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Tricia Gates Brown employs the methodology of socio-scientific biblical criticism to investigate the pneumatology of John and 1 John. She argues that the meaning of spirit in John and 1 John is best understood using the anthropological model of brokerage.

Although many scholars acknowledge the importance of Luke 17:22-37, few agree on the precise meaning of the enigmatic proverb which forms its conclusion. Bridge's investigation into the meaning and function of Luke 17:37 provides the basis for his re-assessment of Lukan eschatology.

This study of a Markan genre, represented in Mark 8.27-10.4, covers Greek, rabbinic and early Christian literature, with comparison to the anecdotes in Lucian's "Demonax" and the "Mishnah". It concludes that the Markan anecdotes follow the definition of, and typologies for, the Greek chreia.

Employing classical rhetorical analysis, this book examines how Paul structures a deliberative argument using his understanding of the "cross of Christ". It claims that while Paul has a "theology of the death of Jesus", this terminology is used almost exclusively in polemical/conflictual contexts.

Challenging gnosticizing interpretations of the letter, Terry Griffith explores how the polemic against idols was variously used in Jewish and Christian circles to define self-identity and the limits of community. He shows that the rhetoric of 1 John is not polemical, but pastoral.

Having presented a brief history of research on 2 Corinthians, Eve-Marie Becker outlines the process of Paul''s communication with the Corinthian community and considers letter-production and letter-reception at the time. She develops a "literary-historical" model for reconstructing the original separate letters (1.1-7.4; 7.5-16; 8--9; 10--13) which were later compiled to form the canonical letter. She defines - by means of linguistics and communication theory - the central theoretical elements for Pauline letter-hermeneutics.There is a thorough exegesis of those parts of 2 Corinthians in which Paul formulates aspects of his hermeneutics, based on the theory of letter-hermeneutics and on the results of the "literary-historical" reconstruction of the original form of 2 Corinthians. There is also an examination of the reception and interpretation of 2 Corinthians in the early church.This is volume 279 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series.

This book is of particular interest to scholars whose interest is in New Testament, historical Jesus, hermeneutics and historiography study.

Where and why does Luke include references in Acts to Graeco-Roman gods and religious practices? How do these explicit and implicit mentions relate to other literature, inscriptions and artifacts from the same period? Through a close and informative reading of seven key texts in Acts, Kauppi analyses the appearances of Graeco-Roman.

The book is, primarily, a linguistic investigation into the possibility that the Johannine farewell discourse is the product of multiple hands. L. Scott Kellum uses the latest linguistic tools and applies them to the very old question of unity. In doing so, he accesses a large portion of Continental scholarship that is currently unavailable to English speakers. He concludes, on linguistic and literary grounds, that John 13:31-16:33 (the so-called farewell discourse) was written by one man at, essentially, one time.

"[This] is a timely topic, one that has not yet been dealt with. Miller writes clearly and competently. The first chapter sets out her method, which draws from both literary critical and feminist work. She then treats the women of Mark’s Gospel in sequence. Her work will provide a helpful supplement to the standard commentaries. It will also be useful in women’s studies classes, and provides a nice example of a balanced feminist interpretation of the Gospels." -Dr. Alan Culpepper, Mercer University, Atlanta.Miller examines the accounts of women in Mark’s gospel and interprets them in relation to Mark’s definition of discipleship and his understanding of new creation.

Undertaking a sequential reading of the "Prologue of John's Gospel", this book highlights several aspects of the reading process: ambiguity and disambiguation; resemanticization; antilanguage; community development; and intertextuality. It also discusses the role of the reading process in developing a specific community language.

Siew seeks to examine the events that will unfold within the three and a half years before the dawn of the kingdom of God on earth. He argues that John composed the textual unit of Rev 11:1--14:5 as a coherent and unified literary unit structured in a macro-chiasm. He pays special attention to the fusion of form and content and seeks to elucidate how the concentric and chiastic pattern informs the meaning of the literary units within 11:1--14:5, and proposes that the text of 11:1--14:5 is best analyzed using Hebraic literary conventions, devices, and compositional techniques such as chiasm, parallelism, parataxis, and structural parallelism. The macro-chiastic pattern provides the literary-structural framework for John to portray that the events of the last three and a half years unfold on earth as a result of what transpires in heaven. Specifically, the war in heaven between Michael and the dragon has earthly ramifications. The outcome of the heavenly war where Satan is defeated and thrown out of heaven to earth results in the war on earth between the two beasts of Rev 13 and the two witnesses of Rev 11. The narrative of the war in heaven (12:7-12) is seen as the pivot of the macro-chiastic structure. Siew pays close attention to the time-period of the three-and-a-half years as a temporal and structural marker which functions to unite the various units in 11:1--14:5 into a coherent and integral whole. The events of the last days will be centred in Jerusalem.

The fifth in a series exploring the use of rhetoric in the study of biblical literature, this volume has essays on the theory of rhetoric and biblical interpretation and the rhetorical interpretation of Luke's Gospel and Acts, Paul's writings, Hebrews and Ignatius.