Knowledge Commons | New Testament | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/new-testament/ Activity feed for the group, New Testament. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:04:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 cecf6c7e993d775e5a94c63aa921fa9c Zacharias Shoukry deposited Shoukry, „Die Erde erben: Schöpfung in der Didache – Terminologische, theologische und schöpfungsethische Aspekte.“ New Testament Studies 70 (2024): 340–356. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900343/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:00:26 -0400 The study of the creation-theme in the Didache is a research desideratum. This article examines translations and commentaries to determine the Greek words that refer to this theme and how these can be interpreted in terms of creation-theology. This preliminary set of creation-terminological lexemes will be refined by further analysis to gain an…[Read more]

]]> 0 245997a171c6e5f59786c1362a40f873 Joey McCollum deposited Phylogenetics and the CBGM @ CSNTM (Slides) in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876474/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 03:00:33 -0500 Slides for an introductory lecture on phylogenetics and the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) for the staff at the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM).

]]> 0 e03f462683fb1820e8fee80741febdca Matthew Korpman deposited "Teaching the Gospel to Law Students," Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education 6.1 (2022): 8-10. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870499/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:39 -0500 A short peer-reviewed essay exploring my pedagogical approach at teaching a required Introduction to New Testament course for students at a Criminal Justice program. It outlines creative ways to engage students in biblical material by focusing attention on those aspects of it that directly relate to the legal profession and sensibility.

]]> 0 009a466c41aeb7de35ee3550bac4aa07 Matthew Korpman deposited "Is it False Testimony? Studying Luke 16:1-13 as the Rehabilitation of a Rejected Parable," Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 18 (2022): 144-167. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870497/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:33 -0500 Our earliest Christian sources suggest that it was common for Christian communities in the first and second century to disregard or ignore statements by Jesus that were perceived to be problematic, even at times claiming they originated with their enemies. This paper turns attention to this early Christian phenomenon of rejecting Jesus’ sayings, e…[Read more]

]]> 0 be0ac73ab0ab1c9faa2d7fde46a9417d Matthew Korpman deposited "Holy Transgression: Breaking the Sabbath in Order to Keep It," Spectrum 50.3 (2022): 14-23. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870492/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:15 -0500 An article that explores the theology of Sabbath keeping, and the biblical arguments for when God wishes his laws to be violated. A theology of the Sabbath, if it is to serve God’s desire in Scripture, must focus on the why of Sabbath, not the when. It cannot rely on arguments from authority or the Law as a cheap excuse for not engaging in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 a16c81421fe1a3ae26f8aec30d5b505d Matthew Korpman deposited "When God Wants Dis/obedience: Wrestling with Genesis 22," Adventist Today 29.3 (2021): 12-15. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870485/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:44 -0500 The passage of Genesis 22 is reviewed and examined through four interpretive lenses: Narrative Criticism, Canonical Criticism, Historical Criticism, and a Hermeneutic of Confrontation. After reviewing extensively the history of child sacrifice in Ancient Israel, the argument of Omri Boehm's reconstructed text (lacking the angelic speeches), and…[Read more]

]]> 0 8663b36791ba37337bdf929feeef9e43 Matthew Korpman deposited "What is “the Middle”? Theological Diversity in Valentinian Christianity," Academia Letters (2021): 1-5. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870479/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:23 -0500 This short-form article explores the various presentations of "the Middle" within Valentinian authored documents (the Gospel of Truth and Gospel of Philip) and sources which report about the Valentinians (Irenaeus and his report about Ptolemy's theology). It suggests underscores the deep distinctions each view has and suggests that these may be…[Read more]

]]> 0 7cf8b4d53e151906152655653fe117d4 Matthew Korpman deposited “The Protestant Reception of the Apocrypha.” Pages 74-93 in the Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha. Edited by Gerbern Oegema. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870475/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:09 -0500 Discussions about the history of the reception of the Apocrypha within Protestantism are often mired by blanket negative presumptions that differ markedly from the actual beliefs attested to in available historical sources. This chapter seeks to rectify such historical misrepresentations by presenting an initial attempt to summarize the entire…[Read more]

]]> 0 2478a6fab2d397646d63c57f989cb163 Vincenzo Belmonte deposited You Are Gods: At the Origins of Christianity in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870465/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:20 -0500 The book deals with the wide background and context of early Christianity. Particularly, it highlights the rise of Jewish national identity and the influence of the Essene Yahad, seeing the New Testament in the light of cultural conditioning and regarding as central the divinization doctrine. in the last section it delves into doubt, faith, and mysticism.

