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The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels bridges the gap between scholars and those pastors, teachers, students and lay people desiring in-depth treatment of select topics in an accessible and summary format. The topics range from cross-sectional themes (such as faith, law, and Sabbath), to methods of interpretation (such as form criticism, redaction criticism, and sociological approaches), from...

action and mixed. Of these three categories, the action chreia is rare and consists of active or passive action in either the situation prompting the action or the response to the situation. The mixed chreia contains both speech and action, either in the situation prompting the speech or action, or the response to the situation or both: “And he [Jesus] entered the Temple* and began to drive out those who sold, saying to them, ‘It is written, “My house shall be a house of prayer*”; but you have