Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a924365
Michelle D. Hunt
Abstract: As recognized among the textual witnesses, the first word in Isa 15:5aβ, [inline-graphic 01i], has multiple meanings. The form can mean “her gate bars,” which coheres with the preceding verses concerning Moab’s destroyed cities (Isa 15:1–5a), or “her refugees,” which coheres with verses concerning the flight of Moab’s refugees (Isa 15:5b–9). Despite the polysemy evinced among the textual witnesses, [inline-graphic 01i] is generally translated as “her refugees” in modern scholarship. Moreover, some scholars have observed a unit division between vv. 4 and 5, further distancing the possibility of reading [inline-graphic 01i] in the context of vv. 1–4 and thus appreciating the polysemy of the word. Through the use of delimitation criticism, I argue that the ancient witnesses did not observe a unit division between vv. 4 and 5. Moreover, the double meanings of [inline-graphic 01i] hinge the chapter together, both reflecting on Moab’s destroyed cities (vv. 1–4) and anticipating the flight of her refugees (vv. 5–9).
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a924392
David B. Schreiner
{"title":"The Hunt for Ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of Diana V. Edelman ed. by Cynthia Shafer-Elliot et al (review)","authors":"David B. Schreiner","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a924392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a924392","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"195 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140764027","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a924376
Steven L. McKenzie
{"title":"Jonah: A Commentary by Susan Niditch (review)","authors":"Steven L. McKenzie","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a924376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a924376","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"147 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140785325","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a924380
Patrick Gray
{"title":"After Paul: The Apostle’s Legacy in Early Christianity by James W. Aageson (review)","authors":"Patrick Gray","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a924380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a924380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"459 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140758121","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a924368
Matthew T. Warnez
Abstract: Romans 8:20–22 is the prooftext par excellence for the hypothesis that the natural world is fallen. The basis for that hypothesis is challenged as follows: “subjected to futility” refers principally to Gen 1:26–28, not Gen 3:17–18, and must be interpreted as such; “bondage to decay” is best understood through the OT’s naturalistic view of environmental phenomena; “groaning in labor pains” is not a periphrasis for animal suffering, but a personification of the creation–sin antipathy. While Paul assumes that sin can have extrinsic effects on creation, Rom 8:20–22 does not imply that creation was vitiated intrinsically by the fall, and thus the passage is fully compatible with the notion that the natural world retains the full extent of its prelapsarian integrity.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a918387
{"title":"The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God: An Emerging Chapter for Religious Life; Science, Technology, and Mission by Laurie Brink, OP (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a918387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a918387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"179 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140523447","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 : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a918388
{"title":"Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity by Jeremiah Coogan (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a918388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a918388","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"35 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140523063","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 : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a918372
Seth Whitaker
Abstract: Many understand Stephen's speech in Acts 7 as having theological implications regarding unbelieving Jews and the Jerusalem temple. In this study, however, I reassess Stephen's speech through the lens of prophetic critique and argue that his speech, based on the Hebrew prophets, is not entirely negative. Before looking closely at Stephen's speech, I provide a brief overview of the prophetic critique in Luke-Acts as well as a discussion of its interpretation and appropriation. The prophetic heritage, in which Luke portrays Stephen, calls for repentance and warns of judgment, yet may still retain hope for restoration. Although Acts is often read as a story of new exodus for early Christianity, I suggest reading the narrative (of which Stephen's speech is a plausible microcosm) as anticipating a new exile . I believe readings of Acts that highlight exile, such as the one I suggest here, have the capacity to better hold Luke's tensions and conflicts that the early Jesus movement had with late Second Temple Judaism.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a918370
David Andrew Smith
Abstract: This article examines a key element of the theological imagery of Greek Isaiah—the depiction of the salvation of God. Through a close comparison of selected passages of Isaiah in Hebrew and Greek, I seek to clarify the contributions of Greek translation to the creation of a version of Isaiah that would become not only the primary mode of reading the prophet in Greek-speaking diaspora Judaism but also the default linguistic field for much theological reflection in early Christianity. One avenue of the impact of the Greek translator's work is assessed through a survey of the reception history of the distinctly Greek version of Isaiah in Luke-Acts, where the imagery of salvation as a public spectacle becomes a central theme. I argue that sustained attention to the Greek version of Isaiah as a distinctive text in its own right is a necessary prolegomenon for studies of Lucan intertextuality and, indeed, Lucan theology.
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