Novum TestamentumPub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10015
Dong-Sup Oh
{"title":"Name Theology in John 1:14","authors":"Dong-Sup Oh","doi":"10.1163/15685365-bja10015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10015","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In his recent studies, Jörg Frey has proposed that the biblical tradition of Shekhina can be discerned in the expression of the Logos’s dwelling among the believers in John 1:14. Interacting with Frey, this study proposes that Name theology, which account for the temple’s connection with the name of the Lord in the Old Testament, is utilized in John 1:14. The name of the Lord in connection with the temple can be a useful resource to explain the paradoxical identity of the Logos as well as the usage of the glory in the verse. Furthermore, this Name theology can coexist with the biblical tradition of Shekhina in John 1:14.","PeriodicalId":19319,"journal":{"name":"Novum Testamentum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47862591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Novum TestamentumPub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10014
Keith L. Yoder
{"title":"One and the Same?","authors":"Keith L. Yoder","doi":"10.1163/15685365-bja10014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Readers of John from Origen to the present have asked: is the Lazarus of John 11–12 wholly separate from the Lazarus of Luke 16, or are they, somehow, one and the same? Whence John’s Lazarus, however, cannot be answered without also asking When, How, and Why. When was the story composed relative to the contiguous text? How is it interwoven with the rest of John? Whence came this otherwise unknown brother of Mary and Martha? Why is his story here at this turn in the Fourth Gospel? The interpretation of John’s Lazarus narrative has languished in virtual stalemate for some time. This study aims to bring new evidence to the table, to gain a fresh perspective on the composition of that story and its relationship to Luke 16, in the context of a carefully constructed array of network connections with earlier and later texts in John.","PeriodicalId":19319,"journal":{"name":"Novum Testamentum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49449033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Novum TestamentumPub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10016
H. D. du Toit
{"title":"The Continuative Relative Clause in the Greek New Testament","authors":"H. D. du Toit","doi":"10.1163/15685365-bja10016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000A scrutiny of the literature on the continuative relative clause (CRC) in the Greek New Testament indicated that several of its characteristics are not discussed, or in need of further examination. Drawing on insights in general linguistics, as well as literature on the relative clause in modern languages, a number of characteristics of the CRC are discussed in this article. These include the CRC’s characteristics as a member of the appositive group of relative clauses; the internal structure of the CRC’s antecedent; the position of the CRC vis-à-vis its antecedent; the CRC’s function to increase coherence within a sentence and paragraph; and the CRC’s function to denote foreground in narrative discourse.","PeriodicalId":19319,"journal":{"name":"Novum Testamentum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44882434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Novum TestamentumPub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10008
N. Croy
{"title":"“That They also Might Be [One] in Us”","authors":"N. Croy","doi":"10.1163/15685365-bja10008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In John 17:20–21 Jesus prays for the unity of his followers, but the nature of that unity hinges on a textual variant. The text reads: “that they also might be in us.” The variant adds one word: “that they also might be one in us.” The manuscripts are closely divided. This decision must be made on internal evidence. If the number “one” is original, Jesus prays that his followers might enjoy unity with one another that is modeled after and/or enabled by the unity of the Son and Father. This is more in keeping with the immediate context and with Johannine theology in general. John’s Gospel repeatedly affirms the oneness of Jesus and his disciples, but it refrains from affirming the oneness of the Father and believers. The longer text yields the reading that was most likely original.","PeriodicalId":19319,"journal":{"name":"Novum Testamentum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44428409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Novum TestamentumPub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10017
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
{"title":"A New Fragment for Peshitta Cod. 8 (Pusey-Gwilliam) and the Syriac Tradition of Mark","authors":"Michael Zellmann-Rohrer","doi":"10.1163/15685365-bja10017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Publication of a Syriac parchment codex fragment kept in the papyrus collection of the National Library of Austria (P. Vind. Syr. 5), which belongs to a gospel manuscript once in the “Syrian” monastery of Wadi el-Natrun, the rest of which is now in London (British Library, Add. MS 17114). The potential contribution of the reconstituted codex, which was adduced as cod. 8 in the edition of Pusey and Gwilliam, to the criticism of the text of the Syriac version is reexamined.","PeriodicalId":19319,"journal":{"name":"Novum Testamentum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48531876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Novum TestamentumPub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10007
