Lawrence M Wills

Biographic Data

ID3832015
NAMELawrence M Wills
GIVEN NAMESLawrence M
FAMILY NAMEWills
SIGNATUREWILLS L M
AFFILIATIONSEpiscopal Divinity School
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The Depiction of Slavery in the Ancient Novel

    Lawrence M WillsCHAPTERSemeia 83/842024

  • Judith

    Lawrence M Wills, White Crawford Sidnie et al.BOOKJudith2019

  • Jewish Novellas in a Greek and Roman Age: Fiction and Identity

    Lawrence M WillsARTICLEJournal for the Study of Judaism2011Cited by: 4

    Although Jewish novellas (Esther, Daniel, Tobit, Judith, and Joseph and Aseneth) have received more attention recently as a distinct genre within ancient Jewish literature, their relation to Greek and Roman novels is still debated. This article argues that, although some of the Jewish novellas arise earlier, they should be considered part of the same broad category of novelistic literature. The rich research on the cultural context of Greek and R…

  • Ascetic Theology Before Asceticism? Jewish Narratives and the Decentering of the Self

    Lawrence M WillsARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2006Cited by: 1References: 30

    The study of early Christian asceticism, which formerly focused strictly on ascetic practices, has been transformed in recent years. In addition to ascetic practices, scholars analyze the discourse of asceticism, which emphasizes the decentering of the self, the problematizing of the person’s ability to govern the body and be considered righteous before God. Although this approach has pushed back the origins of ascetic discourses in Christianity,…

  • A Response to the Roundtable Discussion ?Anti-Judaism and Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation

    Lawrence M WillsARTICLEJournal of Feminist Studies in…2004

    The editors of theJFSR are to be congratulated for facilitating an open dis cussion in an area that has been somewhat submerged: the difference in per spective between American Jewish feminists and third-world feminists, or at least some members of both groups. Mary Ann Tolbert has suggested that in the postmodern world, the notion ofessence in racial, ethnic, or sexual iden tity should be replaced with a notion of location.' Our essence may be m…

  • The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity

    Lawrence M Wills, Richard KalminARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2001

  • Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel . John J. Collins

    Lawrence M WillsARTICLEThe Journal of Religion1996

  • Gardens in Babylon: Narrative and Faith in the Greek Legends of Daniel . Marti J. Steussy

    Lawrence M WillsARTICLEThe Journal of Religion1994

  • The Form of the Sermon in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity

    Open AccessLawrence M Wills, Lawrence WillsARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1984

    Form criticism has enjoyed great success in providing tangible insights into the social life and liturgical practices of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity, but until now there has not been forthcoming a clear idea of what Jewish and Christian preaching was like before the middle of the second century CE Scholars are generally agreed that we have little, if any, direct evidence of sermons from this period. The sermons in Acts would seem t…

  • Literary Sources of the Temple Scroll

    Open AccessAndrew M Wilson, Lawrence M Wills et al.ARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1982

    The Temple Scroll (11 QTemple), the last of the known scrolls from Qumran to be published, is a heterogeneous document whose contents cover various topics of cult, architecture, ritual purity, and civil law. Nonetheless, most exegetes have treated the scroll as the work of a single author. The question whether there might be several independent literary sources behind the document will be the subject of this study