  -- Matthew Ryan Hauge; title: When Did Paul Become a Christian? Rereading Paul's Autobiography in Galatians and Biography in Acts -- Thomas E. Phillips.