Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341383
Patricia L. Vesely
In this article, I argue that Job 29 provides an eudaimonic depiction of human happiness whereby virtue, combined with a number of “external goods” is held up as the best possible life for human beings. I compare Job’s vision of the “good life” with an Aristotelian conception of εὐδαιμονία and conclude that there are numerous parallels between Job and Aristotle with respect to their understanding of the “good life.” While the intimate presence of God distinguishes Job’s expectation of happiness with that of Aristotle, Job is unique among other eudaimonic texts in the Hebrew Bible in that expectations of living well are expressed in terms of virtue, rather than Torah piety. In the second portion of the article, I assess Job’s conception of human flourishing from the perspective of the divine speeches, which enlarge Job’s vision of the “good life” by bringing Job face-to-face with the “wild inhabitants” of the cosmos.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341385
Chelcent Fuad
This article argues that, instead of the nature of the crime or its punishment, the underlying problem that needs oracular law in the account of the blasphemer in Lev 24:10-23 is the ambiguity of the criminal’s identity. This ambiguity is employed in the narrative as a literary device by which the redactor of the narrative introduces the universal applicability of the blasphemy law that includes both natives and foreigners. By so doing, the redactor of Lev 24 serves the Holiness Code’s theological agenda, namely, the extension of holiness to all inhabitants of the land since pollution of the land by any of its inhabitants may eventually cause the expulsion of the whole people from the land. To this end, the redactor rewrites the Covenant Code and frames it with the narrative of the mixed-pedigree blasphemer.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341390
T. Robinson
{"title":"Saving Images: The Presence of the Bible in Christian Liturgy, written by Gordon Lathrop","authors":"T. Robinson","doi":"10.1163/18712207-12341390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40398,"journal":{"name":"Horizons in Biblical Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18712207-12341390","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47787562","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}
Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341393
Wongi Park
{"title":"Jesus in Asia, written by R. S. Sugirtharajah","authors":"Wongi Park","doi":"10.1163/18712207-12341393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341393","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40398,"journal":{"name":"Horizons in Biblical Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18712207-12341393","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41909030","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}
Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341386
Kei Hiramatsu
While partition theorists question the integrity of 1 Corinthians based on the observation that Paul addresses a variety of subjects in distinctive ways through this missive, a consistent theme does unite letter. Paul encourages the strong and privileged to renounce their status, rights, and freedom for the sake of the weak. Thus, this article explores Paul’s ecclesiology of the strong and the weak particularly in 8:1-14:40 by examining his address in each section (8:1-11:1; 11:2-11:16; 11:17-34; 12:1-14:40). In so doing, it seeks to demonstrate Paul’s theology of weakness as the underpinning theme of the letter.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-11DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341376
C. Skinner
It is often said that the Johannine Jesus never utters a narrative parable like those that are so ubiquitous throughout the Synoptics. However, in John 10, we have the closest parallel in the so-called “Good Shepherd” discourse, where Jesus uses a “figure of speech” (παροιµία) to compare himself to a benevolent or noble shepherd. The present article will explore this παροιµία in light of the unfolding narrative Christology over the first nine chapters. Against that backdrop, we will examine the questions: “What historical information can reasonably be inferred as part of the literary construct known as the implied audience?”, and “How has the implied audience been prepared by the narrator to receive this metaphorical speech?”
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Pub Date : 2018-09-11DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341373
Nicoletta Gatti, G. Ossom-Batsa
In most cultures in Ghana, both male and female infertility are believed to be a curse and a sign of an unfruitful life. The ability to procreate thus defines the identity of the person and his/her existential value in relation to others. Furthermore, childlessness becomes an overwhelming drama as it is perceived to depict an inferior state of being or a life of incompleteness. This type of social identity construction raises serious hermeneutical issues in its engagement with the Judeo-Christian message of inclusiveness. Against this backdrop, this study reads the drama surrounding infertility within the Krobo worldview from the horizon of Isa 56:1-8, using the Communicative hermeneutic approach. Our findings are that an engagement between the Krobo worldview and the Isaian text creates both tension and transformation. The tension comes about because of the contrast of views; and the transformation resides in the change of perspective. The text provides a rich and an alternative understanding of infertility: another way of being and not a curse.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-11DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341379
V. Lovelace
{"title":"Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne, written by Wilda C. Gafney","authors":"V. Lovelace","doi":"10.1163/18712207-12341379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40398,"journal":{"name":"Horizons in Biblical Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18712207-12341379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48697957","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-11DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341381
S. Scholz
{"title":"Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts, edited by Amy Kalmanofsky","authors":"S. Scholz","doi":"10.1163/18712207-12341381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40398,"journal":{"name":"Horizons in Biblical Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18712207-12341381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45213802","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}
Pub Date : 2018-09-11DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341378
Dennis T. Olson
{"title":"A Handbook to Old Testament Exegesis, written by William P. Brown","authors":"Dennis T. Olson","doi":"10.1163/18712207-12341378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40398,"journal":{"name":"Horizons in Biblical Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/18712207-12341378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43768202","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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