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  1. From mystical visions to gender equality aspirations
    a hermeneutical journey of two biblical verses
    Author: Schwartzmann, Julia
    Published: [2015]

    The article looks at the growing sensitivity of Orthodox society towards women's status in Judaism. It mentions two biblical verses that have received a gendered interpretation 'God made two great lights, the greater light to govern the day and the... more

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    The article looks at the growing sensitivity of Orthodox society towards women's status in Judaism. It mentions two biblical verses that have received a gendered interpretation 'God made two great lights, the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night' and 'The Lord will create a new thing on earth a woman will surround a man'. It mentions that the verses are dealing with social reality and define gender equality.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: The journal of Jewish studies; Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1948; 66(2015), 1, Seite 138-156

    Subjects: Hermeneutik; Tradition; Kabbala; BIBLE; GENDER identity in the Bible; GENDER inequality; WOMEN in Judaism; WOMEN & religion
  2. Editorial
    Published: [2017]

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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Concilium; London [u.a.] : SCM Press, 1965; (2017), 5, Seite 7-9

    Subjects: AESTHETICS; BIBLE; FAITH development
  3. Zechariah's Horse Visions and Angelic Intermediaries
    Translation, Allusion, and Transmission in Early Judaism
    Author: Allen, Garrick V.
    Published: [2017]

    In this article, I examine the interplay of transmission and exegesis in Zechariah's textual history, analyzing the strategies that early interpreters employed to create coherence in a difficult text. I use Zechariah's horse visions as examples,... more

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    In this article, I examine the interplay of transmission and exegesis in Zechariah's textual history, analyzing the strategies that early interpreters employed to create coherence in a difficult text. I use Zechariah's horse visions as examples, exploring their presentation in the early versions and the Book of Revelation. The following examination explores the form of Zechariah used by these ancient interpreters and the habits of reading that are implied in their presentation of reused material. The evidence suggests that, by the late Second Temple period, the majority of readers conceptualized Zech 1:8 and 6:1-5 as coreferential visions and that this linking was representative of a larger strategy of coherence. This strategy is also part of a wider tradition of correlating Zechariah's horses with other heavenly figures in the Hebrew Bible, a tradition that is most prevalent in Targum Jonathan.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly; Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press, 1939; 79(2017), 2, Seite 222-239

    Subjects: Pferd; Tiere; Schutzengel; Apokalyptik; Übersetzung; allusion; ALLUSIONS; angel; apocalypse; BIBLE; BIBLE; BIBLE. Revelation; BIBLE. Zechariah; coherence; JUDAISM; Septuagint; Targum Jonathan; translation; Zechariah
    Other subjects: Sacharja Prophet
  4. To Be Lutheran Is to Be a Bad Exegete
    Reading the Bible in the Light of the Lutheran Reformation
    Author: Haar, Stephen C.
    Published: [2017]

    This paper gives insight to the Reformation principles that still inform Lutheran identity and the way Lutherans read and interpret the Bible today. It begins by locating Martin Luther in his sixteenth century context as a biblical scholar, detailing... more

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    This paper gives insight to the Reformation principles that still inform Lutheran identity and the way Lutherans read and interpret the Bible today. It begins by locating Martin Luther in his sixteenth century context as a biblical scholar, detailing his approach to interpreting the Bible and his argument for a 'canon within the canon;' namely, that the Book of Romans provides a summary of the whole gospel: that we are justified by grace through faith alone without works of the law. It continues with reflections on the current state of New Testament studies, and responds to the charges of New Testament scholars--advocates of the New Perspective on Paul--that Luther got it wrong when he interpreted Paul's writings on justification. It concludes with remarks about the missing 'question mark' in the title of this paper: on the evidence presented, is there a case for its re-instatement or permanent removal?

