Pub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341472
J. Robinson
In this study I will argue that, while Matthew and Luke’s redaction of the Markan Transfiguration present Jesus as the antitype of Moses, Mark’s own account does not. Rather, Mark uses typology to narrate Jesus into the stories of Elijah and Moses, both of whom are described in the Jewish scriptures as ascending a mountain to talk with God in narratives in which the Angel of YHWH also features. Distinctive features of Mark’s account suggest that Mark wishes to associate Jesus, not with Moses, but with YHWH and his angel, using the scriptural ambiguity between the Angel of YHWH and Israel’s God to generate a similar ambiguity around the divine identity of Jesus. Consequently, Mark’s Transfiguration presents a “higher” Christology than that of the Transfigurations in the other Synoptic Gospels. In Mark’s Transfiguration, Jesus is compared, not to human prophets, but to the anthropomorphic manifestations of Israel’s God at Sinai and Horeb.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341468
Brandon R. Grafiu
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341467
C. Currie
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341463
Bart B. Bruehler
Previous studies of repentance in Luke-Acts have not adequately accounted for the various elements that the narrative repeatedly includes in its presentation of this theme. Drawing on the tools of cognitive science, this essay argues that Luke-Acts displays varying configurations of repentance that consistently include elements from four frames (prophetic, apocalyptic, priestly, and wisdom) into a problem-solution structure. These configurations combine recognizable elements in flexible ways from various frames, resulting in a thematization of repentance across the two volumes that is both ideologically coherent and rhetorically effective. The blending of these elements reveals how Luke connects repentance with forgiveness, baptism, and the Holy Spirit.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341462
J. Thigpen
Commentators have long wrestled with the relationship between the emotional portrayal of YHWH and his decision not to destroy his people in Hosea 11:8–9. The key question in this text is why does YHWH act as he does? What is the basis for his decision? In addition, questions abound with regard to how the reader should understand the emotional portrayal itself. Should it be read as an anthropopathic description, or does it challenge the doctrine of divine impassibility? This study investigates the relationship between YHWH’s emotional portrayal and actions in light of Hosea’s understanding of divine motive. Then the results of the study are applied to questions surrounding divine impassibility.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341465
R. Giffin
A reading that has Paul claiming he has not already been justified (οὐχ … ἢ ἤδη δεδικαίωμαι) appears in some important witnesses to the text of Phil 3:12 (e.g., P46, 06, Irenaeus [Latin translation], Ambrosiaster). Known as “the justification clause,” this variant reading is often dismissed as spurious based (in part) on the assumption that Paul would not have written any such thing. In this article the author challenges this assumption. Included is an overview of Paul’s wider theology of justification, an examination of the four texts in the Pauline Letters in which verbal forms of justification terminology appear in the future tense, and a discussion of three additional Pauline texts in which future justification is implied. These analyses clarify that the reading is compatible with Paul’s use of justification language elsewhere and is coherent as a reference to final justification at the last judgment.
保罗声称他还没有被证明是正当的(ο ο χ…丶ν δη δεδικα rain - ωμαι)出现在腓立比书3:12的一些重要见证中(例如，P46, 06, Irenaeus[拉丁翻译]，Ambrosiaster)。这种不同的解读被称为“称义条款”，通常被认为是虚假的，(部分地)基于保罗不会写任何这样的东西的假设。在本文中，作者对这一假设提出了挑战。包括对保罗更广泛的称义神学的概述，对保罗书信中四个文本的考察，其中称义术语的口头形式以将来时态出现，并讨论另外三个隐含未来称义的保罗文本。这些分析表明，这段经文与保罗在其他地方使用的称义语言是一致的，并且作为最后审判时的最终称义的参考是连贯的。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341464
K. I. Uwaegbute
Eph 5:21–33, taken at face value, may be considered very dangerous to the cause of gender equality because of its supposed teaching on the headship of the husbands in the households, which perpetuate women’s subordination. This study provides a re-reading of Eph 5:21–33 vis-a-vis the problem of patriarchy among the Igbo people of Nigeria. Adopting a social-scientific approach to exegesis with gender socialisation as a theoretical framework, the work contended that Eph 5:21–33 undermines the patriarchal structure of the First-Century Mediterranean world in which it was set by emphasising mutual love and submission between a husband and a wife in the household. This is not meant to be a ‘subjection’ of the wife as some readings of the text suggest. Such a reading of the text challenges the patriarchal structure that exists even among Christian homes in Igboland today, and calls for the edification of the female gender. It also aims to achieve a possible reduction in violence against women in Igboland.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341461
Scott N. Callaham
One of the notorious interpretive cruces within the Synoptic Gospels concerns blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. According to Jesus, this sin stands apart from and above all others as an unforgivable offense. Attempts to explain the internal logic of these sayings and their place within Jesus’s teaching have left New Testament scholarship at an impasse. The present study advances a fresh perspective: that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit means radically rejecting the sign of the New Covenant, hence the offender experiences the covenant sanction of irrevocably being “cut off.”
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341460
S. Ryan
Readers of Romans debate how to understand Paul’s language related to sin and death. Are sin and death ontological powers that operate in the human realm? Does Paul use figurative language to describe abstract concepts? Rarely do scholars consider material evidence and popular ideas as sources for addressing such questions. This essay considers archaeological findings from Pompeii as an additional voice in the conversation for understanding life in a first-century Roman context and Paul’s framing of sin and death in Romans. The essay first considers philosophical critiques of popular practices and then turns to material remains to demonstrate that many thought suprahuman forces to be at work in the world. With the Vesuvian evidence in view, understanding sin and death among powers that can influence human life emerges as a plausible interpretation. Paul’s personal language thus resonates with popular beliefs in the Greco-Roman context and reframes them in significant ways.
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