]]> 0 f1816959da39befbf6262a029f873361 Vincenzo Belmonte deposited The Expulsion Curse in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870458/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:00:54 -0500 A fresh attempt to explain the suicide of Judas and the death of Ananias and Sapphira as imagined consequences of an allegedly deadly excommunication.

]]> 0 f23b5c811acda25b543e164ffb791a15 Matthew Korpman deposited "Was Noadiah A ‘Trustworthy’ Prophet? The Demise of Prophecy in Second Temple Judaism," Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 135.1 (2023): 52-70. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870288/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:54 -0500 According to popular scholarly consensus, the role of the classical prophets ceased following the rebuilding of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. This paper will attempt to propose an explanation of 1 Maccabees’ comments about the cessation of prophecy by undertaking a careful and broad examination of the dynamics involved in the Hebrew B…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5e5c137e66a63bc6d4eee4a6f72aeac Joey McCollum deposited Bayesian Textual Criticism since Hort: A Synthesis and Demonstration in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865700/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:00:42 -0500 In his introduction to The New Testament in the Original Greek, F. J. A. Hort laid out a taxonomy of evidence for text-critical judgments that is still followed today. In addition to the external evidence pertaining to the textual affinities, dates, and provenances of manuscripts, versions, and patristic quotations, he divided the internal…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4b04a2dfc4d777b58dcf232ecea5d3f Zacharias Shoukry deposited Creatio Continua in the Fourth Gospel in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847970/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 02:24:08 -0400 Zimmermann, Ruben, and Zacharias Shoukry, “Creatio Continua in the Fourth Gospel: Motifs of Creation in John 5–6.” Pages 87–116 in Signs and Discourses in John 5 and 6. WUNT 463. Edited by Jörg Frey and Craig R. Koester. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.

]]> 0 659fd49607b382dd284f6692717b6d28 Joey McCollum deposited Bayesian Textual Criticism: Evolutionary Genetics and the Transmission of New Testament Texts in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1826712/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 02:25:17 -0500 [Note: these are the slides for the second talk described in the abstract.]

Phylogenetics is an approach developed in evolutionary biology to reconstruct organisms’ relationships of descent based on observations of their trait similarities and differences. It finds a close analogue in textual criticism, where manuscripts correspond to o…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b8764a942ae5e9c35d4ea29972b5c5f Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1795013/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 02:23:47 -0400 Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 552. ISBN 9780691199290. $45.00.

]]> 0 dc3fdb40c7ae80dc3f32e9b57299657e Amit Gvaryahu deposited REVIEW OF BENJAMIN PORAT, JUSTICE FOR THE POOR: THE PRINCIPLES OF WELFARE REGULATIONS, FROM BIBLICAL LAW TO RABBINIC LITERATURE in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792859/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:23:44 -0400 Benjamin Porat’s Justice for the Poor differs from these books not only in that it is written in Hebrew (from the list above, only Wilfand’s 2014 book has been translated into Hebrew), but also because it envisions rabbinic charity as a branch of “law.” Porat is a law professor, and his book is jointly published by a law school, a think tank an…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4c0484958a4095e6011430298adb892 Joey McCollum deposited Learning the CBGM by Design in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1780261/ Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:24:29 -0400 Slides for an invited talk on the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) for the Greek Paul Project Webinar.

]]> 0 398c9041874ab1400d23a60fd24a3c4d Joey McCollum deposited CBGM Q&A @CSNTM (Slides) in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770381/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 02:24:25 -0500 Slides for a Q&A session about the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) with staff at the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM).

