NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.0000
S. Kató, J. C. Madubuko, J. Punt, C. Stenschke, J. G. Tönsing, C. van Deventer, Annelie van der Bank, Gertrud Tönsing, Afetame Alabi, Bart B. Bruehler, David C. Harris
{"title":"Resurrection on the Day of the Omer? Interpreting 1 Corinthians 15:20 in the Light of Leviticus 23:9–15 and Menaḥot 10:2–3","authors":"S. Kató, J. C. Madubuko, J. Punt, C. Stenschke, J. G. Tönsing, C. van Deventer, Annelie van der Bank, Gertrud Tönsing, Afetame Alabi, Bart B. Bruehler, David C. Harris","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1 Corinthians 15:20 and 23, Paul calls Jesus \"the first fruits of those who are asleep.\" According to John, Jesus died on the Eve of Passover and was resurrected on the third day, which was the day of the Omer ritual, the ritual of the first fruits. There have been many attempts to prove that Paul alludes intentionally to the first fruit implicitly, remembering the chronology of Jesus's last days. After a brief survey of the main questions and arguments in favour of the thesis, based on a passage in the Mishnah, this article attempts to draw attention to some new observations which could further strengthen this reading. Beyond the date, there are at least three additional motifs of the Omer ritual attested in the Mishnah which correspond to Pauline Christology: the beginning of the ritual at Passover Eve, the significance of the night during the ritual, and the importance of the ritual signalling a new season.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"1 - 107 - 109 - 128 - 129 - 163 - 165 - 187 - 189 - 193 - 193 - 196 - 196 - 198 - 198 - 201 - 201 -"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42187721","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.2022.0001
J. C. Madubuko
{"title":"Making a Case for Psychological Hermeneutics as a Method in New Testament Interpretation","authors":"J. C. Madubuko","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholarly reading of the New Testament, as differing from the popular reading, or misreading as the case may be, demands and involves expertise. Such expertise is aware that certain settings and circumstances gave rise to the articulations that became scriptural texts. Making the age-old text understandable to today's audience is vitally important. Exegesis has become interdisciplinary, presenting itself in and through models of interpretation. One of such, as this work buttresses, is the place of psychology in New Testament hermeneutics. This article highlights the fact and responds to the realisation that psychological and psychic sensitivities influenced the expressions that became Scripture, and it argues that this awareness is a veritable aid to the interpretation of biblical texts. Termed psychological hermeneutics, it articulates the relationship between religious symbolisms, as expressed in biblical texts, and the pre-occupations of psychology. The article establishes that interpretation of New Testament texts through this prism affords a re-reading of the Christ event that enables positive cognitive restructuring. It gives rise to positive emotions and rational responses towards personal competence for the betterment of society.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"107 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44448567","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.2022.0008
C. Stenschke
{"title":"Philippians 1:1–2:18 and Philippians 2:19–4:23 by Mark J. Keown (review)","authors":"C. Stenschke","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"198 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44344958","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.2022.0013
Bart B. Bruehler
{"title":"Representing Social Actors in the Annunciation (Luke 1:26–38)","authors":"Bart B. Bruehler","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Luke's account of the annunciation to Mary (1:26-38) represents key social actors (Gabriel, God, Mary, and Jesus) through a variety of linguistic forms in a few noticeable patterns. These representations can be categorised and clarified using the social actor network developed by Theo van Leeuwen within the larger field of critical discourse analysis. Using this analytical tool, we see that Gabriel is functionalised as a messenger, God is activated (except in God's role as father), and Mary and Jesus are both represented as passive recipients and key actors in the drama of the coming salvation. The investigation concludes with a consideration of the ethical and ideological implications of these representation patterns.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"33 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48720298","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.2022.0014
David C. Harris
