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Mimetic Mediators in Mark: How Graeco-Roman Biographies Use Secondary Characters to Offer Multiple Patterns of Imitation Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Carl Johan Berglund
Can the Markan disciples still be viewed as potential role models for the Gospel audience if Mark’s writing is identified as a biography? This long-standing line of narrative interpretation has recently been rejected as anachronistic by Helen K. Bond, who maintains that in Graeco-Roman biographies, secondary characters are only included for what they bring to the portrait of the protagonist. In response
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Are Luke’s Community Summaries in Acts 2 and 4 a Cultural Appeal? Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jason S. Wendel
Scholars have long suggested that Luke employs idealized, philosophical language to describe the life of the Christ-believing community in Acts 2.44–47 and 4.32–35 for the purpose of garnering social capital for the movement. In defense of this case, many scholars point to the similar cultural appeal evident in descriptions of the communal life of the Essenes in the works of Josephus and Philo. Against
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As Many as Were Baptised: Re-examining the Relationship Between Faith and Baptism in Galatians 3.27 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Karl Deenick
Baptism has long been a point of contention among Christians. One passage that may have more to offer than has previously been suggested, particularly with regard to the relationship between faith and baptism, is Gal. 3.27. Of special interest is the precise way that the two clauses pertaining to (i) baptism and (ii) putting on Christ are related. Usually, it has been understood that baptism is, in
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The Intrinsic Probability of τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὑποτασσέσθωσαν in Eph. 5.22 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Joey McCollum
This study revisits a contested textual variant concerning the presence, placement, and person of an imperative directed at wives in Eph. 5.22. Most previous treatments of this variant have decided the matter (typically in favor of the reading without an imperative) on the basis of manuscript support and transcriptional arguments about how readers and copyists of the text would have changed it, but
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Age, Maternity, and Allusion: Elizabeth and Other Mothers Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Julie Newberry
This article explores how intertextual analysis of New Testament (NT) narratives’ engagement with the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible (OT/HB) might be fruitfully integrated with intersectional analysis of characters’ embodied lives in communities. Taking Elizabeth’s characterization in Luke 1 as a test case, I demonstrate that intersectional analysis not only deepens the insights arising from intertextual
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‘A Little Yeast Leavens the Whole Batch of Dough’: Incest and Pollution in 1 Corinthians 5 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Ethan Johnson
Paul commands the Corinthians to give an incestuous man to Satan in 1 Cor. 5.5. Scholars often see this as a punishment for sin, but why does incest require this particular response? This article offers an answer by reading 1 Cor. 5 in light of other discussions of incest and pollution in Greco-Roman literature. It highlights connections between incest, pollution, and communal danger and explores means
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Understanding the Abyssal Forces in the Fifth Trumpet Judgment (Rev. 9.1–12) in Light of the Demonology of Jubilees Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Sanghwan Lee
The Fifth Trumpet pericope (i.e., Rev. 9.1–12) contains various enigmatic themes: the ascent of the demons from the subterranean prison, the bottomless pit as the domain of the demons, the hybridit...
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Innovative Qualitative Research in HRD: A New Design Framework Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Chad R. Lochmiller, Yonjoo Cho, Jessica Nina Lester
In the last few decades, there has been a proliferation of qualitative methodologies and methods. Within HRD, however, there has been a persistent use of particular kinds of qualitative methodologi...
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Emergent Total Endovascular Arch Repair for Contained Aortic Arch Rupture: Another Tool in the Box Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Nicole Kus, Justin A. Robinson, Michael R. Hall, Mehrdad Ghoreishi, Bradley Taylor, Shahab Toursavadkohi
To date, emergent total endovascular aortic arch repair has not been described in the literature. We present a 67-year-old female with a poorly differentiated posterior mediastinal sarcoma. Imaging...
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Tracking the Effects: Examining the Opportunity Stratification Hypothesis in Action Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Kristian Edosomwan, Jemimah L. Young, Bettie Ray Butler, Jamaal R. Young, John A. Williams, III
The relationship between academic tracking and exclusionary discipline actions has only been studied in a limited number of empirical studies. By placing students at the lower strata, schools depri...
