Anatomies of the Gospels and Beyond: Essays in Honor of R. Alan Culpepper

Contents
List of Contributors
R. Alan Culpepper: Selected Publications and Presentations
Prologue
	Introduction
	R. Alan Culpepper: A Tribute
Gospel of Matthew
	Chapter 1 From Isaiah 40:3 to Matthew 3:3—Intertextuality and Traditionsgeschichte
	Chapter 2 Turning the Other Cheek to a Perpetrator: Renunciation or Upholding of Justice?
	Chapter 3 Oeuvre Mouvante: The Gospels as Living Traditions
	Chapter 4 So What’s the Story? The Role of Plot in Reading Matthew’s Gospel
	Chapter 5 Jesus was a Refugee: Reception of Matthew 2:13–23
Gospel of Mark
	Chapter 6 Mark: John’s Photographic Negative
	Chapter 7 Placing Bethsaida: From Mark to Matthew and Luke to John
	Chapter 8 Teaching the Gospel of Mark in Rome
	Chapter 9 From Markan Narrative in Print to Markan Narrative in Performance: A Paradigm Shift
	Chapter 10 Do You not Yet Trust God’s Rule Breaking in on Earth? The Disciples in Mark
Gospel of Luke
	Chapter 11 Illuminating “Christ Among the Doctors” (Luke 2:41–52) in the Exegetical Tradition and Select Florentine Renaissance Paintings
	Chapter 12 Disability and Dis-ease: Body, Restoration, and Ethics of Reading in Luke’s Gospel
	Chapter 13 The Parable of the Minas in Lukan Context: Jesus and Kingship, the Carnivalesque, and Intertextuality
	Chapter 14 Murmuring Sophists: Extratextual Elements in Luke’s Portrayal of Pharisees
	Chapter 15 Breathing New Life into Narrative Criticism: Postclassical Narratology and the Gospel of Luke
Gospel of John
	Chapter 16 Jesus, God of Old and Newcomer: Rhetorical Character Presentation in John 1–2
	Chapter 17 Stereotypes, In-Groups, and Out-Groups in the Gospel of John
	Chapter 18 There Are No “Aporias”: Ancient Media Culture and the Problem of the Fourth Gospel’s Composition-History
	Chapter 19 How Johannine Signs Signify (or Don’t)
	Chapter 20 The Fourth Gospel: A “Spiritual” or “Theological” Gospel
Beyond the Gospels
	Chapter 21 The Children of God and the Son of God in the Johannine Gospel and Epistles
	Chapter 22 Fictive Kinship and Its Symbolism in the Literary Structures of 1 John
	Chapter 23 Discovering Psalm 156 and Its Importance for Early Judaism and Christian Origins
	Chapter 24 Encounter, Dissonance, and Reflection in the Dialectical Development of Paul’s Theology
	Chapter 25 Sit and Listen; Go and Do: The Parables of the Good Samaritan and Prodigal Son in Howard Thurman’s Life and Thought
Epilogue
	A Closing Tribute to R. Alan Culpepper
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources