Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I: Introduction and Orientation
Introduction
The Animal Turn and the New Testament Crossroads
Justin David Strong
Chapter 1
Reacclimating to the Environment: Where Are the New Testament Animals and Why Do They Matter?
Justin David Strong
Part II: Classical Contexts
Chapter 2
Do Non-Human Animals Have Perspectives from the New Testament and Late Stoicism in Comparison
Hedwig Schmalzgruber
Chapter 3
Animal Emotions in Graeco-Roman “Popular” Science and Philosophy and Imaginative Genres
Stephen T. Newmyer
Chapter 4
Sed ille qui oculos centum habet, si venerit: On Anthropomorphization, Focalization, and Morals in Ancient Fables and the New Testament
Ursula Gärtner
Part III: The New Testament
Chapter 5
A Poultry Prophet: The Chicken Wings of Jesus in Matthew 23:37b / Luke 13:34b
J. Andrew Doole
Chapter 6
How Are the Children Before the Dogs? Reading Jesus' Encounter with the Greek Syrophoenician Woman within Ancient Child–Dog Symbolism
John Van Maaren
Chapter 7
The Choice to Untie a Donkey, Ox, or “Daughter of Abraham” in Luke 13:10-17
Emma Swai
Chapter 8
Sheep and Their Keepers: A Survey of Their Real-World and Metaphorical Value in the New Testament
Ursula Ulrike Kaiser
Chapter 9
The Lamb Must Die, but Why? The Johannine Humanimal and the Soteriological Slaughterhouse
Stephen D. Moore
Chapter 10
“Animal Liberation” in John? How Jesus Set Free the Enslaved Sacri?cial Sheep
Ruben Zimmermann
Chapter 11
“Is God Concerned with Oxen?” (1 Corinthians 9:9-10): Why Paul Is Right That Deuteronomy 25:4 Is Not About the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Joel White
Chapter 12
Of Men, Dogs, and “Mutilated Monsters”: Paul's Use of Dehumanizing Terminology in Philippians 3:2 and Beyond
Gregory E. Lamb
Chapter 13
Straight from the Horse's Mouth? Mute Horses in the New Testament from a Human-Animal Studies Perspective
Susanne Luther
Chapter 14
The Diabolical Lion in 1 Peter 5:8 and Early Jewish and Christian Literature
Noel Cheong
Chapter 15
Where Are the Animals in the End? Making Sheep Impact on the Apocalypse
Michelle Fletcher
Part IV: Early Christian Contexts
Chapter 16
Jesus the Serpent and Other Animals in the Epistle of Barnabas
Travis Proctor
Chapter 17
The Transmigration of Souls, and the Impediment of the Body: An Early Christian Debate About Whether Animals Can See God (Justin Martyr, Dialogue With Trypho 3.7–4.7)
Jonathan H. Young
Chapter 18
Roaming with Antelopes, Suckling Hyenas: Animals in Egyptian Ascetic and Monastic Texts
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
Bibliography
Index