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Evaluation of Naples Score for Long-Term Mortality in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Faysal Şaylık, Tufan Çınar, Murat Selçuk, Tayyar Akbulut, Mert İlker Hayıroğlu, İbrahim Halil Tanboğa
The Naples score (NS), which is a composite of cardiovascular adverse event predictors including neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio, albumin, and total cholesterol, has em...
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Cross-National Support for the Welfare State Under Wealth Inequality Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Amalie Sofie Jensen, Andreas Wiedemann
Wealth is often more unequally distributed than income, and there are considerable differences across countries. In this paper, we argue that wealth inequality helps explain cross-national variatio...
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Peer Attachment Style Moderates the Effect of Mood on Creativity Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Yingcong Chen, Suping Luo, Ling Wang, Huiting Miao, Rongrong Xi, Zheng Luo, Zhenhong Wang
The present study investigated the moderating role of peer attachment style in the relationship between mood and creativity. An experiment was conducted with a sample of 267 undergraduate students ...
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Performance study of model predictive control with reference prediction for real-time hybrid simulation Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Chen Zeng, Wei Guo, Ping Shao
The accuracy of real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) is greatly influenced by the inevitable time delay and amplitude error due to the control plant dynamics. Several tracking controllers have been i...
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Making an Example: The Rhetorical Usefulness of Timothy in 1 Timothy Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Jonathan M. Sanchez
Scholars of pseudepigraphal letters have recognized that pseudepigraphy troubles the identification of the alleged addressee with the historical addressee. This means that the rhetorical addressee ...
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The Quotation of Jer. 31.15 in Mt. 2.18 within Christological Patterning of Matthew’s Nativity According to the Joseph Story Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Kai Akagi
The quotation of Jer. 31:15 in Mt. 2:18 has proven to be an interpretive puzzle through its otherwise unattested form of Jer. 31:15 and the seemingly unclear relationship of the quotation to its co...
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‘One Thing’: Stoic Discourse and Paul’s Reevaluation of His Jewish Credentials in Phil. 3.1–21 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Annalisa Phillips Wilson
Biblical scholars frequently discuss Paul’s relationship to his Jewish ancestral practices and heritage, a debate that is due in no small part to his inconsistency on the topic. Although some recen...
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Putting the Apocalyptic Jesus to the Sword: Why Were Jesus’s Disciples Armed? Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Justin Meggitt
The claim that the historical Jesus was a violent revolutionary has seen a revival in recent years with the work of Dale Martin and Fernando Bermejo-Rubio. Central to their case is the datum that J...
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The Perils of Premature Judgment: Reading Matthew 21.18–22.14 with the Fig Tree Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Rebecca L. Copeland
Because fig trees were agriculturally important, residents of Palestine during Jesus’s and Matthew’s times would be much more familiar with figs than are most academic biblical interpreters. This a...
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Gnats, Camels, and Matthew’s Use of Luke Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Alan Garrow
A striking feature of the current state of Synoptic Problem studies is the almost universal acceptance of Markan Priority. If Mark was indeed used by both Matthew and Luke, this reduces the number ...
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Happy Reading: Textual Self-Consciousness and Human Flourishing in the Macarisms of Lk 11.28, Gos. Thom. 79.2, and Rev. 1.3 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Kenneth Trax
Scholars are rediscovering how early Christian texts addressed questions of human flourishing and exploring how textualization may have affected interpretation. These two trends intersect in the be...
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In Defence of ‘Theological’ Readings of the New Testament Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Jonathan Rowlands
‘Theological interpretation of Scripture’ (TIS) has undergone a resurgence within Christian theology. This has been matched in some quarters of ‘mainstream’ New Testament studies by a renewed insis...
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Epicurean Critical Praxis and Philonian Metaphor in Johannine Parrhêsia Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Connor Purcell Wood
The Johannine epistles contain two concepts of parrhêsia. One, which they call by name, is a boldness before God, foreign to Gentile philosophy but explored by Jewish writers. The second, which is ...
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Illustrating a Pauline Imperative (Phlm. 17): Προσλαμβάνω in P.Mur. 2.115 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Zachary J. Cole
This article draws attention to a neglected extrabiblical use of the verb προσλαμβάνω in a documentary text, a Jewish deed of marriage from the early second century CE (P.Mur. 2.115), and suggests ...
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Malleable Masculinity: Rethinking Paul’s Masculinity in Light of Valerius Maximus Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Susan E. Hylen
Scholarly appraisals of Paul’s masculinity differ widely. Some conclude that Paul is presented (by himself or another author) as an ideal man. Others argue that Paul rejects dominant norms of manli...
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Paul, Pagans and Eschatological Ethnicities: A Response to Denys McDonald Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Paula Fredriksen
An invited response to Denys McDonald’s JSNT essay: ‘“Ex-Pagan Pagans”? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration’.
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Thomas the (Un)Faithful: Πιστός in John 20.27 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Christopher Seglenieks
Thomas in John’s gospel has often been understood as the prototypical doubter based on Jn 20.27. Jesus’ words are taken as condemning a failure of intellectual belief, despite the shift in 20.27 fr...
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The Performance of Parrhesia in Philo and Acts Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Arco den Heijer
This article examines the role of the performance of frankness in the work of Philo of Alexandria and in the book of Acts. With respect to Philo, the differences are highlighted in the use of παρρη...
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Abraham’s Paternity and God’s Promise: Another Look at the Context and Syntax of Romans 4.1 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Jeffrey W. Aernie
The complexity of Paul’s engagement with the Abrahamic narrative in Rom. 4 arises immediately in Rom. 4.1. The challenging syntax of Rom. 4.1 has resulted in distinct views on the apostle’s engagement with the patriarch and the purpose of his argument in Rom. 4. My intention is to reconsider Rom. 4.1 based on a wider structural analysis of Rom. 3.27–4.22. Building especially on the work of Douglas
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Female Seed as a Metaphor: Queer Kinship in Revelation 12, Ancient Medical and Literary Texts and the Septuagint Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Clarissa Breu
New Testament texts frequently use the metaphor of family as a concept that structures a social and religious experience of kinship. They thus point to the socially constructed aspect of family ties and can be connected to current queer notions of kinship. Not only notions of families are construed, but already the seemingly natural process of procreation. The metaphor of female seed exemplifies this
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Mark’s Miraculous Disciples: ἤθελεν παρελθεῖν αὐτούς (Mark 6.48) as Jesus’ Desire for the Disciples to Walk on Water Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Bruce Henning
ἤθελεν παρελθεῖν αὐτούς (Mk 6.48) has received a variety of explanations since it is often understood as Jesus wanting to pass by the disciples. This makes for a problematic reading in which Jesus does not intend to offer help to the disciples or only begins to pass but is stopped. Most commentators (e.g., Heil 1981; Marcus 2000) address this difficulty by proposing an allusion to Exod. 33–34 and 1 Kgs
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Letter from the Editors Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Jane Heath, Jenn Strawbridge
Dear Readers,
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Paul’s Rhetorical Efforts to Establish Good Will in First Thessalonians Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Carl Johan Berglund
Ancient oratory ordinarily begins with an effort of captatio benevolentiae – the rhetorical strategy of praising and lauding the audience to make them well-disposed toward the speaker, attentive and receptive to your message – especially before controversial claims or challenging demands. In First Thessalonians, such efforts are manifest not only in the introduction in ch. 1, but throughout the narration
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Food and Gift: On the ‘Words of Institution’ in the Gospel of Mark Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Peter-Ben Smit
