Pub Date : 2021-03-17DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341700
Phillip Porter
There is an unresolved tension between the parable of the Talent’s Matthean literary arrangement and readings proposed by modern scholars using socio-historical research to assess the parable’s reception by a first century audience. Drawing on metaphor theory and incorporating insights from the main interpretive trajectories found in modern scholarship on this parable, the author here proposes a new literary-critical reading that resolves this tension. He argues the parable’s rhetorical function within the Matthean narrative is to prepare the Matthean disciples to lead the universal expansion of the mission of the Matthean Jesus in the post-Easter period.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-17DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341690
C. Moore
This article attempts demonstrate that the only two citations of Zechariah in the Fourth Gospel likely derive from “proto-Theodotion” Zechariah (Zech-θ). We first see that the Greek revision Theodotion was extant and available to the authors of the New Testament. Next, we see that the Fourth Gospel’s citation of Zech 9:9 in John 12:15 derives from Zech-θ and does not necessarily rely on Matthew’s Gospel, which itself uses Zech-θ. The most critical piece of evidence for this conclusion is found in the genitive ὄνου, which neither the Old Greek (OG) nor Matthew’s Gospel preserves, but is found explicitly in Zech-θ. We then examine Zech 12:10 in John 19:37 and conclude that it, too, ultimately derives from Zech-θ. This conclusion is plausible because (1) the Fourth Gospel typically uses the Greek versions when citing the OT, (2) Zech-θ was likely at the author’s disposal when writing the Gospel, and (3) the prepositional phrase εἰς ὃν ἐξεκέντησαν reads verbatim with Zech-θ.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-17DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341708
C. Zimmermann
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Pub Date : 2021-03-17DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341681
S. Reece
As a literate and well-educated person, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (“Luke”) would have been familiar with Plato’s Apology of Socrates, one of the most widely-known ancient Greek texts in the Mediterranean world in the 1st century CE. Indeed, it appears that “Luke” may have used his, and his readers’, familiarity with stories about the life, trial, and death of Socrates, and with the account in Plato’s Apology of Socrates specifically, as an interpretive tool in three “trial” scenes narrated in Luke-Acts: those of Jesus, Peter, and, most obviously, Paul.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-17DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341693
Marion Christina Hauck
In scholarly exegetical literature, there exists an important debate concerning whether Luke interprets the death of Jesus soteriologically in Luke-Acts. The passages Luke 22:19–20 and Acts 20:28 have been the centre of attention in this discussion. This essay presents a contribution to the debate by focusing on Acts 20:28: Maintaining the primary meaning of the term ἴδιος (“separate,” “distinct”) the author suggests a new translation of the prepositional phrase διὰ τοῦ αἵµατος τοῦ ἰδίου. The new reading conveys a more ecclesiological interpretation of the death of Jesus and has the advantage of being able to integrate Acts 20:28 into Luke’s wider conceptual framework.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-17DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341710
Mordechai Aviam, R. Notley
The authors present the results of four years of investigation (2016–2019) in their search for Bethsaida-Julias. They bring historical, geographical, and archaeological evidence to argue that Khirbet el-Araj should be considered the leading candidate for the New Testament home of the Apostles. Unlike the remote location of the alternate candidate at et-Tell, their excavations at el-Araj have demonstrated a significant Roman period settlement on the lakeshore of the Sea of Galilee, a much more likely location for a fishing village. In addition, their discovery in 2017 of a Roman bathhouse at el-Araj is characteristic of Herod Philip’s urbanization of the village of Bethsaida, which Josephus reports was transformed from a village into the polis of Julias. After the Roman period, the site was abandoned for two centuries (4th–5th cent. CE), and then resettled with a monastery and Byzantine basilica, reportedly built over the house of Peter and Andrew.
作者介绍了四年（2016年至2019年）的调查结果，以寻找Bethsaida Julias。他们带来了历史、地理和考古证据，认为Khirbet el Araj应该被认为是新约使徒之家的主要候选人。与候补候选人在et Tell的偏远位置不同，他们在el Araj的挖掘表明，加利利海湖岸有一个重要的罗马时期定居点，这更可能是一个渔村。此外，他们在2017年在el Araj发现了一座罗马澡堂，这是希律·菲利普对Bethsaida村的城市化的特征，Josephus报道称，Bethsaid村从一个村庄变成了Julias的城邦。罗马时期结束后，该遗址被废弃了两个世纪（公元前4-5世纪），然后重新安置了一座修道院和拜占庭长方形会堂，据报道，这座修道院和长方形会堂建在彼得和安德鲁的房子上。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341688
M. H. Jensen
Since Willi Marxsen’s break with the consensus view that the Gospel of Mark was most probably written in Rome, the question of provenance has played a crucial role in discussions of Mark’s purpose. While several researchers (most notably Dwight Peterson) have pointed out how using provenance as the hermeneutical key to Mark may involve a risk of circular reasoning, recent contributions have tied discussions of Mark’s purpose ever more tightly to the question of where the gospel was written. After outlining these recent research developments, this article argues for an alternative way of handling the question of Mark’s provenance, one that emphasizes how the major themes of Mark’s gospel touch upon longstanding issues within Second Temple Judaism, which means that a particular provenance is not needed as a hermeneutical crutch for establishing Mark’s purpose.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341691
Christopher S. Atkins
The presence of wisdom “with” God at or before creation is well attested in Jewish sapiential traditions. Given the widespread recognition that the logos of John’s prologue corresponds with sophia in such traditions, it has become natural to read John 1:1b as virtually all English translations do—that is, as “and the word was with God.” Through comparative analysis of the role of divine intermediary figures in Middle-Platonism and Philo of Alexandria, this article argues against the majority interpretation by providing new arguments and a new conceptual framework for the reading, “and the Word was Godward.”
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Pub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341679
Benjamin C. F. Shaw
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Pub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341685
H. Houghton
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