Cilliers Breytenbach is Professor for Literature, Religion and History of Early Christianity at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Professor extraordinaire for New Testament at the University of Stellenbosch. He has published on a wide range of topics, including the Gospel of Mark, reconciliation and the death of Jesus in Pauline theology as well as the history of Judaism and Christianity in ancient Asia Minor.Johan C. Thom is Professor of Classics at the University of Stellenbosch. His publications include books and articles on philosophical and religious texts from the Hellenistic world (including Pythagorean, Stoic, and Epicurean texts), and their relationship to New Testament material.Jeremy Punt is Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Stellenbosch. He has published on various topics related to biblical hermeneutics as well as on the reception of the Bible, with a focus on postcolonial and related theories, and the Bible in Africa, in the popular media and in politics.

• PrefaceIntroduction I. Interpretations of the interpreterDirkie Smit (Stellenbosch University), Interpreter interpreted. A readers´ reception of Lategan´s legacyFrançois Wessels (Stellenbosch University), The historical Jesus and the letters of Paul. Revisiting Bernard C. Lategan’s thesisCilliers Breytenbach (Humboldt University Berlin), “Not according to human criteria”: Bernard Lategan’s reading of Galatians in a crumbling apartheid state II. Interpreting the New Testament for the construction of Christianity in antiquityJens Schröter (University of Leipzig), New Horizons in Historical Jesus Research? Hermeneutical considerations concerning the so-called "Third Quest" of the historical JesusPieter F. Craffert (University of South Africa, Pretoria), Multiple realities and historiography: Rethinking historical Jesus research III. Intertextuality in antiquityJohann Cook (Stellenbosch University), Inter-Textual Readings in the Septuagint Gert J. Steyn (University of Pretoria), Torah Quotations common to Philo, Hebrews and some early Churchfathers. What is the common denominator?Majella Franzmann (University of New England, Armidale, Australia), An "heretical" use of the New Testament: a Manichaean quotation/adaptation of Matt 6:19-20 in P. Kell. Copt. 32.Dr. Annemaré Kotzé (Stellenbosch University), Augustine, Paul, and the ManicheesIV. Interpreting the New Testament in AfricaElna Mouton (Stellenbosch University), Interpreting the New Testament in Africa: Bernard Lategan on the threshold of diverse theological discoursesJeremy Punt (Stellenbosch University), A politics of difference in the New Testament: Identity and the others in Paul Maarman Samuel Tshehla (University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg)Selected 19th century Sesotho readings of the Bible: David Moiloa and the days of Basotho’s ignorance Jan Botha (Stellenbosch University), The study of the New Testament in African UniversitiesPiet J. Naudé (University of Port Elizabeth), The challenge of cultural justice in Africa. Is the New Testament of any use?V. Interpreting the New Testament as literatureJohan C. Thom (Stellenbosch University), Dyads, triads and other compositional beasts in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)Detlev Dormeyer (University of Dortmund)Der gegenwärtige Stand der Forschung zum Markus-Evangelium und die Frage nach der historischen und gegenwärtigen Kontext-Plausibilität Bettina Fischer (University of Cape Town), The chronotope and its discursive function in the Gospel of Luke Charles A. Wanamaker (University of Cape Town) The power of the absent father: A socio-rhetorical analysis of 1 Corinthians 4:14-5:13 Pieter G.R. de Villiers (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein) Wilhelm Bousset’s commentary on Revelation and hermeneutical perspectives on the Revelation of John IndicesSubjects and namesBiblical and other ancient texts