Understanding, Studying and Reading: New Testament Essays in Honour of John Ashton

Brief Description: This collection of essays, largely written by members of the Oxford theological community, was presented to John Ashton on his 65th birthday in 1996. The essays deal with Elijah in Mark, a Q passion narrative, the Gospel thief saying, John's Beloved Disciple, the temple incident (Jn 2.13-25) and history and theology. Outside of the Gospels, they discuss God's wrath in Romans 1, Philippians 1.1-11, Hebrews 4.13, Peter and Paul behind Revelation, and hermeneutical method. Specialists from outside the New Testament field contribute studies of the patristic doctrine of Scripture, the Syriac Diatessaron, William Tyndale, the theology of the resurrection and the Byzantine understanding of John. John Ashton was, before his retirement, Lecturer in New Testament and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Biographical Note: Christopher C. Rowland is Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, Queen's College, Oxford. Crispin Fletcher-Louis is Lecturer in New Testament Studies at King's College, London. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributor Bio:  Ashton, John Dr. John F. Ashton is Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Victoria University, Melbourne, and Adjunct Professor of Applied Sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, the largest Australian tertiary institution. He holds a BSc (Honors) with prize in chemistry and PhD in epistemology (a branch of philosophy dealing with the limits of knowledge), also with prize, from the University of Newcastle and an MSc in chemistry from the University of Tasmania. Dr. Ashton is a Chartered Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, and a former Honorary Associate in the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. He also served as editor of three books related to science and faith issues, including the much-cited In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation. Contributor Bio:  Rowland, Christopher Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland's Professor of Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. His previous publications include "The Open Heaven "(1982), "The Book of Revelation "(1998), "Christian Origins" (revised edition, 2002), "Radical Christian Writings: A Reader" (Blackwell, 2002), and, with Judith Kovacs, Revelation (Blackwell, 2004). Christopher Tuckett is Professor of New Testament Studies in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. His previous publications include "The Revival of the Griesbach Hypothesis" (1983), "Reading the New Testament" (1986), "Q and the History of Early Christianity" (1996), "Luke" (1996) and "Christology and the New Testament" (2001).