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Australian biblical review; Melbourne : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], 1951; 65(2017), Seite 78-91

    Subjects: Exegese; Hermeneutik; Lutheraner; Reformation; BIBLE; BIBLE; LUTHERAN Church; READING; REFORMATION
  5. The Place of the Bible
    Author: Chipana Quispe, Sofía
    Published: [2019]

    As a human community we are living through a time of profound questioning as we reconnect ourselves to the sacred sources of life, placing us as a thread woven into the fabric of life in which it is essential that we see ourselves in all our... more

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    As a human community we are living through a time of profound questioning as we reconnect ourselves to the sacred sources of life, placing us as a thread woven into the fabric of life in which it is essential that we see ourselves in all our diversity, so we can move away from the cultural and religious hegemony imposed throughout the history of the colonisation of Abya YalaJ It would, therefore, be both healthy and healing if we were not to consider the Bible as the one and only word of God, so that we may fully recognise in other texts, words, fabrics, songs, memories, tales and dances, the richness of the many languages of the Mystery of Life; variously experienced, embedded and named by the peoples linked to its ancient past and which have allowed them to continue being and existing.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Concilium; London [u.a.] : SCM Press, 1965; (2019), 4, Seite 38-49

    Subjects: BIBLE; COLONIZATION; CULTURAL pluralism; LIFE; RELIGIOUS aspects; RELIGIOUS diversity
  6. The 'People of God' and its Idols in the 'One and Other' Testaments
    How Sacred Scripture Challenges Populist Rhetoric
    Author: Nicolaci, Maria Armida
    Published: [2019]

    If, from the historiographical point of view, populism can be considered a modern phenomenon, the 'tribal' character of the conception of people which it underpins enables a consideration of the populist rhetoric in the light of the biblical message... more

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    If, from the historiographical point of view, populism can be considered a modern phenomenon, the 'tribal' character of the conception of people which it underpins enables a consideration of the populist rhetoric in the light of the biblical message and an approach to the populist way of understanding, recounting and living identity in post-democractic societies in a 'religious' and, above all, prophetic manner of representing and understanding the dynamics of the construction of identity on the part of the 'people of God' which is spoken of in the Scriptures. The unexhausted fight against the fetishes set to protect an identity of a people monolitically conceived, disrespectful of otherness and intolerant of difference and plurality, in fact characterises the prophetic re-reading of the process of identity construction of the people of God in the One and the Other Testament and traces a path in which it is possible to integrate oneself to think, recount and realise a fraternal and inclusive construction of human society, truly productive for individuals and for communities.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Concilium; London [u.a.] : SCM Press, 1965; (2019), 2, Seite 74-88

    Subjects: BIBLE; DEMOCRACY; IDOLS & images; POPULISM; RELIGION & politics; RHETORIC
  7. Jeremiah as Collection
    Scrolls, Sheets, and the Problem of Textual Arrangement
    Author: Mastnjak, Nathan
    Published: [2018]

    The variations in the textual history of Jeremiah's Oracles against the Nations have presented scholarship with a perennial puzzle. In addressing these variants, modern scholarship has consistently assumed that one of the versions must be original... more

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    The variations in the textual history of Jeremiah's Oracles against the Nations have presented scholarship with a perennial puzzle. In addressing these variants, modern scholarship has consistently assumed that one of the versions must be original and the other a revision. In this study, I propose an alternate explanation. Drawing on considerations of material culture, comparative evidence, and insights from the field of book history, I suggest that the Jeremiah traditions existed in the early Persian period as an only partially ordered collection rather than a linear book. Rather than one version being original and the other an editorial rearrangement, both the LXX and the MT represent independent organizations of this collection.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly; Washington, DC : Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1939; 80(2018), 1, Seite 25-44; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: BIBLE; book history; colophon; COLOPHONS; FISCHER, Georg; Jeremiah; JEREMIAH (Biblical prophet); Oracles against the Nations; papyrus; scroll; sheet; textual criticism; TEXTUAL criticism
  8. Intertextuality in New Testament Scholarship
    Significance, Criteria, and the Art of Intertextual Reading
    Author: Emadi, Samuel
    Published: [2015]

    ‘Intertextuality’ is currently a hot topic among biblical interpreters. However, a great deal of debate regarding the locus, purpose, and meaning-effect of an intertextual event, the criteria used to discern the presence of intertexts (if in fact... more

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    ‘Intertextuality’ is currently a hot topic among biblical interpreters. However, a great deal of debate regarding the locus, purpose, and meaning-effect of an intertextual event, the criteria used to discern the presence of intertexts (if in fact there are any), and the theological value of intertextuality in Scripture still exists. This article surveys these interpretive questions and discusses how the foremost contributors to the conversation have aimed at resolving these hermeneutical tensions. In this article, I examine and compare the hermeneutical methodologies of Richard Hays, Michael Thompson, Dale Allison, Greg Beale, Christopher Beetham, Leroy Huizenga, and Peter Leithart with respect to intertextuality. My aim is to identify the strengths of each contributor’s hermeneutical method, while clarifying where these scholars share similar hermeneutical convictions, as well as where they part ways with one another’s convictions about the practice of intertextual reading.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research; London [u.a.] : Sage, 2002; 14(2015), 1, Seite 8-23; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: allusion; BIBLE; BIBLE. New Testament; Christopher Beetham; Dale Allison; echo; Greg Beale; Hermeneutics; inner-biblical interpretation; Intertextuality; Leroy Huizenga; Michael Thompson; New Testament use of the Old Testament; Peter Leithart; Richard Hays
  9. Trauma Theory and Biblical Studies
    Author: Garber, David G.
    Published: [2015]

    Since the early 2000s, several scholars have explored the use of trauma theory as an interpretive lens to understand some of the most difficult and painful texts in the Bible. The use of trauma theory does not constitute a method of interpretation... more

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    Since the early 2000s, several scholars have explored the use of trauma theory as an interpretive lens to understand some of the most difficult and painful texts in the Bible. The use of trauma theory does not constitute a method of interpretation but a frame of reference that, when coupled with other methodologies (e.g., psychology, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, refugee studies, etc.), can yield innovative results. While trauma theory has proven useful in the study of exilic texts in particular, scholars have ventured beyond the narrower concern of exilic literature, investigating the use of trauma theory for other portions of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. The impact of trauma is a significant component of the human condition that lies beneath the production of a wide variety of biblical texts.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research; London [u.a.] : Sage, 2002; 14(2015), 1, Seite 24-44; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: BIBLE. New Testament; BIBLE; Cultural trauma; exile; Ezekiel; Holocaust; Jeremiah; Job; Lamentations; psychological biblical criticism; refugee studies; STRUCTURALISM; survival guilt; survival literature; testimony; trauma theory
  10. Wright, Campbell, and the Four Beasts from the Sea
    Author: Kugler, Chris
    Published: [2016]

    Having studied with both N.T. Wright and Douglas Campbell, and not least because both are now ‘caught up’ in an apocalyptic standoff, it seemed desirable to lay bare the basic philosophical presuppositions and hermeneutical commitments which... more

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    Having studied with both N.T. Wright and Douglas Campbell, and not least because both are now ‘caught up’ in an apocalyptic standoff, it seemed desirable to lay bare the basic philosophical presuppositions and hermeneutical commitments which undergird and animate their continued disagreements over various issues in Pauline theology. In the following article, both serious and somewhat playful, I have considered four issues of hermeneutical and theological significance—indeed, foundational significance—in the debate between Wright and Campbell. These issues do not fundamentally concern the construal of entire Pauline letters or even Paul’s historical context. Rather, they involve the philosophical presuppositions of history and theology and the relationship between them.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research; London [u.a.] : Sage, 2002; 15(2016), 1, Seite 65-73; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: Apocalyptic; BIBLE; BIBLE; CAMPBELL, Douglas A.; Douglas Campbell; epistemology; Hermeneutics; HISTORY; N.T. Wright; Paul; PHILOSOPHY; salvation history; WRIGHT, N. T. (Nicholas Thomas), 1948-
  11. ‘God’s Israel’ in Galatians 6.16
    An Overview and Assessment of the Key Arguments
    Author: Filtvedt, Ole Jakob
    Published: [2016]

    The article presents and discusses the main arguments that have been used to argue either that non-Jews are included or excluded from God’s Israel. The arguments in favour of the view that non-Jews are excluded focus on: (i) the syntax and... more

