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Community building in the Shepherd of Hermas. A critical study of some key aspects. By Mark Grundeken. (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 131.) Pp. vii + 235. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015. €110. 978 90 04 29885 9

are swept aside as ‘old, tired, and unfruitful’. The editors of this volume share such enthusiasm for the study of Bultmann, which their brief introduction (pp. vii–x) at one point compares somewhat problematically to rabbinic meditation on the divine throne. Certainly the excellence of the contributors ensures a consistently high quality. At the same time there is something oddly unsatisfactory about setting this distinguished team to work mainly on individual chapters of the chopped-up Theology: the resulting, sharply diverging appraisals inevitably leave Bultmann’s whole looking less than its parts. Beyond Bultmann nevertheless remains a welcome, high-energy contribution to the continuing reappraisal of one of the twentieth century’s most influential interpretations of the New Testament.