Pub Date : 2019-09-13DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341394
A. Adam
A significant body of literature rests on the premise that the most propitious way of characterizing the way we interpret linguistic signs corresponds to the practices of encoding and decoding. A sender conceives a message, encodes it in linguistic signs, transmits the message (by voice, or in handwriting, or print, or digital media) and the recipient of the message decodes it. This model itself impedes progress in textual interpretation. An approach to hermeneutics that takes its cue from broader phenomena of perception, apprehension, and inference can provide a more illuminating theoretical discourse for evaluating contested interpretations, with the additional benefit that by changing the way that we view linguistic hermeneutics, we stand to integrate our endeavors more fully with the interpretation of art, music, ethics, and gestural action.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-13DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341398
M. Macdonald
With a focus on Eph 4:7-16, the article highlights the significance of the concept of “gift” in Ephesians. John Barclay’s work helps to situate the Paul of Ephesians among Jewish theologians of grace, especially the perspective of the Qumran Hodayot with respect to the incongruity of divine mercy. Moreover, the results of recent analyses of Ephesians within the Roman Imperial context, including civic and familial concepts, are pushed to a new level of understanding. The study includes an examination of the link between ancient ideologies and practices related to gift giving and the delineation of social bonds and communal obligations where the depiction of the role of Christ as the giver of ministerial gifts plays a crucial role. Ultimately, the essay goes some way to close the perceived gap between the undisputed letters and Ephesians in term of a theology of grace.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-13DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341396
W. Willis
This paper employs a basic insight from John M. G. Barclay’s book, Paul and the Gift, that the word χάρις in first-century Greek very often referred to a gift, especially his “perfection” of the word as “conditional.” In Paul’s lifetime the common cultural expectation was that the recipient of a gift accepted that a return gift was normative and expected—whether physical or not. This understanding is thoroughly discussed in Seneca, De Beneficiis which describes how the obligation to reciprocity in giving and receiving is expected of all civil persons, apart from civic position and status. This is because the function of a gift is the building or maintaining of relationships. This purpose is shown to be the case also in Philippians with reference to the passage employing the lexeme (Phil 1:7, 29; 2:6-11) and in 4:10-20 where Paul discusses the gift he received from the Philippian church.
本文采用了约翰·m·g·巴克莱(John M. G. Barclay)的著作《保罗与礼物》(Paul and the Gift)中的一个基本观点，即在一世纪的希腊语中，χ ρις这个词经常指代礼物，尤其是他将这个词的“完美”修饰为“有条件的”。在保罗的一生中，普遍的文化期望是，接受礼物的人接受回报礼物是规范和期望的——无论是物质的还是非物质的。这种理解在塞内卡的《论受益》一书中得到了深入的讨论，书中描述了所有公民在给予和接受时的互惠义务是如何被期望的，除了公民的地位和地位。这是因为礼物的功能是建立或维持关系。这个目的在腓立比书中也被证明是这样的，参考了使用词素的段落(腓1:7,29;2:6-11)和4:10-20，保罗讨论他从腓立比教会得到的礼物。
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Pub Date : 2019-09-13DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341397
J. Sumney
Drawing on the aspects of grace that John M. G. Barclay identifies, this essay examines the understandings of grace found in 2 Thessalonians. We find that 2 Thessalonians “perfects” (pushes to the extreme) the superabundance and emphasizes the priority of God’s gift of grace. Unlike what Barclay finds in Romans and Galatians, 2 Thessalonians does not perfect the incongruity of grace. It allows that there is a sense in which God has chosen the appropriate people to give grace. Because it does not perfect the incongruity between the worthiness of the recipient and the offer of grace, its view of grace is similar to that of the Wisdom of Solomon. Seeing that 2 Thessalonians does not perfect incongruity as Paul does in Romans and Galatians may offer a new perspective from which to think about its authorship.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341389
S. Matthews
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Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341391
Francisco Lozada
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Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341388
J. Beverly
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Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341387
Steve A. Wiggins
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Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341392
Patricia K. Tull
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Pub Date : 2019-04-22DOI: 10.1163/18712207-12341384
Daniel J. D. Stulac
This essay examines the story of Solomon and the two prostitutes (1 Kgs 3:16-28) in relation to David’s judgment concerning Mephibosheth (2 Sam 19:25-31) and in relation to four “resurrection”-type stories in the book of Kings. Readers have traditionally interpreted Solomon’s judgment favorably, though recently some have argued that Solomon’s wisdom is ironic. This essay argues that the Solomon of Kings presents as an irreducible paradox, as both an ideal and an anti-ideal. Read in light of 2 Sam 19:25-31, 1 Kgs 3:16-28 suggests that ideal Solomon surpasses his father in judgment through his restoration of a conceptually “dead” child to its mother. When viewed in this way, Solomon’s wisdom can be understood to launch a life-preservation typology central to the book’s theological hope. Reconsideration of Solomon’s character from this vantage point helps to illumine New Testament references to Solomon in both Matthew and Luke.
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