Miscellanea Neotestamentica, Volume I

Miscellanea Neotestamentica, Volume I

Author: T. Baarda

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9004266585

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Preliminary Material /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik -- The Study of the New Testament in the Netherlands, 1951-1976 /W. C. van Unnik -- A Fragment of Paul at Amsterdam (0270) /J. Smit Sibinga -- LC. XXIV 12 Les Témoins Du Texte Occidental /F. Neirynck -- The Author of the Arabic Diatessaron /T. Baarda -- Jeremias Hoelzlin: Editor of the 'Textus Receptus ' Printed by the Elzeviers Leiden 1633 /H. J. de Jonge -- Probleme Und Impulse Der Neutestamentlichen Apokalyptik /P. L. Schoonheim -- From Creation to Noah in the Second Dream-Vision of the Ethiopic Henoch /A. F. J. Klijn -- Marcus Gnosticus and the New Testament: Eucharist and Prophecy /J. Reiling -- In Ihren Zelten /J. Helderman -- Index of Authors /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik -- Index of Subjects /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik -- Index of References /T. Baarda , A. F. J. Klijn and W. C. van Unnik.


Religious Propaganda and Missionary Competition in the New Testament World

Religious Propaganda and Missionary Competition in the New Testament World

Author: Lukas Bormann

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-04-09

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 9004267085

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Religious Propaganda is a pivotal concept for the Hellenistic and Roman epochs in the History of Religions. The term refers to the various competing religious and philosophical movements and currents during those periods. Renowned scholars (H. Attridge, K. Baltzer, J. Collins, A. Dewey, H. Koester, A.T. Kraabel, D. Lührmann, J. Robinson, W. Schottroff, E. Schüssler Fiorenza, A. Yarbro Collins and others) interpret Pagan, Jewish, and Christian sources with a view toward elucidating the confrontation of Jewish and Christian groups with their respective social, economic, religious, and political contexts. The authors seek to demonstrate the significance of missionary and propagandistic themes as well as strategies for the self-understanding of Jews and Christians at the turn of the eras. The articles, 25 in all, draw upon the broad expanse of scholarly work in the History of Religions pertaining to this period: the authors discuss methodology and the state of research, and they forge ahead in the exploration of the intertestamental and New Testament writings.


A Feast of Meanings

A Feast of Meanings

Author: Bruce D. Chilton

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-04-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9004267050

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The monograph analyses eucharistic texts on the basis of the social practices which generated them. Six stages of ideology are identified. Jesus himself practised fellowship at meals as celebrations of Israel's purity (stage 1), and later insisted that a pure meal was a better sacrifice than an offering in the Temple (stage 2). The circle of Peter made such meals into covenantal celebrations; Jesus became a new Moses (stage 3). In order to militate against the full participation of non-Jews, the circle of James invented the full identifications with Passover (stage 4). Paul resisted any such limitations (stage 5). The Synoptic tradition accepted the Jacobean chronology, but joined Paul in developing the Hellenistic theme of Jesus as heroic martyr, and in explaining eucharist as a means of effecting solidarity with Jesus (stage 5). The Johannine ideologies transformed the idiom of eucharist by making Jesus into the paschal lamb which is consumed (stage 6). A conclusion relates the practices identified to the sources behind the Gospels; and shows how practice is key to the meanings of eucharistic texts.


Copying Early Christian Texts

Copying Early Christian Texts

Author: Alan Mugridge

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2016-07-19

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9783161546884

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It is widely believed that the early Christians copied their texts themselves without a great deal of expertise, and that some copyists introduced changes to support their theological beliefs. In this volume, however, Alan Mugridge examines all of the extant Greek papyri bearing Christian literature up to the end of the 4th century, as well as several comparative groups of papyri, and concludes that, on the whole, Christian texts, like most literary texts in the Roman world, were copied by trained scribes. Professional Christian scribes probably became more common after the time of Constantine, but this study suggests that in the early centuries the copyists of Christian texts in Greek were normally trained scribes, Christian or not, who reproduced those texts as part of their trade and, while they made mistakes, copied them as accurately as any other texts they were called upon to copy.


Reading John in Ephesius

Reading John in Ephesius

Author: Sjef Van Tilborg

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9789004105300

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This study uses the epigraphical and historical materials of first century Ephesus as the point of reference for a reading of the Gospel of John. Via selected topics it describes the embedding of John's text in the city life of Ephesus.


Paul and Philodemus

Paul and Philodemus

Author: Clarence E. Glad

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9789004100671

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This book argues that Paul's guidance of his converts and the psychagogic practices evident in his communities conform to a widespread pedagogical norm of Greco-Roman society seen especially among Epicureans of late Republican times in their community education for adults.


Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis

Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-03-11

Total Pages: 904

ISBN-13: 900431069X

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The Egyptian Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD), author of both the ‘pagan’ Dionysiaca, the longest known poem from Antiquity (21,286 lines in 48 books, the same number of books as the Iliad and Odyssey combined), and a ‘Christian’ hexameter Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel (3,660 lines in 21 books), is no doubt the most representative poet of Greek Late Antiquity. Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis provides a collection of 32 essays by a large international group of scholars, experts in the field of archaic, Hellenistic, Imperial, and Christian poetry, as well as scholars of late antique Egypt, Greek mythology and religion, who explore the various aspects of Nonnus’ baroque poetry and its historical, religious and cultural background.


Heralds of the Good News

Heralds of the Good News

Author: J. Ross Wagner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-04-09

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9004268197

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In this text-critical, literary, and theological investigation of Paul's interpretation of Isaiah in Romans, it is argued that Paul's citations and allusions evince sustained and careful attention to significant portions of Isaiah, in concert with other scriptural voices. Through a radical rereading of Isaiah, Paul appropriates these prophetic oracles as prefigurations of his own mission to Gentiles while simultaneously appealing to Isaiah as a witness to God's continuing fidelity to Israel. The book examines each of Paul's citations and allusions to Isaiah, situating them both within the milieu of early Jewish interpretive practices and within the context of Paul's unfolding argument in Romans. This volume contributes to the current debate about early Christian interpretation of scripture by tracing the complex and dynamic interrelationship in Paul's letter of Scripture, theology, and mission. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.