NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.a900322
C. Stenschke
{"title":"Torah, Temple, Land: Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity ed. by Markus Witte, Jens Schröter and Verena M. Lepper (review)","authors":"C. Stenschke","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.a900322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.a900322","url":null,"abstract":"This collection of essays addresses some of the ways and rhetorical strategies through which early Judaism was shaped. The essays discuss “the constellations of ancient Judaism between continuity and change, from the Persian up to the Roman period” and emphasise the diverse forms of Judaism “which have evolved in different geographical areas: in Elephantine, Samaria, Jerusalem and Judea, in Qumran as well as in Alexandria” (1). The editors note that “ancient Judaism existed . . . in a world which was permanently changing in terms of political, social, and religious parameters. Judaism itself was also subject to constant processes of change, both of its self-perception and its external perception. What was deemed to be ‘Judaism’ or ‘Jewish’ was fluid and often contested with a need for constant renegotiation” (1). The authors thus address a bundle of important questions in understanding and assessing early Judaism:","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"381 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47417780","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}
NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.a900320
Milan Kostrešević
{"title":"For Your Sake He Became Poor: Ideology and Practice of Gift Exchange between Early Christian Groups by Georges Massinelli (review)","authors":"Milan Kostrešević","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.a900320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.a900320","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"371 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45811568","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}
NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.0003
C. Stenschke
{"title":"Contested Domains and Enabling Conditions in the Conflicts between the Early Christian Mission and Non-Jews according to the Book of Acts","authors":"C. Stenschke","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While at first sight the early Christian proclamation of Jesus of Nazareth as God's Messiah seems to have been the contentious issue between the Christian missionaries and some of those who heard and experienced them, a close reading of the book of Acts indicates that other contested domains were involved and more prominent. While Paul and his travel companions face Jewish resistance regularly, there are only a few incidents of resistance from non-Jews. Why would polytheistic non-Jews—for whom, tongue in cheek, one more divine figure should not have been problematic—employ questionable means and mobilise others against the early Christian missionaries? Drawing on recent theorising about religious conflicts in antiquity (in particular W. Mayer), this article analyses the conflict accounts in Acts 16 and 19. It identifies the contested domains between the missionaries and their opponents and studies the enabling factors, that is, the means available to both sides involved. The article also notes traces of de-escalation and conflict resolution and references to peaceful co-existence and co-operation as well as transition and assimilation. In closing, the article discusses how these conflict accounts contribute to the purpose of Acts of presenting a narrative defence of Paul and his disputed mission to Jews and non-Jews, and the implications of having such accounts in the scriptural heritage of the church.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"129 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47140224","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}
NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.0012
Afetame Alabi
{"title":"\"I Received from the Lord\": Assessing the Arguments Against a Pauline Claim to Revelation in 1 Corinthians 11:23","authors":"Afetame Alabi","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article concerns how scholars interpret Paul's claim to have received his narrative of the Last Supper \"from the Lord\" (1 Corinthians 11:23). Although a number of scholars maintain that Paul is describing a personal revelation from the Lord, the majority of scholars argue that Paul means that the tradition goes back to the Lord, while he himself received it from other Christ-followers. This article critically assesses the main arguments for the majority view that Paul is not describing a revelation. It is argued that these arguments neither establish the majority view nor rule out the interpretation that Paul is laying claim to a revelation.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"1 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46522081","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}
NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.0002
J. Punt
{"title":"Manly Suffering: Trauma, Masculinity and Paul","authors":"J. Punt","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Using a trauma lens to read 2 Corinthians 11:23-27, at the intersections of imperial discourse, masculine rhetorical claims as well as forms of imperially induced subaltern masculinity, illustrates their complex and intricate connections. The Roman Empire, which permeated the context of the Pauline letters, embodied and pervasively inscribed trauma on the vast majority of its subjects. Masculinity, often connected to trauma in a one-sided and simplistic way, requires analysis beyond stereotypes, ancient or modern. Second Corinthians' traumatised man pushing back against the Empire and his own emasculation, in ways that sustain the heroic Paul of Christianity, only partially engages the text, even if history is ambiguous testimony to its rhetorical success.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"109 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43179858","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}
NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.0007
Gertrud Tönsing
{"title":"First and Second Timothy and Titus by Christopher R. Hutson (review)","authors":"Gertrud Tönsing","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"196 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45217030","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}
NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.0005
C. van Deventer
{"title":"Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate ed. by David Alan Black and Benjamin L. Merkle (review)","authors":"C. van Deventer","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"189 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44111547","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}
NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.0009
C. Stenschke
{"title":"Christ, Shepherd of the Nations: The Nations as Narrative Character and Audience in John's Apocalypse by Jon Morales (review)","authors":"C. Stenschke","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"201 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47515221","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}
NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.0004
J. G. Tönsing
{"title":"Growth or Contamination? The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Leaven and the Hidden Transcript","authors":"J. G. Tönsing","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article provides an interpretation of the parable doublet of the mustard seed and the leaven based on the concept of the \"public\" and the \"hidden\" transcript. It argues that on a surface level this is a parable about the growth of the Jesus movement, while at another, more subtle level this parable is a critique of the religious system based on purity and exclusion, and as such is humorous satire. It is argued that the Lukan version of this doublet is closest to the original version which is likely to go back to the historical Jesus. Both the mustard seed and the leaven grow in places where they are not meant to be: a discarded seed grows in a vegetable garden and leaven is \"hidden\" in three measures of flour—an amount associated with temple offerings. This would have been entertaining and memorable to peasant listeners and infuriating to the powerful, as mustard and yeast are items in everyday use, so subversive intent could not be proved conclusively.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"165 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45286338","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}
NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.0006
Annelie van der Bank
{"title":"The Hope of Israel: The Resurrection of Christ in the Acts of the Apostles by Brandon D. Crowe (review)","authors":"Annelie van der Bank","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"193 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47644325","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}