Full Description
Anatomies of the Gospels and Beyond is an edited volume structured around essays that focus on one of the four canonical Gospels (and Acts) and/or theoretical issues involved in literary readings of New Testament narrative. The volume is intended to honor the legacy of R. Alan Culpepper, Emeritus Professor and Former Dean at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology. The title of the volume (which alludes to the title of Culpepper's ground-breaking monograph, Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel) and the breadth of the essays are apt reflections of his research interests over his academic career of over forty years. The twenty-six contributors are internationally recognized experts in New Testament studies; thus, the essays represent a snapshot of current research.
Contents
List of Contributors
R. Alan Culpepper: Selected Publications and Presentations
Prologue
Introduction
Mikeal C. Parsons, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon and Paul N. Anderson
R. Alan Culpepper: A Tribute
Mikeal C. Parsons
Gospel of Matthew
1 From Isaiah 40:3 to Matthew 3:3—Intertextuality and Traditionsgeschichte
M. Eugene Boring
2 Turning the Other Cheek to a Perpetrator: Renunciation or Upholding of Justice?
Lidija Novakovic
3 Oeuvre Mouvante: The Gospels as Living Traditions
Edwin K. Broadhead
4 So What's the Story? The Role of Plot in Reading Matthew's Gospel
David L. Barr
5 Jesus was a Refugee: Reception of Matthew 2:13-23
Janice Capel Anderson
Gospel of Mark
6 Mark: John's Photographic Negative
C. Clifton Black
7 Placing Bethsaida: From Mark to Matthew and Luke to John
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
8 Teaching the Gospel of Mark in Rome
Robert M. Fowler
9 From Markan Narrative in Print to Markan Narrative in Performance: A Paradigm Shift
David Rhoads
10 Do You not Yet Trust God's Rule Breaking in on Earth? The Disciples in Mark
Joanna Dewey
Gospel of Luke
11 Illuminating "Christ Among the Doctors" (Luke 2:41-52) in the Exegetical Tradition and Select Florentine Renaissance Paintings
Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons
12 Disability and Dis-ease: Body, Restoration, and Ethics of Reading in Luke's Gospel
John T. Carroll
13 The Parable of the Minas in Lukan Context: Jesus and Kingship, the Carnivalesque, and Intertextuality
Robert L. Brawley
14 Murmuring Sophists: Extratextual Elements in Luke's Portrayal of Pharisees
John A. Darr
15 Breathing New Life into Narrative Criticism: Postclassical Narratology and the Gospel of Luke
Michal Beth Dinkler
Gospel of John
16 Jesus, God of Old and Newcomer: Rhetorical Character Presentation in John 1-2
Kasper Bro Larsen
17 Stereotypes, In-Groups, and Out-Groups in the Gospel of John
Jan G. van der Watt
18 There Are No "Aporias": Ancient Media Culture and the Problem of the Fourth Gospel's Composition-History
Tom Thatcher
19 How Johannine Signs Signify (or Don't)
Harold W. Attridge
20 The Fourth Gospel: A "Spiritual" or "Theological" Gospel
John Painter
For Beyond the Gospels
21 The Children of God and the Son of God in the Johannine Gospel and Epistles
Stan Harstine
22 Fictive Kinship and Its Symbolism in the Literary Structures of 1 John
Dorothy A. Lee
23 Discovering Psalm 156 and Its Importance for Early Judaism and Christian Origins
James H. Charlesworth
24 Encounter, Dissonance, and Reflection in the Dialectical Development of Paul's Theology
Paul N. Anderson
25 Sit and Listen; Go and Do: The Parables of the Good Samaritan and Prodigal Son in Howard Thurman's Life and Thought
David B. Gowler
Epilogue
A Closing Tribute to R. Alan Culpepper
Gail R. O'Day
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources
