{"title":"Funerals and Baptisms, Ordinary and Otherwise: Ritual Criticism and Corinthian Rites","authors":"R. DeMaris","doi":"10.1177/014610799902900103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610799902900103","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging field of ritual studies gives Second Testament scholars innovative ways of approaching the rites of the Jesus movement and thus enables them better to re-create the community life reflected in the language of the Second Testament. In the case of Corinth, placing the rites of the Jesus movement there in the context of Mediterranean ritual activity alerts interpreters to an expulsion rite conducted as a funeral at 1 Corinthians 5:2 2 and directs them to rites with features analogous to baptism on behalf of the dead (1 Cor 15 :29). This study sets the Corinthian extension of baptism to the dead alongside funerals conducted for the living and imaginary or honorary funerals, with the aim of characterizing the creative modification rites could undergo in the Greco-Roman world. As a result, a ritual critical approach provides a way of integrating baptism on behalf of the dead into the baptismal practices of the Corinthians, and it suggests how rites marking entry into and exit from their community were related.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134521559","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":"Intertextuality and Dialogue","authors":"J. A. Sanders","doi":"10.1177/014610799902900104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610799902900104","url":null,"abstract":"The Bible, both Jewish and Christian, is a dialogical literature. It is a compilation of many different human expressions of and responses to divine revelations over fifteen hundred years from the Bronze Age to the Greco-Roman. The Bible is also very intertextual; it is full of itself. From the earliest literary forms to the latest, earlier traditions and texts, national and international, are interwoven developing new meanings out of old ideas. Critically trained rabbis and pastors in all the major seminaries know these things about the Bible but do not always share them with their parishioners. Intense interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls has brought such critical issues out into the open, even as serious study of the Scrolls has confirmed critical readings of the Bible. How can the Scriptures of Early Judaism give rise to two such distinct religions as Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity? The Bible, one testament or two, in effect mandates dialogue between the two similar but disparate faiths if either is interested in a valid, postmodern search for truth.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115541544","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":"Book Reviews: Giulio D'Onofrio, editor. HISTORY OF THEOLOGY. THE RENAISSANCE, Vol. III. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 649. Cloth, $99.95","authors":"Gerard S. Sloyan","doi":"10.1177/014610799902800408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610799902800408","url":null,"abstract":"The first book of this multi-volume work was reviewed in BTB 28/2 (Summer, 1998). Volume II covers the medieval period and is expected in English translation in 2000. The editor of Volume III is an instructor in medieval philosophy at the University of Salerno. Four chapters, more than two-thirds of the total, are the work of Cesare Vasoli, while shorter pieces are done by Graziella Federici Vescovini and Anna Morisi. A longer one on developments in Spain is contributed by Isaac Vasquez Janeiro. The book’s eight chapters report on Renaissance movements and personages from 1414 to 1548, the opening dates of the Councils of Constance and Trent respectively. The attempted reforms of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Catholic and Protestant, are reported in detail. The richness of the theological thought of the 1400s in Italy, Spain, France, and Northern Europe including England is conveyed by accounts of the careers and writings of a profusion of major and minor humanists","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121019340","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":"Book Reviews: John Barton, HOW THE BIBLE CAME TO BE. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 100. Paper, $10.00","authors":"Terry W. Eddinger","doi":"10.1177/014610799902800409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610799902800409","url":null,"abstract":"The Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence-Rome comes in for a full treatment, including the thoroughgoing mutual misunderstandings of Church doctrines as held by East and West. In the final signing there were many mental reservations on both sides. The intransigence of the Latin theologians generally and of Mark Eugenicus, Metropolitan of Ephesus, in particular, was a formula for failure. The condition of the Jews of Spain, both the rabbis who became Catholics out of conviction and the many more Jews who accepted baptism for protection after a persecution that began in Seville in 1391 (the anuzim","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133573651","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 Historical Jesus: From Master Narrative to Cultural Context","authors":"H. Moxnes","doi":"10.1177/014610799902800403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610799902800403","url":null,"abstract":"How do historical Jesus studies look if we attempt to see them within the context of the ongoing debate about how to write history? The present situation is characterized by the challenges posed to the \"objective\" history of modernity by social history, cultural studies and postmodern criticism. In particular the notion of a \"master narrative,\" that is, a paradigm that structures the presentation of a historical event, is challenged. The essay attempts to situate five scholars and their presentations of the historical Jesus within the context of this debate and to raise the question of what their underlying \"master narrative\" might be. John P. Meier and E. P. Sanders are seen as representing \"traditional\" modern historical studies, although Sanders has an alternative master narrative. Approaches critical of modernism are represented by Richard A. Horsley (social criticism), John D. Crossan (social and cultural criticism with a post-modern form) and Bruce J. Malina (cultural context criticism).","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114754784","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 Passing of Raymond E. Brown","authors":"D. Bossman","doi":"10.1177/014610799902800401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610799902800401","url":null,"abstract":"The news of Raymond E. Brown’s death on August 8, 1998 arrived during the annual meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association at which Roland E. Murphy coincidentally yet most appropriately delivered the address, &dquo;What Is Catholic about Catholic Biblical Scholarship?