Pub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10023
Torsten Jantsch
This article argues that a thus far neglected aspect of Luke’s Christology is the portrayal of Jesus as a benefactor. It interprets the use of lexemes of the semantic domain euergetes (“benefactor”) in Luke-Acts (Luke 22:25; Acts 4:9; 10:38) against the background of ancient sources. The common feature of designating kings and emperors as saviours and benefactors fits perfectly, both with Luke’s use of the title “saviour” for Jesus and with his royal Christology, but adds a decisive new aspect: Jesus, the heavenly lord and judge, is not a tyrant, but a beneficial ruler.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10018
Sanghwan Lee
In Rev 1:16a, Jesus is portrayed as holding the seven stars in his right hand. The immediate context interprets this imagery as Jesus’s exercising his sovereignty over the seven angels of the seven churches (v. 20). This article suggests that a secondary interpretation is possible in light of numismatic evidence and the larger context of Revelation. According to this reading, the depiction of Jesus in Rev 1:16a functions as a literary device that subverts the message embedded in the Divvs Caesar coin types—a message that promotes the imperial power. By portraying Jesus as the holder of the seven stars in his right hand, the author of Revelation places Jesus far above the imperial power, claiming that Jesus is the ruler par excellence whose sovereignty extends to both the terrestrial and celestial realms.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341719
Cilliers Breytenbach, Christine Gerber, Margaret M. Mitchell, David Moessner, J. C. Thom
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Pub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10011
Alexander W Muir
This article argues that Paul’s narrative about collective πολίτευμα in heaven (Phil 3:20) constitutes a moment of climactic consolation in the letter to the Philippians. This position is reached through an extended comparison with Seneca’s On Consolation to Mother Helvia (Ad Helviam). It emerges that similar narratives of consolation are constructed in the Ad Helviam and Phil 3:15–21. In both texts, adversity is recognised and rationalised, before it is defied then transcended through rhetorical and cosmological arguments. There are, however, also differences owing to Paul’s and Seneca’s different contexts: in particular, the threat of certain Judaizing opponents to Paul’s gospel in Philippi.
本文认为保罗在《腓立比书》中关于集体πολ末梢τε ν μα在天上的叙述(腓立比书3:20)构成了一个高潮安慰的时刻。这一立场是通过与塞内加的安慰母亲Helvia (Ad Helviam)的扩展比较达成的。在Ad Helviam和Phil 3:15-21中也出现了类似的安慰叙述。在这两篇文章中，逆境都被承认并合理化，然后通过修辞和宇宙论的论证来反抗和超越。然而，由于保罗和西尼加的背景不同，也有不同之处:特别是，在腓立比，保罗的福音受到某些犹太化反对者的威胁。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10015
Dong-Sup Oh
In his recent studies, Jörg Frey has proposed that the biblical tradition of Shekhina can be discerned in the expression of the Logos’s dwelling among the believers in John 1:14. Interacting with Frey, this study proposes that Name theology, which account for the temple’s connection with the name of the Lord in the Old Testament, is utilized in John 1:14. The name of the Lord in connection with the temple can be a useful resource to explain the paradoxical identity of the Logos as well as the usage of the glory in the verse. Furthermore, this Name theology can coexist with the biblical tradition of Shekhina in John 1:14.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10014
Keith L. Yoder
Readers of John from Origen to the present have asked: is the Lazarus of John 11–12 wholly separate from the Lazarus of Luke 16, or are they, somehow, one and the same? Whence John’s Lazarus, however, cannot be answered without also asking When, How, and Why. When was the story composed relative to the contiguous text? How is it interwoven with the rest of John? Whence came this otherwise unknown brother of Mary and Martha? Why is his story here at this turn in the Fourth Gospel? The interpretation of John’s Lazarus narrative has languished in virtual stalemate for some time. This study aims to bring new evidence to the table, to gain a fresh perspective on the composition of that story and its relationship to Luke 16, in the context of a carefully constructed array of network connections with earlier and later texts in John.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10016
H. D. du Toit
A scrutiny of the literature on the continuative relative clause (CRC) in the Greek New Testament indicated that several of its characteristics are not discussed, or in need of further examination. Drawing on insights in general linguistics, as well as literature on the relative clause in modern languages, a number of characteristics of the CRC are discussed in this article. These include the CRC’s characteristics as a member of the appositive group of relative clauses; the internal structure of the CRC’s antecedent; the position of the CRC vis-à-vis its antecedent; the CRC’s function to increase coherence within a sentence and paragraph; and the CRC’s function to denote foreground in narrative discourse.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10008
N. Croy
In John 17:20–21 Jesus prays for the unity of his followers, but the nature of that unity hinges on a textual variant. The text reads: “that they also might be in us.” The variant adds one word: “that they also might be one in us.” The manuscripts are closely divided. This decision must be made on internal evidence. If the number “one” is original, Jesus prays that his followers might enjoy unity with one another that is modeled after and/or enabled by the unity of the Son and Father. This is more in keeping with the immediate context and with Johannine theology in general. John’s Gospel repeatedly affirms the oneness of Jesus and his disciples, but it refrains from affirming the oneness of the Father and believers. The longer text yields the reading that was most likely original.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10017
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
Publication of a Syriac parchment codex fragment kept in the papyrus collection of the National Library of Austria (P. Vind. Syr. 5), which belongs to a gospel manuscript once in the “Syrian” monastery of Wadi el-Natrun, the rest of which is now in London (British Library, Add. MS 17114). The potential contribution of the reconstituted codex, which was adduced as cod. 8 in the edition of Pusey and Gwilliam, to the criticism of the text of the Syriac version is reexamined.
出版奥地利国家图书馆（P.Vind.Syr.5）纸莎草收藏的叙利亚羊皮纸编码片段，该片段属于曾在Wadi el Natrun“叙利亚”修道院的福音手稿，其余部分现在在伦敦（大英图书馆，Add.MS 17114）。重组后的法典的潜在贡献，被援引为鳕鱼。8在Pusey和Gwilliam的版本中，对叙利亚文本的批评进行了重新审视。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10007
Richard Last
This article foregrounds the importance of Paul’s letters for studying the experiences and perceptions of persons who stutter in antiquity. It analyzes Paul’s speech alongside the biographies of two other historical figures from antiquity who suffered from speech dysfluency: the great Athenian orator, Demosthenes, and the emperor Claudius. Accounts of Demosthenes’, Claudius’, and Paul’s speech inconsistencies, silences, incomprehensible utterances, oratory weaknesses—and their critics’ accusations that they suffered from madness—are interpreted in light of research on adults who stutter in the contemporary context, as well as studies on listener experiences and stereotypes. In introducing Paul into the study of ancient dysfluency, the article revisits Paul’s conflict with rival teachers in Corinth as it is in responding to these critics’ accusations that Paul is most revealing of his own dysfluency.
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