The One Who Sows Bountifully: Essays in Honor of Stanley K. Stowers

I. Theory and History of Interpretation
Adriana Destro: Reassessing “Religious Practices”: A Reflection on Sociological Notions and Vocabulary
John T. Fitzgerald: Fixed Texts, Sociohistorical Contexts, and Hermeneutical Implications
John G. Gager: The Rehabilitation of Paul in Jewish Tradition
Caroline Johnson Hodge: Daily Devotions: Stowers’s Modes of Religion Meet Tertullian’s ad Uxorem
Ross S. Kraemer: “Normally Non-Observable”: Some Thoughts on Cognitive Science, Theory of Religion, Practice Theory, and Gender”
Saul M. Olyan: Theorizing Circumstantially Dependent Rites In and Out of War Contexts
Mauro Pesce: The Beginning of Historical Research on Jesus in the Modern Age
Daniel Ullucci: Toward a Typology of Religious Experts in the Ancient Mediterranean

II. Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism
Debra Scoggins Ballentine: Revising a Myth: The Targum of Psalm 74 and the Exodus Tradition
William K. Gilders: חטאת as “Sin Offering”: A Reconsideration
David Konstan: Biblical Beauty: Hebrew, Greek, and Latin
Nathaniel B. Levtow: Artifact Burial in the Ancient Near East
Jordan D. Rosenblum: Home Is Where the Hearth Is?: A Consideration of Jewish Household Sacrifice in Antiquity
Michael L. Satlow: Jew or Judaean?
Karen B. Stern: Vandals or Pilgrims? Jews, Travel Culture, and Devotional Practice in the Pan Temple of Egyptian El-Kanais
Emma Wasserman: Beyond Apocalyptic Dualism: Ranks of Divinities in 1 Enoch and Daniel

III. Greco-Roman World
Nathaniel DesRosiers: Wine and Spirits: Observations on the Athenian Anthesteria
John S. Kloppenborg: The Moralizing of Discourse in Greco-Roman Associations
Luther H. Martin: When Size Matters: Social Formations in the Early Roman Empire
Arthur P. Urbano: Tailoring Rhetoric: Verbalizing Philosophical Dress in the Second Sophistic
L. Michael White: “Thus the Sage constantly reminds himself”: Personal Epistolary Paraenesis in Galen and Paul

IV. Early Christianity
William Arnal: Blessed are the Solitary: Textual Practices and the Mirage of a Thomas “Community”
Pamela Eisenbaum: Redescribing the Religion of Hebrews
Troels Engberg-Pedersen: Philosophy and Ideology in John 9–10
Karen L. King: Christians Who Sacrifice and Those Who Do Not? Discursive Practices, Polemics, and Ritualizing
Christopher R. Matthews: Peter’s Daughter—Daddy Dearest?
Erin Roberts: History Writing, Paul’s “Opponents,” and 1 Corinthians 4:8
Richard Wright: The Sounds of Silence: Hearing the Music in Pauline Assemblies