&dquo; (BTB 28:3, 112-19). Both Brown and Murphy are former presidents of this association. Both produce scholarship clearly Catholic in character and modem in substance. Both respect and follow guidelines of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (BTB 26:2, 79-81). For both, caution was never so strict that they forsook honesty. Together, they span the two Testaments. Orthodoxy for Raymond E. Brown was a hallmark. Given a conflict between text and theology, he found a middle course that allowed both to survive. His lines of argument may have exhausted the field; yet his Catholic loyalty never flagged. Still, Brown ob-","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134413961","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":"A Startling Voice: Woman's Desire in the Song of Songs","authors":"C. Walsh","doi":"10.1177/014610799902800402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610799902800402","url":null,"abstract":"The current article examines the use of horticultural metaphor in detailing lust between the two lovers in the Song of Songs. It suggests that the metaphor's vehicle, that is, the image used, has to be grasped before the possibilities of its tenor, i.e., what that image can represent, become apparent. Once the metaphor's vehicle is properly understood, its aptness for conveying female bodily arousal is readily, even shockingly apparent. The benefits of this metaphoric study are essentially twofold: one an interpretive gain and one feminist. They yield a deeper appreciation of the poetry of this biblical songbook and give a long overdue hearing for a startlingly bold, female voice in the Bible.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130133147","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 Synagogue of Satan Accusation in Revelation 2:9","authors":"Mark Bredin","doi":"10.1177/014610799902800405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610799902800405","url":null,"abstract":"The accusation that the synagogue was a synagogue, not of Judeans but of Satan is connected with an internal dispute on how one faithful to Israelite traditions should live with the Roman economic system. The author of Revelation was arguing that there should be no compromise with Rome, and those who did compromise were not fit to be called Judean. The Synagogue, on the other hand, argued that peaceful coexistence with Rome was possible. It is suggested that the synagogue accused members of the church in Smyrna of not being Judean because they refused to pay the special Judean tax that allowed them to practice their religion unmolested. For the author of Revelation, however, to pay the tax would be an act of apostasy, as the tax paid for the rebuilding of the Capitoline temple.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126446950","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":"What Is Catholic about Catholic Biblical Scholarship?—Revisited","authors":"R. Murphy","doi":"10.1177/014610799802800304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610799802800304","url":null,"abstract":"In reply to the question, the writer claims that historical criticism can arrive at a responsible theological and \"spiritual\" sense of the biblical text, in harmony with the living tradition within which the exegete works. Allowing for tensions between the Testaments, the exegete must respect the integrity of both. On the personal and pastoral level, the open-ended character of the text, recognized by historical criticism, lends itself to an actualization that is vital for the ongoing life of the Bible among the people of God. This article has preserved the informality of the address given originally at the sixty-first annual meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association at the University of Scranton, August 9, 1998. The author is grateful to Michael P. O'Connor for a critical reading and suggestions on the first draft of the paper.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114578109","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":"Book Reviews: Robert Karl Gnuse, NO OTHER GODS: EMERGENT MONOTHEISM IN ISRAEL. JSOT Supplement Series, 241; Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. Pp. 392. Cloth, $78.00","authors":"John F. Craghan","doi":"10.1177/014610799802800306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610799802800306","url":null,"abstract":"ideational and social implications of that emergent monotheism&dquo; (p. 7). As the author notes elsewhere (p. 19), this book is calculated to be, not an original systematic treatment, but rather a synthesized overview. For Gnuse the emergence of monotheism in ancient Israel was both a revolutionary and an evolutionary process. To begin, the author reviews the three traditional models of the settlement process; (1) gradual, peaceful infiltration (A. Alt, M. Noth, M. Weippert); (2) violent conquest (W. F. Albright, G. E. Wright); and (3) internal revolution (G. Mendenhall, N. Gottwald). He then observes the newer view of the process, which contains four elements. First, there is a peaceful withdrawal from Canaanite cities to Palestinian highlands during Iron Age I (1200-1050 BCE). Second, there is the factor of internal nomadism or the symbiosis hypothesis. As expressed by I. Finkelstein, the Israelites were &dquo;enclosed nomads&dquo; who lived in Palestine through the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 BCE) in proximity to urban centers but without settling. Third, there is peaceful transition or transformation. Israel evolved as a distinctly natural highland experience of population growth. Fourth, there is peaceful amalgamation or synthesis. This element underlines the diversity of the people who would constitute Israel. Consequently Israel &dquo;did not arise in violent","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128533578","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}