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Suing for Peace at Any Cost? Reading the Parable of the Two Kings (Luke 14.31–2) in Times of War New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Korinna Zamfir
The paper re-examines the parable of the king pondering about engaging in war with a more powerful enemy (Luke 14.31–2), focusing on questions commonly asked in antiquity and still relevant today with respect to war and suing for peace. These regard the cause of the war and the reasons for fighting, the tension between bravery and wisdom, the circumstances that may contribute to the defeat of a superior
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An Extended Inverted Allusion to Psalm 22 in Mark 15: Reading Reversal in the Markan Passion New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Jason Robert Combs
The Markan Passion narrative alludes to Ps 22 (LXX Ps 21) in reverse, culminating with Jesus’ cry: ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ (Mark 15.34; cf. Ps 22.1). I argue that this ‘extended inverted allusion’ was an admired literary technique. Through select examples of this technique in the writings of the Hebrew Bible and Greco-Roman literature, I demonstrate its various functions—it can
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Reading the Gospel of Luke's Walk to Calvary as a Funeral Procession: A Study of Luke 23.27–8 New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Wendy E. Closterman
This study offers a fresh explanation for the characterisation of the women in Luke 23.27 as mourning. It argues that the uniquely Lukan material of women mourning on the walk to Calvary subtly fashions that walk into a funeral procession. The phrase μὴ κλαίɛτɛ in the following verse, Luke 23.28, recalls accounts of Jesus bringing the dead to life earlier in the Gospel, thereby evoking the concept
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Moses, Elijah, and Jesus’ Divine Glory (Mark 9.2–8) New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Caleb T. Friedeman
Scholars generally agree that Moses and Elijah appear at the Transfiguration because they are connected to each other in some way, and that this connection informs the significance of the story as a whole. However, there is no consensus regarding how Moses and Elijah are related, and consequently there is significant disagreement about how their presence contributes to the Transfiguration. The present
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Emissary to Jews in the Diaspora and to Some Non-Jews, Champion of Jewish Monotheism and Circumspect of Diaspora Judaism: Paul of Tarsus in the Book of Acts New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Christoph Stenschke
In Christian tradition, Paul is the apostle to the nations. However, his portrayal in the Book of Acts is more nuanced. For a longer period, Paul's ministry is limited to Jews. Only from Acts 13 onwards does Paul slowly emerge as ministering to non-Jews. Yet even then, Paul remains foremost an emissary to diaspora Judaism. In its apology for Paul and his disputed way of including non-Jews into the
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The Wrath of the Deities and The Privileged Deceased: Narrating Death in the Associational Rupture at Thessalonica New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Bruce W. Longenecker
After Paul, Silvanus and Timothy left Thessalonica, members of the fledgling Christ group in that city experienced death within their social network. Opinions differ as to whether the authors’ comments in 1 Thess 4.13–18 are addressing puzzlement internal to the Christ group alone, or whether these recent deaths also played into the wider discourse of the city. In addressing this issue, I adopt the
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‘Somewhere Someone Testified’: The Hermeneutical Function of Indefinite Citation Formulae in the Epistle to the Hebrews New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Daniel M. I. Cole
The author to the Hebrews makes the seemingly strange choice to introduce two quotations from the LXX with indefinite markers (Heb 2.6; 4.4). While some commentators do not consider these introductions, others have argued that they function either rhetorically to engage the audience or theologically to highlight the divine speaker. This article argues that a hermeneutical function better explains the
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Critical Reflections on the Role of the Canon in New Testament Scholarship New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Francis Watson
The modern discipline of New Testament Studies has subjected the various components of the New Testament to close scrutiny, yet it persistently fails to ask critical questions about the New Testament considered as a whole. In its familiar twenty-seven book form, the New Testament may be seen as a fourth-century anthology of early Christian writings based on earlier collections or sub-collections (the
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Gal 2.16c und die Logik von 3.10(–12) New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Michael Bachmann
German AbstractDas Papier bezieht sich auf die exegetische Auffassung, es beruhe die Argumentation von Gal 3,10 gerade auch auf einer unterdrückten praemissa minor („die Toravorschriften lassen sich nicht vollständig einhalten“), und es richtet sich gegen die These von P. C. Moore, nach welcher die in 2,16c aufgenommenen Worte aus Ps 143(142),2 genau diese Prämisse bieten sollen. Nicht zuletzt die
