Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations vii
Foreword Richard B. Hays xi
Foreword N. T. Wright xv
Editors' Preface xxi
Select Bibliography of Publications James D. G. Dunn xxv
Part I Jesus and The Gospels
1 Written Islands in an Oral Stream: Gospel and Oral Traditions James F. McGrath 3
2 Debtors, Laborers and Virgins: The Voice of Jesus and the Voice of Matthew in Three Parables Stephen I. Wright 13
3 Jesus' Message of the Kingdom of God: Present and Future Tensions Revisited Jey J. Kanagaraj 24
4 Sinner According to Words of the Law, Righteous by Works of Love: Boundary Challenges in Relation to the Woman Who Anoints Jesus (Luke 7:36-50) Ellen Juhl Christiansen 35
5 Jesus and Magic in Luke-Acts Graham H. Twelftree 46
6 Barabbas Remembered Helen K. Bond 59
7 Judas and the Jews: Anti-Semitic Interpretation of Judas Iscariot, Past and Present Arie W. Zwiep 72
8 Jews or Christians? The Opponents of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel J. Martin C. Scott 83
9 New Testament Christology in Recent British Scholarship: A Sketch of Distinctives and Debates Simon J. Gathercole 102
10 The Worship of Jesus among Early Christians: The Evidence of Hebrews Kenneth L. Schenck 114
Part II Paul and His Letters
11 Inheriting the Agitator's Mantle: Paul and the Nature of Apostleship in Luke-Acts C. K. Robertson 127
12 Running in Vain, but Not as an Athlete (Galatians 2:2): The Impact of Habakkuk 2:2-4 on Paul's Apostolic Commission B. J. Oropeza 139
13 Of 'Doing' and 'Living': The Intertextual Semantics of Leviticus 18:5 in Galatians and Romans Douglas C. Mohrmann 151
14 Israel's Triumphant King: Romans 1:5 and the Scriptures of Israel Don Garlington 173
15 Paul and Ethnicity: The Paradigm of Glocalization Lung-kwong Lo 184
16 The Cheirograph in Colossians 2:14 and the Ephesian Connection Allan R. Bevere 199
17 The Epistle to Philemon: Paul's Strategy for Forging the Ties of Kinship John Byron 207
About the Contributors 217
Scripture Index 221
Subject Index 230
Author Index 235
