SOME NEW BOOKS FROM PHOENIX PRESS:

Joseph H. Hellerman
JESUS AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD
Reconfiguring Ethnic Identity
Drawing upon his background as a social historian, Hellerman proposes that a clue to the success of the Christian movement lay in Jesus' own conception of the people of God, and in how he reconfigured its identity from that of ethnos to that of family, functioning as a kind of ethnic entrepreneur, breaking down the boundaries of ethnic Judaism. xii + 381 pp. Published October 2007/
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ISBN 978-1-906055-21-9 (hardback)

J. Harold Ellens (ed.)
TEXT AND COMMUNITY
Essays in Memory of Bruce M. Metzger (2 volumes)
These wide-ranging and often innovative volumes honour the multifaceted work of this doyen of New Testament textual critics, formerly Emeritus Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, Princeton Theological Seminary. Volume 1 is Interpretation of the Text for the Community (The Nature of the Bible, and Understanding the Bible: Hermeneutics). Volume 2 is Implementation of the Text in the Community (The Church and the Bible: Pulpit and Parish, and The Academy, Science, Culture, Society, and the Bible. 348 + 244 pp. Published October 2007.
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ISBN 978-1-906055-15-8, 978-1-906055-18-9 (hardback)

Calvin J. Roetzel and Robert L. Foster (eds.)
THE IMPARTIAL GOD
Essays in Biblical Studies in Honor of Jouette M. Bassler
Jouette M. Bassler, Professor of New Testament at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, is honoured by the 19 contributions to this Festschrift. Authors are Cousar, Fee, Fiore, Foster, Frolov, Furnish, Heller, Jewett, Elizabeth Johnson, Ila Bovee Kraft, Kraftchick, Mitchell, Nelson, Neyrey, Rensberger, Roetzel, E.P. Sanders, Tyson, Yarbrough. 288 pp. Published November 2007.
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ISBN 978-1-906055-22-6 (hardback)

Anselm C. Hagedorn, Zeba A. Crook and Eric Stewart (eds.)
IN OTHER WORDS
Essays on Social Science Methods and the New Testament in Honor of Jerome H. Neyrey
Jerome H. Neyrey, Professor of New Testament at Notre Dame since 1992, is widely recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to social-scientific criticism of the Gospels and the Epistles. In this Festschrift the contributors (including David Aune, John H. Elliott, Philip Esler, Bruce Malina and John Pilch, Halvor Moxnes, Carolyn Osiek, Gerd Theissen) notably advance the same cause. xii + 263 pp. Published August 2007.
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ISBN 978-1-905048-39-7 (hardback)

Zeba A. Crook and Philip A. Harland (eds.)
IDENTITY AND INTERACTION IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Jews, Christians and Others. Essays in Honour of Stephen G. Wilson
The sixteen contributors to this Festschrift include Kim Stratton on curse rhetoric, Adele Reinhartz on Caiaphas, Willi Braun on meals and social formation, Philip Harland on meals and social labelling, Richard Ascough on missionizing associations, John Barclay on Judaean identity in Josephus, John Kloppenborg on the recipients of the Letter of James, Laurence Broadhurst on ancient music, Larry Hurtado on manuscripts and identity, Edith Humphey on naming in the Apocalypse, Michele Murray on the Apostolic Constitutions, Roger Beck on the Late Antique 'Horoscope of Islam', Graydon Snyder on the Ethiopian Jews, Alan Segal on Daniel Boyarin, Robert Morgan on theology vs religious studies, and William Arnal on scholarly identities in the study of Christian Origins. xvi + 292 pp. Published November 2007.
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ISBN 978-1-906055-17-2 (hardback)

Barry D. Smith
WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?
Paul Parts Company with his Jewish Heritage
How can one escape God's wrath and gain eternal life? On this crucial theological question, Paul differs from other members of the Second Temple Jewish community. Contrary to the current consensus, Smith argues that while their soteriology is synergistic, the divine and the human co-operating, Paul knows only of a salvation independent of all human effort. xiv + 285 pp. Published May 2007.
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ISBN 978-1-905048-82-3 (hardback)

Jacqueline C.R. de Roo
WORKS OF THE LAW AT QUMRAN AND IN PAUL
At Qumran, the 'works of the law' are deeds of obedience to God's law, and are ultimately inspired by God. For Paul, on the other hand, they are quintessentially the works of Abraham, the good deeds of a sinful man, and so incapable of making atonement. This closely reasoned study proposes an alternative both to traditional interpretation of Paul and to the 'New Perspective on Paul'. xiv + 280 pp. Published March 2007.
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ISBN 978-1-905048-30-4 (hardback)