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Paulus, der „Sklave Christi Jesu“ (Gal 1,10; Röm 1,1; Phil 1,1), im Lichte des römischen Rechts New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Eve-Marie Becker, Ulrike Babusiaux
In Gal 1:10, Rom 1:1, and Phil 1:1 Paul refers to himself as δοῦλος Χριστοῦ (Ἰησοῦ). This self-designation is open to interpretation. What is the function of this claim of roles, which is slightly varied syntagmatically in the three passages mentioned, i.e., tends to be linguistically flexible on Paul's part and thus adapted to the context in each case? The present contribution is intended to expand
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Making Oneself Last in the Community: Mark 9.43–7 in its Context and Co-Text New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Francesco Filannino
After reviewing and offering a critical evaluation of the main interpretations of the sayings in Mark 9.43–7, the paper proposes a new reading that considers them in the Jewish context and in their co-text (Mark 9.33–50). The context is the marginal condition in which physically impaired people lived in Jewish society and communities. In view of this context, it is possible to point out the consistency
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Women's Emotion, Community, and Politics: Interpreting Tears in Luke 23.27–31 New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Caryn A. Reeder
The tears of the ‘daughters of Jerusalem’ in Luke 23.27–31 are often taken as a representation of pathos. However, women's public performance of lamentation serves several purposes in the biblical prophets and Greco-Roman historiography and rhetoric. Women are responsible for mourning rituals following a death to honour the deceased and their family. They express communal lament following defeat in
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Spermatic and Uterine Dimensions in Mark and Luke's Parable of the Sower New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Michael Pope
This article examines the language of seed reception within the Parable of the Sower in Mark and Luke. The paper argues that Mark's diction introduces reproductive terms into the seed figure and that Luke edits Mark to include even more distinctively gynaecological and reproductive terminology. The result is a parable in Luke that turns the audience into uterine receptacles of the seed/logos.
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A Nicandrian Nero? The Symbolic Significance of the Viper in Acts 28.1–6 New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Craig S. de Vos
While surviving the shipwreck and the viper bite in Acts 28.1–6 have often been recognised as symbolic assertions of Paul's innocence, the viper may hold further symbolic significance. Following his act of matricide in 59 ce, Nero was linked to Aeschylus’ portrayal of Orestes, who, in turn, was linked to a tradition that understood a viper's birth as matricidal. Thus, through his encounter with the
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The Subscriptions to Mark's Gospel and History of Reception New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Conrad Thorup Elmelund, Tommy Wasserman
This article surveys the subscriptions to the Gospel of Mark in 157 Greek manuscripts, noting their gradual development from being identical to the title in the earliest phase to becoming more and more elaborate and significant for the history of interpretation. Early on, as reflected in the title, the Second Gospel was associated with Mark, known to be Peter's disciple and interpreter. In the fourth
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Direct Copying in a Group of Gospel Manuscripts with Catenae New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Andrew J. Patton
Four of the witnesses selected for the Editio Critica Maior of Mark are witnesses to a unique combination of catena commentaries on the Gospels not found in any other manuscripts. An analysis of their text in the Gospel of Mark, using the tools of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method, shows that they also feature an almost identical form of the biblical text that frequently diverges from both the
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Little James: Μικρός as an Indication of Height or Affection not Comparative Age in Mark 15.40 New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Isaac T. Soon
This article argues that, based on a close reading of the ancient textual, documentary and epigraphic evidence, the expression ὁ μικρός in Mark 15.40 is most likely a nickname regarding this James’ particular height or potentially an affectionate indication that he is a child. The expression ὁ μικρός is not an indication of comparative age to another person (‘younger’). The evidence from ancient epigraphy
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Socrates’ Triple Accusation in Plato's Apol. 24b–c as a Source of Jesus’ Triple Accusation in Luke 23.2 New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Jan M. Kozlowski, Maria Chodyko
The article presents evidence for a direct, both formal and contentual, dependence of Jesus’ triple accusation in Luke 23.2 upon Socrates’ triple accusation in Plato's Apol. 24b–c.
