Pauline Conversations in Context: Essays in Honor of Calvin J. Roetzel

Description

The "conversations" in this collection open by challenging ideas that have become standard and subjecting them to critical re-examination. The central thread of all these essays is a reflection on the processes of reading and theologizing. Many focus on the relation of Paul to the energetic and complex Judaism of the 1st century, and one reads the Gospel of John in this light. Others highlight eschatology. Among the contributors to this volume are David E. Aune, Jouette Bassler, Daniel Boyarin, Neil Elliott, Victor Paul Furnish, Lloyd Gaston, Steven J. Kraftchick, Robert C. Morgan, J. Andrew Overman, Mark Reasoner, Peter Richardson, and Robin Scroggs. Juanita Garciagodoy and David H. Hopper offer appreciations of Calvin Roetzel as a teacher and colleague.

University of Idaho. Philip Sellew teaches in the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Claudia Setzer is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY

"This book honoring Calvin Roetzel contains many stimulating essays on seemingly disparate topics...[T]his particular Festschrift, given the wide range of issues examined between its covers, merits close examination from the scholarly community."" -Matthe" * Blurb from reviewer *