The essays in this book honor and extend the work of Rowan A.
Greer, Walter H. Gray Professor Emeritus of Anglican Studies at
Yale University Divinity School, by exploring the connections
between textual interpretation and the formation of religious
identity. A diverse and prestigious group of biblical scholars,
church historians, and theologians study the function that
scripture plays in the creation and maintenance of faith
communities and the ways that communal locations in turn shape the
interpretation of scripture. The first part of the book examines
specific examples of ancient biblical interpretation as a means of
creating, maintaining, and challenging Christian identity in the
pluralistic ancient world. Authors study acts of interpretation in
the Martyrdom of Polycarp, the Physiologus, Gnostic literature, the
fifth-century mosaic of the Church of Hosios David in Thessaloniki,
and in the works of Irenaeus, Origen, Augustine, John Chrysostom,
and Porphyry of Tyre. Reading scripture emerges as a strategy for
locating the reader and his or her community with respect to other
Christians, Jews, and pagans. Part 2 of the volume considers the
general problem of interpretation within Christian communities,
whether ancient or modern, as they face the task of maintaining a
coherent identity in a multicultural environment. Contributors to
this book-all students, colleagues, and friends of Rowan Greer-are
Charles A. Bobertz, David Brakke, Mary Rose D'Angelo, Stanley
Hauerwas, Martha Meeks, Wayne Meeks, Frederick Norris, Richard
Norris, Alan Scott, Arthur Bradford Shippee, Michael Bland Simmons,
and Frederick Weidmann.
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