Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson (Studies in Christianity and Judaism, ESCJ 9)

633 Pages·2000·48.92 MB·English

by  Stephen G. Wilson

Studies in Christianity and Judaism /
Etudes sur Ie christianisme et Ie judai"sme
Studies in Christianity and Judaism / Etudes sur Ie christi a
nisme et Ie judalsme publishes monographs on Christianity
and Judaism in the last two centuries before the common
era and the first six centuries of the common era, with a
special interest in studies of their interrelationship or the
cultural and social context in which they developed.
GENERAL EDITOR: Peter Richardson University of Toronto
EDITORIAL BOARD: Paula Fredriksen Boston University
John Gager Princeton University
Olivette Genest Universite de Montreal
Paul-Hubert Poirier Universite Laval
Adele Reinhartz McMaster University
Stephen G. Wilson Carleton University
Studies in Christianity
and Judaism / E~ tudes sur Ie
christianisme et Ie judalsme: 9

STUDIES IN CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM /
ETUDES SUR LE CHRISTIANISME
ET LE JUDAISME
Number 9
TEXT AND ARTIFACT
IN THE RELIGIONS OF
MEDITERRANEAN ANTIQUITY
ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF
PETER RICHARDSON
Edited by
Stephen G. Wilson and Michel Desjardins
Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in
Religion / Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses
by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the
Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities.
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Main entry under title:
Text and artifact in the religions of Mediterranean antiquity: essays in honour
of Peter Richardson
(Studies in Christianity and Judaism", Etudes sur Ie christianisme
et Ie judaYsme ESCJ ; v. 9)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0-88920-356-3
1. Bible. N.T. - History of contemporary events. 2. Bible. N.T. - History of Biblical
events. 3. Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. 4. Bible. N.T.
Criticism, interpretation, etc. 5. Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.
A.D. 210 6. Jews in the New Testament. I. Wilson, Stephen G. II. Desjardins,
Michel Robert, 1951- . III. Richardson, Peter, 1935- . IV. Canadian Corporation
for Studies in Religion. V. Series.
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CONTENTS
Preface .................................................... xi
Partners in Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. xiii
Contributors ................................................ xv
Part One
Peter Richardson: Writer and Teacher
1. Giving to Peter What Has Belonged to Paul .................... 3
MICHEL DESJARDINS
2. The Professor's House .................................... 31
LAURENCE BROADHURST
Part Two
Text and Artifact in the New Testament World
3. Reading the Text and Digging the Past:
The First Audience of Romans ., ........................... , 35
LLOYD GASTON
4. Peter in the Middle: Galatians 2:11-21 ....................... 45
L. ANN JERVIS
5. Phoebe, the Servant-Benefactor and Gospel Traditions .......... 63
ROMAN GARRISON
6. Paul and the Caravanners:
A Proposal on the Mode of "Passing Through Mysia" ............ 74
ROBERT JEWETT
viii TEXT-AND ARTIFACT
7. Benefaction Gone Wrong:
The "Sin" of Ananias and Sapphira in Context ................. 91
RICHARD S. ASCOUGH
8. Isaiah 5: 1-7) the Parable of the Tenants
and Vineyard Leases on Papyrus ........................... 111
JOHN S. KLOPPENBORG VERBIN
9. The Parable of the Tenants
and the Class Consciousness of the Peasantry ................. 135
WILLIAM E. ARNAL
10. Placing Jesus of Nazareth:
Toward a Theory of Place in the Study of the Historical Jesus .... 158
HALVOR MOXNES
11. Irony, Text and Artifact:
Cross and Superscription in the Passion Narratives ............. 176
PAUL W. GOOCH
12. On the Relation of Text and Artifact:
Some Cautionary Tales ................................... 192
JAMES D. G. DUNN
Part Three
Text and Artifact in the World of Christian Origins
13. Physiotherapy of Femininity in the Acts of Theda .............. 209
WILLI BRAUN
14. Sex and the Single God:
Celibacy as Social Deviancy in the Roman Period .............. 231
CALVIN J. ROETZEL
15. "Good Luck on Your Resurrection";
Beth She'arim and Paul on the Resurrection of the Dead ........ 249
RICHARD N. LONGENECKER
CONTENTS ix
16. The Earliest Evidence of an Emerging Christian
Material and Visual Culture:
The Codex, the Nomina Sacra and the Staurogram ............. 271
LARRY W. HURTADO
17. The Aesthetic Origins of Early Christian Architecture .......... 289
GRAYDON F. SNYDER
18. "Ascent and Descent" in the Constantinian
Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ........................ 308
WENDY PULLAN
Part Four
Text and Artifact in the World of Late,Antique Judaism
19. Better Homes and Gardens:
Women and Domestic Space in the Books ofJudith and Susanna .... 325
ADELE REINHI\RTZ
20. Tyros, the "Floating Palace" ................................ 340
EHUDNETZER
21. OI IIOTE IOYMlOI:
Epigraphic Evidence for Jewish Defectors ...................... 354
STEPHEN G. WILSON
22. Jerusalem Ossuary Inscriptions and the Status
ofJ ewish Proselytes .. ".................................. 3 72
TERENCE L. OONALDSON
23. Behind the Names: Samaritans, loudaioi, Galileans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
SEAN FREYNE
24. Friendship and Second Temple Jewish Sectarianism .............. 402
WAYNE O. McCREADY
25. What Josephus Says about the Essenes in his Judean War .......... 423
STEVE MASON