This article examines the significance of the notion of the ‘gift’ and ‘givenness’ in the account of Jesus’ last meal (‘last supper’) in the Gospel of Mark. It asks whether attention to the notion of the ‘gift’ can be a useful heuristic for the exegesis of the Markan account of Jesus’ last meal with his disciples, particularly regarding the symbolic actions that Jesus performs during this meal. This
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‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Denys N. McDonald
In Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle (2017), Paula Fredriksen reminds us that gods and their cults were intertwined with ancient ethnic groups so much so that, when Gentiles committed themselves exclusively to Israel’s God, some Jews considered this ‘tantamount to changing ethnicity’. Fredriksen claims, however, that Paul’s Gentile addressees – whom she terms ‘ex-pagan pagans’ – remain separate ethnically
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FH Luke’s ‘Unpicking’: Some Observations on Francis Watson’s Recent Analysis (2018) and the Extent of the Phenomenon Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Olegs Andrejevs
The hypothetical phenomenon known as Luke’s ‘unpicking’ of some of Matthew’s Markan material has occupied the attention of synoptic problem specialists since the seminal article by F. Gerald Downing (1965). The discussion has received a number of contributions in recent years, first with an exchange between Christopher M. Tuckett and Francis Watson (both essays published in 2018) and now with a separate
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The Son and Scripture in Hebrews 1–2 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Jason Maston
This article addresses the connection between the Christological claims in Heb. 1.2b-4 and the scriptures cited in 1.5-13. The claims are closely matched by the following scriptures in each instance except one, namely, the assertion about the Son’s death in 1.3c. Given the importance of the Son’s death for the author’s Christology (and soteriology), the lack of correspondence is striking. To account
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The Saints of Matthew 27: Why Do they Linger in their Tombs? Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Joel Archer
Matthew’s crucifixion narrative recounts the opening of tombs, the raising of long-deceased saints and their entrance into Jerusalem. One odd feature of the story is that it contains a strange time gap: the saints are raised when Jesus dies, but they exit their tombs only after his resurrection. Scholars have tried to explain away this time gap in several ways, but none convinces. I advance a new proposal:
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Torah and Divine Revelation in Three Jewish Texts: 4QInstruction, Wisdom of Solomon and the Fourth Gospel Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Jeffrey Hubbard
Studies of the sapiential traditions in the Fourth Gospel remain unfortunately insulated from recent research into the fluid relationship between wisdom and apocalypticism in early Judaism. The well-known connection made between wisdom and Torah in Sirach and Baruch leads many scholars to mischaracterize John’s perspective on Law as incongruous with Jewish sapientialism. However, appropriate consideration
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Rid Us (Not) of the Temptation: A Note on the Text of Hebrews 11.37 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Peter Malik
Prior to the publication of PP 46 (P.Beatty II; LDAB 3011), at Heb. 11.37 the earlier critical editions printed one of the longer readings, though from Erasmus onwards the passage was subject to a considerable number of conjectural emendations. With PP 46, the evidence for the reading ἐπρίσθησαν gained significant early manuscript support, thus impacting subsequent editorial practice and textual analysis
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Letter from the New Editors Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Jane Heath, Jennifer Strawbridge
Dear Readers,
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Paul and the Author of 1 Clement as Entrepreneurs of Identity in Corinthian Crises of Leadership Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Katja Kujanpää
When Paul and the author of 1 Clement write letters to Corinth to address crises of leadership, both discuss Moses’ παρρησία (frankness and openness), yet they evaluate it rather differently. In this article, I view both authors as entrepreneurs of identity and explore the ways in which they try to shape their audience’s social identity and influence their behaviour in the crisis by selectively retelling
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The Claromontanus Stichometry and its Canonical Implications Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Kelsie G. Rodenbiker
The stichometric list inserted into the sixth-century Codex Claromontanus presents a NT list of 27 books, but not the familiar canonical collection. Alongside one OT (Judith) and five NT titles (ad petrum prima, Barnabas, the Shepherd, the Acts of Paul, and the Revelation of Peter) horizontal dashes have been placed, which are commonly said to denote secondary status. A history of misunderstanding
