{"title":"The Jesus Handbook. Edited by Jens Schröter and Christine Jacobi","authors":"Robert J Miller","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140254562","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}
{"title":"Interpreting Paul: The Canonical Paul. By Luke Timothy Johnson","authors":"Robert Wall","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"23 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140253869","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}
{"title":"The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity. Edited by Eugen J. Pentiuc","authors":"Paul Ladouceur","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"47 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140082708","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}
{"title":"Between Wisdom and Torah: Discourses on Wisdom and Law in Second Temple Judaism. Edited by JiSeong J. Kwon and Seth A. Bledsoe","authors":"Alexander T Kirk","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"54 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140433236","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}
{"title":"Ilaria Ramelli’s History of the ‘Apokatastasis Doctrine’: A Critical Assessment of Evidence from before Origen","authors":"Nils Arne Pedersen","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, the treatment of early Christian literature from before Origen in Ilaria Ramelli’s monographs The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis and (co-authored with David Konstan) Terms for Eternity is subject to critique. When Ramelli claims that the early literature shared the idea of temporary punishment after death, thus forming the ‘roots’ of the doctrine of apokatastasis, a clear distinction between early and later concepts and interpretations is missing. The argument that αἰώνιος in eschatological contexts should not mean ‘eternal’, but rather ‘in the world to come’, is untenable, inter alia because this supposed sense of αἰώνιος would duplicate the same information in the phrase ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι τῷ ἐρχομένῳ ζωὴν αἰώνιον (Mark 10:30). The article also demonstrates the incorrectness of Ramelli’s arguments that the texts contain contrasting relations between the words αἰώνιος and ἀΐδιος and κόλασις and τιμωρία, respectively, with only ἀΐδιος indicating a strictly eternal future, and κόλασις a purifying temporary chastisement. These arguments contain a number of methodological errors: the meaning of words is not sought in the contexts in which they are used, and the possibility of stylistic variation is not taken into account.","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140432343","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}
{"title":"Mark’s Demonic Christology: Reevaluating the Daimonic Confessions of Jesus’s Messiahship","authors":"Daniel B Glover","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Markan scholars have often taken for granted that the daimonic acclamations of Jesus’s messianic identity in Mark’s Gospel present the author’s own Christological perspective. Giving attention to daimonic speech in Mark’s literary context, however, opens up the interpretive possibility that this daimonic speech may serve to mislead rather than teach. By using insights from the rhetorical practice of prosopopoeia (speech-in-character), this article compares the Christology of Mark’s daimones with a) Jesus’s reliable statements about his own messianic identity and b) Mark’s discursive presentation of the messianic role in order to assess whether the daimonic Christology in Mark’s Gospel is trustworthy or misleading.","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140433592","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}
{"title":"Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference. By Megan Loumagne Ulishney","authors":"Robin Gill","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"28 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140431956","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}
{"title":"Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God. Edited and translated by John Behr","authors":"Adam R. Renberg","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"35 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140432878","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}
{"title":"Irenaeus’ Theology in Second-Century Platonism and Christianity","authors":"Grayden McCashen","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 As scholars have come to appreciate Irenaeus’ use of philosophy, emphasis has fallen on his use of pre-Socratic traditions. This emphasis stands in stark contrast to the typical emphasis scholars place on Platonic themes in second-century Christian theologies. This article argues that Platonic resources, the definition of God as simple and incomposite, the Platonic viae, and reasoning from ‘oneness’ to ‘unlimitedness’, play a key role in Irenaeus’ theology, governing his interpretation of pre-Socratic materials, including Irenaeus’ version of the well-known Xenophanes quotation (fr. 24) and materials Irenaeus apparently draws from Pseudo-Aristotle’s On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias. Irenaeus, furthermore, draws a logical connection between God’s simplicity and the doctrine that there is one God to the exclusion of others, as he says, thereby pressing Platonic doctrine into the service of his distinctly Christian theological convictions. The upshot of all this is a deeper appreciation first for the sophistication of Irenaeus’ own theology, and second for Irenaeus’ role in engaging and advancing Christian philosophical theology.","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"539 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140446906","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}
{"title":"Qoheleth’s Use of Proverbial Sayings: The Example of Ecclesiastes 7:1–12","authors":"Gregory Goswell","doi":"10.1093/jts/flae001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 There is no evidence that Ecclesiastes, either the body of the book or the epilogue, is interested in the question of its relation to the book of Proverbs. The epilogue does not quote or allude to Proverbs. Qoheleth’s use of proverbs is not derived from the book of Proverbs but must be studied in its own right in the expectation that it will throw light on this author’s method and message. The Epilogist in 12:9 specifically comments on Qoheleth’s use of proverbs, and 7:1–12 provide an extended example of how he handles proverbs. His use of proverbs shows that his teaching is in the mainstream of the wisdom movement, for he works in much the same way as the author of Proverbs. Qoheleth places proverbs in a certain order, adjusts their wording, and adds his own comments to them. The contents of 7:1–12 serve the positive purpose of teaching readers how to handle proverbs, and by means of proverbs, Qoheleth teaches people to look more deeply at the issues of life.","PeriodicalId":213560,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Theological Studies","volume":"381 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139840090","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}