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    The article presents and discusses the main arguments that have been used to argue either that non-Jews are included or excluded from God’s Israel. The arguments in favour of the view that non-Jews are excluded focus on: (i) the syntax and translation; (ii) possible influence from a Jewish synagogue prayer; (iii) the combination of the terms ‘mercy’ and ‘Israel’; and (iv) Paul’s regular use of the term ‘Israel’. The arguments for the view that non-Jews are included in God’s Israel are: (i) that non-Jewish members of God’s Israel seem to be a possibility in Galatians; (ii) that an exclusively Jewish Israel is theologically impossible in Galatians; (iii) that an exclusively Jewish Israel in Galatians would have been confusing for the addressees; (iv) the fact that Galatians seems to provide insufficient material for deciding which Jews God’s Israel is supposed to denote.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research; London [u.a.] : Sage, 2002; 15(2016), 1, Seite 123-140; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: BIBLE; BIBLE. Galatians; BIBLE; Exclusion; GALATIANS; GENTILES; Hermeneutics; inclusion; Israel; JEWS; Mercy; non-Jews; Peace; Prayer; rhetoric; THEOLOGY; translation
  12. ‘Render to Caesar the Things of Caesar and to God the Things of God'
    Recent Perspectives on a Puzzling Command (1945-Present)
    Author: Burke, Simeon R.
    Published: [2018]

    This article surveys post-1945 scholarly attempts to interpret Jesus' command to ‘render to Caesar the things of Caesar and to God the things of God' (Mk 12.17; Mt. 22.21; Lk. 20.25). It suggests that part of the confusion surrounding the... more

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    This article surveys post-1945 scholarly attempts to interpret Jesus' command to ‘render to Caesar the things of Caesar and to God the things of God' (Mk 12.17; Mt. 22.21; Lk. 20.25). It suggests that part of the confusion surrounding the interpretation of this phrase lies not only in the disputed nature of the data, but also in the failure to clearly define the interpretive categories. This has resulted in contradictory interpretations being described with the same label, as well as scholars failing to notice similarities between the different readings. To this end, the following article attempts to more precisely outline the four major approaches to the command which have emerged since the Second World War (while also noting the various connections between some of these views): (1) exclusivist interpretations in which ‘the things of God' nullify the ‘the things of Caesar'; (2) complementarian readings in which the two elements are held to be parallel; (3) ambivalent readings that stress the ambiguity and open-ended nature of the utterance; and (4) subordinationist readings that seek to uphold both elements of the command while prioritizing the second element (‘the things of God') over the first (‘the things of Caesar'). The discussion then turns to considering four areas that might prove fruitful in future analysis of this command.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research; London [u.a.] : Sage, 2002; 16(2018), 2, Seite 157-190; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: ANCIENT rhetoric; BIBLE. Gospels; BIBLE; Genesis 1.27; LECTIONARIES; Mark 12.17; ROMAN emperors; Render to Caesar; ancient rhetoric; history of interpretation; maxim; post-colonial criticism; pronouncement story; render to God; tribute pericope
  13. Struggling Sages
    Pauline Rhetoric and Social Control
    Author: Reno, Joshua M.
    Published: [2018]

    The relationship between 1 Corinthians 1-4 and the pursuant chapters has been a perennial issue for scholars of 1 Corinthians. Recent scholarship stressing the rhetorical unity of 1 Corinthians has demonstrated that the entire letter may well be read... more

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    The relationship between 1 Corinthians 1-4 and the pursuant chapters has been a perennial issue for scholars of 1 Corinthians. Recent scholarship stressing the rhetorical unity of 1 Corinthians has demonstrated that the entire letter may well be read as an homonoia speech. Precisely how so in 1 Corinthians 5 remains a matter of some confusion. This is no more clear than in scholarship focused on inner-biblical exegesis, which has strongly emphasized the role of Jewish Scripture in Paul’s ethical argumentation. These scholars tend to see an end to Paul’s rhetorical-philosophical argument and the beginning of Pauline sexual ethics grounded in Jewish Scripture. My aim is to demonstrate Paul’s thoroughgoing homonoia argument in 1 Corinthians 5. Assailing the Corinthian Strong with a barrage of rhetorical and philosophical arguments, Paul simultaneously exposes the false wisdom of the Strong and espouses his own social ethic for the protection and preservation of the Corinthians’ social body.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly; Washington, DC : Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1939; 80(2018), 3, Seite 491-511; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: BIBLE. Corinthians; BIBLE; BIBLICAL scholars; Corinth; HOMONOIA (Greek deity); PAUL, the Apostle, Saint; Paul; adultery; boundary maintenance; ethics; homonoia; incest; philosophy; rhetoric; sexual ethics; social body; wisdom
  14. The Book of Malachi, Manuscript 4Q76 (4QXIIa), and the Formation of the "Book of the Twelve"
    Author: Pajunen, Mika S.; Weissenberg, Hanne von
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    This article discusses the manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls taken as evidence for the so-called Book of Twelve Minor Prophets. In particular, attention is paid to manuscript 4Q76, a pre-Qumranic manuscript dated to ca. 150 BCE, which has... more

