Table of Contents

List of abbreviations
List of figures
List of contributors
Paul M. Blowers and Peter W. Martens: Introduction
Part I: Scripture
1: Lincoln H. Blumell: Scripture as Artefact
2: Reinhart Ceulemans: The Septuagint and Other Translations
3: Joseph Lienhard, SJ: Canons and Rules of Faith
4: Frances Young: Divine Discourse: Scripture in the Economy of Revelation
Part II: Interpreters and Interpretation
5: Peter Struck: Greco-Roman Literary Criticism
6: Tarmo Toom: Early Christian Handbooks on Interpretation
7: John C. Cavadini: From Letter to Spirit: The Multiple Senses of Scripture
8: Peter W. Martens: The Ideal Interpreter
Part III: Settings and Genres of Scriptural Interpretation
I Exegetical Genres
9: Josef Lössl: Commentaries
10: Eric Scherbenske: Scholia
11: Lorenzo Perrone: Questions and Responses
12: Andrew Faulkner: Paraphrase and Metaphrase
13: Richard A. Layton: Catanae
14: Luke Dysinger, OSB: Sentences
II Liturgical Interpretation
15: Wendy Mayer: Catecheses and Homilies
16: Jeffrey Wickes: Poetry and Hymnody
17: L. Edward Phillips: Liturgy as Performative Interpretation
III Narrative and Visual Interpretation
18: Stephen J. Shoemaker: Christian Apocrypha
19: F. Stanley Jones: Novels
20: Bronwen Neil: Hagiography
21: Robin M. Jensen: Visual Art
Part IV: Communities and Criteria
22: James Carleton Paget: Christianity and Judaism
23: John Granger Cook: Christians and Pagans
24: H. Clifton Ward: Marcion and His Critics
25: David Brakke: Gnostics and Their Critics
26: Jason BeDuhn: Manichaean Biblical Interpretation
Part V: Scripture in the Life of the Church
27: Johan Leemans and Anthony Dupont: Scripture and Martyrdom
28: Lewis Ayres: Scripture in the Trinitarian Controversy
29: Andrew Hofer, OP: Scripture in the Christological Controversies
30: Michael Hollerich: Scripture and a Christian Empire
31: Elizabeth A. Clark: Scripture and Asceticism
VI: Scriptural Figures and Motifs
32: Paul M. Blowers: Creation
33: Peter C. Bouteneff: Adam and Eve
34: Everett Ferguson: Covenants
35: Michael Graves: Exodus
36: B. Lee Blackburn, Jr.: Law
37: Michael Cameron: Psalms
38: Mark W. Elliot: Semon on the Mount
39: C. E. Hill: The Gospel of John
40: Judith L. Kovacs: Paul the Apostle
41: John Behr: Cross
42: Jeffrey A. Trumbower: Heaven and Hell
VII: Retrievals and Criticisms
43: Franklin T. Harkins: Medieval Latin Reception
44: Mary B. Cunningham: Byzantine Reception
45: Esther Chung-Kim: Reception in the Renaissance and Reformation
46: Michael C. Legaspi: Modern Biblical Criticism and the Legacy of Pre-Modern Interpretation
47: Matthew Levering: Retrievals in Contemporary Christian Theology

About the Author

Paul M. Blowers is Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History at Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College. He was formerly President of the North American Patristics Society from 2008-09. His publications include Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World (2016) and Drama of the Divine Economy: Creator and Creation in Early Christian Theology and Piety (2012).
Peter W. Martens is Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Chair of the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life (2012) and the critical edition Adrian's Introduction to the Divine Scriptures (2017).

Reviews

Paul Blowers and Peter Martens have assembled a chorus of leading scholarly voices from across the landscape of early Christian studies and the history of late antiquity in which it arose and came to prominence. Their collective endeavor has resulted in a volume that maps the present understanding of early Christian biblical interpretation in all its complexity.
*Alexander H. Pierce, Trinity Journal*

This Handbook provides a wealth of up-to-date information and does so in an inspiring manner. With its particular approach to the subject, it is difficult to think of areas not addressed.
*C. Stenschke, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses*

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation fulfils the intention that Toom claims typifies early Christian handbooks on interpretation: 'to be used as a reference work on a particular subject matter, presenting its material in an introductory yet systematic way.'
*Eleanor Vivian, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament*