{"title":"Developing Joseph’s Character: Narratological Reflections on the Dynamic Character of the Biblical Joseph","authors":"Magnus Rabel","doi":"10.30965/25890468-06801001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06801001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Joseph story is a magisterial work. Yet, many scholars have devoted considerable attention to diachronic issues like the story’s origin, development, and redactions rather than a synchronic reading of the story. If one engages in a reading at the level of the final redaction of the Genesis story, a hitherto little perceived development of the Joseph figure becomes apparent. Joseph – presented as an egomaniacal youth who insensitively and arrogantly stands up to his brothers – over time becomes a more patient, vigilant, and clever statesman, who in the end becomes the saviour of Egypt and of his own family. With the help of narratological character analysis, the hitherto strongly held perception of Joseph as a flat, idealised, stereotypical character must give way to a multifaceted, vivid image of the biblical Joseph by re-examining his story.</p>","PeriodicalId":53902,"journal":{"name":"BIBLISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139580064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geldbesitz Jesu und der Jünger bei Markus und Matthäus","authors":"Heiko Wojtkowiak","doi":"10.30965/25890468-06801004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06801004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the differing views of money in the Gospels, a question that is not usually treated independently. By way of Jesus’ and the disciples’ possession of money in Mark and Matthew, the, sometimes significantly, divergent positions of the two evangelists are presented. This in turn shows why an explicit treatment of the subject of money in the Gospels is important. While Matthew and evidently also Mark both reject holding money privately, there were differences when it came to holding money collectively. For Mark, this amount may even be large (e.g., the 200 denarii in Mark 6:37). Matthew, in contrast, avoids any reference to holding money collectively. The reason for this is Matthew’s assumption that money presents a fundamental danger of anthropological misalignment, indicated in particular by the connection between the logion of the service of two masters (Mt 6:24) with the admonition against worrying (Mt 6:25–34).</p>","PeriodicalId":53902,"journal":{"name":"BIBLISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139580061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The David-Benjaminites Episodes (2 Sam 16:1–14; 19:16–31): The Conflict between the Golah Community and the Benjaminites","authors":"Yitzhak Lee-Sak, Daewook Kim","doi":"10.30965/25890468-06801005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06801005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we first argue that the David-Benjaminites episodes (2 Sam 16:1–14 and 19:16–31) can be read in the Persian conflict context based on “exclusive inclusivity.” Second, we examine the validity of reading the episodes together and demonstrate their textual combination through <em>inclusio</em>. Third, we analyze the literary and historical implications of the three different Benjaminites’ changing actions toward David and, conversely, David and Abishai’s dialog about them. Fourth, we propose that the various aspects of the three Saulide characters’ reactions to David reflect the Benjaminites’ changing actions in the postexilic period and that the reactions of David and Abishai give us insights to comprehensively understand the two symbolic types of the Golah community’s responses toward the Benjaminites. Consequently, the David-Benjaminites episodes signal the complex aspects of the Persian Yehud Judean’s internal struggles and their strategies to resolve the ideological issues.</p>","PeriodicalId":53902,"journal":{"name":"BIBLISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139580058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"„Ich weiß, wem ich mein Depositum anvertraut habe“ (2 Tim 1,12)","authors":"Stefan Krauter","doi":"10.30965/25890468-06801007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06801007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles, views differ widely on the interpretation of <styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">παραθήκη</styled-content> in 2 Tim 1:12. This article briefly presents the idiomatic use of <styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">παρα</styled-content>(<styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">κατα</styled-content>)<styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">θήκη</styled-content> in Greek texts and classifies therein its use in the Pastoral Epistles. On this basis, the most common interpretations of 2 Tim 1:12 are critically evaluated. An alternative interpretation of 2 Tim 2:12 is discussed. This has been proposed only twice before: the first time in a somewhat remote place, the second time quite succinctly in a commentary. As a result, it has been either ignored or very quickly discarded in further discussion. This article will show that this is the most plausible reading of 2 Tim 1:12.