Table of Contents Editors' Preface Foreword by Richard B. Hays Foreword by N. T. Wright Select Bibliography of Publications by James D. G. Dunn PART I: JESUS AND THE GOSPELS 1. Written Islands in an Oral Stream: Gospel and Oral Tradition, James F. McGrath 2.

Debtors, Laborers and Virgins: The Voice of Jesus and the Voice of Matthew in Three Parables, Stephen I. Wright 3. Jesus' Message of the Kingdom of God: Present and Future Tensions Revisited, Jey J. Kanagaraj 4. Sinner According to Words of the Law, Righteous by Works of Love: Boundary Challenges in Relation to the Woman Who Anoints Jesus (Luke 7:36-50), Ellen Juhl Christiansen 5. Jesus and Magic in Luke-Acts, Graham H. Twelftree 6. Barabbas Remembered, Helen K.

Bond 7. Judas and the Jews: Anti-Semitic Interpretation of Judas Iscariot, Past and Present, Arie W. Zwiep 8. Jews or Christians? The Opponents of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel, J. Martin C. Scott 9. New Testament Christology in Recent British Scholarship: A Sketch of Distinctives and Debates, Simon J. Gathercole 10.

The Worship of Jesus among Early Christians: The Evidence of Hebrews, Kenneth L. Schenck PART II: PAUL AND HIS LETTERS 11. Inheriting the Agitator's Mantle: Paul and the Nature of Apostleship in Luke-Acts, C. K. Robertson 12. Running in Vain, but Not as an Athlete (Galatians 2:2): The Impact of Habakkuk 2:2-4 on Paul's Apostolic Commission, B. J. Oropeza 13.

Of "Doing" and "Living": The Intertextual Semantics of Leviticus 18:5 in Galatians and Romans, Douglas C. Mohrmann 14. Israel's Triumphant King: Romans 1:5 and the Scriptures of Israel, Don Garlington 15. Paul and Ethnicity: The Paradigm of Glocalization, Lung-kwong Lo 16. The Cheirograph in Colossians 2:14 and the Ephesian Connection, Allan R. Bevere 17. The Epistle to Philemon: Paul's Strategy for Forging the Ties of Kinship, John Byron About the Contributors Index.