Introduction -- с. ix
Contributors -- с. XV
Part One
Religious Experience and the New Testament
Religious Experience in the New Testament -- с. 3
James D. G. Dunn
Spiritual Sacrifices in Early Christianity -- с. 17
Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.
“Speaking the Very Words of God”: New Testament Perspectives
on the Characteristics of Christian -- с. Speech -- с. 35
Donald Senior, C.P.
“For the Glory of God”: Theology and Experience in Paul’s Letter
to the Romans -- с. 53
Beverly Roberts Gaventa
Ecstasy and Exousia: Religious Experience and the Negotiation
of Social Power in Paul’s Letter to the Galatians -- с. 67
Sze-kar Wan
The Beatitudes: Jesus’ Recipe for Happiness? -- с. 83
Carl R. Holladay
Part Two
Theological Appropriation of the New Testament
Kerygma and Midrash: A Conversation with Luke Timothy
Johnson and С. H. Dodd -- с. 105
Richard B. Hays

Jesus Made Real in Music: La Pasion segim San Marcos and
Luke Timothy Johnson’s Experience/Interpretation Model ....127 Gail R. O’Day
“Watch How You Hear”: The Healing of kophoi [“Deaf-mute”]
Persons in Luke -- с. 147
Dennis Hamm, S.J.
From the Servant in Isaiah to Jesus and the Apostles in Luke-Acts
to Christians Today: Spirit-Filled Witness to the Ends of
the Earth -- с. 175
William S. Kurz, S.J.
Swallowing Jonah: Scripture and Identity in Early Christianity ....195
Wayne A. Meeks
Notes -- с. 217
Select Bibliography of Works by Luke Timothy Johnson -- с. 253

The writers of the New Testament had a powerful experience of the living, crucified, and
resurrected Christ that required a complete reinterpretation of the world and their place in it. ;
The worshiping community today has an ongoing experience of the spirit of Christ that leads it
back, time and again, to the texts of the. New Testament, seeking to understand the meaning
of that experience. Written in honor of Luke Timothy Johnson, whose own work has centered
around the interplay of religious experience and scriptural interpretation, this book will aid all
who seek the meaning of the New Testament and its meaning for the life of the church today.