]]> 0 ca60bcb25dd3e5e48e6c4917e82945b1 Jonathan Rivett Robinson deposited The Argument against Attributing Slogans in 1 Corinthians 6:12–20 in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756614/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 02:26:10 -0400 Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters, 2018. While many scholars consider that Corinthian slogans are present in 1 Cor 6:12–20, this article argues that the attribution of slogans there is an unnecessary exegetical move based on unconvincing arguments. A reading of the pericope will be presented to demonstrate that slogans are u…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a486a62eba840543e6342130adb853d Jonathan Rivett Robinson deposited Jonah’s Gourd and Mark’s Gethsemane: A Study in Allegorical Messianic Intertextuality [accepted version] in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756611/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 02:26:04 -0400 [NB. PDF is accepted copy, not published version - to cite, please use published version, JSNT 43:3, 2021, 370-388)] A number of scholars have recognized a verbal allusion to Jon. 4.9 in Mk 14.34. However, the Gethsemane account (Mk 14.32-42) may allude to the narrative of Jon. 4 in other ways not previously observed. Some modern interpreters have…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e6b5bc88cced58d32714b2302cf6788 Chance Bonar deposited 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John: A Byzantine Question-and-Answer Dialogue in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743875/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 02:23:51 -0400 Introduction, Greek text, and English translation of 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John, a Byzantine question-and-answer dialogue between Abraham and John set after Jesus's ascension.

]]> 0 7cae9c6ca957932e1622a730508d2771 Matthew Thiessen deposited Did Jesus Start a New Religion? in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1733239/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:33:10 -0400 Did Jesus Start a New Religion? No.

]]> 0 740ba9f78582fb8f9821266ca35fbbc6 Joey McCollum deposited The open-cbgm Library: Design and Demonstration in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1719520/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:25:40 -0500 The open-cbgm library is an open-source software implementation of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) designed with customizability and performance on large-scale collations in mind. The library is free to use or modify and has been tested on real data from the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) of the New Testament. This presentation first…[Read more]

]]> 0 5da1e51f0c80871d3c6a59f0b4d1bf81 Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review of Stefan Krmnicek, Jérémie Chameroy, Money matters: coin finds and ancient coin use. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2019. Pp. vi, 272. ISBN9783774941755 €69,00. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713614/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 02:25:48 -0400 Review of Stefan Krmnicek, Jérémie Chameroy, Money matters: coin finds and ancient coin use. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2019. Pp. vi, 272. ISBN9783774941755 €69,00.

]]> 0 51b938cab2cf454dfa9f81ee1bfee6ce Joey McCollum deposited Identifying Textual Clusters with Non-negative Matrix Factorization in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1709086/ Sun, 20 Sep 2020 02:23:38 -0400 Slides for a guest lecture given for Peter Gurry's New Testament Textual Criticism class. The talk covers the approach and results of the paper "Biclustering Readings and Manuscripts via Non-negative Matrix Factorization, with Application to the Text of Jude," Andrews University Seminary Studies 57.1 (2019) as well as some unpublished results…[Read more]

]]> 0 225b76aa4b2dbe0567cc161d7126539a Joey McCollum deposited The Solid Rock Greek New Testament: Theory and Practice (Slides) in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701565/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:32:35 -0400 Slides for the paper's companion presentation.

]]> 0 e489f998e308c855f4587ec093bb3fa8 Joey McCollum deposited The Solid Rock Greek New Testament: Theory and Practice in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701564/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:32:34 -0400 The Solid Rock Greek New Testament: Scholar's Edition offers a reconstructed text of the New Testament based on Byzantine priority theory and expands upon the work of the SBL Greek New Testament by comparing the readings of over 10 major critical editions at nearly 8000 units of textual variation. In this survey, we will discuss the goals,…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ba1f531a99a6d3d2603ae677827b4ac Joey McCollum deposited The CBGM: An Illustrated Crash Course. Supplement to "The open-cbgm Library: Design and Demonstration" in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701563/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:32:33 -0400 Supplementary material for the SBL Annual Meeting 2020 talk "The open-cbgm Library: Design and Demonstration." This document presents a brief introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM), intended to bring newcomers and those in need of a refresher up to speed on the basics of the method. It is divided into sections organized…[Read more]

]]> 0 945e9ccfc06c9e687f25ab4a713b68c4 Amit Gvaryahu deposited Twisting words: does Halakhah really circumvent scripture? in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1677571/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:26:29 -0500 abstract A foundational text in the study of Tannaitic Midrash and Halakhah, Sifre Deuteronomy 122 is a list of places where Halakhah ʿ qpt scripture. This word, ʿ qpt, has long been understood to mean ‘circumvent’, ‘bypass’ or ‘belie’, and the pericope has been read as a list of places where ‘Halakhah circumvents scripture’, and thus a testament…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b4a55edcdef6bddeea4ad0128d9c8d3 Amit Gvaryahu deposited Book Note | Pantheon in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1662995/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:25:25 -0400 A review of Pantheon by Jörg Rüpke

