Transcending boundaries

Frank Moloney has transcended the boundaries that might have defined the career and contribution of a lesser scholar. He has made lasting contributions to the scholarship of his home country and his church. At the same time, he has moved with ease internationally and ecumenically, so that he is loved and esteemed by colleagues and former students around the world. Frank has also transcended methodological boundaries and fostered vigorous conversations about the interpretation of the New Testament and the Gospel of John in particular. It is therefore appropriate that this volume draws together contributions from a list scholars as diverse as it is impressive, that it reads like a conversation among friends, and that it repeatedly challenges conventional approaches and interpretations.
(R. Alan Culpepper [Dean, McAfee School of Theology])

Contributors: Anthony J. Kelly, Brendan Byrne, Dorothy Lee, Elaine M. Wainwright, Francis T. Gignac, Frank J. Matera, Gail R. O’Day, John Painter, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Martin Asiedu-Peprah, Mary L. Coloe, Raymond F. Collins, Rekha M. Chennattu, Robert Kysar, Timothy A. Friedrichsen, Veronica Lawson, and William Loader.

REKHA M. CHENNATTU is the Head of the Department of Scriptural Studies, Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Religion, India, and is the author of the forthcoming book, Johannine Discipleship as a Covenant Relationship (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005).

MARY L. COLOE is Senior Lecturer at the School of Theology, Australian Catholic University, and Director of Biblical Studies at St Paul’s Theological College, Brisbane, Australia, and is the author of God Dwells with Us: Temple Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2001).