Books in the Journal for the study of the New Testament supplement series series

Matthew's gospel begins and ends with the Jewish-Gentile debate, and at the heart of both the issue and the gospel is the story of the Canaanite woman. It is a story that reveals tension between Jews and proselytes in Matthew's community.

Conversion is a main theological theme in the Lukan corpus. Since much attention has been paid to the issue in Acts, this work shows how the evangelist also conveys his theological emphasis on conversion in his gospel through material either unique to it or that Luke has edited to this purpose.

Through sustained engagement with texts ranging from Exodus 7-9 and Acts 8 to the Testament of Solomon and the Late Antique alchemical treatise known as the Cyranides, this volume focuses chiefly on materials that challenge the familiar boundaries between miracle and magic and medicine.

Many critics read the Gospel of Mark through a context external to Mark's story world. Hatina examines how contexts determine the meaning of embedded scripture texts in Mark, in a way that is sensitive to the story world, without disregard for the historical setting of the gospel.