]]> 0 7173a88edaaffe3fc8fa927db3c7ca3a Neil B MacDonald deposited ‘Time is no Barrier’ in John’s Resurrection Narrative (John 20:24-29): A Theology of the Absolute Identity of the ‘Wounds at the Cross’? in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659296/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:25:35 -0400 John 20:24-29 – the Doubting Thomas Narrative - is explored in terms of the thesis that Jesus showed Thomas wounds absolutely identical to the wounds originating at the time of the crucifixion. John understands the risen Jesus to enact sovereignty over time in this passage. This was a new stage in John’s Christological Development and aug…[Read more]

]]> 0 67155ee40eef6e3e6e4533fb4a6d6b7e Neil B MacDonald deposited Can We Understand the Risen Jesus as Enacting Sovereignty over Space in the Fourth Gospel (or does Jesus ‘Merely’ Pass Through Physical Objects at John 20:19-20)? in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659293/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:25:32 -0400 In interpreting the risen Jesus’ action of appearing ‘out of nowhere’ at John 20:19-20 (and Luke 24:36) and his inferred action of rising from the dead at John 20:5-7 (and Luke 24:12), the consensus of both classical and modern biblical tradition has been to understand these actions as Jesus in some sense passing through physical objects and there…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5f6e8e5c100f3c8f1fb7c1955a20b30 Amit Gvaryahu deposited הלוואה בריבית בספרות חז״ל: הלכה, אגדה והקשרים תרבותיים in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657008/ Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:25:22 -0400 This dissertation is a study of the usury prohibition in rabbinic literature. It focuses on the usury laws in Tannaitic literature, the first formulation of the usury prohibition as a complex and multifaceted judicial norm. I place the Tannaitic usury laws against the backdrop of the economic and cultural norms of the wider world which the Tannaim…[Read more]

]]> 0 2164704ed6b2f43e747cef61b8937a3f Ian Brown deposited Where Indeed Was the Gospel of Thomas Written? Thomas in Alexandria in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642605/ Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:25:24 -0400 This article argues that the Gospel of Thomas was written in Alexandria, not in Eastern Syria as is the current consensus. The arguments in favor of a Syrian Gospel of Thomas are not as strong as is often assumed, and a stronger case can be made for Alexandria. The Gospel of Thomas has a number of features that suggest it was a product of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc042e3e7b61f52894c7ff24c5c76148 Philip Harland deposited Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and ‘Pagan’ Guilds at Hierapolis in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636685/ Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:26:26 -0400 Article exploring Jewish or Judean groups in the context of associations at Hierapolis.

]]> 0 bdc41cb13b425aa0b143b17a2257e600 Philip Harland deposited Banqueting Values in the Associations: Rhetoric and Reality in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636515/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:33:13 -0400 Article on banqueting within associations.

]]> 0 bcb94096498587f302611da386b08bb1 Philip Harland deposited Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society (second edition) in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636510/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:32:10 -0400 This is the complete second, fully revised edition of the book with links to inscriptions on the AGRW website. (First edition was published by Fortress in 2003).

]]> 0 c8279604c634a499371324ac69a973fa Philip Harland deposited Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians: Associations, Judeans, and Cultural Minorities in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636503/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:30:24 -0400 Book that explores processes of identification within various small group situations in the Greco-Roman world.

]]> 0 ee8853b45a5465a7539a5eb665021401 Philip Harland deposited 'These people are . . . Men Eaters': Banquets of the Anti-Associations and Perceptions of Minority Cultural Groups in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636490/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:27:58 -0400 Article that explores stories of wild banquets within the context of ethnographic discourses.

]]> 0 23fe98d60d68a46e54fbdea4b504fe9b Michael Hölscher deposited Wider den Leerstand. Die Tempelreinigung in Mt 21,12–16 als Raumkonflikt in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633998/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:29:40 -0500 Der Beitrag liest die mt Erzählung über die Tempelreinigung Jesu in Mt 21,12-16 vor dem Hintergrund des mt Raumkonzepts. In Auseinandersetzung mit Mt 11,1-16,20; Mt 8f. und Mt 10 werden dabei Raumstrukturen ebenso in Grundzügen erhellt wie spezifische Konnotationen räumlicher Terminologie (vgl. etwa Stadt, Synagoge und Haus). Zusammen mit Mt 12,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e93808856d03320ec5eae6087a0ae504 Jesse Arlen deposited “Psalms” in Discovering the Septuagint: A Guided Reader, ed. Karen H. Jobes. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2016, 175-197, 200-203. in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623999/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 16:29:08 -0500 This reader presents, in Septuagint canonical order, ten Greek texts from the Rahlfs—Hanhart Septuaginta critical edition. It explains the syntax, grammar, and vocabulary of more than 700 verses from select Old Testament texts representing a variety of genres, including the Psalms, the Prophets, and more.

