Paul M. Blowers is Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History at Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College. He was formerly President of the North American Patristics Society from 2008-09. His publications include Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World (2016) and Drama of the Divine Economy: Creator and Creation in Early Christian Theology and Piety (2012).Peter W. Martens is Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Chair of the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life (2012) and the critical edition Adrian's Introduction to the Divine Scriptures (2017).

Paul Blowers and Peter Martens have assembled a chorus of leading scholarly voices from across the landscape of early Christian studies and the history of late antiquity in which it arose and came to prominence. Their collective endeavor has resulted in a volume that maps the present understanding of early Christian biblical interpretation in all its complexity.

• List of abbreviations List of figures List of contributors Paul M. Blowers and Peter W. Martens: Introduction Part I: Scripture 1: Lincoln H. Blumell: Scripture as Artefact 2: Reinhart Ceulemans: The Septuagint and Other Translations 3: Joseph Lienhard, SJ: Canons and Rules of Faith 4: Frances Young: Divine Discourse: Scripture in the Economy of Revelation Part II: Interpreters and Interpretation 5: Peter Struck: Greco-Roman Literary Criticism 6: Tarmo Toom: Early Christian Handbooks on Interpretation 7: John C. Cavadini: From Letter to Spirit: The Multiple Senses of Scripture 8: Peter W. Martens: The Ideal Interpreter Part III: Settings and Genres of Scriptural Interpretation I Exegetical Genres 9: Josef Lössl: Commentaries 10: Eric Scherbenske: Scholia 11: Lorenzo Perrone: Questions and Responses 12: Andrew Faulkner: Paraphrase and Metaphrase 13: Richard A. Layton: Catanae 14: Luke Dysinger, OSB: Sentences II Liturgical Interpretation 15: Wendy Mayer: Catecheses and Homilies 16: Jeffrey Wickes: Poetry and Hymnody 17: L. Edward Phillips: Liturgy as Performative Interpretation III Narrative and Visual Interpretation 18: Stephen J. Shoemaker: Christian Apocrypha 19: F. Stanley Jones: Novels 20: Bronwen Neil: Hagiography 21: Robin M. Jensen: Visual Art Part IV: Communities and Criteria 22: James Carleton Paget: Christianity and Judaism 23: John Granger Cook: Christians and Pagans 24: H. Clifton Ward: Marcion and His Critics 25: David Brakke: Gnostics and Their Critics 26: Jason BeDuhn: Manichaean Biblical Interpretation Part V: Scripture in the Life of the Church 27: Johan Leemans and Anthony Dupont: Scripture and Martyrdom 28: Lewis Ayres: Scripture in the Trinitarian Controversy 29: Andrew Hofer, OP: Scripture in the Christological Controversies 30: Michael Hollerich: Scripture and a Christian Empire 31: Elizabeth A. Clark: Scripture and Asceticism VI: Scriptural Figures and Motifs 32: Paul M. Blowers: Creation 33: Peter C. Bouteneff: Adam and Eve 34: Everett Ferguson: Covenants 35: Michael Graves: Exodus 36: B. Lee Blackburn, Jr.: Law 37: Michael Cameron: Psalms 38: Mark W. Elliot: Semon on the Mount 39: C. E. Hill: The Gospel of John 40: Judith L. Kovacs: Paul the Apostle 41: John Behr: Cross 42: Jeffrey A. Trumbower: Heaven and Hell VII: Retrievals and Criticisms 43: Franklin T. Harkins: Medieval Latin Reception 44: Mary B. Cunningham: Byzantine Reception 45: Esther Chung-Kim: Reception in the Renaissance and Reformation 46: Michael C. Legaspi: Modern Biblical Criticism and the Legacy of Pre-Modern Interpretation 47: Matthew Levering: Retrievals in Contemporary Christian Theology

Paul M. Blowers is Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History at Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College. He was formerly President of the North American Patristics Society from 2008-09. His publications include Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World (2016) and Drama of the Divine Economy: Creator and Creation in Early Christian Theology and Piety (2012).Peter W. Martens is Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Chair of the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life (2012) and the critical edition Adrian's Introduction to the Divine Scriptures (2017).

Paul Blowers and Peter Martens have assembled a chorus of leading scholarly voices from across the landscape of early Christian studies and the history of late antiquity in which it arose and came to prominence. Their collective endeavor has resulted in a volume that maps the present understanding of early Christian biblical interpretation in all its complexity.

