Contents:
- Called into character: aesthetic and ascetic aspects of biblical ethics
- Jeremiah as collection: scrolls, sheets, and the problem of textual arrangement
- Rejection and redemption in the wisdom of Solomon and the letter of Barnabas
- The historical Jesus and the law: the form of His activity and the impact of social reputation
- Jew-Gentile relations and the geographic movement of Acts 10:1-11:18
- The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep (John 10:11, 15, 17): Questioning the limits of a Johannine methaphor
- To be or not to be, thatis the question: Yhwh and Ea
- Before human sin and evil: desire and fear in garden of God
- Advise for a successful doctor's visit: King Ada meets Ben Sira
- The passion according to David: Matthew's arrest narrative, the Absalom Revolt, and militant messianism
- Recognizing penguins: audience expectation, cognitive genre theory, and the ending of Mark's Gospel
- The logic of divine presence in Romans 3:23
- Family disintegration in Judges 17-18
- Feasts and Taboo eating Isaiah: Antrhopology as a stilmultant for the exegete's imagination
- How Bel and the serpent went from addition to edition of Daniel
- This is not the end: the present age and the eschaton in Mark's narrative
- The bystanders at the cross and their expectations about Elijah
- Claiming ignorance and intimidating witnesses: reading John 9 in Greco-Roman forensic context
- Struggling sages: Pauline rhetoric and social control
- "If you will only remain in this land": Migration decision making and Jeremiah as a religiously motivated nonmover
- Drunkenness, tattoos, and dirty underwear: Jeremiah as a modern masculine metaphor
- Pain and danger: Unpleasant sayings and structure of proverbs
- The brokerage of the spirit in Romans 8
- The parable of the slave, son, and vineyard: An early Christian Freedman's narrative (Hermas Similitudes 5.2-11)
- The pontifical biblical commission, the Old Testament, and Christ as the key to all sacred scripture