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

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Selected Publications of Stanley K. Stowers -- Part I: Theory and History of Interpretation -- Reassessing "Religious Practices" -- Fixed Texts, Sociohistorical Contexts, and Hermeneutical Implications -- The Rehabilitation of Paul in Jewish Tradition -- Daily Devotions -- "Normally Non-Observable" -- Theorizing Circumstantially Dependent Rites In and Out of War Contexts -- The Beginning of Historical Research on Jesus in the Modern Age -- Toward a Typology of Religious Experts in the Ancient Mediterranean -- Part II: Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism -- Revising a Myth -- "Sin Offering": A Reconsideration -- Biblical Beauty -- Artifact Burial in the Ancient Near East -- Home Is Where the Hearth Is? -- Jew or Judaean? -- Vandals or Pilgrims? -- Beyond Apocalyptic Dualism -- Part III: Greco-Roman World -- Wine and Spirits -- The Moralizing of Discourse in Greco-Roman Associations -- When Size Matters -- Tailoring Rhetoric -- "Thus the Sage constantly reminds himself" -- Part IV: Early Christianity -- Blessed Are the Solitary -- Redescribing the Religion of Hebrews -- Philosophy and Ideology in John 9-10 -- Christians Who Sacrifice and Those Who Do Not? -- Peter's Daughter-Daddy Dearest? -- History Writing, Paul's "Opponents," and 1 Corinthians 4:8 -- The Sounds of Silence -- Index of Ancient SourcesDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries