The Library of New Testament Studies

Paul and Asklepios

The Greco-Roman Quest for Healing and the Apostolic Mission

Christopher D. Stanley, St Bonaventure University, USA This volume explores the reasons for Paul's silence on health, medical care and healing in his letters, and what we might reasonably infer regarding Paul’s views on the subjects. Christopher D. Stanley focuses in particular on two questions that have been neglected in previous scholarship on the apostle Paul: first, what did Paul think, say, and do regarding the treatment of his own and his followers’ illnesses and injuries, including “pagan” modes of medical care? And second, how did his ideas on this subject affect the success of his missionary enterprise?

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 288 pages HB 9780567696557 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567696588 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567696564 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Atonement and Ethics in 1 John

A Peacemaking Hermeneutic

Christopher Armitage, St. Mark's National Theological Centre, Australia Christopher Armitage considers previous theological perceptions of 1 John as a text which stresses that God abhors violence. Armitage contrasts such views with biblical scholarship that focuses upon 1 John's birth from hostile theological conflict between 'insiders' and 'outsiders'. The volume argues that a peace-oriented reading of 1 John is still viable, but questions if the commandment that the community loves each other is intended to include their opponents, and whether the text can be of hermeneutic use to advocate non-violence and love of one’s neighbour.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 240 pages PB 9780567700780 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567700742 ePub 9780567700773 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567700759 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Relating the Gospels

Memory, Imitation and the Farrer Hypothesis

Eric Eve, Harris Manchester College, UK Presenting a defence of the Farrer Hypothesis, Eric Eve argues that a flexible understanding of memory easily explains Luke's use of Matthean material out of sequence. Eve also introduces ancient literary imitation as a mode of source utilization into discussion of the synoptic problem, drawing insights from this to suggest that Luke's gospel is best seen as an emulation of Matthew. Using a framework based in an understanding of how ancient authors used their sources, Eve concludes that the Farrer hypothesis is the most likely answer to the synoptic problem.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 240 pages PB 9780567699060 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567681102 ePub 9780567681140 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567681119 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark Reading Obedience in Romans

Jason A. Myers, Greensboro College, USA A reconsideration of the phrase “the obedience of faith” and the theme of obedience in Romans. In contrast to previous studies that have near exclusively focused on the obedience language in light of the Hebrew Bible and 2nd Temple literature, Myers instead investigates how this language functioned within the Greco-Roman world, particularly in the discourse of the Roman Empire. He also explores how some in Paul’s audience may have understood the language of obedience.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 240 pages HB 9780567705839 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567705860 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567705846 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter

Who You Are No Longer

Janette H. Ok, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA Janette Ok explores the benefits and liabilities of defining Christian identity along ethnic lines, challenging the Christian acceptance of geopolitical rhetorics of protecting borders, building walls, and keeping out illegal or unwanted immigrants. She examines how the writer of 1 Peter makes use of various literary and rhetorical strategies to characterize Christian Identity as an ethnic identity, including establishing a sense of shared history and ancestry, delineating boundaries, stereotyping and negatively characterizing 'the other'. Ok thus is able to highlight how these strategies bear striking resemblances to what modern anthropologists and sociologists describe as the characteristics of ethnic groups.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 136 pages PB 9780567698544 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567698506 ePub 9780567698537 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567698513 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark

Religious Experience and the Creation of Scripture

Examining Inspiration in Luke-Acts and Galatians

Mark Wreford, Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, UK Mark Wreford examines the reasons that prompted the New Testament writers to create the texts which would become the formation of the Christian religion. Wreford explores the possibility that certain religious experiences were understood as revelatory, and consequently inspired the writing of texts which were seen as special from their inception. Wreford uses Luke-Acts and Galatians as test-cases within the New Testament, in order to reflect on both the stated importance of religious experiences – whether the author’s own or others’ – to the development of these texts, and the status of the texts intend to claim for themselves.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 224 pages PB 9780567698698 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780567696632 ePub 9780567696663 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780567696649 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark