This Festschrift, presented to Hans Dieter Betz, brings together the work of major scholars of ancient religion and philosophy. Each essay engages a topic in ancient religion or philosophy through a close reading of some text, and creatively interacts with Betz's hermeneutical approaches to ancient literature and culture.
This volume pays tribute to the remarkable scholarship of Hans Dieter Betz, which has combined amazing range with consistency of vision. Defying the traditional boundaries of the academy, Hans Dieter Betz, Shailer Mathews Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has made significant contributions in the fields of New Testament, classics, church history, theology, and history of religions. This Festschrift brings together the work of major scholars of ancient religion and philosophy who are part of Betz's international circle of conversation. The volume also contains a complete bibliography of Hans Dieter Betz's publications from 1959 to 2000.
Table of contents:
Biblical and Hellenistic Jewish Literature: John J. Collins: Spells Pleasing to God. The Binding of Isaac in Philo the Epic Poet -
Tikva Frymer-Kensky: The End of the World and the Limits of Biblical Ecology -
Turid Karlsen Seim: Abraham, Ancestor or Archetype? A Comparison of Abraham-Language in 4 Maccabees and Luke-Acts
Early Christian Literature Adela Yarbro Collins: Jesus' Action in Herod's Temple -
Paul B. Duff: Vision and Violence. Theories of Vision and Matthew 5:27-30 -
Roy D. Kotansky: Jesus and the Lady of the Abyss (Mark 5:25-34). 'Hieros Gamos', Cosmogony, and the Elixir of Life -
Eung Chun Park: The Problem of the APOUSIA of Jesus in the Synoptic Resurrection Traditions -
Nils Alstrup Dahl and
David Hellholm: Garment-Metaphors: The Old and the New Human Being -
Ithamar Gruenwald: Paul and Ritual Theory. The Case of the 'Lord's Supper' in 1 Corinthians 10 and 11 -
J. Albert Harrill: Invective against Paul (2 Cor 10:10), the Physiognomics of the Ancient Slave Body, and the Greco-Roman Rhetoric of Manhood -
Helmut Koester: Paul's Letters as Theology for the Community -
Troy W. Martin: Live Unnoticed. An Epicurean Maxim and the Social Dimension of Col 3:3-4 -
John K. Riches: Theological Interpretation of the New Testament and the History of Religions. Some Reflections in the Light of Galatians 5:17 -
Antoinette Clark Wire: Reconciled to Glory in Corinth? 2 Cor 2:14-7:4 -
Lewis R. Donelson: Jude as Text with Excess of Context - A. J. Droge: Discerning the Body. Early Christian Sex and Other Apocryphal Acts -
Robert M. Grant: The Structure of Eucharistic Prayers -
Margaret M. Mitchell: Reading Rhetoric with Patristic Exegetes. John Chrysotom on Galatians -
Walter T. Wilson: Turning Words: James 4:7-10 and the Rhetoric of Repentance
Greco-Roman Philosophy and Religion Elizabeth Asmis: Choice in Epictetus' Philosophy -
Hubert Cancik and
Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier: The 'Pre-Existent Form' (Präexistenz-Form) of Christianity. Philological Observations Concerning Nietzsche's Early Construction of the History of Ancient Religions -
Christopher A. Faraone: A Collection of Curses against Kilns (Homeric Epigram 13.7-23) -
Elizabeth R. Gebhard: The Gods in Transit: Narratives of Cult Transfer -
Johan C. Thom: Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus and Early Christian Literature - Bibliography of Hans Dieter Betz