• List of abbreviations List of figures List of contributors Paul M. Blowers and Peter W. Martens: Introduction Part I: Scripture 1: Lincoln H. Blumell: Scripture as Artefact 2: Reinhart Ceulemans: The Septuagint and Other Translations 3: Joseph Lienhard, SJ: Canons and Rules of Faith 4: Frances Young: Divine Discourse: Scripture in the Economy of Revelation Part II: Interpreters and Interpretation 5: Peter Struck: Greco-Roman Literary Criticism 6: Tarmo Toom: Early Christian Handbooks on Interpretation 7: John C. Cavadini: From Letter to Spirit: The Multiple Senses of Scripture 8: Peter W. Martens: The Ideal Interpreter Part III: Settings and Genres of Scriptural Interpretation I Exegetical Genres 9: Josef Lössl: Commentaries 10: Eric Scherbenske: Scholia 11: Lorenzo Perrone: Questions and Responses 12: Andrew Faulkner: Paraphrase and Metaphrase 13: Richard A. Layton: Catanae 14: Luke Dysinger, OSB: Sentences II Liturgical Interpretation 15: Wendy Mayer: Catecheses and Homilies 16: Jeffrey Wickes: Poetry and Hymnody 17: L. Edward Phillips: Liturgy as Performative Interpretation III Narrative and Visual Interpretation 18: Stephen J. Shoemaker: Christian Apocrypha 19: F. Stanley Jones: Novels 20: Bronwen Neil: Hagiography 21: Robin M. Jensen: Visual Art Part IV: Communities and Criteria 22: James Carleton Paget: Christianity and Judaism 23: John Granger Cook: Christians and Pagans 24: H. Clifton Ward: Marcion and His Critics 25: David Brakke: Gnostics and Their Critics 26: Jason BeDuhn: Manichaean Biblical Interpretation Part V: Scripture in the Life of the Church 27: Johan Leemans and Anthony Dupont: Scripture and Martyrdom 28: Lewis Ayres: Scripture in the Trinitarian Controversy 29: Andrew Hofer, OP: Scripture in the Christological Controversies 30: Michael Hollerich: Scripture and a Christian Empire 31: Elizabeth A. Clark: Scripture and Asceticism VI: Scriptural Figures and Motifs 32: Paul M. Blowers: Creation 33: Peter C. Bouteneff: Adam and Eve 34: Everett Ferguson: Covenants 35: Michael Graves: Exodus 36: B. Lee Blackburn, Jr.: Law 37: Michael Cameron: Psalms 38: Mark W. Elliot: Semon on the Mount 39: C. E. Hill: The Gospel of John 40: Judith L. Kovacs: Paul the Apostle 41: John Behr: Cross 42: Jeffrey A. Trumbower: Heaven and Hell VII: Retrievals and Criticisms 43: Franklin T. Harkins: Medieval Latin Reception 44: Mary B. Cunningham: Byzantine Reception 45: Esther Chung-Kim: Reception in the Renaissance and Reformation 46: Michael C. Legaspi: Modern Biblical Criticism and the Legacy of Pre-Modern Interpretation 47: Matthew Levering: Retrievals in Contemporary Christian Theology

Paul M. Blowers is Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History at Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College. He was formerly President of the North American Patristics Society from 2008-09. His publications include Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World (2016) and Drama of the Divine Economy: Creator and Creation in Early Christian Theology and Piety (2012).Peter W. Martens is Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Chair of the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life (2012) and the critical edition Adrian's Introduction to the Divine Scriptures (2017).

Paul Blowers and Peter Martens have assembled a chorus of leading scholarly voices from across the landscape of early Christian studies and the history of late antiquity in which it arose and came to prominence. Their collective endeavor has resulted in a volume that maps the present understanding of early Christian biblical interpretation in all its complexity.

• List of abbreviations List of figures List of contributors Paul M. Blowers and Peter W. Martens: Introduction Part I: Scripture 1: Lincoln H. Blumell: Scripture as Artefact 2: Reinhart Ceulemans: The Septuagint and Other Translations 3: Joseph Lienhard, SJ: Canons and Rules of Faith 4: Frances Young: Divine Discourse: Scripture in the Economy of Revelation Part II: Interpreters and Interpretation 5: Peter Struck: Greco-Roman Literary Criticism 6: Tarmo Toom: Early Christian Handbooks on Interpretation 7: John C. Cavadini: From Letter to Spirit: The Multiple Senses of Scripture 8: Peter W. Martens: The Ideal Interpreter Part III: Settings and Genres of Scriptural Interpretation I Exegetical Genres 9: Josef Lössl: Commentaries 10: Eric Scherbenske: Scholia 11: Lorenzo Perrone: Questions and Responses 12: Andrew Faulkner: Paraphrase and Metaphrase 13: Richard A. Layton: Catanae 14: Luke Dysinger, OSB: Sentences II Liturgical Interpretation 15: Wendy Mayer: Catecheses and Homilies 16: Jeffrey Wickes: Poetry and Hymnody 17: L. Edward Phillips: Liturgy as Performative Interpretation III Narrative and Visual Interpretation 18: Stephen J. Shoemaker: Christian Apocrypha 19: F. Stanley Jones: Novels 20: Bronwen Neil: Hagiography 21: Robin M. Jensen: Visual Art Part IV: Communities and Criteria 22: James Carleton Paget: Christianity and Judaism 23: John Granger Cook: Christians and Pagans 24: H. Clifton Ward: Marcion and His Critics 25: David Brakke: Gnostics and Their Critics 26: Jason BeDuhn: Manichaean Biblical Interpretation Part V: Scripture in the Life of the Church 27: Johan Leemans and Anthony Dupont: Scripture and Martyrdom 28: Lewis Ayres: Scripture in the Trinitarian Controversy 29: Andrew Hofer, OP: Scripture in the Christological Controversies 30: Michael Hollerich: Scripture and a Christian Empire 31: Elizabeth A. Clark: Scripture and Asceticism VI: Scriptural Figures and Motifs 32: Paul M. Blowers: Creation 33: Peter C. Bouteneff: Adam and Eve 34: Everett Ferguson: Covenants 35: Michael Graves: Exodus 36: B. Lee Blackburn, Jr.: Law 37: Michael Cameron: Psalms 38: Mark W. Elliot: Semon on the Mount 39: C. E. Hill: The Gospel of John 40: Judith L. Kovacs: Paul the Apostle 41: John Behr: Cross 42: Jeffrey A. Trumbower: Heaven and Hell VII: Retrievals and Criticisms 43: Franklin T. Harkins: Medieval Latin Reception 44: Mary B. Cunningham: Byzantine Reception 45: Esther Chung-Kim: Reception in the Renaissance and Reformation 46: Michael C. Legaspi: Modern Biblical Criticism and the Legacy of Pre-Modern Interpretation 47: Matthew Levering: Retrievals in Contemporary Christian Theology