The One Who Sows Bountifully: Essays In Honor Of Stanley K. Stowers Essays In Honor Of Stanley K. Stowers

This festschrift honors the work of Stanley K. Stowers, a renowned specialist in the field of Pauline studies and early Christianity, on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and retirement from Brown University. The collection includes twenty-eight essays on theory and history of interpretation, Israelite religion and ancient Judaism, the Greco-Roman world, and early Christinity, a preface honoring Stowers, and a select bibliography of his publications. Preface: Stanley K. Stowers: Historian, Theorist, Teacher, Colleague -- I. Theory And History Of Interpretation. Reassessing Religious Practices: A Reflection On Sociological Notions And Vocabulary / Adriana Destro -- Fixed Texts, Sociohistorical Contexts, And Hermeneutical Implications / John T. Fitzgerald -- The Rehabilitation Of Paul In Jewish Tradition / John G. Gager -- Daily Devotions: Stowers's Modes Of Religion Meet Tertullian's Ad Uxorem / Caroline Johnson Hodge -- Normally Non-observable: Some Thoughts On Cognitive Science, Theory Of Religion, Practice Theory, And Gender / Ross S. Kraemer -- Theorizing Circumstantially Dependent Rites In And Out Of War Contexts / Saul M. Olyan -- The Beginning Of Historical Research On Jesus In The Modern Age / Mauro Pesce -- Toward A Typology Of Religious Experts In The Ancient Mediterranean / Daniel Ullucci -- Ii. Israelite Religion And Ancient Judaism. Revising A Myth: The Targum Of Psalm 74 And The Exodus Tradition / Debra Scoggins Ballentine -- [Ḥataʼat] As Sin Offering: A Reconsideration / William K. Gilders -- Biblical Beauty: Hebrew, Greek, And Latin / David Konstan -- Artifact Burial In The Ancient Near East / Nathaniel B. Levtow -- Home Is Where The Hearth Is? A Consideration Of Jewish Household Sacrifice In Antiquity / Jordan D. Rosenblum -- Jew Or Judaean? / Michael L. Satlow -- Vandals Or Pilgrims? Jews, Travel Culture, And Devotional Practice In The Pan Temple Of Egyptian El-kanais / Karen B. Stern -- Beyond Apocalyptic Dualism: Ranks Of Divinities In 1 Enoch And Daniel / Emma Wasserman -- Iii. Greco-roman World. Wine And Spirits: Observations On The Athenian Anthesteria / Nathaniel Desrosiers -- The Moralizing Of Discourse In Greco-roman Associations / John S. Kloppenborg -- When Size Matters: Social Formations In The Early Roman Empire / Luther H. Martin -- Tailoring Rhetoric: Verbalizing Philosophical Dress In The Second Sophistic / Arthur P. Urbano -- Thus The Sage Constantly Reminds Himself: Personal Epistolary Paraenesis In Galen And Paul / L. Michael White -- Iv. Early Christianity. Blessed Are The Solitary: Textual Practices And The Mirage Of A Thomas Community / William Arnal -- Redescribing The Religion Of Hebrews / Pamela Eisenbaum -- Philosophy And Ideology In John 9-10 / Troels Engberg-pedersen -- Christians Who Sacrifice And Those Who Do Not? Discursive Practices, Polemics, And Ritualizing / Karen L. King -- Peter's Daughter--daddy Dearest? / Christopher R. Matthews -- History Writing, Paul's Opponents, And 1 Corinthians 4:8 / Erin Roberts -- The Sounds Of Silence: Hearing The Music In Pauline Assemblies / Richard A. Wright. Edited By Caroline Johnson Hodge, Saul M. Olyan, Daniel Ullucci, Emma Wasserman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. I. Theory and History of Interpretation Adriana Destro: Reassessing “Religious Practices”: A Reflection on Sociological Notions and Vocabulary John T. Fitzgerald: Fixed Texts, Sociohistorical Contexts, and Hermeneutical Implications John G. Gager: The Rehabilitation of Paul in Jewish Tradition Caroline Johnson Hodge: Daily Devotions: Stowers’s Modes of Religion Meet Tertullian’s ad Uxorem Ross S. Kraemer: “Normally Non-Observable”: Some Thoughts on Cognitive Science, Theory of Religion, Practice Theory, and Gender” Saul M. Olyan: Theorizing Circumstantially Dependent Rites In and Out of War Contexts Mauro Pesce: The Beginning of Historical Research on Jesus in the Modern Age Daniel Ullucci: Toward a Typology of Religious Experts in the Ancient Mediterranean II. Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism Debra Scoggins Ballentine: Revising a Myth: The Targum of Psalm 74 and the Exodus Tradition William K. Gilders: חטאת as “Sin Offering”: A Reconsideration David Konstan: Biblical Beauty: Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Nathaniel B. Levtow: Artifact Burial in the Ancient Near East Jordan D. Rosenblum: Home Is Where the Hearth Is?: A Consideration of Jewish Household Sacrifice in Antiquity Michael L. Satlow: Jew or Judaean? Karen B. Stern: Vandals or Pilgrims? Jews, Travel Culture, and Devotional Practice in the Pan Temple of Egyptian El-Kanais Emma Wasserman: Beyond Apocalyptic Dualism: Ranks of Divinities in 1 Enoch and Daniel III. Greco-Roman World Nathaniel DesRosiers: Wine and Spirits: Observations on the Athenian Anthesteria John S. Kloppenborg: The Moralizing of Discourse in Greco-Roman Associations Luther H. Martin: When Size Matters: Social Formations in the Early Roman Empire Arthur P. Urbano: Tailoring Rhetoric: Verbalizing Philosophical Dress in the Second Sophistic L. Michael White: “Thus the Sage constantly reminds himself”: Personal Epistolary Paraenesis in Galen and Paul IV. Early Christianity William Arnal: Blessed are the Solitary: Textual Practices and the Mirage of a Thomas “Community” Pamela Eisenbaum: Redescribing the Religion of Hebrews Troels Engberg-Pedersen: Philosophy and Ideology in John 9–10 Karen L. King: Christians Who Sacrifice and Those Who Do Not? Discursive Practices, Polemics, and Ritualizing Christopher R. Matthews: Peter’s Daughter—Daddy Dearest? Erin Roberts: History Writing, Paul’s “Opponents,” and 1 Corinthians 4:8 Richard Wright: The Sounds of Silence: Hearing the Music in Pauline Assemblies