Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and Rhetoric : A Festschrift for David P. Moessner

Calhoun, Robert Matthew (EDT); Mitchell, Margaret M. (EDT); Nicklas, Tobias (EDT); Spittler, Janet E. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 9004701990 / ISBN 13: 9789004701991

Published by Brill, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and Rhetoric : A Festschrift for David P. Moessner
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004701990
• ISBN 13: 9789004701991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

David P. Moessner has pioneered the study of early Christian narrative both through the investigation of the principles and methods of good storytelling outlined by ancient authors, and through the demonstration that Christians, especially the author of Luke-Acts, used these principles and methods in crafting their own stories. The contributors to this volume recognize Moessner’s enormously valuable research and warm collegiality with twenty-one essays on narrative hermeneutics, characterization, genre, intertextuality, and reception history. Several focus fittingly on Luke and Acts, while others press the implications of Moessner’s work for comprehension of the wider world of Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman storytelling.

About the Author

Robert Matthew Calhoun, Ph.D. (2011), University of Chicago, is Research Assistant to the Bradford Chair at Texas Christian University. He has recently published articles on Pauline literature (both authentic and pseudepigraphic) and early Christian apotropaic practices.

Margaret M. Mitchell, Ph.D. (1989), is Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on and analyzes the development of an early Christian literary and religious culture, from the letters of Paul to the late fourth century.

Tobias Nicklas, Dr. theol. (2000), is Professor of New Testament and Director of the Centre of Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon" at Universität Regensburg, Germany. He is author of more than 250 scholarly publications centering, among other topics, on Christian apocrypha, early Christian Gospels, the Book of Revelation, Jewish-Christian Dialogue, and Biblical Hermeneutics.

Janet E. Spittler, Ph.D. (2007), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Her research centers around early Christian apocrypha, particularly the apocryphal acts of the apostles.