Over the last decade, critical theory has taken what some have called an ethical turn, a turn away from poststructuralist play and back to questions of ethical representation, ethical conceptions of beauty, and ethical ideas of the self. New ethical criticism invokes two themes consistently: the body as a site of empathy and the communal self. This chapter investigates the way these two themes are handled in the New Testament and proposes that New Testament paradigms of the bodily and communal self provide sites for productive engagement between secular searches for ethical literary theories and Christian scholarship.