]]> 0 3763887913590e9e5649c0da7ab5823c Yona Gonopolsky deposited From Jonah to Jesus and back: three Ways of Characterization and their Reverse Application in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611281/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:20:02 -0400 The resemblance between the Gospel story about Jesus stilling a storm in the Sea of Galilee (Mt. 8:18, 23-27, Mk. 4:35-41, Lk. 8:22-25) and the Jonah story (Jon. 1:1-16) has been long acknowledged by scholars. This article contends that since the relations between the two stories are those of polar opposition, it should be possible, by way of…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca56edc3687622694726bec936ab35c3 David Armitage deposited Detaching the Census: An Alternative Reading of Luke 2:1-7 in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610765/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 04:13:14 -0400 This paper offers an alternative approach to Luke 2:1-7, assuming for argument's sake that Luke's presumed chronology agreed with modern reconstructions in placing Quirinius' census some years after Herod's death. It is proposed that, on this basis, a coherent reading of the text is feasible in which the reference to Quirinius marks 2:1-5 as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b0d2059ef15b9c5d2678779781cbf32 Wei Hsien Wan deposited Repairing Social Vertigo: Spatial Production and Belonging in 1 Peter in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610722/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 04:12:25 -0400 An attempt to think about authorial strategies of dislocation and relocation in 1 Peter. First presented at a conference on Early Christianity and its urban environment held at St. Mary's University in Twickenham, England, 2015.

]]> 0 3e2d9123bb1be649dc54823027bbbda8 Holger Szesnat deposited Bible Study on Economic Justice: Luke 19:11–28 in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597598/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:12:26 -0500 Szesnat, Holger. 2016 [2017]. "Bible Study on Economic Justice: Luke 19:11–28." Pacific Journal of Theology Series II, 56:19–29.

(The journal volume is dated 2016, but it actually appeard in late 2017.)

]]> 0 2bc1d38c7e8dbf9c875e8b68c3c6d5e1 Holger Szesnat created the doc Bible Study on Economic Justice: Luke 19:11–28 in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596497/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:02:10 -0500 f0d4be4a4b8ce0318da51c4bf730b30e Timothy Bertolet deposited The Obedience of Sonship: Adamic Obedience as the Grounds for Heavenly Ascension in the Book of Hebrews in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590779/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:38:28 -0500 This thesis makes a unique contribution in the field of New Testament studies with specific attention to New Testament theology and the Christology of Hebrews. It explores the relationship between Sonship and the ascension in the book of Hebrews. It argues that the ascension of Jesus reveals the nature of his Sonship. First, chapters two and three…[Read more]

]]> 0 8511fb9a541aa58cbf2fdf5058820ae9 Timothy Bertolet deposited Hebrews 5:7 as the Cry of the Davidic Sufferer in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590777/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:38:28 -0500 This article proposes a better source for the Son’s cry in Hebrews 5:7. It begins by surveying sources previous scholars have identified, including Jesus’ cry in Gethsemane and Golgotha, several Psalms, and the Maccabean martyr literature. It is then argued that these background sources for the language are insufficient. Instead the author of Heb…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c3dd1ecda930beb5594459ec1f7b310 Eric Vanden Eykel deposited “Then Suddenly, Everything Resumed Its Course”: The Suspension of Time in the Protevangelium of James Reconsidered in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1589308/ Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:38:18 -0500 The second-century Protevangelium of James contains an enigmatic scene that has fascinated readers for centuries: the stilling of the natural world at the birth of Jesus. Joseph describes the spectacle as he departs the cave in which Mary is laboring: “I looked up at the vault of the sky and saw it fixed. I saw the clouds paused in amazement, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e455f5bc7cba331244e00ec3b5edf9f Dirk Jongkind deposited On the Marcionite Prologues to the Letters of Paul in the group New Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1582427/ Thu, 21 Sep 2017 01:02:37 -0400 Contrary to the opinion of Dahl, the most economic solution to the authorship of the Latin Prologues to the letters of Paul is still that they arose in Marcionite circles

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