Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jtheointe.16.2.0223
Daniel J. D. Stulac, D. A. Smith
This essay is a study in typological exegesis across the testaments of the Christian Bible. Specifically, in light of early Christian conviction that Jesus of Nazareth is the anointed son of David, we seek to understand how the story of David’s violent murder of Uriah the Hittite and rape of Bathsheba figure within a canonical framework in which Jesus is presented as David’s heir and yet also as the one in whom the Davidic legacy of violent betrayal reaches fulfillment. Beginning with a literary reading of David’s sins and their legacy in Samuel–Kings, the essay moves to consider the under-studied reference to Uriah and his wife in the Matthean genealogy and its import for Matthew’s presentation of Jesus as a “son of David.” We suggest that in the gospel tradition, David’s violence concentrates in the obscure figure of Judas Iscariot, who, like Uriah the Hittite, appears last in the roll of individuals faithful to their Israelite king (Matt 10:4; Mark 3:19; Luke 6:16; see 2 Sam 23:39). In contrast to Uriah’s fidelity to David—but in step with David’s betrayal of Uriah—Judas’s treachery demonstrates why typological readings of Jesus as the Davidic heir remain necessarily complex. The Gospels identify Jesus as a new son of David, and in so doing, they also present him as one who transforms that scriptural paradigm through his symbolic reversal of David’s sin.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jtheointe.16.2.0149
Andrew T. Abernethy
Theological interpretation offers a matrix within which theology, ecclesial realities, Scripture, and contemporary life can intersect. This article foregrounds how the era of COVID-19 is an occasion when the church should accentuate a tenet central in Communion: victory over death. As a work of canonical imagination, we draw upon two Old Testament feasts that celebrate victory over death—Isaiah’s eschatological banquet (25:6–8) and Purim in Esth 9—to further infuse our theological reflection on the Eucharist with the theme of victory over death during the times of COVID-19. Isaiah 25:6–8 underscores how the eschatological feast to which Communion points will be an occasion where death is annihilated. Purim illuminates how the Eucharist is an occasion for celebrating the passing of a death sentence and for forging bonds between the displaced.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0203
Lim
{"title":"Reading the Psalms as Torah for Social Ethics","authors":"Lim","doi":"10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53190,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theological Interpretation","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70859377","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/JTHEOINTE.15.1.0079
Rhodes
{"title":"Becoming Militants of Reconciling Love: 1 John 3:1–3 and the Task of Ethical Formation","authors":"Rhodes","doi":"10.5325/JTHEOINTE.15.1.0079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JTHEOINTE.15.1.0079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53190,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theological Interpretation","volume":"15 1","pages":"79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70859409","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0305
Laytham
{"title":"Looking at What Cannot Be Seen: Reading 2 Corinthians through the Lens of Ascension","authors":"Laytham","doi":"10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53190,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theological Interpretation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70859757","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/JTHEOINTE.15.2.0346
Pasquarello
{"title":"“To Come of Age in Dealing with Holy Scripture”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the End of Theological Education","authors":"Pasquarello","doi":"10.5325/JTHEOINTE.15.2.0346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JTHEOINTE.15.2.0346","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53190,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theological Interpretation","volume":"15 1","pages":"346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70859877","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0233
Brown, Yamazaki-Ransom
{"title":"The Parable of the Good Samaritan and the Narrative Portrayal of Samaritans in Luke-Acts","authors":"Brown, Yamazaki-Ransom","doi":"10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0233","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53190,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theological Interpretation","volume":"48 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70859920","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0318
Joseph
{"title":"The Background and Implications of the Language of New Birth in 1 Peter","authors":"Joseph","doi":"10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0318","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53190,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theological Interpretation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70859942","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0219
Rae
{"title":"Who Are Abraham’s Children?","authors":"Rae","doi":"10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53190,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theological Interpretation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70859013","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0262
Henrichs-Tarasenkova
{"title":"Good News about Resurrection","authors":"Henrichs-Tarasenkova","doi":"10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jtheointe.15.2.0262","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53190,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Theological Interpretation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70859578","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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