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6/10/09,
9. Paul
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3/10/10,
Temple Concerns and...
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Eyal Regev, New Testament Studies, Volume 56 Issue 01 , pp 64-89 Abstract This article demonstrates that according to the Acts of the Apostles, the major charges brought against Peter, Stephen, and Paul are violations of the Temple's sacredness, both by means of statements about and actions within it. On the narrative level, in their portrayal of the conflicts and trials of these early Christian leaders, the ancient Christian sources argued that because the early Christian community in Jerusalem sought to partake in the Temple worship in its own way, Jesus' followers were falsely accused of violating the Temple's sacredness. On the historical level, it may be concluded that these events were authentic, and that they were affected by two factors: (a) The assumption, on the part of the Jewish community, that Jesus represented an anti-Temple stance. This assumption was based on Jesus' action at the Temple, and the saying attributed to him regarding the destruction of the Temple and the erection of a new one . As such, Jesus' followers were viewed as posing a threat to the Temple as well. (b) The meticulous approach to Temple rituals held by the Sadducean high priests in charge of the prosecutions. According to their approach, any deviance from the proscribed procedure desecrated the sacrificial cult and was to be avoided at any cost. Read more... |
3/10/10,
Der Opferkalender der...
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3/10/10,
Δικα&io...
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G. W. Peterman, New Testament Studies, Volume 56 Issue 01 , pp 163-168 Abstract Read more... |
2/1/10,
Book Reviews
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1/8/10,
Reading and Hearing in...
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This article clarifies a perennial problem relating to the concept of ‘orality’ in Gospels studies and attempts to provide some resolution to that problem. Specifically, Gospels criticism has struggled to conceptualize the relation between the Jesus tradition as it was orally performed and early textual (written) expressions of that tradition. The binary opposition ‘literacy/orality’ has failed to provide any help in this conceptualization, and this failure is rooted especially in the rather nebulous (yet widespread) concept of ‘orality’. New Testament scholarship requires a set of culturally specific models of textuality, including the non-communicative functions of written texts and the non-literate use of written traditions. Before we can develop the necessary models, however, we need to deal with the problems we have created by appealing to ‘orality’. Read more... |
3/10/10,
Studies in the Hebrew Bible,...
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3/10/10,
A New Suggestion for the...
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6/10/09,
18. Judaism
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3/10/10,
Ambiguity, Ancient Semantics,...
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Research Articles
F. Gerald Downing, New Testament Studies, Volume 56 Issue 01 , pp 139-162 Abstract While allowing for polysemy, scholars seem mostly averse to ambiguity, as in the naming and so of evoking an otherwise unspecified mental impression, predominates. Meaning is taken to lie in the mind, not in the word or words that are hoped to evoke it, as is also shown in ancient discussions of metaphor, allegory, and paraphrase. Connotations of individual words are rarely distinguished, rarely if ever purged. We are not justified in expecting verbal precision where our ancient authors will neither have attempted it nor will their hearers have expected it; nor, indeed, do modern psycholinguists appear to find space for it. Read more... |
3/10/10,
Das Testimonium Flavianum Ein...
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3/10/10,
Umkehr und Ausgleich bei...
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Hanna Roose, New Testament Studies, Volume 56 Issue 01 , pp 1-21 Abstract The observation that the exemplary narrative of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16.19 sister-story 32) takes us to the centre of Luke's theology. In 16.19 31 two motifs collide, which in different ways determine a person's eschatological fate: the repentance of a sinner (16.30) and the compensating balance between the good and the bad that one receives in this life and in the next (16.25). Through the connectedness of the parable-trilogy in Luke 15 and the parable of the rich man and Lazarus both concepts are set in tension with one another. The theological centre of Luke's Gospel lies in the tense inter-relationship between Luke 15 and Luke 16. Read more... |
3/10/10,
Married to an Unbeliever:...
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Caroline Johnson Hodge, Harvard Theological Review, Volume 103 Issue 01 , pp 1-25 Abstract Read more... |
6/10/09,
2. New Testament Topics
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6/10/09,
17. Revelation
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