{"title":"Murmuring against Moses: The Contentious History and Contested Future of Pentateuchal Studies by John S. Bergsma and Jeffrey L. Morrow (review)","authors":"Nathan Mastnjak","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a931741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a931741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141691231","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 Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible by Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg (review)","authors":"Mika Ahuvia","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a931751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a931751","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"18 33","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141700109","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":"Making a Case: The Practical Roots of Biblical Law by Sara J. Milstein (review)","authors":"Andrew R. Davis","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a931748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a931748","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141712138","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 Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Ecology ed. by Hilary Marlow and Mark Harris (review)","authors":"Jaime L. Waters","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a924390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a924390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"210 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140757086","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":"Understanding the Synoptic Transfiguration Pericope as a Yahwistic Divine Council Scene","authors":"Sanghwan Lee","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a924366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a924366","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Scholars have attempted to identify traditions that could possibly stand behind the Synoptic transfiguration pericope. However, they have not come to a consensus about this issue; consequently, there is significant disagreement about what tradition(s) may have influenced the pericope. In this article, I argue that the Yahwistic divine council motif in the Hebrew Bible should be considered as a likely source that almost certainly influenced the Synoptic transfiguration pericope in terms of its elements and structure. The benefit of this novel approach is that it coherently accounts for several crucial elements that appear in the pericope.","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"96 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140788984","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 Gospel of the Ebionites and the Synoptic Problem","authors":"Michael Kok","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a924367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a924367","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: David B. Sloan and James R. Edwards have revived the antique hypothesis that there was a single Gospel according to the Hebrews underlying the diverse patristic testimonies about it and that it was a significant source behind the Synoptic tradition. Specifically, Sloan and Edwards equate this reconstructed text with either Q or L, respectively, two hypothetical sources in B. H. Streeter’s classic solution to the Synoptic Problem. In this article, I defend the common scholarly view that the text known to Epiphanius, which modern scholars entitle as the Gospel of the Ebionites to distinguish it from the Gospel according to the Hebrews , was a Greek text that, at points, harmonizes passages from the Synoptics. I will focus on this Gospel’s baptism narrative to demonstrate that it replicates Matthean and Lucan redactional elements, thus making it unlikely to be the source of the Synoptic double tradition or the Lucan Sondergut .","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"434 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140771943","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":"Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple by Azzan Yadin-Israel (review)","authors":"Zev Garber","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a924379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a924379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"61 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140786139","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 Lord’s Altar as an Alternative Food Source in Hebrews 13: 9–10","authors":"Michael Wade Martin, J. Whitlark","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a924369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a924369","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In this study, we survey six factors encouraging a eucharistic interpretation of Heb 13:9–10: (1) the broader context of Hebrews and its warning against idolatry; (2) the understanding of βεβαιοῦσθαι τὴν καρδίαν in 13:9 as literal nourishment; (3) the conceptualization of the table of the Lord’s Supper as a θυσιαστήριον in early Christianity; (4) the similar triangulation in 1 Corinthians 10 of the Lord’s Supper and the Levitical altar over against food associated with idols; (5) the story of the wilderness generation’s craving for the foods of Egypt as background; and (6) the social function of the Lord’s Supper as an instrument for addressing hunger in early Christianity. Considered collectively, these factors suggest that Heb 13:9–10 encourages looking to the Lord’s Supper, and not idolatrous, pagan “foods,” for nourishment. The passage highlights through a comparison with Levitical priests the reasons for doing so all the more. In these regards, Heb 13:9–10 recapitulates in brief form the a minore ad maius comparative argument featured at length throughout the speech. Thus, these considerations, in addition to encouraging a eucharistic interpretation of these verses, contribute to the thesis that Hebrews is concerned not with reversion to non-Christian Judaism but, rather, reversion to pagan, imperial culture.","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"445 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140771935","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":"Second Thoughts about the Second Coming: Understanding the End Times, Our Future, and Christian Hope by Ronald J. Allen and Robert D. Cornwall (review)","authors":"Alan D. Hultberg","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a924381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a924381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"29 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140762991","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":"Reclaiming Thecla: An Introduction to the Acts of Thecla by Vincent Skemp and Gina Christ (review)","authors":"J. Barrier","doi":"10.1353/cbq.2024.a924386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a924386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424111,"journal":{"name":"The Catholic Biblical Quarterly","volume":"194 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140779946","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}