{"title":"Die Mehrdeutigkeit der Gottgleichheitsaussage in Phil 2,6 und ihr argumentationsstrategisches Potential","authors":"C. Blumenthal","doi":"10.1515/znw-2022-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/znw-2022-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Untersuchung fragt nach dem argumentationsstrategischen Potential der Mehrdeutigkeit der Gottgleichheitsaussage in Phil 2,6b. Es wird die Annahme durchgespielt, dass Paulus diese Mehrdeutigkeit strategisch in seiner Argumentation in 1,27–2,18 einsetzt und seine Adressaten durch die elliptische Formulierung von 2,5b auf diese Mehrdeutigkeit vorbereitet. Auf inhaltlicher Ebene ist die Mehrdeutigkeit von 2,6 in besonderer Weise geeignet, gleichzeitig zwei Handlungsorientierungen vom Christusereignis her für die Menschen in der Jesusnachfolge grundlegend auszuschließen: Den Menschen „in Christus“ darf es weder zentral um Statusbewahrung noch um Statusverbesserung gehen.","PeriodicalId":44277,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT UND DIE KUNDE DER ALTEREN KIRCHE","volume":"10 1","pages":"180 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77763462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1Cor 15,40–41: Paul and the Heavenly Bodies","authors":"John Granger Cook","doi":"10.1515/znw-2022-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/znw-2022-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Interpreters who have claimed that Paul viewed the heavenly bodies of 1Cor 15,40–41 as living beings have used two basic arguments that are each beset by inherent weaknesses. One enumerates the views of various Hellenistic philosophers and others concerning the animate nature of the stars. The other argument claims that all usages of σῶμα in Paul refer to organic entities. Scholars have often ignored handbooks such as those of Aetius that include many alternative views. Paul based his affirmations on sense experience and probably believed that the heavenly bodies were creations of God — but not animate beings. A corollary of this conclusion is that Paul’s statements about heavenly bodies do not indicate anything about the composition of the σῶμα πνευματικόν in 1Cor 15.","PeriodicalId":44277,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT UND DIE KUNDE DER ALTEREN KIRCHE","volume":"16 1","pages":"159 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84400493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translocal Relationships among Associations and Christ Groups, Revisited","authors":"Josiah D. Hall","doi":"10.1515/znw-2022-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/znw-2022-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the twenty-five years since Richard Ascough’s article, “Translocal Relationships among Voluntary Associations and Early Christianity,” scholarship has largely swung the pendulum away from viewing the translocality of early-Christ groups as an anomaly and using that “uniqueness” as justification for denying the heuristic value of Greco-Roman associations for understanding Christ-groups. A side-effect of this shift, however, has been that scholars often only compare Greco-Roman associations and Christ-groups on the basis of local instantiations. This article, in contrast, recovers a focus on the translocal relationships between associations, examining various motivations for translocal relationships between voluntary associations and showing the heuristic payoff for comparing translocal voluntary associations with early Christ-groups. Additionally, the article concludes that the comparison should work in both directions. That is, the nature of the evidence of the translocality of early Christ-groups actually allows these groups to function as an important heuristic for translocal Greco-Roman associations.","PeriodicalId":44277,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT UND DIE KUNDE DER ALTEREN KIRCHE","volume":"78 1","pages":"231 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80055805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Are These Sons Doing? Filial Agency in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Writings","authors":"A. Oegema","doi":"10.1515/znw-2022-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/znw-2022-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Scholarship on children and childhood in the New Testament and the Hebrew Bible increasingly uses the term “agency” for children’s actions. However, the use of this term remains undertheorized. This article offers a theoretically informed usage of the concept “agency” so as to analyze the dynamics in children’s actions. With a comparative study of Synoptic and early rabbinic parables, it is examined how a son’s agency interrelates with his father’s exercise of authority. It is also shown how the behaviour of these sons is implicitly or explicitly assessed from the adult male perspective of the head of the household. Finally, since the agency of sons frequently represents the human free will in relation to God, the article explains how the Synoptic and early rabbinic parables socialize their audiences in their correct attitude toward God.","PeriodicalId":44277,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT UND DIE KUNDE DER ALTEREN KIRCHE","volume":"26 1","pages":"261 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82418899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Background to “Fight the Good Fight” in 1 Timothy 1:18, 6:12, and 2 Timothy 4:7","authors":"G. Beale","doi":"10.1515/znw-2022-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/znw-2022-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The combined wording in 1 Tim 1:18 of στρατεύω + στρατεία can be rendered in English “fight the fight,” “battle the battle,” or more generally “perform military service” or “serve in a military campaign.” The combination surprizingly occurs often throughout Greco-Roman literature to express a patriotic warfare idiom for good character revealed by persevering through warfare or military campaigns. This idiom is applied to Timothy to demonstrate his good Christian character and reputation over against the false teachers’ bad character. The idiom also occurs often in a legal context to affirm a person’s character and good reputation, which qualifies a person to be an officer of the court or endorses a person’s character before the court in a legal dispute, showing him to be worthy of an innocent verdict. In 1 Timothy this idiom is used in a legal context (accompanied repeatedly by the μάρτυς word group, as in the Hellenistic occurrences of the idiom) that demonstrates and acquits Timothy’s character and reputation before the false teachers. The redundant word combination of ἀγωνίζομαι + ἀγών (“struggle the struggle”) in 1 Tim 6:12 and 2 Tim 4:7 is recognized by commentators as a development of the phrase in 1 Tim 1:18. In the Greek world, this also is a well-worn