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For some years the view has become established that the Book of the
Twelve is a systematically structured literary unity. An exegesis
which takes the final canonical text seriously undertakes to
understand the structure and theological intention of this unity.
The papers collected here attempt to reveal significant structures
which overarch the individual components. Particular emphasis is
placed on the reconstruction of thematic threads which are created
when individual prophets take up topics from their predecessors
(e.g. Jehovah's Day, conversion, role of the peoples) and intensify
them. The papers were written between 1999 and 2002 under the aegis
of the Society of Biblical Literature's Working Group on The
Formation of the Book of the Twelve.
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Christmas Sermons
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Friedrich Schleiermacher; Edited by Terrence N. Tice; Translated by Edwina G. Lawler
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In this title, Kuecker uses social identity theory to examine the
interface between the Holy Spirit and ethnicity in "Luke-Acts".
Kuecker uses an artillery of social identity theory to demonstrate
that in "Luke"'s narrative the Spirit is the central figure in the
formation of a new social identity. In his argumenation, Kuecker
provides extended exegetical treatments of "Luke" 1-4 and "Acts"
1-15. He shows that "Luke" 1-4 establishes a foundation for
"Luke"'s understanding of the relationship between human identity,
the Spirit, and the 'other' - especially as it relates to the
distribution of in-group benefits beyond group boundaries. With
regard to "Acts" 1-15, Kuecker shows that the Spirit acts whenever
human identity is in question in order to transform communities and
individuals via the formation of a new social identity. Kuecker
argues that "Luke" depicts this Spirit-formed social identity as a
different way of being human in community, relative to the
normative identity processes of other groups in his narrative. This
transformed identity produces profound expressions of interethnic
reconciliation in "Luke-Acts" expressed through reformed economic
practice, impressive intergroup hospitality, and a reoriented use
of ethnic language. Formerly the "Journal for the Study of the New
Testament Supplement", this is a book series that explores the many
aspects of New Testament study including historical perspectives,
social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural
and contextual approaches. "The Early Christianity in Context"
series, a part of "JSNTS", examines the birth and development of
early Christianity up to the end of the third century CE. The
series places Christianity in its social, cultural, political and
economic context. European Seminar on Christian Origins and
"Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Supplement" are also
part of "JSNTS".
This powerful collection of essays focuses on the representation of
God in the Book of Ezekiel. With topics spanning across projections
of God, through to the implications of these creations, the
question of the divine presence in Ezekiel is explored. Madhavi
Nevader analyses Divine Sovereignty and its relation to creation,
while Dexter E. Callender Jnr and Ellen van Wolde route their
studies in the image of God, as generated by the character of
Ezekiel. The assumption of the title is then inverted, as Stephen
L. Cook writes on 'The God that the Temple Blueprint Creates',
which is taken to its other extreme by Marvin A. Sweeney in his
chapter on 'The Ezekiel that God Creates', and finds a nice
reconciliation in Daniel I. Block's chapter, 'The God Ezekiel Wants
Us to Meet.' Finally, two essays from Christian biblical scholar
Nathan MacDonald and Jewish biblical scholar, Rimon Kasher, offer a
reflection on the essays about Ezekiel and his God.
This book is concerned with ascertaining the value of having two
versions of the same monarchic history of Israel within the Hebrew
Bible (focusing on the books of Kings and Chronicles). It is
furthermore concerned with how the book of Chronicles is read in
relation to the book of Kings as Chronicles is so often considered
to be a later rewritten text drawing upon an earlier version of the
Masoretic Text of Samuel and Kings. The predominant scholarly
approach to reading the book of Chronicles is to read it in light
of how the Chronicler emended his source texts (additions,
omissions, harmonizations). This approach has yielded great success
in our understanding of the Chronicler's theology and rhetoric.
However, Cook asserts, it has also failed to consider how the book
of Chronicles can be read as an autonomous and coherent document.
That is, a diachronic approach to reading Chronicles sometimes
misses the theological and rhetorical features of the text in its
final form. This book shows the great benefit of reading these
narratives as autonomous and coherent by using the Solomon
narratives as a case study. These narratives are first read
individually, and then together, so as to ascertain their
uniqueness vis-a-vis one another. Finally, Cook addresses questions
related to the concordance of these narratives as well as their
purposes within their respective larger literary contexts.
Sechrest describes Pauline Christianity as a nascent ancient racial
group, drawing on a Jewish understanding of race in Second Temple
Judaism. With analysis of nearly five thousand Jewish and
non-Jewish passages about identity from around the turn of the era,
the models presented describe ancient Greek and Jewish ethnic and
racial identity. Further, these models become resources for
examining the racial character of Paul's self-identity and the
continuities and discontinuities between the three races in his
social world: Jews, Gentiles, and Christians/ Using historical and
literary methods of exegesis for passages in the Pauline corpus,
Sechrest describes Paul as someone who was born a Jew, but who
later saw himself as a member of a different race. Analyzing
Christian identity in Galatians in terms of membership criteria,
membership indicia, and inter-group dynamics, a final section of
the book con-trasts the portrait of Paul that emerges from this
study with those in Daniel Boyarin's "A Radical Jew: Paul and the
Politics of Identity" and Brad Braxton's "No Longer Slaves:
Galatians and African American Experience". This section engages
all three of these descriptions of community and identity, and
illuminates the problems and opportunities contained in a modern
appropriation of a racial construction of Christian identity.