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What is Reception Study? A Proposal for Terminological Definitions Based on Christina Hoegen-Rohls’ Article New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Régis Burnet
A response to the article by Christina Hoegen-Rohls.
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Rich Poverty: 2 Corinthians 8.1–15 and the Social Meaning of Poverty and Wealth New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 John M.G. Barclay
This article, originally presented as the Presidential Address at the 2022 SNTS Meeting in Leuven, explores the ways in which Paul configures giving and ‘wealth’, both in relation to the Macedonians and Corinthians (as contributors to the Jerusalem collection) and in relation to Christ. Drawing on the dream-interpretations of Artemidorus, it illustrates how ‘wealth’ could be understood in antiquity
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Rezeptionskritik und Rezeptionsgeschichte des Neuen Testaments: Eine methodologische Skizze New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Christina Hoegen-Rohls
German AbstractAngesichts der fortschreitenden Publikation der Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), der Weiterarbeit an den Bänden des Evangelisch-Katholischen Kommentars zum Neuen Testament (EKK) und der Fortsetzung von Blackwell's Kommentarserie Through the Centuries lautet die Leitfrage des vorliegenden Artikels: Wie kann zur Theoretisierung und Methodisierung einer Rezeptionsgeschichte
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Why ‘Reception History’ Is Not Just Another Exegetical Method: The Case Of Mark's Ending New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Régis Burnet
The history of reception is suffering from a fundamental misunderstanding. Since the publication of Truth and Method, everyone has had the impression that reception history is just another exegetical technique. However, the heart of Gadamer's argument is not the history of the effects of the text, but the historicity of understanding: a text is seized only within the limits of the historical situation
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Überlegungen zur Rezeptionsgeschichte des Neuen Testaments im Gespräch mit Régis Burnet New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Christina Hoegen-Rohls
The present article first presents and explains the theses that emerge from Régis Burnet's monograph ‘Exegesis and History of Reception’ (Tübingen 2021) and from his SNTS Main Paper published in NTS 2023, ‘Why “Reception History” Is Not Just Another Exegetical Method: The Case of Mark's Ending’ (Leuven 2022). It then develops questions and perspectives that result from the dialogue between Burnet's
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What Does It Mean to Read New Testament Texts ‘within Judaism’? New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Anders Runesson
For centuries, Christians have understood some of the texts included in the New Testament as ‘Jewish,’ in the sense of them being written by (converted) Jews for other Jews. From a historical perspective, a new development in the academy suggests that such approaches do not do justice to the nature of these texts. Indeed, even more recent attempts at understanding the New Testament against the background
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Numismatic Insights into Pauline Ethics: ΕΥΕΡΓ- on Roman Provincial, Parthian and Seleucid Coinage New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Michael P. Theophilos
Numismatic inscriptional evidence consistently employs the ΕΥΕΡΓ- word group in describing a superior providing some material public benefit to an inferior, typically an entire city, nation or kingdom. This is evidenced in the present study's comprehensive survey of several hundred numismatic types, extant in many thousands of specimens from the second century bce to the first century ce. Within this
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Is λιβανωτός a censer/brazier in Revelation 8.3, 5? How in the lexicon is this possible? New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Laurențiu Florentin Moț
Λιβανωτός is a rare word in the Biblia graeca and means ‘frankincense’. It appears once in the canonical Septuagint in 1 Chron 9.29 as part of a list of ingredients which were under the care of the Levites: flour, wine, olive oil, incense and spices. In the Apocrypha, it appears in 3 Macc 5.2 as a drug, together with unmixed wine, for maddening or running elephants wild. Then it is used only in Rev
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The Second Teacher's Story in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Contribution to the Recent Discussion on the Developmental Interpretation New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 David Cielontko
The article explains the problematic Second Teacher episode in the so-called developmental interpretation of IGT recently proposed by M. R. Whitenton and J. R. C. Cousland. The article shows that the killing of the second teacher in the text of Gs, which is appropriately identified as problematic for the developmental interpretation, appears to be a later version of the episode that most likely already
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‘Why don't you sing, Thomas?’ The manuscript tradition omitting the Hymn of the Bride in Acta Thomae New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Luisa Lesage Gárriga
The so-called Hymn of the Bride is found in Chapters 6–7 in the first Act of the apocryphal Acts of Thomas. The manuscripts containing it show a particular history of the text which does not always coincide with that of the rest of the Act. For instance, family gamma (Γ) often presents a summarized version of the first two Acts, thus heavily shortening the Hymn.A study of the text is essential to establish
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The Enigma of the Antitheses New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Joel Marcus
While it is easy to interpret the first and second of the Matthean Antitheses (5.21–30) as intensifications of the Mosaic law, it is difficult to interpret the remaining Antitheses (5.31–48) in this manner. In the history of interpretation, two main strategies have been adopted for dealing with these later Antitheses, the ‘rejected interpretation’ hypothesis and the revocation hypothesis. The ‘rejected
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The Scriptural Shape of God: Divine Anthropomorphisms in Synoptic Perspective New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Brittany E. Wilson
Although an increasing number of works are focusing on depictions of God in the New Testament, none so far specifically focus on how these depictions rely on anthropomorphic language in their presentation of God. This article attends to this oversight by turning to the Synoptic Gospels (and the book of Acts) as a test case. Not only do these narratives lack an explicit anti-anthropomorphic agenda,
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La promesse face à la peur: de nouveau Mc 16. 8b New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Marc Rastoin
The ending of Mark, ‘And they (the women) said nothing to anyone for they were afraid’ (16.8) is one of the most famous cruxes in the New Testament. Could the author really have intended to complete the gospel in such a way? Building on a suggestion made by Joel Marcus and Benoit Standaert, this article defends the hypothesis that Mark is deliberately making a reference to Genesis 18.15 LXX. The same
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Die Zukunft Jerusalems nach Lukasevangelium und Apostelgeschichte New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Lukas Bormann
In Luke-Acts, the city of Jerusalem is mentioned very often. The city is considered the site of the temple and forms the centre of the narrative spatial configuration of Luke-Acts. Narrative analysis and the evaluation of the lexically marked language (‘terminology of salvation’) show that for the author of Luke-Acts, the city and its inhabitants, who are mainly portrayed as hostile opponents of Jesus
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Συνɛίδησις in Paul's Texts and Stoic Self-Perception New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Annalisa Phillips Wilson
Συνɛίδησις is a relatively rare word, but a favourite for Paul, whose undisputed texts contain nearly half of its New Testament occurrences. In the 19th and 20th centuries, scholars debated the origin of the substantive and the possibility of Stoic influence, which led to a consensus that the term was not a technical philosophical one and Paul's use was not affected by Stoic thought. There is evidence
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Die paulinische Rede von der Selbstversklavung in 1 Kor 9,19 vor dem Hintergrund jüdischer Identität im Sklavenstand. New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Ruben A. Bühner
Paul's reference to his adaptability to different groups in 1 Cor 9.19–23 is central to recent discussions about Paul's Jewishness. This paper argues that the crucial context for Paul's metaphor of self-enslavement (1 Cor 9.19) is not to be found in anthropological passages such as Rom 6 or Gal 5, but rather in the conditions of a slave's life in antiquity. This leads to an interpretation that combines
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A New (Double Palimpsest) Witness to the Old Syriac Gospels (Vat. iber. 4, ff. 1 & 5) New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Grigory Kessel
Vat. iber. 4, a membrum disjectum of the manuscript Sin. geo. 49, contains on two of its folios the Syriac Gospel text as the lowest layer (scriptio ima) within a double palimpsest. Comparison with known Syriac versions of the extant text – Matt 11.30–12.26 – shows that the text represents the Old Syriac version, and is particularly akin to the Curetonianus (Syc). On palaeographic grounds, the original
