Boletín de Filología Neotestamentaria 179 pertinent to NT are: J. Delorme on Gospel and narrative in Mark; G. Hallbäck on Jesus and places; D. Dormeyer on the search for a common literary structure in the passion narratives and their representations of the martyr (Mk 14:43-53; Jn 18:1-4) A. Peris- sinoto, on the figurative code with reference to Jn 4:5-15; S. van Tilborg on a figurative use of the “I am” texts; O. Genest on the figurativization of Jesus’ in the NT epistles death. 43. POWELL, M.A., “The Magi as Kings: An Adventure in Reader- Response Criticism”, CBQ 62 (2000) 459-480. In its first part this art. defends that Matthew’s narrative develops in a way that allows readers to connect the magi with kings. Then it asks what are Matthew’s readers expected to know (the answer is provided by an examination of Greco-Roman literature on magi, plus Jew- ish Midrash and LXX) and what are Matthew’s reader expected to believe (the answer is provided by an examination of the Gos- pel’s data) and which is the characterisation of the magi in Mt’s gospel. 44. SANTOS-GARCÍA DE LOS, E., La novedad de la metáfora κεφαλή-σῶμα en la carta a los Efesios (Tesis Gregoriana, Serie Teologia 59). Rome (Editrice Pont. Univ. Gregoriana) 2000, 472 pp. This book investigates the use of the κεφαλή-σῶμα metaphor in Eph and Col. It presents semantic statistics concerning the use of κεφαλή- σῶμα and other related terms, and detailed philological and exegetical analyses of Eph 1:20-23; 2:14-18; 4:11-16; 5:21-33, in which this metaphor appears. 45. SHEELEY, S.M., “Getting into the Act(s): Narrative Presence in the ‘We’ Sections”, PerspRelSt 26 (1999) 203-220. This art. utilises S. Rimmon-Kenan’s typology of narrators in order to elucidate the reader’s characterisation of the Acts narrator by the time the first ‘we’ passage appears. The conclusion is that the intermittent ap- pearance of the first person narration will not allow to consider him an eyewitness narrator. 46. STEFANO, D. DE - L. SFERCO, “Una rilettura del miracolo della molti- plicazione dei pani”, BbbOr 39 (1997) 65-77. The a. lend upon their theoretical considerations on the nature and origin of the metaphor (see preceding entry) and focus on the communica- tive interactions (sender, code, message, channel, addressee) of the narrative on the multiplication of loaves (Mk 6:30-44; 8:1-10 par). 47. THATCHER, T., The Riddles of Jesus in John. A Study in Tradition and Folklore (SBL Mon. Series 53). Atlanta (SBL) X + 306 pp. The a. contends that the Fourth Gospel has many sentences and