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A Postmodern Riddle? Gaps, Inferences and Mark’s Abrupt Ending Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Kelly R. Iverson
It is widely acknowledged that Mark’s abrupt ending (16.8) is best understood as a deliberate narrative device. Despite this ‘new consensus’, a number of scholars continue to assert that this approach is not only problematic but also depends on a postmodern perspective that overemphasizes the reader/audience. This article argues that Mark’s ending has been crafted in order to invoke a predictive inference
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The Eyewitnesses in their Own Words: Testing Richard Bauckham’s Model Using Verifiable Quotations Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Jeffrey Tripp
In his influential Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, Richard Bauckham claims that eyewitnesses to events in Jesus’ life minimized changes to Jesus sayings by establishing a culture of formal control in oral performance, a culture reflected in the gospels and Acts. This study tests Bauckham’s hypothesis using verifiable internal quotations, cases where a single text narrates the original speech act and its
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To Quote or Not to Quote? Categorizing Quotations in the Epistle to the Hebrews Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-10-16 Mark Cooper
An overview of the appendices in NA28 and UBS5 reveals that the editors agreed regarding the number of quotations in Hebrews on 37 occasions. They disagreed, however, as to whether an intertext was a quotation or an allusion on nine occasions. The compilers of these lists did not provide a basis for their conclusions, and inability to agree on the number of intertexts could be due to multiple reasons
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Between the Cherubim: The ‘Mercy Seat’ as Site of Divine Revelation in Romans 3.25 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-10-10 Nathan Porter
Although the long-standing debate about the meaning of hilastērion in Rom. 3.25 has led to no consensus, readings are nearly always either (1) metaphorical (hilastērion as place of atonement/expiation) or (2) metonymic (hilastērion as a means of atonement/expiation). However, in many Second Temple Jewish texts, the word refers to a place of divine revelation. Proposing a fresh semantic topology of
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The Alleged ‘Letter Allegedly from Us’: The Parallel Function of ὡς δι’ ἡμῶν in 2 Thessalonians 2.2 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-10-10 Timothy A. Brookins
The nearly unanimous consensus of modern scholarship is that 2 Thess. 2.2 refers to a letter either written or alleged to have been written by Paul, as captured in the most common rendering of the text, ‘a letter allegedly from/by us’. The thesis of this article is that the relevant phrase, ὡς δι’ ἡμῶν, does not serve to qualify ‘letter’ or the other two substantives that precede (‘a spirit’, ‘a word’)
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A Sub-Christian Epistle? Appreciating 2 Peter as an Anti-Sophistic Polemic Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-10-06 David K. Burge
Drawing from recent ancient historical, New Testament and Second-Sophistic scholarship, this article proposes that the enigmatic 2 Peter can be better understood with closer reference to anti-sophistic polemical writings. Increasing light has been shed on the sophists’ interest in wisdom, display and rhetoric in contexts such as Athens, Rome, Corinth and cities of Asia Minor in the first centuries
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‘If they Will Enter my Rest’: The Impact of the Greek Translation Technique of Psalm 95 for the Argument of Hebrews 3 and 4 Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-10-06 J. Michael McKay, Jr
Hebrews 4.3-5 introduces tension where the author cites Ps. 95.11b, ‘they will never enter into my rest’, then describes the available rest, and then quotes Ps. 95.11b again. The author appears to undercut the promise of rest by citing the prohibitive oath. This article argues that the tension in Heb. 4.3-5 can be dissolved by translating Ps. 95.11b not as an emphatic negative oath (‘they will never
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Ioudaismos and ioudaizō in Paul and the Galatian Controversy: An Examination of Supposed Positions Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Carlos Gil Arbiol
The use of ἰουδαϊσμός in the literature of the Second Temple period until Paul’s time suggests a more specific meaning than Judaism in general and points to a perception of it under siege and in need of defence. Additionally, the verb ἰουδαΐζω describes the inclinations of non-Jews to the Jewish way of life. Both terms reflect two different ideas of Israel: one segregated from all other peoples, the
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The Spirit of Resurrection in Romans 8 and Its Jewish Correspondences Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Marcin Kowalski
