From Judaism to Christianity: Tradition and Transition. A Festschrift for Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday

Contents: Interpretive disagreements and the ontology of a text : scandal or possibility? / Robert A. Di Vito -- Q ārā ʼ and ʻ ānā in the Hebrew Scriptures / Pauline A. Viviano -- The Dead Sea scrolls and Jewish-Christian dialogue / Eileen Schuller -- Artapanus revisited / John J. Collins -- Exegetical building blocks in Philo ’s interpretation of the patriarchs / Ellen Birnbaum -- Exegetical traditions in Alexandria : Philo’s reworking of the Letter of Aristeas 145-149 as a case study / Hans Svebakken -- The Second Temple and the arts of resistance / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Mammona iniquitatis : can we make sense of the parable of the dishonest steward? / Edmondo Lupieri -- Galatians 3:28 and the problem of equality in the church and society / David E. Aune -- "Welcome him as you would welcome me" (Philemon 17) : does Paul call for virtue or the actualization of a vision? / Wendy Cotter -- The god transformed : Greco-Roman literary antecedents to the Incarnation / Lawrence DiPaolo, Jr. -- The Johannine literature and Gnosticism : new light on their relationship? / Urban C. von Wahlde -- The Acts of John and the Fourth Gospel / Harold W. Attridge -- Christ, the church, and the shape of scripture : what we can learn from patristic exegesis / Brian E. Daley. Read More: http://books.google.co.il/books?id=1Znh4qkWR4IC&printsec=frontcover&hl=iw#v=onepage&q&f=false