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Fury or Folly? ἄνοια in Luke 6.11 New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Rebekah Eklund
In Luke 6.11, the scribes and Pharisees are filled with ἄνοια after they witness Jesus’ healing on the Sabbath. Modern English translations, beginning with the RSV, translate the word ἄνοια as rage or fury, whereas older English translations render it as madness, and modern German translations follow Martin Luther by rendering the phrase with terms such as unsinnig (‘wurden ganz unsinnig’) or Unverstand
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‘I Will Complete a New Covenant’ (Heb 8.8): Christology and New Creation in Hebrews New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Euntaek D. Shin
The use of συντɛλέω to speak of God's ‘completion’ of the new covenant (Heb 8.8) has generated various explanations. Yet none of them factor in an important clue in Hebrews, namely, the rest discourse. By establishing literary and theological connections between Heb 3.7–4.13 and 8.8–12, this study argues that the promise of the completion of the new covenant evokes the completion of creation and its
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The Logic of Paul's Address in 2 Corinthians 10-13 New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Troels Engberg-Pedersen
2 Cor 10–13 may be seen to hang together closely, both internally and with the rest of the canonical letter, once one notices the very careful manner in which Paul distinguishes between and handles three groups: (i) the Corinthians as such, a group that includes his ‘own people’ and sometimes also (ii) his internal critics; and (iii) the rival missionaries. The four chapters are built over a set of
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The Language of Imperial Cult and Roman Religion in the Latin New Testament: The Latin Renderings of ‘Saviour’ New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Anna Persig
The title σωτήρ, ‘saviour’, is bestowed on Christ and God in the New Testament and rendered in the Latin translations by conseruator, saluificator, salutificator, salutaris and saluator. Although these terms convey the same meaning, they are not interchangeable: this study argues that conseruator, which is the most frequent word for saviour on imperial coins, is rarely attested in the Latin versions
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Unfinished Business: The Ending of Mark in Two Catena Manuscripts New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-06 H.A.G. Houghton
Two Greek gospel manuscripts with an exegetical commentary in catena form present a text of Mark which ends in the middle of Mark 16.8. One is GA 304, a twelfth-century codex which is often adduced as a witness to the Short Ending. The other is the eleventh-century GA 239, which has not previously featured in discussions of the conclusion of Mark. In each case, it is shown that considerations of scribal
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Naming 1 Timothy 3.16b: A ‘Hymn’ by another Name? New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Lyn M. Kidson
Most scholars assume that 1 Timothy 3.16b is a hymn, or a fragment of a hymn, belonging to another context. However, Furley (1995) points out that even the ancients had difficulty categorising their poetic materials. 1 Timothy 3.16b has no metre and neither praises God nor asks him for benefits, which are the usual indicators of a hymn. This article argues that 1 Timothy 3.16b was written by the writer
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The Agricultural Background of the Harvest Logion in Matthew 9.37–8 and Luke (Q) 10.2 New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Llewellyn Howes
The saying in Matthew 9.37–8 and Luke (Q) 10.2 reads as follows: ‘He said to his disciples: The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. So ask the Lord of the harvest to dispatch workers into his harvest’. The present study attempts to illuminate this logion by considering its setting in first-century Palestine. The focus here is not on the logion's possible metaphorical application, but on
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The Spectacle of the Patibulum: A Response to Ruben van Wingerden New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-06 John Granger Cook
Ruben van Wingerden's articles on carrying a patibulum and σταυρός are admirably precise. However, his analyses of two texts of Plautus and a fragment of Clodius Licinus are problematic. In contrast to van Wingerden's rather minimalistic conclusions regarding carrying a patibulum or σταυρός, it seems likely that carrying a patibulum was a general element in Roman practice in accounts in which patibula
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Name Recall in the Synoptic Gospels New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Luuk van de Weghe