{"title":"An Ethical Reassessment of the Depictions of Violence in John's Apocalypse","authors":"David C. Harris","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A challenge that both ancient and modern readers have faced with regard to John's Apocalypse is the tenor of violence depicted in the book. A common response (or reaction) to its hostile tonality is to consider these aspects to be couched in the metaphorical, symbolic, and otherworldly, so as to set them into a category of unreality. This serves to make ample room for a christological reading of the book which leans towards a theology of nonviolence modelled on the example of Jesus submitting to death on a cross. In light of the phantasmagoric images therein this seems to be a reasonable pivot, as the violence of Revelation is depicted in the realm of a cosmic revenge fantasy, mixed with the background of historical political tensions. Yet there have been no shortage of excuses for and/or condemnatory assessments of John's Apocalypse, which compel interpreters to take a variety of positions regarding the nature of Revelation's depictions of violence, in particular the representation of its constituent military elements. In this article I will reconsider relevant passages that speak to this tension, arguing that significant ambiguity does appear in these areas, while also suggesting that the genre of Jewish wisdom literature is the appropriate category reflective of such elements.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"57 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46156490","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.2022.0011
Gertrud Tönsing
{"title":"Handbook on Acts and Paul's Letters by Thomas R. Schreiner (review)","authors":"Gertrud Tönsing","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"210 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44917231","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.2022.0010
C. Stenschke
{"title":"Paul's Large Letters: Paul's Autobiographic Subscription in the Light of Ancient Epistolary Conventions by Steve Reece (review)","authors":"C. Stenschke","doi":"10.1353/neo.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"56 1","pages":"205 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47581488","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 : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1353/neo.2021.0036
J. C. Madubuko
{"title":"The Healing of Simon’s Mother-in-Law in Mark 1:29–31: An Ideological-Critical Reading in the Light of the Role of the Understanding of Sickness in Its Cure","authors":"J. C. Madubuko","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The healing of Simon‘s mother-in-law in Mark’s Gospel, while presenting us with the shortest of the miracle stories in the Gospels, contains all the necessary elements of its Gattung. For the critical 21st-century reader, given today’s medical understanding of the nature of the \"sickness\" in question—fever—as well as the issues of the healing process, the text may leave much to be desired. Through the prism of ideological criticism the text is re-read, and by means of a literature review a close look at Mark’s theology and its inherent Christology is undertaken. From the backdrop of the understanding of sickness in the first-century Greco-Roman world and the understanding of the Jesus event, the article argues that the age-old maxim lex credendi, lex vivendi is at work. The understanding held about a particular medical situation affects the way it is attended to. Arguing that such a thought pattern evidenced in African-Nigerian settings presents difficulties both to mature faith and the treatment of sicknesses, this article criticises the insistent holding onto this ancient worldview. It urges the taking of the steps to accessing the possibilities of medicine today.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"389 - 407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49456376","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 : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1353/neo.2021.0023
C. Stenschke
{"title":"Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception 19: Midrash and Aggadah–Mourning ed. by C. M. Furey et al. (review)","authors":"C. Stenschke","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"514 - 518"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49587727","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 : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1353/neo.2021.0041
K. I. Uwaegbute, P. O. Agbo
{"title":"New Testament Texts and the Construction of Christ-Believing Group(s) Identity: The Case of Matthew 5:13–16","authors":"K. I. Uwaegbute, P. O. Agbo","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0041","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The micro-narrative of Matthew 5:13–16 was an identity defining text for the community of Matthew. By analysing the social and immediate contexts of the text, which reveal a conflict situation, this article applies the social identity approach (SIA) as a methodology of reading the text. As a result it is argued that, although not expressly dealing with group norms, the text contributed to the identity construction of the members of the Matthaean community through cognitive, evaluative, and emotional attachment to a better righteousness which is the main group norm of the community as taught by Jesus, their prototype leader. This establishes a boundary between the members of the community (the in-group)—who have become \"the salt of the earth\" and \"the light of the world\" by practising this better righteousness—and their out-group competitors (formative \"Judaism\" and other non-Christ-believing groups) who are not similarly committed.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"483 - 501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46641261","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}