The Ties that Bind

List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Gospel of John
Chapter One: Befriending the Beloved Disciple Requires Interventions - Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, USA
Chapter Two: Intimacy with Jesus: Construction of Closeness by Gender Diversity in John - Peter Wick, Ruhr-Universit¤t Bochum, Germany
Chapter Three: Was Pilate a âFriend of the Emperor? (John 19:12)? - Ruben Zimmermann, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Chapter Four: John among the Synoptics? Understanding the Institutional World of the Fourth Gospel in Light of Other Early Gospels - Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, Norway
Chapter Five: False Friends in the First Gospel - R. Alan Culpepper, Mercer University, USA
Part II. Letters of Paul
Chapter Six: âPut Out of the Synagogueâ: A Pauline Unpacking of a Johannine Trope - Paula Fredriksen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Chapter Seven: Befriending Paul: The Letter to Philemon as a Test Case - Esther Kobel, University of Basel, Switzerland
Chapter Eight: Paulâs âBelovedâ Friends - Stephen Westerholm, McMaster University, USA
Chapter Nine: âAs to the Lawâ"a Phariseeâ (Phil 3:5c): Do We Have a Friend in Paul? - Kathy Ehrensperger, The University of Potsdam, Germany
Chapter Ten: The Wet Nurse as a Model for Communal Relationships in 1 Thessalonians - Margaret MacDonald, Saint Maryâs University, Canada
Part III. Further Texts and Contexts in Jewish Antiquity
Chapter Eleven: Wine, Dine, and Bind: Sacrificial Food and Community Formation in Asia Minor - Meredith J. C. Warren, The University of Sheffield, UK and Shayna Sheinfeld, Augsburg University, USA
Chapter Twelve: Socializing with the Impure (or Not): Interactions and Impurity in Late Second Temple Judaism - Cecilia Wass©n, Uppsala University, Sweden
Chapter Thirteen: How to be Better Neighbors: Rewriting the Conquest in Greek Terms - Albert I. Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Chapter Fourteen: Negotiating National and Sectarian Identities in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of Words of the Luminaries and the Ya?adâs Covenant Ceremony - Esther Chazon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Part IV. Scriptures on the Silver Screen 2.0
Chapter Fifteen: Lovers or (Just) Friends? Jesus and Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of John and in Film - Caroline Vander Stichele, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Chapter Sixteen: What a Friend We Have In Jesus: A Consideration of Jesus as Friend in Jesus Films - Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USA
Chapter Seventeen: Dividing the Red Soup: An Antimodel in Bruce Almighty - Jan Willem van Henten, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Chapter Eighteen: The Quick and the Dead in Film Treatments of the Raising of Lazarus - Jo-Ann A. Brant, Goshen College, USA
Collated Bibliography
Reinhartz Bibliography
Index