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.2021.0022
C. Stenschke
{"title":"Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception 18: Mass–Midnight ed. by C. M. Furey et al. (review)","authors":"C. Stenschke","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"506 - 514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44385327","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.2021.0037
Nicholas J. Moore
{"title":"\"God’s Sanctuary in Heaven Was Opened\": Judgment, Salvation, and Cosmic Cultus in Revelation","authors":"Nicholas J. Moore","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0037","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Both Revelation’s apocalyptic opening of heaven, and its portrayal of heavenly space in cultic terms, have been extensively studied by scholars. The intersection of these two features, however, has not received significant attention. This article examines references to the opening of the heavenly sanctuary in Revelation, arguing that they relate primarily, though not only, to judgment. It then turns to Revelation 21, where there is a striking change in cultic language, in particular the statement of the sanctuary’s absence (Rev 21:22). It argues that this shift is a coherent development from open sanctuary language earlier in Revelation, but one that lays the emphasis on salvation. Finally, comparison to heavenly openings in other biblical and apocalyptic texts uncovers parallel motifs whilst suggesting that Revelation stands apart in the extent of its emphasis upon first judgment and then salvation.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"409 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46110991","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.2021.0035
Rex Fortes
{"title":"\"The Judeans\" for οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι? Contested Ethnicity in the Fourth Gospel","authors":"Rex Fortes","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Despite its apparent geographical restriction, the translation \"the Judeans\" for the Johannine expression οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι has gained many supporters in the past decade. This trend may have been influenced by the view of Steve Mason (2007) that the translation \"the Judeans\" is not limited to a geographical meaning but is inclusive of religious and political connotations as well. Subsequently, he posits that the term οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι should be translated \"the Judeans\" as it captures best the ethnic centrality of Judea in the lives of concurrent Ἰουδαῖοι as evinced, for example, in the writings of Flavius Josephus. This proposal calls our attention since we know that the Fourth Gospel was composed in the same generation, prompting us to ask whether we should also consider the rendition \"the Judeans\" for οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι or not. To answer this question, this article explores John’s ethnic portrayal of the Ἰουδαῖοι in his narrative and juxtaposes it with the Josephan understanding. Recognising the ambiguous and fluid nature of ethnic identification in the writings of John and Josephus, this article argues that the translation \"the Judeans\"—within Mason’s reasoning—does not match the contested ethnic context of the Johannine narrative.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"365 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45310917","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.2021.0040
J. Spoelstra
{"title":"Double–Triple Witness Framework: A Matthean Rhetorical Device","authors":"J. Spoelstra","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Repetition in the Gospel of Matthew—to the extent that it is described as seeing double or having double vision—is well recognised; and theories have arisen to explain this phenomenon. Contributing to this discussion, the present article theorises that Matthew’s double and triple accounts as well as dual characters and sayings is part of a Matthean rhetorical device based on the law of two to three witnesses (Deut 17:6; 19:15). Cited twice in Matthew (Matt 18:16, 19–20), the Deuteronomic law of the number of witnesses needed to establish and legitimise fact is how the Gospel writer/redactor brings veracity to his own account. For there to consistently be two or three persons, vignettes, sayings, and so on, whereas the other Synoptic Gospels typically have only one, indirectly substantiates the thesis. Furthermore, that Matthew’s is (traditionally held as) the Gospel for a Jewish audience, the literary framework of multiple witnesses would have been discerned and understood as such and function as a persuasive literary technique.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"471 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48582940","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.2021.0033
Robert D. Falconer
