The Ties that Bind

Esther Kobel is professor of New Testament at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. Jo-Ann A. Brant is professor emeritus of Bible, Religion and Philosophy at Goshen College, USA. Meredith Warren is senior lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies and Director of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK.

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-Universität Bochum, Germany
Chapter Three: Was Pilate a “Friend 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: “Put Out of the Synagogue”: 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: Paul’s “Beloved” Friends - Stephen Westerholm, McMaster University, USA
Chapter Nine: “As to the Law—a Pharisee” (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 Mary’s 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 Wassén, 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?ad’s 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