Description: The "conversations" in this collection open by challenging ideas that have become standard and subject them to critical re-examination. The central thread of all these essays is a reflection on the processes of reading and theologizing. Among the contributors to this volume are David E. Aune, Jouette Bassler, Daniel Boyarin, Neil Elliott, Victor Paul Furnish, Lloyd Gaston, Steven J. Kraftchick, Robert C. Morgan, J. Andrew Overman, Mark Reasoner, Peter Richardson, and Robin Scroggs. Juanita Garciagodoy and David H. Hopper offer appreciations of Calvin Roetzel as a teacher and colleague.
Brief description: Philip Sellew teaches in the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Review Quotes: "This book honoring Calvin Roetzel contains many stimulating essays on seemingly disparate topics...[T]his particular Festschrift, given the wide range of issues examined between its covers, merits close examination from the scholarly community."" -Matthe" --Blurb from reviewer