This article studies the role and identity of the Spirit of resurrection in Rom. 8. First, possible references to the Spirit of resurrection in the OT and Jewish literature of the Second Temple period are explored. Next, the argumentation of Rom. 8 is analysed, where the apostle links the Spirit of resurrection with the work of Christ (Rom. 8.1-4, 10-11), describes its function of making believers
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Philo of Alexandria on the Obligations of Wealth Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-09-28 Gregory E. Sterling
The views of Philo of Alexandria on wealth have been a source of controversy between those who argue that Philo was at times critical of wealth and those who contend that these criticisms were not of wealth but of the dangers posed by wealth. This article evaluates Philo’s position first by examining the evidence for his own wealth and then by considering two sets of texts from the Exposition of the
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In Defence of New Testament Satanologies: A Response to Farrar and Williams Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Tom de Bruin
Satan is a key figure in many New Testament books. The authors of these books build on hugely diverse Second Temple traditions and themes. A recurring trend in New Testament Satanology is to assume or argue for a monolithic image of Satan throughout the New Testament. This trend is seen, most recently, in Farrar and Williams’s (2016) argument for a distinct, coherent Satanology, published in this journal
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Paul, Imprisonment and Crisis: Crisis and its Negotiation as a Lens for Reading Philippians Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-08-07 Karin B. Neutel, Peter-Ben Smit
COVID-19 has stimulated reflections on crisis as a catalyst for interpretation in both the present and the past. This article reads Philippians as embedded in different forms of crisis, most specifically the negotiation of Paul’s own context of crisis: his imprisonment. The bodily, social and spiritual dimensions of this liminal incarceration experience are here set out and the ways in which these
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Fear Appeals, Crisis and the Apocalypse of John: Analyzing an Apocalyptic Coping Strategy with the Extended Parallel Process Model Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Alexander E. Stewart
This article will present and heuristically utilize the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) to analyze fear appeals in the Apocalypse of John. John sought to increase the fear of God in his hearers as a means to cope with other pressing fears and motivate faithful obedience (in line with his vision of what that entails). John rhetorically utilized fear appeals to reshape his hearers’ perceptions
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‘Apostles’ in 2 Peter 3.2: Literal Predecessors in Faith or Literary Records of their Witness? Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-07-07 Margaryta Teslina
2 Peter typically does not receive much attention within the study of early canon development. This article, however, focuses on the term ἀπόστολοι in 2 Pet. 3.2 and examines whether it points beyond historical followers of Jesus so as to implicitly include the written legacy produced by them or by their close associates. My inquiry consists of three components: (a) a survey of Justin Martyr’s use
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The Apocalypse and Political Discourse in an Age of COVID Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-07-05 James Crossley
It was almost inevitable that something as dominant as the COVID crisis of 2020–2021 would change how the Bible has been understood in mainstream political discourses. It is also unsurprising that the language associated with apocalypticism would come to the fore. Building on recent scholarship, this article looks at some of the language about ‘the apocalypse’ and apocalypticism, including that associated
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Christianization, the New Testament and COVID-19 in Owambo, Namibia Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Helen C. John
This article explores religious and cultural responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Namibia, focusing particularly on the northern region of Owambo. Since the 1870s, Owambo has experienced a rapid and widespread process of Christianization. Today, the vast majority of the population (both in Owambo and in wider Namibia) identify as Christian. In this context, the supremacy of the Bible and Christianity
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The Book of Revelation: Plagues as Part of the Eschatological Human Condition Journal for the Study of the New Testament Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte
Although plagues and disease do not feature prominently in the book of Revelation, specific images from the book, including the four horsemen (Rev. 6) and bowls of wrath (Rev. 15–16), have been used in certain traditions in which epidemics and pandemics have been, and still are, being interpreted as part of the eschatological human condition: they are seen as inflicted on humanity, ultimately by an