idiom used in the same way as the στρατεύω + στρατεία expression, most likely highlighting the difficulty of the fight. This is why the expression ἀγωνίζομαι + ἀγών is synonymous with the expression in 1 Tim 1:18, even with the added adjective “good.” This is also why some English translations even translate the redundant expressions in 1 Tim 1:18, 1 Tim 6:12, and 2 Tim 4:7 as “fight the good fight,” clearly seeing στρατεύω + στρατεία and ἀγωνίζομαι + ἀγών as synonymous. This lexical study of Greco-Roman backgrounds endorses the conclusion that the two expressions are idioms and are synonymous.","PeriodicalId":44277,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT UND DIE KUNDE DER ALTEREN KIRCHE","volume":"302 1","pages":"202 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75437215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eingegangene Bücher und Druckschriften","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/znw-2022-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/znw-2022-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44277,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT UND DIE KUNDE DER ALTEREN KIRCHE","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73095973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adam’s Animal Farm: A Fresh Reading of the Anthropological-Hamartiological Framework of the Apocalypse of Moses","authors":"H. Koning","doi":"10.1515/znw-2022-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/znw-2022-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A commonly recognized feature of the Apocalypse of Moses is its ethical-inferential orientation. However, the present article seeks to show that this does not just manifest itself in retrospective reflection, but is also exemplified narratologically in the attacks on Cain, Abel, and Seth. Far from being superfluous to the main narrative, these incidents provide us with a paradigm for understanding the Apocalypse’s anthropological-hamartiological framework in the post-paradisiacal world: The one who does what is good will send both devil and beast into flight, but the one who does not will be overcome by them. In order to substantiate this thesis, the article compares the Apocalypse to the works of Philo and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.","PeriodicalId":44277,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT UND DIE KUNDE DER ALTEREN KIRCHE","volume":"6 1","pages":"122 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82866807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Juden oder Nichtjuden, das ist hier die Frage. Zur Identifizierung der Gegner im Galaterbrief","authors":"T. Schumacher","doi":"10.1515/znw-2022-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/znw-2022-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Zusammenfassung Die Frage nach der Identifizierung der Gegner im Galaterbrief spielt in der neutestamentlichen Forschung eine wesentliche Rolle, zumal sowohl die Einschätzung der groben Stoßrichtung als auch diejenige der konkreten Argumentationsführung dieses paulinischen Schreibens von der Beantwortung der Gegnerfrage nicht unwesentlich beeinflusst werden. Trotz aller Schwierigkeiten, die mit dieser Frage verbunden sind, kann eine Mehrheitsmeinung dahingehend konstatiert werden, dass es sich um jüdische oder judenchristliche Missionare handelt, welche die heidnischen Galater zu einer Orientierung am jüdischen Gesetz und zur Übernahme von Tora-Vorschriften bewegen wollten. Der vorliegende Beitrag plädiert auf der Basis textkritischer Beobachtungen gegen diese vorherrschende Meinung und schlägt eine Identifizierung der Gegner als „judaisierende Heidenchristen“ vor. Diese Zuschreibung führt zu einer Neubewertung der Argumentationsführung des Galaterbriefs, denn vor dem Hintergrund einer solchen Gegneridentifikation legt sich die Annahme nahe, dass sich Paulus mit einer fehlerhaften Perspektive von Heidenchristen auf das Judentum sowie mit einem damit grundsätzlich zusammenhängenden Kategorienfehler im Blick auf die soteriologische Funktion der Tora auseinanderzusetzen hatte. Der Beitrag verdeutlicht zudem, dass zur Abfassungszeit des Galaterbriefs offenbar noch eine klare Differenzierung zwischen Christen mit jüdischer Identität und solchen mit einem paganen Hintergrund auszumachen ist, eine Differenzierung, die jedoch im Zuge der neutestamentlichen Textüberlieferung mehr und mehr verwischt wurde.","PeriodicalId":44277,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT UND DIE KUNDE DER ALTEREN KIRCHE","volume":"63 1","pages":"69 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79980687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lk 16,19–31 als Prätext johanneischer Soteriologie. Die Rezeption lukanischer Erzählfiguren (Lk 16,19–31; 10,38–42; 7,36–50) und ihrer Konstellationen","authors":"Nadine Ueberschaer","doi":"10.1515/znw-2022-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/znw-2022-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Zusammenfassung Der folgende Artikel erweist Lk 16,19–31 als Prätext für die präsentische Soteriologie des Joh, indem er aufgezeigt, dass das Joh die Erzählfiguren Lazarus, Abraham, Mose und die Propheten aus Lk rezipiert und darüber hinaus Maria und Martha zu Schwestern des Lazarus erklärt, um mit den bethanischen Geschwistern ein positives Gegenbild zu dem Reichen und seinen fünf Brüdern aus der Parabel in Lk 16 zu entwickeln. Der Artikel bietet damit auch einen Beitrag zur Verhältnisbestimmung von Joh und Lk.","PeriodicalId":44277,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT UND DIE KUNDE DER ALTEREN KIRCHE","volume":"25 1","pages":"1 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90804606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rhetoric of Matthean “Small Faith”","authors":"Chris Seglenieks","doi":"10.1515/znw-2022-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/znw-2022-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Matthew uses ὀλιγόπιστος to critique inadequate faith from the disciples, adapting already linked Markan pericopes to create a set with a distinct rhetorical function. For the Gospel audience, these function together to call people to the sort of wholehearted trust exemplified in the first use of the term (6,25–34), while developing this ideal in a christological direction. Linguistic studies on the role of the vocative highlight how ὀλιγόπιστος is used to effect this goal, as it serves to recharacterize the disciples, drawing attention to the narrative frame, and emphasising the imperative force of Jesus’ rhetorical questions.","PeriodicalId":44277,"journal":{"name":"ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE NEUTESTAMENTLICHE WISSENSCHAFT UND DIE KUNDE DER ALTEREN KIRCHE","volume":"42 1","pages":"50 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79284073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}