The Historical Jesus in context /
Amy-Jill Levine, Dale C. Allison Jr., and John Dominic Crossan, editors.
- Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press c2006
- x, 440 p. ; 24 cm.
- Princeton readings in regions .
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents: Archaeological contributions to the study of Jesus and the gospels / Jonathan Reed Josephus on John the Baptist and other Jewish prophets of deliverance/ Craig A. Evans Abba and Father: imperial theology in the contexts of Jesus and the gospels/ Mary Rose D'Angelo Miraculous conceptions and births in Mediterranean antiquity/ Charles H. Talbert First and second Enoch: a cry against oppression and the promise of deliverance/ George W.E. Nickelsburg Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls/ Peter Flint The Chreia/ David B. Gowler The Galilean Charismatic and Rabbinic peity: the holy man in the Talmudic literature/ Alan J. Avery-Peck Miracle stories: the God asclepius, the pythagorean philosophers, and the Roman rulers/ Wendy Cotter The Mithras liturgy/ Marvin Meyer Apluleius of Madauros/ Ian H. Henderson The parable in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic literature/ Gary G. Porton The Aesop tradition/ Lawrence M. Wills Targum, Jesus and the gospels/ Bruce Chilton The Psalms of Solomon/ Joseph L. Trafton Moral and ritual purity/ Jonathan Klawans Gospel and Talmud/ Herbert W. Basser Philo of Alexandria/ Gregory E. Sterling The law of Roman divorce in the Time of Christ/ Thomas A.J. McGinn Associations in the ancient world/ John S. Kloppenborg Anointing traditions/ Teresa J. Hornsby The Passover Haggadah/ Calum Carmichael Josephand Aseneth: Food as an identity marker/ Randall D. Chesnutt The Pliny and Trajan correspondence/ Bradley M. Peper and Mark DelCogliano Imitations of Greek Epic in the gospels/ Dennis R. MacDonald Narratives of Noble Death/ Robert Doran Isaiah 53:1--12 (Septuagint)/ Ben Witherington III Thallus on the crucifixion/ Dale C. Allison Jr.