"The one who sows bountifully" : essays in honor of Stanley K. Stowers / Essays in honor of Stanley K. Stowers edited by Caroline Johnson Hodge, Saul M. Olyan, Daniel Ullucci, Emma Wasserman. - 1 online resource (xx, 362 pages) - Brown Judaic studies ; number 356 . - Brown Judaic studies ; no.356. .

"Selected publications of Stanley K. Stowers"--pages xvii-xx.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Stanley K. Stowers: historian, theorist, teacher, colleague -- Reassessing "religious practices": a reflection on sociological notions and vocabulary / Fixed texts, sociohistorical contexts, and hermeneutical implications / The rehabilitation of Paul in Jewish tradition / Daily devotions: Stowers's modes of religion meet Tertullian's ad Uxorem / "Normally non-observable": some thoughts on cognitive science, theory of religion, practice theory, and gender / Theorizing circumstantially dependent rites in and out of war contexts / The beginning of historical research on Jesus in the modern age / Toward a typology of religious experts in the ancient Mediterranean / Revising a myth: the Targum of Psalm 74 and the Exodus tradition / [Ḥataʼat] as "sin offering": a reconsideration / Biblical beauty: Hebrew, Greek, and Latin / Artifact burial in the ancient Near East / Home is where the hearth is? A consideration of Jewish household sacrifice in antiquity / Jew or Judaean? / Vandals or pilgrims? Jews, travel culture, and devotional practice in the Pan Temple of Egyptian El-Kanais / Beyond apocalyptic dualism: ranks of divinities in 1 Enoch and Daniel / Wine and spirits: observations on the Athenian anthesteria / The moralizing of discourse in Greco-Roman associations / When size matters: social formations in the early Roman Empire / Tailoring rhetoric: verbalizing philosophical dress in the Second Sophistic / "Thus the sage constantly reminds himself": personal epistolary paraenesis in Galen and Paul / Blessed are the solitary: textual practices and the mirage of a Thomas "community" / Redescribing the religion of Hebrews / Philosophy and ideology in John 9-10 / Christians who sacrifice and those who do not? Discursive practices, polemics, and ritualizing / Peter's daughter--daddy dearest? / History writing, Paul's "opponents," and 1 Corinthians 4:8 / The sounds of silence: hearing the music in Pauline assemblies / Adriana Destro -- John T. Fitzgerald -- John G. Gager -- Caroline Johnson Hodge -- Ross S. Kraemer -- Saul M. Olyan -- Mauro Pesce -- Daniel Ullucci -- Debra Scoggins Ballentine -- William K. Gilders -- David Konstan -- Nathaniel B. Levtow -- Jordan D. Rosenblum -- Michael L. Satlow -- Karen B. Stern -- Emma Wasserman -- Nathaniel DesRosiers -- John S. Kloppenborg -- Luther H. Martin -- Arthur P. Urbano -- L. Michael White -- William Arnal -- Pamela Eisenbaum -- Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- Karen L. King -- Christopher R. Matthews -- Erin Roberts -- Richard A. Wright. Preface: I. Theory and history of interpretation. II. Israelite religion and ancient Judaism. III. Greco-Roman world. IV. Early Christianity.

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Stowers, Stanley Kent.
Stowers, Stanley Kent--Influence.
Stowers, Stanley Kent.


Bible--Hermeneutics.
Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Judaism--History.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Christianity and culture--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
HISTORY / Civilization
HISTORY / Essays
HISTORY / Reference
HISTORY / Social History


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