NeotestamenticaPub Date : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1353/neo.2021.0026
Izaak J. L. Connoway
{"title":"Revelation: An Introduction and Commentary by I. Paul (review)","authors":"Izaak J. L. Connoway","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"532 - 536"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43072678","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.2021.0039
Vuyani Stanley Sindo
{"title":"The Interrelationship between Paul’s Apostolic Defence, His Gospel and the Identity of the Galatians","authors":"Vuyani Stanley Sindo","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The aim of this article is to demonstrate that there is an interrelationship between Paul’s apostolic defence, his gospel and his identity formation agenda in Galatians 1. The article will argue that Paul, in his apostolic defence, is establishing himself as a group prototype. This is important because group prototypicality is a necessary quality in a leader if they seek to influence the identity of the group. Thus, Paul must show that his apostleship is intertwined with his gospel message, which is a foundation of the Galatians’ group identity. By establishing this link between his personal identity as an apostle called by God and his message, which originates from God, Paul would be able to help the Galatians stay true to their in-group identity. Hence, they would be able to resist the teaching of those he describes as \"false brothers\" who were insisting that for one to be part of God’s community, the individual needed to be torah-observant. In establishing this thesis, this article will employ the socio-historical and grammatical approach together with social identity theory.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"447 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43180287","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.2021.0032
John-Christian Eurell
{"title":"The Speeches in Acts and the Ideological Agenda of the Work","authors":"John-Christian Eurell","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:It is widely recognised that the speeches of Acts play a significant part in its composition. In this article, I argue that the speeches of Acts are a key to understanding the ideological agenda of the book of Acts and its construction of the spread and development of early Christianity. Acts uses a rhetoric from below, arguing that Christianity is a religion for regular people rather than the elite. In this regard, the rhetoric of Acts is populist.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"311 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44145332","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.2021.0034
Juraj Feník, Róbert Lapko
{"title":"Jesus’s Inverse Transfiguration in John 13","authors":"Juraj Feník, Róbert Lapko","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:By revisiting the foot-washing scene in John 13, this study proposes to regard Jesus’s action that precedes and follows the foot-washing proper as an instance of transfiguration achieved by an exchange of clothing. The laying down of the outer garment followed by the putting on of the linen cloth signify an alteration in Jesus’s external appearance—his transfiguration into the form of a slave. Viewed as a text that describes a change to Jesus’s appearance, the verses in question (John 13:4–5, 12) may be read as a transfiguration scene that stands in contrast to the well-known Synoptic stories in Matthew 17, Mark 9, and Luke 9. While these texts revolve around Jesus’s manifestation of his divine attributes, the Johannine transfiguration scene (13:4–5, 12), in contrast, shows Jesus taking the appearance of a slave for the duration of the foot-washing.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"347 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45247186","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.2021.0027
C. L. de Wet
{"title":"Borderline Virginities: Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity by S. Undheim (review)","authors":"C. L. de Wet","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"536 - 539"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47864933","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.2021.0021
J. de Carvalho
{"title":"How to Read Theology: Engaging Doctrine Critically and Charitably by U. Anizor (review)","authors":"J. de Carvalho","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"503 - 506"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44933876","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.2021.0038
Matthew K. Robinson
{"title":"\"Is This Not the Τέκτων?\": Revisiting Jesus’s Vocation in Mark 6:3","authors":"Matthew K. Robinson","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The term τέκτων in Mark 6:3 has received various interpretations, with \"carpenter\" and \"woodworker\" being the most prominent. However, a brief survey of the use of τέκτων in the LXX, Graeco-Roman, and early Jewish literature reveals that this term is more ambiguous than scholars have often argued and requires contextual clues for precise translation. Because of this, one must look to the socio-historical reality of a common Nazarene τέκτων in order to determine the best translation of τέκτων in Mark 6:3. Historical evidence, including recent archeological findings, indicates that a Nazarene τέκτων would have likely been expected to carry out a plethora of tasks in the vicinity of building and crafting. Thus, this article argues that the best translation for τέκτων in Mark 6:3 is \"builder-craftsman.\"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"431 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49281820","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.2021.0025
Magdalena Vytlačilová
{"title":"Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels by C. S. Keener (review)","authors":"Magdalena Vytlačilová","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"523 - 532"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46241436","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.2021.0031
Petra Dijkhuizen
{"title":"Paul’s Charge in 1 Corinthians 11:27 (\". . . Guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord\"): Failure of Sacrifice or Disregard for Meal Etiquette?","authors":"Petra Dijkhuizen","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Central to the Pauline teaching on the Lord’s Supper in 1 Corinthians 10–11 are the two food elements, bread and wine (the \"cup\"), signifying the body and blood of the Lord. Two interpretive stances are dominant among exegetes. In respect of the referent \"body,\" adherents to the ecclesiological view interpret it as the group of assembled eaters, whereas those who hold the christological view relate it to the physical or sacramental body of the Lord Christ. This study compares these two perspectives, paying special attention to matters of Vorverständnis and theoretical positioning. The litmus test for interpreters is 1 Corinthians 11:27 where the apostle Paul speaks about guilt concerning \"the body and blood of the Lord.\" It is investigated whether this phrase has multiple referents, whether it harks back to the event of Jesus’s death on the cross, or whether it should refer to the Lord’s sacramental body in the context of a sacrificial meal. The overarching aim of this article is to take away misconceptions about sacrifice in general and partaking of the sacramental body of Christ in particular. It does so through (1) presenting sacrificial rituals as structured and purposive forms of shared behaviour within the dynamics of mimesis and replacement; and (2) presenting the ritual elements of bread and wine as functionally real and organically intricate parts of the sacrificial act as a whole. This study’s conclusion is that Corinth’s meal crisis involved both failure of sacrifice and collapse of social ethics.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"283 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49197662","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.2021.0024
P. Botha
{"title":"Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic Epistles and Hebrews ed. by K. M. Hockey, M. N. Pierce and F. Watson (review)","authors":"P. Botha","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"518 - 523"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47707203","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}