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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Origen’s References to Heracleon : A Quotation-Analytical Study of the Earliest Known Commentary on the Gospel of John
- 2020
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this monograph, Carl Johan Berglund reassesses Origen's references to the second-century philologist Heracleon, without presuming that Heracleon's exegesis is determined by views described in heresiological sources or that every reference is equivalent to a verbatim quotation. The author uses variations in Origen's attribution formulas to categorize almost two hundred references as either verbatim quotations, summaries, explanatory paraphrases, or mere assertions. Heracleon's views are assessed by considering the over fifty quotations and seventy summaries so identified in a context of literature to which Heracleon refers – John, a gospel similar to Matthew's, a collection of Pauline epistles, and the Preaching of Peter. The author concludes that Origen is likely to have inferred views he knew from his exegetical opponents (the heterodox and "those who bring in the natures") that were never expressed by Heracleon.
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Celebrating Arthur Darby Nock : Choice, Change, and Conversion
- 2021
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Der vorliegende Band untersucht die Umstände der religiösen Transformation im frühen Christentum und in anderen antiken Religionen – die verschiedenen Konvertiten, die Mittel, mit denen die Anhänger angezogen wurden, und die Faktoren, die ihren Erfolg beeinflussten und begrenzten.
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- Kazen, Thomas, Professor, 1960-
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Scripture, Interpretation, or Authority? : Motives and Arguments in Jesus’ Halakic Conflicts
- 2013
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this study of motives and arguments in Jesus’ halakic conflicts, Thomas Kazen suggests a way out of the present methodological impasse in the use of traditional criteria of authenticity in historical Jesus research, at least when it comes to those Jesus traditions that relate to halakic issues. Kazen employs results from recent research on the development of halakah during the Second Temple period, in particular from Aharon Shemesh’s discussion of two models (developmental and reflective) for explaining halakic development within and between various Jewish movements, and three areas of tension for analyzing dissenting views (revelation vs . interpretation, Scripture vs . tradition, and nominalism vs. realism). Kazen revisits the Synoptic conflict narratives about Sabbath observance, purity rules and divorce practices, and discusses motives and arguments ascribed to Jesus, whether implicitly or explicitly, by the texts themselves, or by modern interpreters. By combining analyses of halakic development with tradition and redaction criticism, Kazen disentangles theological motives from reasonable historical explanations and suggests relative dates and contexts for motives and arguments often ascribed to Jesus. He questions interpretations which focus on unique individual or halakic authority and suggests that the earliest Jesus tradition appeals to the priority of human need and to creational intent, viewing revelation as based on plain reading and a realistic understanding of Scripture. Jesus’ stance is best explained within the framework of prophetic criticism and a traditional Israelite understanding of Torah. With this work the author contributes as much to our understanding of halakic development during the Second Temple and Tannitic periods as he does to our understanding of the historical Jesus and his relationship to contemporary movements.
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Die Johannesapokalypse : Kontexte – Konzepte – Rezeption
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Revelation of John receives much attention in New Testament scholarship. This volume offers an extensive discussion of Revelation's historical location and date, its history-of-religions background and reception of early Christian tradition, as well as its rhetoric and theological aims and concepts. The volume contains papers from a Symposium held in Munich and additional invited contributions, which survey some of the most important current debates. The first part -"contexts"- contains essays on the text and the traditions adopted, the historical context and date of Revelation. The second part -"concepts"- focuses on theological themes, from Christology to eschatology and martyrdom. A third part on -"effects"- contains essays on several important forms of the reception of Revelation, from Montanism and Lactantius down to Orthodox liturgy and the art of William Blake. Survey of contents:Franz Tóth: Erträge und Tendenzen der gegenwärtigen Forschung zur JohannesapokalypseI. Kontexte Martin Karrer: Der Text der Johannesapokalypse - Thomas Witulski: Der römische Kaiser Hadrian und die neutestamentliche Johannesapokalypse - Stefan Witetschek: Ein weit geöffnetes Zeitfenster? Überlegungen zur Datierung der Johannesapokalypse – Michael Labahn: Die Septuaginta und die Johannesapokalypse: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer Verhältnisbestimmung im Spiegel von kreativer Intertextualität und Textentwicklungen - Loren T. Stuckenbruck / Mark D. Mathews: The Apocalypse of John, 1 Enoch, and the Question of Influence – Enno Edzard Popkes: Vollendete Gottesgegenwart: Anmerkungen zu den traditionsgeschichtlichen Bezugsgrößen von Apk 21,1-5 - Clare K. Rothschild: Principle, Power, and Purgation in the Letter to the Church in Laodicea (Rev 3:14-22) - Jan Dochhorn: Beliar als Endtyrann in der Ascensio Isaiae. Ein Beitrag zur Eschatologie und Satanologie des frühen Christentums sowie zur Erforschung der Apokalypse des Johannes II. Konzepte Franz Tóth: Von der Vision zur Redaktion. Untersuchungen zur Komposition, Redaktion und Intention der Johannesapokalypse - Hans-Georg Gradl: Buch und Brief. Zur motivischen, literarischen und kommunikativen Interdependenz zweier medialer Typen in der Johannes-Offenbarung - Konrad Huber: Jesus Christus - der Erste und der Letzte. Zur Christologie der Johannesapokalypse - Jörg Frey: Was erwartet die Johannesapokalypse? Zur Eschatologie des letzten Buchs der Bibel - James A. Kelhoffer: The Relevance of Revelation's Date and the Imperial Cult for John's Appraisal of the Value of Christians' Suffering in Revelation 1-3 - Jan Willem van Henten: The Concept of Martyrdom in Revelation - Roland Bergmeier: Zeugnis und MartyriumIII. Rezeption William Tabbernee: The Appearance of the New Jerusalem in Montanist Interpretation and the Revelation of John - Tobias Nicklas: Die apokryphe Thomasapokalypse und ihre Rezeption der Offenbarung desJohannes - Valentin Fàbrega: Laktanz und die Apokalypse - Juan Hernández, Jr.: Andrew of Caesarea and His Reading of Revelation. Catechesis and Paranesis -Konstantin Nikolakopoulos: Die Apokalypse des Johannes und die orthodoxe Liturgie. Anknüpfungspunkte zwischen Apokalypse und orthodoxem Kultus - Christopher Rowland: ‘Mr. Blake: apo- or rather ana-calyptic Poet and Painter’: Apocalyptic Hermeneutics in Action
