Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Stanley K. Stowers: historian, theorist, teacher, colleague
  • I. Theory and history of interpretation. Reassessing "religious practices": a reflection on sociological notions and vocabulary / Adriana Destro
  • Fixed texts, sociohistorical contexts, and hermeneutical implications / John T. Fitzgerald
  • The rehabilitation of Paul in Jewish tradition / John G. Gager
  • Daily devotions: Stowers's modes of religion meet Tertullian's ad Uxorem / Caroline Johnson Hodge
  • "Normally non-observable": some thoughts on cognitive science, theory of religion, practice theory, and gender / Ross S. Kraemer
  • Theorizing circumstantially dependent rites in and out of war contexts / Saul M. Olyan
  • The beginning of historical research on Jesus in the modern age / Mauro Pesce
  • Toward a typology of religious experts in the ancient Mediterranean / Daniel Ullucci
  • II. Israelite religion and ancient Judaism. Revising a myth: the Targum of Psalm 74 and the Exodus tradition / Debra Scoggins Ballentine
  • [Ḥataʼat] as "sin offering": a reconsideration / William K. Gilders
  • Biblical beauty: Hebrew, Greek, and Latin / David Konstan
  • Artifact burial in the ancient Near East / Nathaniel B. Levtow
  • Home is where the hearth is? A consideration of Jewish household sacrifice in antiquity / Jordan D. Rosenblum
  • Jew or Judaean? / Michael L. Satlow
  • Vandals or pilgrims? Jews, travel culture, and devotional practice in the Pan Temple of Egyptian El-Kanais / Karen B. Stern
  • Beyond apocalyptic dualism: ranks of divinities in 1 Enoch and Daniel / Emma Wasserman
  • III. Greco-Roman world. Wine and spirits: observations on the Athenian anthesteria / Nathaniel DesRosiers
  • The moralizing of discourse in Greco-Roman associations / John S. Kloppenborg
  • When size matters: social formations in the early Roman Empire / Luther H. Martin
  • Tailoring rhetoric: verbalizing philosophical dress in the Second Sophistic / Arthur P. Urbano
  • "Thus the sage constantly reminds himself": personal epistolary paraenesis in Galen and Paul / L. Michael White
  • IV. Early Christianity. Blessed are the solitary: textual practices and the mirage of a Thomas "community" / William Arnal
  • Redescribing the religion of Hebrews / Pamela Eisenbaum
  • Philosophy and ideology in John 9-10 / Troels Engberg-Pedersen
  • Christians who sacrifice and those who do not? Discursive practices, polemics, and ritualizing / Karen L. King
  • Peter's daughter--daddy dearest? / Christopher R. Matthews
  • History writing, Paul's "opponents," and 1 Corinthians 4:8 / Erin Roberts
  • The sounds of silence: hearing the music in Pauline assemblies / Richard A. Wright.