Onomastic congruence (a feature defined in this article) is characteristic of historiographic biographies from the Early Empire. The Synoptic Gospels display onomastic congruence, as well as conservatism in their treatment of names. The preservation of names, especially those centred around key roles and events, suggests that some names may have been preserved in the oral archives of early Christian
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Platter Humor oder doch der Weisheit letzter Schluss? – Lk 18 als jüdische und pagane „Doppelkodierung“ New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Michael Sommer
German abstractAus dem direkten Vergleich der beiden möglichen Leseweisen lässt sich ein Fazit formulieren. Die Technik der „Doppelkodierung“ (R. Feldmeier) zeigt sich darin, dass Lk 18,1–8 eine Alltagsepisode mit einem Moment des spöttelnden, vielleicht sogar stumpfen Humors erzählt und dabei eine Semantik benutzt, die auch in den Schriften Israels beheimatet ist. Auch wenn die „jüdische“ Denkwelt
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The Reception of Pauline Mysticism: An Ideological Critique New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Fatima Tofighi
Paul was a mystic. So claimed scholars from Adolf Deissmann to Albert Schweitzer. Others disagreed, figures no less significant than Rudolf Bultmann, Karl Barth and Ernst Käsemann. The pro-mystic group argued that Paul's theological message was best understood if set within the context of Hellenistic or Jewish mysticism. The anti-mystic group could not tolerate any similarity of that sort, which, in
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Politische Sprache, Motive und Kritik im Galaterbrief: Eine Spurensuche New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Stefan Schreiber
The article analyses the Epistle to the Galatians with regard to textual elements that can be related to language or political performances in the imperium Romanum. To this end, political interpretations in research are first presented and critically discussed: the alleged persecution in Gal 6.12; gods, elements and the calendar in Gal 4.8–10; and the νόμος as Roman law. In a second step, political
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Die Weinstockrede Jesu und die missionstheologische Relevanz der gegenseitigen Liebe (Joh 15.1–17) New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Anni Hentschel
The Johannine commandment of love aims not only in an ethical-ecclesial sense at the cohesion in the church, but in a mission-theological sense at the winning of new church members. Jn 15.1–17 explains how the mutual immanence of God, Jesus and his disciples enables his followers to gain new fruit in the sense of new church members through mutual love. This continues the christological-ecclesial interpretation
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Simon the Composite Sorcerer New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-08 David L. Eastman
Simon Magus is a key figure in the earliest apocryphal Acts of Peter. He is a sorcerer and confidant of the emperor who clashes with Peter and, in later apocryphal texts, with both Peter and Paul. However, this is not simply the villain of the Acts of the Apostles. In this article I will argue that the apocryphal Simon is a composite figure drawn substantially, but not necessarily wholly, from the
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The Significance of Corrections for the Examination of the Emergence of Variants New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Katrin Maria Landefeld
In the course of the transmission of the text of the New Testament variants in the text emerged many times and in different ways. This article shows the importance of the study of corrections in the course of building theories about the emergence of specific variants. It presents some exemplary results of the examination of corrections of a few manuscripts of Acts. The article shows that examining
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The Wyman Fragment: A New Edition and Analysis with Radiocarbon Dating New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Daniel Stevens
The Wyman Fragment, or 0220, has been a chief and early witness to the text of Romans 4.23–5.3 since the initial publication of the recto in 1952. A 2005 edition of the verso, containing Rom 5.8–13, rendered most of that portion of the manuscript legible for the first time, but has not been widely circulated. In this article I present a new edition and analysis of 0220, a third- or fourth-century manuscript
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Metaleptisches Erzählen und kulturelles Gedächtnis in den Paulusakten New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Markus Kirchner
The Acts of Paul have received the most diverse and contradictory interpretations. Do the ActPl intend to promote the veneration of Paul or a particular theology? Do they offer transparent fiction or do they claim factuality? Are they a collection of oral traditions or a designed literary construction? From the perspective of cultural memory theory, however, the key question is rather how the text
