Research Catalog

Title

The Word leaps the gap : essays on Scripture and theology in honor of Richard B. Hays / edited by J. Ross Wagner, C. Kavin Rowe & A. Katherine Grieb.

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Hays, Richard B.
• Wagner, J. Ross.
• Rowe, Christopher Kavin, 1974-
• Grieb, A. Katherine.

Description

xxii, 710 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This is a collection of essays to celebrate Richard Hays' 60th birthday. It is written by colleagues and friends whose scholarly imaginations have been sparked in numerous ways by his insights.

Subject

• Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible
• Bibel
• Bibelwissenschaft
• Exegese
• Analys och tolkning

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Why "the way the words run" matters: reflections on becoming a "major biblical scholar" / Stanley Hauerwas -- Echoes of the ancient Near East?: intertextuality and the comparative study of the Old Testament / Christopher B. Hays -- On interpreting the mind of God: the theological significance of the flood narrative (Genesis 6-9) / Walter Moberly -- The book of Tobit and the canonical ordering of the Book of the Twelve / Gary A. Anderson -- Faithfulness and fear, stumbling and salvation: receptions of LXX Isaiah 8:11-18 in the New Testament / J. Ross Wagner -- Idolatry in the New Testament / Joel Marcus -- Healing in the wings of His garment: the Synoptics and Malachi 4:2 / Dale C. Allison Jr. -- See my tears: a lament for Jerusalem (Luke 13:31-35; 19:41-44) / Bruce N. Fisk -- "Managing the audience": the rhetoric of authorial intent and audience comprehension in the narrative epistemology of Polybius of Megalopolis, Diodorus Siculus, and Luke the evangelist / David P. Moessner -- "In our own languages": Pentecost, Babel, and the shaping of Christian community in Acts 2:1-13 / Joel B. Green -- Saul/Paul: onomastics, typology, and Christian Scripture / Stephen B. Chapman -- The book of Acts and the cultural explication of the identity of God / C. Kavin Rowe -- "They bear witness to me": the Psalms in the Passion narrative of the gospel of John / Marianne Meye Thompson -- John and Thomas in context: an exercise in canonical criticism / Luke Timothy Johnson -- The historical figure of Jesus in 1 John / D. Moody Smith -- Did Paul's theology develop? / E.P. Sanders -- [Ek pisteos]: a key to the meaning of [pistis Christou] / James D.G. Dunn -- An echo of Scripture in Paul, and its implications / Douglas A. Campbell -- From toxic speech to the redemption of doxology in Paul's letter to the Romans / Beverly Roberts Gaventa -- Manna and the circulation of grace: a study of 2 Corinthians 8:1-15 / John M.G. Barclay -- Imitating Christ imitating us: Paul's educational project in Philippians / Susan Eastman -- Resurrection and the limits of Paulinism / Francis Watson -- Faith, virtue, justification, and the journey to freedom / N.T. Wright -- The conversion of desire in St. Paul's hermeneutics / Markus Bockmuehl -- Walking through the word of God: Gregory of Nazianzus as a biblical interpreter / Brian E. Daley -- The domestication of prophecy in the early Reformation / David C. Steinmetz -- The bard and the book: Shakespeare's interpretation of Scripture / A. Katherine Grieb -- Is Matthew Arnold also among the prophets?: a Victorian critic interprets Paul / Leander E. Keck -- Neither devils nor angels: peace, justice, and defending the innocent: a response to Richard Hays / Allen Verhey -- The poetics of generosity / Ellen F. Davis -- A resting place / Sarah Hays Coomer -- The Christian practice of growing old: the witness of Scripture / Richard B. Hays and Judith C. Hays.

ISBN

• 9780802863560
• 0802863566
• 9780802879134
• 0802879136

LCCN

2008039496

OCLC

• ocn221160528
• 221160528
• SCSB-1504920

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library