The New Testament in Comparison : Validity, Method, and Purpose in Comparing Traditions (Hardcover)

List of Contributors Translations Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction - John M.G. Barclay, Durham University, UK, and B.G. White, The King's College, New York, USA Chapter 2: 'O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us': Method and Purpose in Comparing the New Testament - John M.G. Barclay, Durham University, UK Chapter 3: Making Friends and Comparing Lives - C. Kavin Rowe, Duke University Divinity School, USA Chapter 4: The Past is a Foreign Country: On the Shape and Purposes of Comparison in New Testament Scholarship - Troels Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Chapter 5: The Possibility of Comparison, the Necessity of Anachronism and the Dangers of Purity - Dale B. Martin, Yale University, USA Chapter 6: Beyond Compare, or: Some Recent Strategies for How Not to Compare Early Christianity with Other Things - Matthew V. Novenson, University of Edinburgh, UK Chapter 7: On Comparing and Calling the Question - Margaret M. Mitchell, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA Chapter 8. A Response to Friend-Critics - C. Kavin Rowe, Duke University Divinity School, USA Chapter 9. Relational Hermeneutics and Comparison as Conversation - Jonathan A. Linebaugh, University of Cambridge, UK Chapter 10: Comparing Like with Like? The New Testament in its Christian Literary Environment - Francis Watson, Durham University, UK Chapter 11: Resemblance and Relation: Comparing the Gospels of Mark, John and Thomas - Simon Gathercole, University of Cambridge, UK Bibliography Index