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    This article discusses the manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls taken as evidence for the so-called Book of Twelve Minor Prophets. In particular, attention is paid to manuscript 4Q76, a pre-Qumranic manuscript dated to ca. 150 BCE, which has significant implications for the development of the collection of the Minor Prophets in the late Second Temple period. First, manuscript 4Q76 did not include all the twelve books but probably only three or four of the shortest ones. Second, Malachi was followed in 4Q76 by another composition, but this text was in all likelihood not Jonah, as has been previously argued. Therefore, there is actual empirical evidence of an ancient scroll where Malachi is not the last book in a scroll containing several books of the Twelve. These observations are not sufficient to prove or disprove the existence of a collection of twelve prophets, but they show that Malachi was not always the last book of a collection of (some of) the Twelve and that the books of the Twelve could be copied both independently and as various "sets of books." Thus, the idea of a fixed collection is shown to be a postcanonical concept also in the case of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature; Chico, Calif. : Scholar's Press, 1890; 134(2015), 4, Seite 731-751; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: BIBLE; BIBLE. Malachi; BIBLE; DEAD Sea scrolls; JONAH (Biblical prophet); MANUSCRIPTS; PROPHETS
  15. The Making of Gershom's Story
    A Cameroonian Postwar Hermeneutics Reading of Exodus 2
    Author: Ngwa, Kenneth Numfor
    Published: [2015]

    In his first articulation of self-definition--though not his first identity-forming moment--in Exodus, Moses, a repeat survivor of violence, describes himself in genealogical and geographical terms: "I have become a sojourner in a foreign land" (Exod... more

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    In his first articulation of self-definition--though not his first identity-forming moment--in Exodus, Moses, a repeat survivor of violence, describes himself in genealogical and geographical terms: "I have become a sojourner in a foreign land" (Exod 2:22). The bearer of that identity and memory, however, is not Moses but Gershom; that is, "sojourner" and "foreignness" function less as person-specific and boundary-specific tropes than as intergenerational and interregional presences. Moses's intergenerational and interregional interpretive act creates a narrative and embodied character, Gershom, whose "inherited" story illustrates an exodus motif of fragmented and dislocated identity reclaimed as trauma-promise. Combining biblical exegesis with theoretical insights from postcolonial analyses, cultural memory, and identity formation in the nation-state of Cameroon, the essay reads Exodus 2 as a postwar story of identity formation, infused with multiple consciousnesses (political, ethnic, gendered, regional, and religious) and varied memories (conjunctive, disjunctive, and adjunctive). These consciousnesses and memories create gershomite identity, the narrative trope and communal embodiment that transform the traumas of communal fragmentation and displacement into trauma-hopes of survival and regeneration.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature; Chico, Calif. : Scholar's Press, 1890; 134(2015), 4, Seite 855-876; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: BIBLE; COLLECTIVE memory; GENEALOGY; POSTCOLONIAL analysis; POSTCOLONIALISM
  16. Arpagmós revisited
    A Philological Reexamination of the New Testament's "Most Difficult Word"
    Author: Martin, Michael W.
    Published: [2016]

    This study revisits the much-debated ἁρπαγμός (Phil 2:6) and offers first a rebuttal of J. C. O'Neill's challenge to Roy W. Hoover's landmark essay on the double-accusative idiom involving the word and then a refinement of Hoover's understanding. In... more

