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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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