Formerly the "Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Supplement", a book series that explores the many aspects of New
Testament study including historical perspectives,
social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural
and contextual approaches. "The Early Christianity in Context"
series, a part of "JSNTS", examines the birth and development of
early Christianity up to the end of the third century CE. The
series places Christianity in its social, cultural, political and
economic context. European Seminar on Christian Origins and
"Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Supplement" are also
part of "JSNTS".
'This is an exceptional piece of biblical theology ... Preachers
will find this work a rich source of sermon material and all who
are interested in the Bible will be amazed at its unity.'
Evangelical Times Who shall ascend the mountain of the LORD?'
(Psalm 24:3). This stimulating study explores the narrative
context, literary structure and theology of Leviticus. Morales
follows its dramatic movement, examines the tabernacle cult and the
Day of Atonement, and tracks the development from Sinai's
tabernacle to Zion's temple - and from the earthly to the heavenly
Mount Zion in the New Testament. He shows how life with God in the
house of God was the original goal of the creation of the cosmos,
and became the goal of redemption and the new creation.
"The Farewell Discourse" (John 13-17) is an unique and climactic
portion of "John's Gospel", which serves as a hinge on which the
entire Gospel narrative pivots from Jesus' public ministry to his
Passion. Shallow readings of this Discourse often pass over or
ignore significant aspects of the text, especially the instruction
and preparation Jesus was giving, both in words and actions, to
make ready his disciples to continue his mission to the world after
his departure. Other readings (notably form-critical) see the text
as disarranged and therefore not a coherent whole. A thorough
analysis employing the elements of Greco-Roman rhetoric has shown
that there is a rhetorical dimension to the Discourse which makes
sense of the text as a coherent whole. "The Farewell Discourse" was
found to follow a rhetorical arrangement which gives a literary
explanation to some assumed form-critical problems, such as the
ending at 14:31. Not only does this rhetorical structure give
appropriate closure and transition with movement from one topic to
another, it does so with a chiastic arrangement of the major
topics. Jesus is presented by the evangelist, with his words and
actions, defining and modeling what his disciples are to be in
their own soon-approaching ministry to the community of believers
and to the world. He is shown giving persuasive words of comfort,
encouragement, instruction, and motivation to his disciples as he
prepares them to continue his mission after his departure.
Among linguistic philosophers, speech act theory has illuminated
the fact that uttering a sentence does not merely convey
information; it may also involve the performing of an action. The
concept of communicative action provides additional tools to the
exegetical process as it points the interpreter beyond the
assumption that the use of language is merely for descriptive
purposes. Language can also have performative and self-involving
dimensions. Despite their clear hermeneutical importance, the
notions expressed within speech act theory have been generally
neglected by biblical interpreters. The few who have applied speech
act theory to the OT typically subsume the discipline into an
eclectic type of literary/rhetorical criticism. Such an approach,
though, tends to discount the distinctive notions expressed by
theoreticians. This dissertation presents the basic philosophical
concepts of speech act theory in order to accurately implement them
alongside other interpretive tools. The above analysis leads to
applying these concepts to "Isaiah" 41:21-29, 49:1-6, 50:4-10, and
52:13-53:12. These four sections intricately function within the
overall prophetic strategy of chapters 40-55: the call to return or
turn to Yahweh. The way these chapters describe the nature of this
return is for the reader to forsake sin, acknowledge and confess
Yahweh as God alone. The first passage represents the basic
concerns of chapters 40-48 and specifically Jacob-Israel's
deliverance from Babylon through Yahweh's Cyrus illocutionary act.
The final three passages represent the servant leitmotif running
throughout the chapters and implore the reader through
self-involvement to embrace the role of Yahweh's servant.
An enigmatic collection of 114 sayings of Jesus, the 'Gospel of
Thomas' was discovered in the sands of Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in the
1940's. Since its discovery, scholars and the public alike have
been intrigued to know what the Gospel says and what light it sheds
on the formation of early Christianity. In Recovering the Original
Gospel of Thomas, April DeConick argued that the gospel was a
'rolling corpus, ' a book of sayings that grew over time, beginning
as a simple written gospel containing oracles of the prophet Jesus.
As the community faced various crises and constituency changes,
including the delay of the Eschaton and the need to accommodate
Gentiles within the group, its traditions were reinterpreted and
the sayings in their gospel updated, accommodating the present
experiences of the community. Here, DeConick provides a new English
translation of the entire Gospel of Thomas, which includes the
original 'kernel' of the Gospel and all the sayings. Whilst most
other translations are of the Coptic text with only occasional
reference to the Greek fragment variants, this translation
integrates the Greek and offers new solutions to complete the
lacunae. Gospel are also included. This is volume 287 in the
Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series and is
part of the Early Christianity in Context series
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