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    This study revisits the much-debated ἁρπαγμός (Phil 2:6) and offers first a rebuttal of J. C. O'Neill's challenge to Roy W. Hoover's landmark essay on the double-accusative idiom involving the word and then a refinement of Hoover's understanding. In response to O'Neill, I argue that (a) in failing to mount a challenge to most of the occurrences of ἅρπαγμα in the idiom and to the related cluster of idioms involving ἁρπάζειν and near-synonyms ἕρμαιον, εὕρημα, εὐτύχημα, and ϰέρδος, O'Neill leaves sufficient evidence at hand for the establishment of the idiom with ἅρπαγμα; and (b) this evidence negatively impacts his challenge of the occurrences with the admitted synonym ἁρπαγμός, a challenge that in any case falters upon closer examination. Hoover is correct that the idiom with ἅρπαγμα/ἁρπαγμός exists, that the two words are interchangeable within it, and that within it they have the meaning “something to seize upon [for advantage's sake].” Philippians 2:6b may, in fact, be translated, “[Christ] did not consider equality with God something to seize upon.” In refinement of Hoover, however, I challenge his claim—famously seized upon by N. T. Wright—that the idiom implies that the object deemed ἅρπαγμα/ἁρπαγμός “belongs” to the subject in question. I conclude, rather, that the idiom does not speak positively or negatively to the matter of possession—hence the debate over whether Christ possessed “equality with God” cannot be settled by appeal to the phrase.

     
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    Subjects: BIBLE. New Testament; BIBLE; BIBLE; IDIOMS; SYNONYMS
  17. Expanding Ecological Hermeneutics
    The Case for Ecolonialism
    Author: Nilsen, Tina D.; Solevåg, Anna Rebecca
    Published: [2016]

    This article reviews current trends in ecological biblical hermeneutics and argues for a more expansive approach. As an alternative to the Earth Bible Project's "ecojustice principles," the Earth Charter is a cross-disciplinary and interreligious... more

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    This article reviews current trends in ecological biblical hermeneutics and argues for a more expansive approach. As an alternative to the Earth Bible Project's "ecojustice principles," the Earth Charter is a cross-disciplinary and interreligious ethical framework for ecological biblical interpretation. We contend that ecological biblical hermeneutics may benefit from incorporating interdisciplinary insights and engaging with a variety of approaches and methodologies. As an example, we argue for ecolonialism, that is, an ecological approach that incorporates insights from postcolonial biblical hermeneutics. An ecolonial lens is applied to the The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008), a Norwegian movie about a Sami uprising in northern Norway in the 1850s. We show how the film's use of the Bible and biblical quotations brings out not only the colonial implications of the Norwegian state church and its minister but also the devastating effects of Norwegian colonization of the Sami population on ecological issues.

     
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    Subjects: BIBLE; COLONIZATION; HERMENEUTICS; KAUTOKEINO Rebellion, The (Film); RELIGIONS; RELIGIOUS aspects
  18. What Is Opened in Luke 24
    45, the Mind or the Scriptures?
    Author: Mann, Joshua
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    Until recently, virtually all known readings of Luke 24:45 took for granted a particular underlying Greek syntax that yields the translation, "Then he [Jesus] opened their mind to understand the Scriptures." In an earlier issue of this journal,... more

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    Until recently, virtually all known readings of Luke 24:45 took for granted a particular underlying Greek syntax that yields the translation, "Then he [Jesus] opened their mind to understand the Scriptures." In an earlier issue of this journal, Matthew Bates proposed an alternative understanding of the Greek syntax, swapping the direct objects of the main verb and infinitive, substantially altering the meaning: "Then Jesus exposited the Scriptures so that the disciples could understand their meaning." In this article, I will show that Bates's reconstruction is syntactically infeasible and otherwise inadequately supported. Further, I present evidence from the broad context of Luke-Acts that supports the traditional reading. Illumination, the opening of the mind of the disciples, is a climactic moment at the end of the Third Gospel.

