Prosopological exegesis was integral to the trinitarian theology of several second- and early third-century Christian theologians who argued that the different divine personae or prosōpa that speak in biblical texts were distinct from one another in reality. Unlike these predecessors, Origen’s use of prosopological exegesis in the Psalms occurs in a less polemical context and gravitates towards Christology and ecclesiology rather than trinitarian theology. In his homilies on Psalm 15 (16), Origen identifies the soul of Jesus as a speaking prosōpon distinct from, and acted upon by, the divine Word. This instance of prosopological exegesis highlights the distinctiveness of Origen’s theological use of this literary practice. In particular, I argue that Origen draws conclusions of soteriological and ecclesiological relevance from his notion of the speaking prosōpon of Jesus’ soul, which mediates a kind of communicatio idiomatum between the human Christ and the Church.
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Literary and rhetorical analysis has led scholars to approach the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts as a two-volume work, often referred to as Luke-Acts. In response to increased attention to Luke-Acts, there is renewed interest in the early reception history of these books. Research has focused primarily on the second century ce and yielded little to support the assumption that early recipients consistently read these books together. This lack of evidence for the unified reading of Luke-Acts, heightened by Acts’ own varied reception, has enlivened the discussion of how one should approach the study of Luke and Acts today. This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion by examining early Christian prologues to Luke’s writings, ranging from the second century to the sixth century ce. The prologues will be examined in light of three questions: (1) How do the prologues describe the author of Luke and Acts? (2) How do they engage with Luke’s own prefaces to the books? (3) How do they frame Luke and Acts in light of other literature? What emerges from these texts is that early readers were aware of a connection between Luke and Acts, but such a connection was overshadowed by other associations.
{"title":"The Independent Works of Luke: Further Evidence on the Early Christian Reception of Luke and Acts","authors":"Lilly Hannah Davis","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae043","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Literary and rhetorical analysis has led scholars to approach the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts as a two-volume work, often referred to as Luke-Acts. In response to increased attention to Luke-Acts, there is renewed interest in the early reception history of these books. Research has focused primarily on the second century ce and yielded little to support the assumption that early recipients consistently read these books together. This lack of evidence for the unified reading of Luke-Acts, heightened by Acts’ own varied reception, has enlivened the discussion of how one should approach the study of Luke and Acts today. This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion by examining early Christian prologues to Luke’s writings, ranging from the second century to the sixth century ce. The prologues will be examined in light of three questions: (1) How do the prologues describe the author of Luke and Acts? (2) How do they engage with Luke’s own prefaces to the books? (3) How do they frame Luke and Acts in light of other literature? What emerges from these texts is that early readers were aware of a connection between Luke and Acts, but such a connection was overshadowed by other associations.","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"108 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141667387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theology of the Book of Proverbs. By Katharine J. Dell","authors":"Arthur Keefer","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141673536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity. By Jason A. Staples","authors":"C. Kugler","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"1 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141688264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gerhard von Rad and the Study of Wisdom Literature. Edited by Timothy J. Sandoval and Bernd U. Schipper","authors":"Katharine J. Dell","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"13 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141688086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Oxford Handbook of Early Evangelicalism. Edited by Jonathan Yeager","authors":"T. Macquiban","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"24 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141689088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study examines the servant oracles of Isaiah 41–45, which in the MT present a collectivist, national understanding of the figure, but in the OG are rendered so that the servant is individuated, both in the sense that he is granted clearly the quality of individuality, and in the sense that he is distinguished clearly from the collective nation he serves. The servant is also thereby rendered messianic, as Israel’s eschatological rule is transferred to this individual, along with God’s epithet, ‘your king’, and as intertextual references identify this figure as one and the same with the Davidic king of Isaiah 9 and 11. Thus OG Isaiah 41–45 attests the emergence of individualist interpretation of the servant well before the common era. These chapters also show the place of messianism in the Septuagint and in second century Alexandria.
{"title":"The Individuated, Messianic Servant of OG Isaiah 41–45","authors":"Michael Wade Martin","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The study examines the servant oracles of Isaiah 41–45, which in the MT present a collectivist, national understanding of the figure, but in the OG are rendered so that the servant is individuated, both in the sense that he is granted clearly the quality of individuality, and in the sense that he is distinguished clearly from the collective nation he serves. The servant is also thereby rendered messianic, as Israel’s eschatological rule is transferred to this individual, along with God’s epithet, ‘your king’, and as intertextual references identify this figure as one and the same with the Davidic king of Isaiah 9 and 11. Thus OG Isaiah 41–45 attests the emergence of individualist interpretation of the servant well before the common era. These chapters also show the place of messianism in the Septuagint and in second century Alexandria.","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140709043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era. By Courtney J. P. Friesen","authors":"Paul M Blowers","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140386678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intercession of Jesus in Hebrews: The Background and Nature of Jesus’ Heavenly Intercession in the Epistle to the Hebrews. By Abeneazer G. Urga","authors":"Judson D Greene","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"140 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140386783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Valentinus’ Legacy and Polyphony of Voices By Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski","authors":"Einar Thomassen","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"14 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140236292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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