</p>","PeriodicalId":53902,"journal":{"name":"BIBLISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139910504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wer schrieb und wer las den Psalter?","authors":"Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg","doi":"10.30965/25890468-06702002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06702002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Im Blick auf Gebrauch und Trägerkreise des Psalters in seiner formativen Phase wurden, in Variation, zwei unterschiedliche Positionen vertreten. Die eine sieht dem zweiten Tempel und seiner Liturgie nahestehende Kreise am Werk, die andere geht von der Tradierung in schriftgelehrten Kreisen und der privaten lectio continua eines „Lesepsalters“ aus. Der vorliegende Beitrag nähert sich der Frage nach Gebrauch und Tradentenkreisen des Psalters in seiner formativen Phase von außen und fragt nach einschlägigen Einsichten aus antiken Quellen, darunter den Textfunden vom Toten Meer, die weiteren Aufschluss über Gebrauch und Trägerkreise des Psalters geben können.\u0000With regard to the use and compilers of the Psalter in its formative phase, two different positions are held in recent research. One finds the compilers among groups related to the second temple, its cult and liturgy, the other assumes the transmission of the psalter in scholarly circles, the Psalms being used in individual lectio continua. The present study explores the external evidence regarding the scribal culture in antiquity and especially the use of Psalms in the findings from the Judean desert that can provide further information about the use and compilers of the Psalter.","PeriodicalId":53902,"journal":{"name":"BIBLISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47869104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"„… und redet seltsam wie sonst nirgends in der Schrift“","authors":"R. Bergmeier","doi":"10.30965/25890468-06702004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06702004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In Paul’s writing style we often find a literary we. But why does Paul write “in our hearts”, even if his own one is meant. This wording is not an error, but tries to include all who read or listen to his letter. The other way around in 2 Cor 3,15 he changes the wording: “the heart of people”, because he tries to use here the biblical sentence of Ex 34,34 in a new understanding, in which “the heart” of 2 Cor 3,15 shall be the subject of the phrase of Ex 34,34 that he’ll cite in V. 16. KJV translates correctly: “Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.” But the greatest problem of the Pauline text is the fact that he seems to read the text of Ex 34 not in the same terms as we know it. In the beginning of his allegorical interpretation Paul implements what he had said in V. 7: Like Philo, Vit Mos 70, Paul tells the story that Moses hid the splendour of his face until Israel could look at him. It is our problem to see that Paul neglects the fact, that the biblical text doesn’t mention a δόξα that disappeared, but until the last verse of Ex 34 we can read: “And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.” But this doesn’t metter for Paul, for by the words of V. 13 combined with V. 7 he alters the perspective: There was an end of Moses’ doxa, but not an end of his vail. By the way of hardening this vail endured on the heart of Israel until “it shall turn to the Lord”.","PeriodicalId":53902,"journal":{"name":"BIBLISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48923276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Muratorian Fragment. Text, Translation, Commentary, written by Clare K. Rothschild","authors":"J. Beutler","doi":"10.30965/25890468-06702013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06702013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53902,"journal":{"name":"BIBLISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46609336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Erzählung vom Kampf am Jabbok als Knotenpunkt der Genesis","authors":"Marlen Bunzel","doi":"10.30965/25890468-06702007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06702007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article outlines some intertextual connections between Jacob and Moses, taking Gen 32:23–33 as a starting point. In this way it becomes apparent that the Jacob narratives carry traces of the Moses narrative – and vice versa. Jacob and Moses are brought together in Hos 12, which underscores these observations and further demonstrates that the textual fabric of the Hebrew Bible has become increasingly dense as well as interwoven through the ages, according to the logic of the midrash.","PeriodicalId":53902,"journal":{"name":"BIBLISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43248181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die sieben Sendschreiben Apk 2–3. Studien zu ihrer Entstehung und ihrem Verhältnis zum apokalyptischen Hauptteil Apk 4–22, written by Thomas Witulski","authors":"S. Witetschek","doi":"10.30965/25890468-06702011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06702011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53902,"journal":{"name":"BIBLISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46756969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Ambiguität der Identität Gottes in Genesis 18–19","authors":"Attila Bodor","doi":"10.30965/25890468-06702006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06702006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Genesis 18–19 presents an ambiguous image of God, as the deity is portrayed in the narrative both as YHWH and as a human being. This article examines this ambiguity in the representation of the God of Israel with a focus on the literary development of the narrative. It is argued that traces of an ancient Yahweh religion, which did not exclude the appearance of the deity in an ambiguous form (simultaneously God and human, one figure and multiple figures), are found throughout the narrative complex, suggesting that such a representation of the deity was integral to the concept of God in ancient Israel.","PeriodicalId":53902,"journal":{"name":"BIBLISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43357661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}