G. Van Oyen – författare

This Festschrift is offered to C. Focant on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and his retirement as Professor of New Testament Studies at the Faculty of Theology of the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). Camille Focant has dedicated much of his scholarly career to the narratological approach of the New Testament, especially to the Gospel of Mark. In the present volume, twenty-seven friends, colleagues and former students agreed on writing innovative studies, mostly in French, on the theme of surprise in the Bible. The editors thus choose to focus on a literary technique or theme that had remained unexplored until now. The reader will find contributions on Old Testament books or passages (Genesis, 1 Samuel, Jeremiah, Judith) and on the four canonical Gospels, the Pauline Letters and 1 Peter. The volume is closed by two articles on Joseph and Aseneth and on Chérubin de Saint-Joseph.

This volume contains the acts of the international conference on the theme of the Resurrection that was organized at the Faculty of Theology, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in April 2010. The focus of the conference was on putting the resurrection in general and of Jesus specifically in a wider literary, cultural and hermeneutical context. This resulted in a fourfold group of contributions. The first group presents the antecedents of resurrection in the Hebrew Bible. The second group is the largest one and offers a panorama of the resurrection in the New Testament (including the four Gospels, Pauline Literature, Apocalypse). The third part opens the research field towards the Jewish and Early Christian milieu while the last section contains three articles on the historical and hermeneutical questions. This volume contains contributions by scholars of both French and Anglo-Saxon background and is characterized by its broad perspective on the resurrection.