Cover
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part 1: Biography
Tracking a Whirlwind
Part 2: Greek Grammar
Robert W. Funk and the Evolution of New Testament Greek Grammar
The Narrative Parables
Biblical Languages in the Professional School Curriculum
Part 3: Hermeneutics
Robert W. Funk and Hermeneutics
The Hermeneutical Problem and Historical Criticism
Language, Hermeneutic, and the Vocation of the Word
Part 4: Parables
The Seismic Shift
The Old Testament in Parable
Beyond Criticism in Quest of Literacy
Theoretical Frame of Parables
Part 5: Historical Jesus
Honest to Jesus and Honest to Bob
The Looking-Glass Tree Is for the Birds
Introduction to The Five Gospels
Part 6: The Jesus Seminar
Robert W. Funk and the Jesus Seminar
The Issue of Jesus
On Distinguishing Historical from Fictive Narrative
The Jesus Seminar and the Quest
Part 7: The Academy and Publications
Transformation of the Academy and Publications
Society of Biblical Literature—Report of the Executive Secretary, 1968–1973
The Learned Society as Publisher and the University Press
Religious Studies as Witches Brew
Legends of the School of Scribes or The Seventy Pens of Power
Part 8: A Letter and Interviews
Letter to Graduate Seminar Students, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University
A Conversation with Robert W. Funk about the Society of Biblical Literature
A Conversation with Robert W. Funk during his visit to Melbourne
Robert W. Funk Chronology, 1926–2005
Robert W. Funk Publications
Contributors