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Psalm 143.2 and the Argument of Galatians 3.10 New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Peter C. Moore
In the ongoing discussions of Gal 3.10–14, interpreters have underappreciated the connection between Paul's argument in 3.10 and his use of Ps 143.2 in 2.16. This article argues that Paul bases his denial of justification by works in 2.16 on the confession of humanity's universal sinfulness in Ps 143.2. Given the rhetorical function of 2.15–21 as well as the close verbal and logical ties between 2
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Stretching the Scope of Salvation in Matthew: The Significance of the Great Peter's Failings New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Bruce Henning
Matthew's didactic teaching blocks often present the terms of salvation as an uncompromising dichotomy, envisioning either complete loyalty or faithlessness (e.g. 10.37–9; 16.25; 24.13). However, the characters in his narrative sections, especially Peter, nuance this harsh binary to allow for a significant degree of failure. After a brief survey recent works on Matthean soteriology and the use of Peter
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Πνɛῦμα, Genealogical Descent and Things That Do Not Exist according to Paul New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 J. Thomas Hewitt
Several recent studies have proposed that according to Paul gentiles join Abraham's lineage in a quasi-physiological way by being infused with material πνɛῦμα. This article assesses that proposal, finding it to be an inaccurate description of Paul's language and rationale, and sets forth an alternative proposal based on Romans 4 and Paul's descriptions of baptism. This alternative proposal is that
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Following in the Footsteps: Exemplarity, Ethnicity and Ethics in 1 Peter New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Katie Marcar
First Peter 1.3–2.10 weaves a new familial and ethnic identity for believers through a complex series of interlocking metaphors. How does this identity influence the ethical exhortation beginning in 2.11? The current article argues that an answer is found in the Greco-Roman structures of exemplarity. First, the article identifies four explicit markers of exemplarity discourse in 1 Peter: ὑπογραμμός
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De la parenté d'auteur(s) à la ‘mémoire générationnelle’ (P. Nora): l’œuvre de Luc et les lettres pastorales en relation New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Simon Butticaz
On the basis of Pierre Nora's theory of generations, this article re-examines the relationship between Luke's work and the so-called ‘Pastoral Letters’. From this perspective, informed by the sociology of memory, the article analyses the affinities between these two traditions not as the traces of a community of author(s), but rather as the expressions of a memorial consciousness under construction:
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Wer spricht? Die Redeeinleitungen im Thomasevangelium New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Stephan Witetschek
The Gospel of Thomas (GThom) is a collection of sayings, most of which come with the stereotypical introduction ‘Jesus said: …’ The GThom thus looks like a loose collection of disparate material. However, several sayings in the collection are introduced by ‘He said: …’, thus omitting explicit reference to Jesus as the speaker. This points to greater (narrative) coherence: when the speaker's name is
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Christ Worship in the Neighbourhood: Corinth's ekklēsia and its Vicinity (1 Cor 14.22–5) New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Richard Last
This article defends the salience of situating Christ worship in the context of urban neighbourhoods and identifies some historical problems in conceptualising belonging at that level of society, akin to similar work on other levels of society such as the household and polis. An ekklēsia or collegium is, like all neighbourhood structures, capable of fostering or delimiting social interactions among
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The Righteousness of Joseph: Interpreting Matt 1.18–25 in Light of Judean Legal Papyri New Testament Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Philip F. Esler
This article seeks to explain Matthew's description of Joseph as righteous (δίκαιος) by investigating Matt 1.18–25 within its ancient context, especially Judean practices of marriage and divorce as illuminated by Judean legal papyri from the Dead Sea region in the first and second centuries ce and from the Judean politeuma of Herakleopolis in the mid-second century bce. The examination will demonstrate