a Sheffield reader Evans, Craig A. ed. Porter, Stanley E. 1956- ed. text Sheffield, UK Sheffield Academic 1997 monographic 335p ; pbk ; 23.5cm. Contents : Hostility and wealth in Philo of Alexandria / T. Ewald Schmidt -- The paradox of Philo's views on wealth / David Mealand -- A man clothed in linen: Daniel 10:5-9 and Jewish angelology / Christopher Rowland -- The Lamb of God in the "Testaments of the twelve patriarchs" / J.C. O'Neill -- The apocalypses in the New Pseudepigrapha / Richard Bauckham -- David Daube on the Eucharist and the Passover Seder / Deborah Bleicher Carmichael -- The Sabbath in the Synoptic gospels / Herold Weiss -- Popular prophetic movements at the time of Jesus: their principal features and social origins / Richard A. Horsley -- Streams of tradition emerging from Isaiah 40:1-5 and their adaptation in the New Testament / Klyne R. Snodgrass -- Jesus as mediator / D.R. de Lacey -- John 1:16: Grace and the law in Johanine prologue / Ruth B. Edwards -- John4:16-53 / A.H. Mead -- Hellenistic parallels to the Acts of the Apostles (2:1-47) / Pieter W. van der Horst -- Hellenistic parallels to the Acts (Chapter 3 and 4) / Pieter W. van der Horst -- Moses typology and the sectarian nature of early Christian anti-Judaism: a study of Acts 7 / T.L. Donaldson -- The God-fearers: some neglected features / J. Andrew Overman -- Onesimus Fugitivus: a defense of the runaway slave hypothesis in Philemon / The pragmatics of politeness and Pauline epistolography: a case study of the letter to Philemon / Andrew Wilson -- Confluence in early Christian and Gnostic literature: the Descensus Christi ad inferos (Acts of Pilate 17-27). edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter. Articles originally published in Journal for the study of the New Testament. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. criticism, interpretation, etc excerpts 225.95/NEW 0850757968 060510 20111017202434.0 282792419241