Mikeal C. Parsons, Professor and Macon Chair in Religion at Baylor University, has written extensively on Luke-Acts, including Paideia commentaries on both Luke and Acts, and, in collaboration with Heidi Hornik, Illuminating Luke (3 vols.) and Acts through the Centuries. Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, Professor Emerita from Virginia Tech, is best known as a narrative critic of the Gospel of Mark, including these books: Marks Jesus, Hearing Mark, In the Company of Jesus, and Narrative Space and Mythic Meaning in Mark.Paul N. Anderson, Professor of Biblical and Quaker Studies, George Fox University, is author of From Crisis to Christ, The Christology of the Fourth Gospel, The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel, and The Fourth Gospel and the Quest for Jesus.

• List of ContributorsR. Alan Culpepper: Selected Publications and PresentationsPrologueIntroductionMikeal C. Parsons, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon and Paul N. AndersonR. Alan Culpepper: A TributeMikeal C. ParsonsGospel of Matthew1 From Isaiah 40:3 to Matthew 3:3—Intertextuality and TraditionsgeschichteM. Eugene Boring2 Turning the Other Cheek to a Perpetrator: Renunciation or Upholding of Justice?Lidija Novakovic3 Oeuvre Mouvante: The Gospels as Living TraditionsEdwin K. Broadhead4 So What’s the Story? The Role of Plot in Reading Matthew’s GospelDavid L. Barr5 Jesus was a Refugee: Reception of Matthew 2:13–23Janice Capel AndersonGospel of Mark6 Mark: John’s Photographic NegativeC. Clifton Black7 Placing Bethsaida: From Mark to Matthew and Luke to JohnElizabeth Struthers Malbon8 Teaching the Gospel of Mark in RomeRobert M. Fowler9 From Markan Narrative in Print to Markan Narrative in Performance: A Paradigm ShiftDavid Rhoads10 Do You not Yet Trust God’s Rule Breaking in on Earth? The Disciples in MarkJoanna DeweyGospel of Luke11 Illuminating “Christ Among the Doctors” (Luke 2:41–52) in the Exegetical Tradition and Select Florentine Renaissance PaintingsHeidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons12 Disability and Dis-ease: Body, Restoration, and Ethics of Reading in Luke’s GospelJohn T. Carroll13 The Parable of the Minas in Lukan Context: Jesus and Kingship, the Carnivalesque, and IntertextualityRobert L. Brawley14 Murmuring Sophists: Extratextual Elements in Luke’s Portrayal of PhariseesJohn A. Darr15 Breathing New Life into Narrative Criticism: Postclassical Narratology and the Gospel of LukeMichal Beth DinklerGospel of John16 Jesus, God of Old and Newcomer: Rhetorical Character Presentation in John 1–2Kasper Bro Larsen17 Stereotypes, In-Groups, and Out-Groups in the Gospel of JohnJan G. van der Watt18 There Are No “Aporias”: Ancient Media Culture and the Problem of the Fourth Gospel’s Composition-HistoryTom Thatcher19 How Johannine Signs Signify (or Don’t)Harold W. Attridge20 The Fourth Gospel: A “Spiritual” or “Theological” GospelJohn PainterFor Beyond the Gospels21 The Children of God and the Son of God in the Johannine Gospel and EpistlesStan Harstine22 Fictive Kinship and Its Symbolism in the Literary Structures of 1 JohnDorothy A. Lee23 Discovering Psalm 156 and Its Importance for Early Judaism and Christian OriginsJames H. Charlesworth24 Encounter, Dissonance, and Reflection in the Dialectical Development of Paul’s TheologyPaul N. Anderson25 Sit and Listen; Go and Do: The Parables of the Good Samaritan and Prodigal Son in Howard Thurman’s Life and ThoughtDavid B. GowlerEpilogueA Closing Tribute to R. Alan CulpepperGail R. O’DayIndex of Modern AuthorsIndex of Ancient Sources