     
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    Subjects: BATES, Michael; BIBLE. Luke; BIBLE; CHRISTIANS (Disciples of Christ); GREEK illumination of books & manuscripts
  19. A Shift in Perspective
    he Intended Audience and a Coherent Reading of Proverbs 1:1-7
    Author: Keefer, Arthur
    Published: [2017]

    Two issues in Prov 1:1-7 have not been adequately accounted for in the interpretation of the passage as a whole: (1) the grammatical agent(s) of the infinitives in Prov 1:2-4, 6; and (2) the intended audience of Prov 1:1-7. By attributing a distinct... more

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    Two issues in Prov 1:1-7 have not been adequately accounted for in the interpretation of the passage as a whole: (1) the grammatical agent(s) of the infinitives in Prov 1:2-4, 6; and (2) the intended audience of Prov 1:1-7. By attributing a distinct agent to 1:4, most interpreters include the "simpletons" and "youth" of 1:4 in the audience of Proverbs, sometimes adding an ideal audience indicated rhetorically in 1:5-the "wise one" who hears. I argue that Prov 1:1-7 casts the "wise" as the ideal, intended audience rather than the "simpletons" and "youth" of 1:4. By addressing pertinent grammatical and rhetorical factors in Prov 1:1-7 in a consistent fashion, I offer a coherent reading of Prov 1:1-7 that views this passage as a tightly knit structure and addresses a single, intended audience.

     
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    Subjects: BIBLE translators; BIBLE. Proverbs; BIBLE; INFINITIVE (Grammar); RHETORIC
  20. Building Character on the Road to Emmaus
    Lukan Characterization in Contemporary Literary Perspective
    Author: Dinkler, Michal Beth
    Published: [2017]

    Despite the recent spate of scholarly publications related to characterization in New Testament narratives, no consensus has been reached. Scholars cannot agree on whether Luke's Jesus is characterized primarily as a teacher, as the Messiah, or as a... more

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    Despite the recent spate of scholarly publications related to characterization in New Testament narratives, no consensus has been reached. Scholars cannot agree on whether Luke's Jesus is characterized primarily as a teacher, as the Messiah, or as a rival to Caesar. Neither can scholars agree on whether Luke's disciples are flat paradigms of positive or negative behavior or on whether Luke liberates, oppresses, or sends “double messages” about women, the poor, and those who need healing. Some read Luke's religious and political authorities as uniformly negative “stock” characters, while others contend that they are more nuanced and complex. Contemporary theorists of characterization outside of biblical studies have focused on different questions from those typically asked by New Testament scholars. I contend that literary theorists' proposed solutions to their questions can profitably shift our considerations of characterization in New Testament narratives. This article proceeds in three movements. First, I sketch several trends in New Testament studies of characterization. Second, I describe three theoretical premises shared by many contemporary literary theorists regarding characterization. Finally, I consider how taking these literary-theoretical orientations as points of departure can shift the terms of our discussions of New Testament characterization. The illustrative text throughout is Luke 24:13-35, in which the risen Jesus meets the disciple Cleopas and his anonymous companion on the road to Emmaus.

     
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    Subjects: BIBLE. Luke; BIBLE; EMMAUS (Israel : Extinct city); JESUS Christ; MESSIAH
  21. hvl as "Worthless" in Qoheleth
    A Critique of Michael V. Fox's "Absurd" Thesis
    Author: Sneed, Mark R.
    Published: [2017]

    This essay critiques the thesis that Michael V. Fox first published in 1986 and has since supplemented that the word hvl in Ecclesiastes (38x) should always be translated as "absurd." Fox's argument has convinced many other Qoheleth experts to adopt... more

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    This essay critiques the thesis that Michael V. Fox first published in 1986 and has since supplemented that the word hvl in Ecclesiastes (38x) should always be translated as "absurd." Fox's argument has convinced many other Qoheleth experts to adopt this translation. In this essay, I will demonstrate that Fox's argument is untenable for the following reasons: it constitutes a new usage for hvl not found in the rest of the Hebrew Bible and, thus, is lexically and semantically fallacious; it is anachronistic both for Qoheleth and for the ancient Near East; it downplays the carpe-diem ethic and, thus, Qoheleth's primarily ethical intent. Following the critique and relying on Klaus Seybold, I propose that a word in the sphere of values such as "worthless" is a better translation of hvl for the majority of usages in Qoheleth.