Richard Last
{"title":"Paul among the Fluent in Corinth","authors":"Richard Last","doi":"10.1163/15685365-bja10007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article foregrounds the importance of Paul’s letters for studying the experiences and perceptions of persons who stutter in antiquity. It analyzes Paul’s speech alongside the biographies of two other historical figures from antiquity who suffered from speech dysfluency: the great Athenian orator, Demosthenes, and the emperor Claudius. Accounts of Demosthenes’, Claudius’, and Paul’s speech inconsistencies, silences, incomprehensible utterances, oratory weaknesses—and their critics’ accusations that they suffered from madness—are interpreted in light of research on adults who stutter in the contemporary context, as well as studies on listener experiences and stereotypes. In introducing Paul into the study of ancient dysfluency, the article revisits Paul’s conflict with rival teachers in Corinth as it is in responding to these critics’ accusations that Paul is most revealing of his own dysfluency.","PeriodicalId":19319,"journal":{"name":"Novum Testamentum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48571736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Novum TestamentumPub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10013
Michael Bachmann
{"title":"Die Christus-Metapher „Widderlamm“","authors":"Michael Bachmann","doi":"10.1163/15685365-bja10013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The term ἀρνίον is used no fewer than 28 times in the Revelation of John (starting with 5:6 and ending with 22:3). But the meaning of the word is controversial: “ram” or “lamb”? And it may be asked also whether one has to think of a sacrificial animal in those 28 ἀρνίον-instances of this “book.” Exegetes mostly not take into consideration the accent on the “masculinity” of the ἀρνίον (see esp. 5:6 and 19:7; cf. 19:9; 21:2, 9) and the lacking of the expression “slaughtered lamb” after 13:8, that is, in the concluding parts of the “book” (17:1–22:5/21), which, instead, emphasize the magnificence of the ἀρνίον. The option to translate the word ἀρνίον by “ram lamb” – an animal that matures quite early – should solve the problems. And this suggestion is supported by diachronic observations, including the fact that the Septuagint does not use the term ἀρνίον with regard to cultic sacrifice.","PeriodicalId":19319,"journal":{"name":"Novum Testamentum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44011780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Novum TestamentumPub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10005
W. Shin
{"title":"The Double Entendre of Paul’s Trade as σκηνοποιός (Acts 18:3)","authors":"W. Shin","doi":"10.1163/15685365-bja10005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The word σκηνοποιός (Acts 18:3), a hapax legomenon, has been the subject of intense scrutiny because it may disclose the socio-economic nature of Paul’s trade. However, attempts to reconstruct historically his trade have not confidently identified its accurate historical reference. Since this difficulty derives from Luke’s choice of vocabulary—he uses a word that is very rare in the canon of Greco-Roman literature—this study attends to the word’s rhetorical setting that may explain Luke’s lexical choice. This choice would enhance the word’s symbolic value although weakening its referential value. Σκηνοποιός is plausibly an instance of Lukan etymological wordplay that draws on the continued symbolism of σκηνή in Luke-Acts—a term that captures Luke’s restoration eschatology.","PeriodicalId":19319,"journal":{"name":"Novum Testamentum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45441222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Novum TestamentumPub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341711
M. Dormandy
{"title":"“Works of the Law” in the Perspective of Second-Century Reception, written by Matthew J. Thomas","authors":"M. Dormandy","doi":"10.1163/15685365-12341711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341711","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19319,"journal":{"name":"Novum Testamentum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42083729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Novum TestamentumPub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10003
Thomas Tops
{"title":"A Philological Study of the Reflexive-Possessive Use of Personal Pronouns in the Fourth Gospel","authors":"Thomas Tops","doi":"10.1163/15685365-bja10003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-bja10003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study provides a philological analysis of all the occurrences of personal pronouns with reflexive-possessive meaning in the Gospel of John. Here, the author argues that the Gospel highly conforms to the rule of Classical Greek that the deictic force of the article suffices to identify the possessor when it is clear in the literary context who the possessor is. This high conformity enables the author to specify in which cases personal pronouns are strictly necessary to indicate the possessor and where they are redundant. Exegetical case studies (e.g., John 6:52) illustrate the implications of this study for the interpretation of the Gospel.","PeriodicalId":19319,"journal":{"name":"Novum Testamentum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46787731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}