Paul, Luke and the Graeco-Roman World

Essays in Honour of Alexander J.M. Wedderburn

Essays in Honor of
Alexander J.M. Wedderburn

edited by

Alf Christophersen, Carsten Claussen, Jörg Frey and Bruce Longenecker

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

Supplement Series 217

Copyright © 2002 Sheffield Academic Press

First published in 2002 by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd, a Continuum imprint.

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Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Part I

Paul

Heikki Räisänen

Did Paul Expect an Earthly Kingdom?

Richard H. Bell

The Myth of Adam and the Myth of Christ in Romans 5:12–21

Robert Jewett

Impeaching God’s Elect: Romans 8.33–37 in its Rhetorical Situation

Margaret E. Thrall

The Initial Attraction of Paul’s Mission in Corinth and of the Church He Founded There

Oda Wischmeyer

Paul’s Religion: A Review of the Problem

Hans Klein

Craftsmanship Assumptions in Pauline Theology

Christina Hoegen-Rohls

Κτίσις and καινὴ κτίσις in Paul’s Letters

Ferdinand Hahn

Observations on the Soteriology of the Letters to the Colossians and Ephesians

Part II

Luke

David E. Aune

Luke 1.1–4: Historical or Scientific Prooimion?

David P. Moessner

Dionysius’s Narrative ‘Arrangement’ (οἰκονομία) as the Hermeneutical Key to Luke’s Re-Vision of the ‘Many’

Stanley E. Porter

The Reasons for the Lukan Census

Christian Wolff

Λαλεῖν γλώσσαις in the Acts of the Apostles

Part III

Graeco-Roman World

Richard Bauckham

Paul and Other Jews with Latin Names in the New Testament

Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn

The Qumran Meal and the Lord’s Supper in Paul in the Context of the Graeco-Roman World

Part IV

In Dialogue with A.J.M. Wedderburn

James D.G. Dunn

Beyond the Historical Impasse?

In Dialogue with A.J.M. Wedderburn

A.J.M. Wedderburn: Publications

Index of References

Index of Authors

Preface

Sandy Wedderburn is known to his friends as a man of very dry wit, and to the academy as a first-class scholar (and the two adjectives are not interchangeable!). He is the kind of academician who works quietly away on a significant issue that has caught his attention and then publishes a notable monograph that cuts a clear pathway ahead. The most obvious example of this is his ground-breaking Baptism and Resurrection: Studies in Pauline Theology against its Graeco-Roman Background (WUNT, 44; Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1987), which is peerless in its field and is unlikely to be overshadowed by any other work in the near future. ...