     
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    Subjects: BIBLE. Eclesiastes; BIBLE; BIBLE; BIBLE; FOX, Michael V.
  22. Creating a New "Great Divide"
    The Exoticization of Ancient Culture in Some Recent Applications of Orality Studies to the Bible
    Author: Evans, Paul S.
    Published: [2017]

    One of the main contributions of orality studies in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible studies has been to reject the thesis of the "great divide," which posited a gulf between oral and written cultures of the ancient world. While critique of the thesis is... more

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    One of the main contributions of orality studies in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible studies has been to reject the thesis of the "great divide," which posited a gulf between oral and written cultures of the ancient world. While critique of the thesis is to be welcomed, some of the criticisms have set up an artificial great divide of their own. This new divide exoticizes ancient culture by exaggerating the differences between modern and ancient cultures. I caution against this trend and show that this exoticizing of ancient culture can be seen in the perceived function of ancient and modern texts and the perceived differences between the mind-set of ancient literates and modern literates. I suggest that a balanced approach needs to take into account the complexity of both orality and literacy in reconstructing the function of scribes and their texts in ancient Israelite circles.

     
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    Subjects: ANCIENT civilization; BIBLE. Old Testament; BIBLE; EXOTICISM; ORALITY
  23. The Role of Performance and the Performance of Role
    Cultural Memory in the Hodayot
    Author: Miller, Shem
    Published: [2018]

    In this article, I explore how the Hodayot-an anthology of thanksgiving hymns- were experienced through oral performance and used for identity formation in the sectarian communities associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls. In particular, I describe the... more

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    In this article, I explore how the Hodayot-an anthology of thanksgiving hymns- were experienced through oral performance and used for identity formation in the sectarian communities associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls. In particular, I describe the impact of the Hodayot's oral performance for both community members and a community leader, the Maskil. I begin with a survey of internal evidence that establishes public praise as a plausible sociolinguistic setting for the Hodayot. On the basis of performance criticism, I focus on the impact of the Hodayot as spoken words (speech) that appear in oral performance (reading). The Hodayot embodied the sectarian movement's cultural memory, and the manner in which the Hodayot represent the "self " enables speakers to imagine, or "re-member," themselves through oral performance. On the one hand, the membership's oral performance of the Hodayot functioned to produce collective identity, transform personal identity, and socialize members through narration of shared stories. On the other hand, the leadership utilized oral performance to self-identify with the pedagogical leadership, special knowledge, and institutional authority of the Maskil. Through oral performance, ordinary members could reimagine their identity as model sectarians, and a qualified leader could appropriate the Maskil's office.

     
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    Subjects: BIBLE; BIBLE; DEAD Sea scrolls; GREEK manuscripts; MANUSCRIPTS; PERSONALITY; SOCIOLINGUISTICS
  24. Aegidius of Paris and the Seven Seals: A Prose Prologue to the Gospels in Peter Riga's Aurora
    Author: Dinkova-Bruun, Greti
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Mediaeval studies; Toronto, Ontario : Inst., 1939; 73(2011), Seite 119-145; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: poetry; edition; Aurora; Peter Riga(ca. 1140-1209); prologue; prose; Gilles de Paris (1162-1220); 400-1499 Medieval period; Latin language literature; French literature; MANUSCRIPTS; BIBLE; RIGA, Peter; AURORA (Book); PARISIENSIS, Aegidius
  25. The Curious Case of Noah's ...BOX?
    Author: Wachsmann, Shelley
    Published: 2021

    The article discusses the manner in which artists represented Noah's ark during the early first millennium A.D. as indicated in the discovered mosaic flood scene in the fifth-century A.D. Huqoq synagogue in Israel. Topics covered include the... more

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    The article discusses the manner in which artists represented Noah's ark during the early first millennium A.D. as indicated in the discovered mosaic flood scene in the fifth-century A.D. Huqoq synagogue in Israel. Topics covered include the representations of Noah's ark on a series of coins from the ancient site of Apamea Kibotos, modern Dinar in Turkey, how the flood became a common theme in early Christian art and the Greek inscription on the open cover of the box in the Mopsuestia scene.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Biblical archaeology review; Washington, DC : Soc., 1975; 47(2021), 2, Seite 56-59

    Subjects: ART; BIBLE; BIBLE; History of Biblical events; Art; CHRISTIAN art & symbolism; COINS; History; FLOODS in art; HISTORY of Biblical events; NOAH'S ark; NOAH'S ark in art