{"title":"Johannine Magical Realism: A Trigger for Sacramental Realism in John 6:26–58","authors":"Robert D. Falconer","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, it is argued that magical realism, a contemporary literary genre, may be used to understand Jesus turning water into wine (John 2:1–11) and the feeding of the five thousand (John 6:1–15) as a catalyst for interpreting John 6:26–58 as sacramental realism. I employ New Testament narrative criticism to highlight the rhetoric, setting, character, point of view and plot of John 2:1–11 and 6:1–15. Narrative criticism opens a window into magical realism to analyse the two key Johannine pericopes which undergird Jesus’s eucharistic discourse (John 6:26–58). After defining magical realism as a literary genre, the study demonstrates that the \"magical\" or miraculous change of water into wine and the feeding of the five thousand in John’s Gospel may be overlayed onto a magical realism framework. The study then examines another kind of realism, sacramental realism, for John 6:26–58. This, I demonstrate, was triggered by the preceding miracles examined in this article. Although one should not read modern genres into an ancient text, there are, nevertheless, significant characteristics of this genre already embedded in John’s Gospel. These Johannine passages point to Jesus’s eucharistic discourse in John 6:26–58 as sacramental reality.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"323 - 345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46145062","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.2021.0030
C. L. de Wet
{"title":"After the Fig Tree: The Literary and Cultural Structuring of the Monastic Curse in the Narratives of Syrian Monks by Theodoret and John of Ephesus","authors":"C. L. de Wet","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the early Christian curse tradition, which we find as early as Jesus’s cursing of the fig tree, developed in the early Christian hagiographical literature of late antique Syria and Mesopotamia, with reference, specifically, to Theodoret of Cyrus and John of Ephesus. The study begins by providing some background of the issues and authors, after which the various monastic curses in the texts are analysed and brought into conversation with the social, cultural, and religious contexts. It is shown that, like the curses we find in Acts, for instance, these early Christian monastic curses represent a highly developed curse tradition that fits in firmly and comfortably in the ancient Mediterranean cultural and religious world.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"259 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42065121","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.2021.0029
Kayle B. de Waal
{"title":"A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Revelation 2:18–29","authors":"Kayle B. de Waal","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article enlists socio-rhetorical interpretation to analyse and interpret Revelation 2:18–29. The constructs of inner texture, visual texture, intratexture, cultural intertexture, ideological texture and sacred texture are used. New markers, namely, visual, ideological and theological, are introduced to aid in the study of different textures. The inner texture reveals the extensive use of καί. The visual texture highlights the judgments of God against Jezebel and her followers. Intratexture examines the literary, conceptual and thematic connections between Jezebel and Rome, which demonstrates that the historical situation needs to be understood against the backdrop of larger socio-political and theological issues. The cultural intertexture deepens the Old Testament background and points to the story of Jezebel and alludes to Daniel 3:25, 10:6 and Psalm 2:8–9. The sacred texture contends that the cosmic conflict is an important background. The article ends with recommended word changes to the apocalyptic rhetorolect.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"243 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47862182","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 : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.1353/neo.2021.0012
C. Stenschke
{"title":"Introducing the New Testament by H. Wansbrough (review)","authors":"C. Stenschke","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"227 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42687764","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 : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.1353/neo.2021.0015
Friedrich W. de Wet, Adriaan Lamprecht
{"title":"The Aorist Indicative's Prior to Past Usage: A Mental Space Theory Analysis","authors":"Friedrich W. de Wet, Adriaan Lamprecht","doi":"10.1353/neo.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/neo.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the prior to past usage of the aorist indicative with Michelle Cutrer's model in Mental Space Theory. The prior to past usage of the aorist indicative is commonly translated by the past perfect tense form in English. This has led some scholars to conclude that the aorist indicative may in these instances have the same meaning as the pluperfect. In contrast, other scholars argue that our translations should not determine our understanding of Greek. This article contends that scholars in general have not yet provided a satisfactory explanation as to why the aorist indicative is able to be used in such an obviously different manner from its normal usage to refer to a simple past action. A novel explanation is possible with the implementation of Cutrer's model. This model is especially adept at tracking a shift in deixis. In applying Cutrer's model, this article finds that the temporal deixis shifts to the past when the aorist indicative is used to refer to a prior to past action. It may be concluded that the aorist indicative does not have a change in meaning when referring to a prior to past action, but a shift in deixis.","PeriodicalId":42126,"journal":{"name":"Neotestamentica","volume":"55 1","pages":"65 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42796805","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}