Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0146107920980910
D. Bossman
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0146107920980930
R. Gnuse
Psalm 104 is a majestic hymn to creation, a dynamic corollary to the more formal presentation of the creation of the world in Genesis 1. Reflection upon some of the passages provides us with insight into the biblical author’s appreciation for nature, an attitude that needs to inspire us in this age of ecological crisis. Though the biblical text is unaware of such an ecological crisis; nonetheless, passages shine forth that can speak to us in our modern age of global warming and environmental collapse.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0146107920980933
J. A. Sanders
Various movements through history have appealed to Scripture for authority. These have been called supersessionist, messianist, and/or zionist, but they continue to appeal to Scripture even after they attain power and thus repress others. Power corrupts, and when this happened in ancient Israel Prophets arose to critique and denounce it. In addition Scripture as canon, both Jewish and Christian, included Wisdom thinking, making it a thoroughly dialogical compendium that questioned abuse of power. The teachings of Jesus are themselves largely prophetic critique of abuses of power. Beyond Scripture prophetic critique can be effected by empathy for the position of “the other” and loving the enemy, thus engaging in the monotheizing process by refusing to demonize those who differ but learning from them.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0146107920980932
P. Chia
The purposes of this research are to argue that the Gospel of Matthew uses the term ekklēsia with spiritual and physical meanings and that this term is based on God’s invitation through Jesus to all people to come into this assembly. The implication is that this ekklēsia will be filled with all people with different ethnicities, nations, languages, sexes, level of piousness and educations. I will employ word studies, historical background studies, and the literary structure of Matthew as my methodology to reach these goals.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-27DOI: 10.1177/0146107920980935
K. C. Hanson, Andrew W. Dyck, Jaime L. Waters, H. Paynter, D. Zucker, Olegs Andrejevs, M. Porto, Wendel Sun, Alexander E. Stewart, S. Elliott, E. Stewart
Fractured states: smallpox, public health and vaccination in British India is the first book-length treatment that details the development and implementation of public health policies to control smallpox in British India between 1800 and 1947. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach shaped by the collaboration of its three co-authors whose expertise in South Asian studies and history of medicine is legion. It is a significant contribution to the history of smallpox, and public health. Using vaccination as a case study, it also offers a fresh perspective in the political history of British India by delving into the complex machinery of the colonial government. It is, appropriately, a volume of Orient Longman’s New Perspectives in South Asian History in which it is followed by the smallpox story from India’s independence to its eradication on the Indian subcontinent: Sanjoy Bhattacharya’s Expunging variola: the control and eradication of smallpox in India 1947–1977 (2006). This work employs two principal analytic approaches that roughly divide the book into two halves. The first half is a detailed structural analysis of the development of smallpox controls and public health policies that ‘‘between 1890 and 1940 mirrored the fractured nature of the colonial Indian administrative structures’’(p. 9). By focusing on the interand intra-governmental economic and political relationships that shaped smallpox control strategies (vaccination, isolation, and infectious disease notification), the authors depart from the standard historiography that tends to blame the relatively slow uptake of vaccination in India on indigenous resistance, or British imperialism. The authors point out that historians constructing narratives around the colonizers and the colonized tend to focus on the concerns of the senior bureaucrats and scientists, laws and regulations, and in doing so have distorted the picture of the diverse and often conflicting in-the-field execution of state policies. In this book, race and religious opposition to vaccination, often featured in reports by British bureaucrats, are portrayed as proxy explanations for a more nuanced and contingent set of political interests, petty disputes within government agencies, and the diverse power relationships between all levels of government and, of course, the public. For example, they argue that tensions and conflicts arose frequently between British bureaucrats, and within government departments, such that even when adequate funds were available, vaccination was occasionally impeded by the competing interests of various government officials. This systems analysis sheds new light on the idiosyncratic uptake of vaccination technology in India throughout the period of study. The second half of the book explores the technical and medical history of vaccine research in India to explain trends in the perception and uptake of the different vaccination technologies. By the late nineteenth century, it was obvious t
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1177/0146107920958985
S. Joseph
The Jubilee tradition commemorates the release of slaves, the remission of debt, and the repatriation of property, a “day” of physical and spiritual restoration. The Jubilee tradition—originating in a constitutional vision of ancient Israel periodically restoring its ancestral sovereignty as custodians of the land—became a master symbol of biblical theology, a powerful ideological resource as well as a promise of a divinely realized future during the Second Temple period, when the Qumran community envisioned an eschatological Jubilee and the early Jesus tradition remembered Jesus’ nonviolence in Jubilee-terms. Jubilee themes can also be identified in ideals inscribed in the founding of America, the Abolition movement, the Women’s Liberation Movement, the Civil Rights movement, and Liberation Theology. This study seeks to extend the exploration of Jubilee themes by adopting a comparative methodological approach, re-examining Jubilee themes in the context of the contemporary Palestinian-Israeli conflict, where the dream of Peace in the Middle East continues to play out in predominantly politicized contexts.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1177/0146107920959001
Brian Schmisek
Luke is the singular evangelist to use the term “plan” (boulē) (of God). He is also the only NT author to use the related terms horizō/hōrismenos, and these he uses in a sense similar to “boulē.” This article investigates Luke’s construction and use of the term “plan (of God)” to convey a fundamental proclamation of faith, namely, that the Jesus event fulfilled a predetermined divine plan. Primarily three examples from Luke (Peter’s Speech at Pentecost, Jesus’ words at the Last Supper, and the claim that the Messiah must suffer) demonstrate this claim. Luke’s use of this term reflects Greco-Roman concepts more than those in the LXX and would therefore have been readily understood by his predominantly Gentile audience. Luke may be properly understood as the master architect of God’s plan. This image and language that he forged was ultimately so effective it influenced centuries of Christian thought and catechetical formulae.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1177/0146107920958998
V. Matthews
In a reexamination of the narrative in which Josiah travels to Bethel and desacralizes the shrine originally constructed by King Jeroboam, special attention is given to issues of spatiality, sensory criticism, and memory studies. By focusing on the sighting of a monument standing in the cemetery at Bethel, the storyteller uses this mnemonic device to evoke a memory that would further vilify Jeroboam and justify Josiah’s centralization of worship in Jerusalem.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1177/0146107920958984
D. Bossman
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1177/0146107920958999
S. Takagi
This article proposes a novel way of resolving many of the challenges posed by traditional interpretations of the Matthean parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard (20:1–16) through a lens of economics. It argues that most interpretational challenges go away if we interpret the parable, not eschatologically or allegorically, but as a gloss on Jesus’s injunction to the rich young man to sell his possessions and give the money to the poor (Matt 19:21). The article then offers an interpretation of the equal wage paid to all laborers that requires neither eschatology nor radical communalism by considering a set of conditions that must be satisfied by the boundary of distributive justice.
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