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- Kelhoffer, James Anthony, 1970-
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Persecution, Persuasion and Power : Readiness to Withstand Hardship as a Corroboration of Legitimacy in the New Testament
- 2010. - 1st
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This monograph examines an often overlooked aspect of New Testament constructions of legitimacy, namely the “value” of Christians’ withstanding persecution as a means of corroborating their religious identity as Christ’s followers. The introductory chapter defines the problem in interaction with sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “cultural capital.” Chapters 2–10 examine the depictions of persecuted Christians in the Pauline letters, First Peter, Hebrews, Revelation, the NT Gospels, and Acts. These exegetical analyses support the conclusion that assertions of standing, authority, and power claimed on the basis of persecution play a significant and heretofore under-appreciated role in much of the NT. It is also argued that depictions of persecution can have both positive and negative implications for constructions of legitimation: they can work positively, confirming the standing of Jesus’ faithful followers, as well as negatively, calling into question the standing of those construed as persecutors of the early Jesus movement(s). An epilogue considers later examples of early Christian martyrs and confessors, as well as John Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs.” The epilogue also addresses the ethical and hermeneutical problem of asserting the withstanding of persecution as a basis of legitimacy in ancient and modern contexts. This problem stems from the observation that, although the NT authors present their construals of withstanding persecution as a basis of legitimation as if they were self-evident, such assertions are actually the culmination of numerous presuppositions and are therefore open to dissenting viewpoints. Yet the NT authors do not acknowledge the possibility of competing interpretations, or that oppressed Christians could someday become oppressors. Accordingly, this exegetical study calls attention to ethical and hermeneutical quandary that the NT bequeaths to the modern interpreter, a quandary inviting input from ethicists and other theologians.
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- Kelhoffer, James Anthony, 1970-
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The Diet of John the Baptist : “Locusts and Wild Honey” in Synoptic and Patristic Interpretation
- 2005. - 1st
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Much scholarly attention has been devoted to four of John the Baptist’s actions—most famously, his baptizing in the Jordan River, but also his preaching a message of repentance, having disciples and wearing clothing made of camel’s hair. Considerably less attention has been given to another deed attributed to John, namely his eating “locusts and wild honey” (Mark 1:6c||Matt 3:4c). The Diet of John the Baptist offers the first ever comprehensive analysis of Mark 1:6c||Matt 3:4c in its socio-historical context, the Synoptic Gospels and subsequent Christian interpretation. The first chapter surveys various anecdotes about John’s food in the Synoptic Gospels and notes that there has never been a consensus in scholarship concerning John‘s “locusts and wild honey.” Chapters 2 and 3 address ancient perspectives on locusts as human food and assorted kinds of “wild honey.” Chapter 4 considers the different meanings of this diet for the historical Baptist, Mark, and Matthew, as well as the reason for Luke’s omission of Mark 1:6. Contemporary anthropological and nutritional data shed new light on John’s experience as a locust gatherer and assess whether these foods could have actually sustained him in the wilderness. The last chapter demonstrates that the most prevalent interpretation of the Baptist’s diet, from the third through the sixteenth centuries, hails John’s simple wilderness provisions as a model for believers to emulate. An epilogue reflects on the methods employed in this study and suggests several avenues for future research, including conceptions of food and culture in early Christianity and the interplay between paideia and early Christian biblical interpretation.
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Women and Gender in Ancient Religions : Interdisciplinary Approaches
- 2010. - 1st
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Following a scholarly conference given in honor of Adela Yarbro Collins, this collection of essays offers focused studies on the wide range of ways that women and gender contribute to the religious landscape of the ancient world. Experts in Greek and Roman religions, Early Christianity, Ancient Judaism, and Ancient Christianity engage in literary, social, historical, and cultural analysis of various ancient texts, inscriptions, social phenomena, and cultic activity. These studies continue the welcomed trend in scholarship that expands the social location of women in ancient Mediterranean religion to include the public sphere and consciousness. The result is an important and lively book that deepens the understanding of ancient religion as a whole. With contributions by:Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll, Loveday Alexander, Mary Rose D'Angelo, Stephen J. Davis, Robert Doran, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Carin M. C. Green, Fritz Graf, Jan Willem van Henten, Paul A. Holloway, Annette B. Huizenga, Jeremy F. Hultin, Sarah Iles Johnston, James A. Kelhoffer, Judith L. Kovacs, Outi Lehtipuu, Matt Jackson-McCabe, Candida R. Moss, Christopher N. Mount, Susan E. Myers, Clare K. Rothschild, Turid Karlsen Seim.
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