{"title":"On Scroll-Making in Ancient Jerusalem","authors":"W. Brueggemann","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper, read to an Association of Bible collectors, considers the way in which a small scroll-making community constituted by a prophet, scribes, and political operators formed a community with an alternative vision of social reality in opposition to the dominant vision and the dominant power structure of ancient Jerusalem. It is proposed that this oppositional community that produced its subversive scroll began the scroll movement that eventuated in \"canon,\" a text production that was characteristically subversive of established social vision.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116906938","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":"Physical Space, Imagined Space, and \"Lived Space\" in Ancient Israel","authors":"V. Matthews","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300103","url":null,"abstract":"One way in which to analyze biblical narrative is by examining the ways in which the ancient Israelites perceived and used space. This includes theological concepts like the \"Promised Land,\" political dimensions such as \"from Dan to Beersheba,\" and \"lived space\" such as the village gate or the threshing floor. By placing an emphasis on where events occur and on how kings, prophets or other characters use significant space/place to their advantage, and by noting the impact that space has on the development of tradition and local custom (hospitality, use of boundary stones) it is possible to better understand the social world of ancient Israel.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124744716","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":"Why Does the Gospel of Mark Begin as It Does?","authors":"Santiago Guijarro","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300105","url":null,"abstract":"Mark's Gospel does not follow the rules of Hellenistic \"lives,\" which usually began by praising the ancestry and education of the main character. This is due to the fact that the data available to Mark were inappropriate for that purpose. Nonetheless, the beginning of Mark's Gospel has the same purpose as the beginnings of other contemporary biographies: to show the ascribed honor of his character. According to Mark, Jesus' honor does not come from his human family; it is due to his being God's Son. Through a ritual process, centered upon a liminal stage of revelation and testing, the evangelist shows Jesus' true identity as a holy man, capable of brokering God's patronage on his people.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128511646","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":"Filling Gaps in Our Systems: The Dynamics of Growth","authors":"D. Bossman","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128729772","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 Review: Quinn-Miscall, Peter D. READING ISAIAH: POETRY AND VISION. London, UK/ Louisville, KY/ Leiden, The Netherlands: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. Pp. vii + 224. $19.95","authors":"John E Craghan","doi":"10.1177/014610790303300106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790303300106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130386133","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":"Leland J. White—A Challenging Legacy","authors":"D. Bossman","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126244940","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":"Spaces and Places, Whence and Whither, Homes and Rooms: \"Territoriality\" in the Fourth Gospel","authors":"J. Neyrey","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200205","url":null,"abstract":"The Fourth Gospel is inordinately involved with places and spaces, valuing some but dis- valuing others. The task of interpreting all such references is greatly aided by the use of the anthropological model of \"territoriality\" which shows how all peoples 1) classify space, 2) communicate this and 3) control access to or exit from this territory. The classifications might be as follows: public/private, sacred/profane, honorable/shameful, clean/unclean, fixed/fluid, center/periphery and the like. Where appropriate these classifications are used to interpret the Johannine data on spaces and places, particularly 1) Galilee/Judean, 2) public/in secret, 3) not on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, 4) whence/whither, 5) in my Father's house there are many rooms, 6) \"indwelling\" and \"being-in\" another; and 7) two different worlds.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132259451","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":"Exegetical Eschatology, the Peasant Present and the Final Discourse Genre: The Case of Mark 13","authors":"B. Malina","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200204","url":null,"abstract":"The ancient literary form best fitting the Synoptic \"Eschatological Discourse\" is the final discourse, the final words of a person about to die, describing what was forthcoming for those near and dear to him/her. The nineteenth-century German theological terms \"apocalyptic\" and \"eschatology\" are misplaced and misleading when applied to New Testament documents in general and to the Synoptic final discourse in particular. Ancient self-evident presuppositions about the devolution of life might have naturally (i.e. culturally) served as latent assumptions in the Synoptic story line but do not receive explicit attention.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115203863","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":"\"Thus Faith Comes from What Is Heard\" (Romans 10:17): How Much of the Bible Do People Hear?","authors":"Gerard S. Sloyan","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200208","url":null,"abstract":"This article is more concerned with the way the Bible is proclaimed publicly and preached than with its treatment as the object of study and teaching in the academy. That is entirely fitting in an issue devoted to commemorating the life and work of Leland J.White. For, while his career in the seminary, college and university classroom absorbed most of his energies, when he did not have another foot in the pulpit he was always concerned with how the Bible is heard or, tragically, not heard by Christian believers. Because this is true of so many BTB readers, they will readily understand the approach taken here.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122425534","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: Andries van Aarde, FATHERLESS IN GALILEE: JESUS AS A CHILD OF GOD. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001. Pp. viii + 246. Paper, $28.00","authors":"R. Mowery","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200209","url":null,"abstract":"As indicated by this book’s arresting title, this book argues that Jesus was a &dquo;fatherless&dquo; child. Assuming that the boy Jesus would have experienced the painful hurts inflicted on such children by firstcentury Galilean society, van Aarde claims that this factor provides explanatory power for various aspects of Jesus’ ministry, such as his identification of God as his heavenly Father, his non-patriarchal ethos, and his compassion for women, children, the sick, and other powerless people. Van Aarde is Professor of New Testament at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The argument begins with the fact that the figure of Joseph is absent from Paul, Mark, Q, and the Gospel of Thomas. Although many scholars suggest that Joseph’s absence from these sources means that he must have died prior to Jesus’ ministry, van Aarde argues that no known father played a role in the life of the histor-","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131165816","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}