The Word Leaps the Gap

Essays on Scripture and Theology in Honor of Richard B. Hays

Edited by

J. Ross Wagner

C. Kavin Rowe

&

A. Katherine Grieb

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.

© 2008 William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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Published 2008 by

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Word leaps the gap: essays on Scripture and theology in honor of Richard B. Hays / edited by J. Ross Wagner, C. Kavin Rowe & A. Katherine Grieb.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8028-6356-0 (cloth: alk. paper)

1. Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Hays, Richard B. II. Wagner, J. Ross. III. Rowe, Christopher Kavin, 1974– IV. Grieb, A. Katherine.

BS511.3.W665 2008

220.6—dc22

2008039496

www.eerdmans.com

Richard B. Hays

Contents

for richard hays

George Hobson

contributors

abbreviations

editors’ preface

Why “The Way the Words Run” Matters: Reflections on Becoming a “Major Biblical Scholar”

Stanley Hauerwas

Echoes of the Ancient Near East? Intertextuality and the Comparative Study of the Old Testament

Christopher B. Hays

On Interpreting the Mind of God: The Theological Significance of the Flood Narrative (Genesis 6–9)

Walter Moberly

The Book of Tobit and the Canonical Ordering of the Book of the Twelve

Gary A. Anderson

Faithfulness and Fear, Stumbling and Salvation: Receptions of LXX Isaiah 8:11–18 in the New Testament

J. Ross Wagner

Idolatry in the New Testament

Joel Marcus

Healing in the Wings of His Garment: The Synoptics and Malachi 4:2

Dale C. Allison Jr.

See My Tears: A Lament for Jerusalem (Luke 13:31–35; 19:41–44)

Bruce N. Fisk

“Managing the Audience”: The Rhetoric of Authorial Intent and Audience Comprehension in the Narrative Epistemology of Polybius of Megalopolis, Diodorus Siculus, and Luke the Evangelist

David P. Moessner

“In Our Own Languages”: Pentecost, Babel, and the Shaping of Christian Community in Acts 2:1–13

Joel B. Green

Saul/Paul: Onomastics, Typology, and Christian Scripture

Stephen B. Chapman

The Book of Acts and the Cultural Explication of the Identity of God

C. Kavin Rowe

“They Bear Witness to Me”: The Psalms in the Passion Narrative of the Gospel of John

Marianne Meye Thompson

John and Thomas in Context: An Exercise in Canonical Criticism

Luke Timothy Johnson

The Historical Figure of Jesus in 1 John

D. Moody Smith

Did Paul’s Theology Develop?

E. P. Sanders

ΕΚ ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ: A Key to the Meaning of ΠΙΣΤΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ

James D. G. Dunn

An Echo of Scripture in Paul, and Its Implications

Douglas A. Campbell

From Toxic Speech to the Redemption of Doxology in Paul’s Letter to the Romans

Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Manna and the Circulation of Grace: A Study of 2 Corinthians 8:1–15

John M. G. Barclay

Imitating Christ Imitating Us: Paul’s Educational Project in Philippians

Susan Eastman

Resurrection and the Limits of Paulinism...