{"title":"Tribute To Leland White","authors":"A. Brunett","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"17 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":"133844350","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: William G. Dever, WHAT DID THE BIBLICAL WRITERS KNOW AND WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT? Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001. Pp. xiii + 313. Cloth, $25.00","authors":"John Barclay Bums","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200210","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":"7 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":"132593711","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 Paul Heil, THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS: NARRATIVE MEANING AND FUNCTION OF MARK 9:2-8, MATTHEW 17:1-8, AND LUKE 9:28-36. Rome, Italy: Pontifical Biblical Institute Press, 2000. Pp. 367. Paper, $25.00","authors":"John F. Craghan","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200211","url":null,"abstract":"he chronicles the rise, since the 1970s, of the &dquo;specialized, professional and secular&dquo; Syro-Palestinian archaeology (p. 62). He argues that this archaeology can make the Bible more tangible and real and that artifacts and texts can both be &dquo;read&dquo; (p. 67). Chapters 4 and 5, the core of the book, offer a detailed discussion of the major archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century and relate them to the Deuteronomistic History (Joshua-2 Kings). Dever’s method is to correlate text and","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"53 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":"117156951","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: Leo G. Perdue, ed. THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2001. Pp. xxx + 471. Cloth, $170.00","authors":"T. Hobbs","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200212","url":null,"abstract":"tunity to speak and thus prolong the epiphany. But the overshadowing cloud interrupts Peter’s offer. This cloud performs two functions: (1) oracular and (2) vehicular. In its oracular function, the voice from the cloud commands the disciples to listen only to Jesus, not Moses and Elijah. In its vehicular function, the overshadowing cloud takes Moses and Elijah back to heaven, thus bringing the entire epiphany to an abrupt end. The author has carefully limited his field of concentration. By focusing on an audience-oriented perspective and eschewing the original historical event and the redactional work of Matthew and Luke, Heil has done a great service in allowing the reader to appreciate the transfiguration","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"459 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":"116602989","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":"Jesus Was Not an Egalitarian. A Critique of an Anachronistic and Idealist Theory","authors":"J. Elliott","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200206","url":null,"abstract":"The currently-advanced theory that Jesus was an egalitarian who founded a \"community of equals\" is devoid of social and political plausibility and, more importantly, of textual and historical evidence. Moreover, it distorts the actual historical and social nature of the nascent Jesus movement and constitutes a graphic example of an \"idealist fallacy.\" The biblical texts to which proponents of the egalitarian theory appeal show Jesus and his followers engaged not in social revolution, democratic institutions, equality, and the eradication of the traditional family, but in establishing a form of community modelled on the family as redefined by Jesus and united by familial values, norms, and modes of conduct.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"66 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":"121094280","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 the Bible with the Value Orientations Model: History and Prospects","authors":"John J. Pilch","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200207","url":null,"abstract":"This article summarizes the Value Orientations Model developed by Florence Kluckhohn and Fred Strodtbeck (1961) and surveys publications in which the model has been used as an aid to cross-cultural interpretation of the New Testament (History). Like the Documentary Hypothesis and the Two-Source Hypothesis, this social science model has weathered challenges and proved itself adaptable to modifications and innovative applications especially in conjunction with other models (Prospects).","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"13 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":"122295002","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 Biographical Sketch","authors":"D. Leland, R. Niebuhr","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200202","url":null,"abstract":"At the College of Charleston during Maymester and summer sessions since 1994, Dr. White taught a course on religion and society, focusing on how religion and society interact in U.S. life as exemplified in the role of religion in the marketplace and in law. At St. John’s University (New York), since 1982, Professor Leland J. White taught a variety of courses in which he interpreted religious thought and life in the framework of the culture from which they come or in which they are found. He showed, for example, how Mediterranean assumptions about persons and societies are embedded in the source materials for Christianity and how many European assumptions govern commonly cited modern materials. The objective of his courses was to enable contemporary U.S. students, for example, to identify U.S. assumptions and cultural patterns and thus rethink and reapply the religious tradition to their own situations. Dr. White regularly taught Introduction to the Bible, The Synoptic Gospels, Jesus in Christian Thought, and Interpretation of the Bible.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"146 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":"123736237","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 Bride of Christ (Ephesians 5:22-33) : A Problematic Wedding","authors":"C. Osiek","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200106","url":null,"abstract":"The passage in Ephesians that compares the union of husband and wife to that of Christ and the church is a favorite ecclesial image, yet it has always been problematic. It is not clear what is the intended function of the household codes, and this passage in particular is open to a variety of misinterpretations. The effects of the way in which simile and metaphor function in the passage extend beyond ecclesiology in ways that suit certain interests. A feminist analysis indicates some interpretive mistakes and suggests some criteria for approaching this beautiful but dangerous text.","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123620310","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: SEXUAL DIVERSITY AND CATHOLICISM: TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL THEOLOGY. Edited by Patricia Beattie Jung & Joseph Andrew Coray. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2001. Pp. xxx + 311. Paper, $29.95","authors":"Todd Salzmann","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200107","url":null,"abstract":"ton, J.P Hanigan, S.A. Ross, J. Nilson), Scripture (Interpreting the Bible: P B. Jung, R.A. Di Vito, L.J. White, B.J. Malina, M.R. D’Angelo), Reason (Interpreting Secular Disciplines: S. Callahan, I. Crawford and B.D. Zamboni, D.T Ozar), and Experience (Interpreting Human Experience: C.L.H. Traina, M.E. Hunt). The general theme of this collection is that any credible moral teaching on sexual diversity must be committed to dialogue between and among these various sources of moral knowledge in order to discern","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130401832","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":"Imagined History","authors":"D. Bossman","doi":"10.1177/014610790203200101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/014610790203200101","url":null,"abstract":"more rather than less certain about the things that scholars study. Critical methods as described, for instance, in The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church presented by the Pontifical Biblical Commission to Pope John Paul II on April 23, 1993 (published in ORIGINS, January 6, 1994), suggest the limits of knowledge, hence the need to hypothesize or approximate interpretation with working assumptions. It may be this sort of thing that Paul meant when he said that the Law convicts us of sin, hence we stand convicted rather than justified under the Law of Israel. Critical scholarship teaches us what we don’t know while we","PeriodicalId":227137,"journal":{"name":"Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132139999","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}