Στο τρέχον τεύχος του JRA / In the current issue of JRA

Journal of Roman Archaeology 29 (2016)

• Joanne Berry, "Boundaries and control in the Roman house," 125-141 (abstract)
• Roi Porat, Yakov Kalman, Rachel Chachy, "Excavation of the approach to the mountain palace-fortress at Herodium," 142-164 (abstract)
• Candace Rice, "Shipwreck cargoes in the western Mediterranean and the organization of Roman maritime trade," 165-192 (abstract)
• Andreas J. M. Kropp, "The Aphrodite of Emesa: miniature marble sculpture and religious life in Roman Syria," 193-222 (abstract)

Τρία νέα άρθρα βιβλικού ενδιαφέροντος στο HTS / Three articles of biblical interest in the current issue of HTS

In die Skriflig 50:1 (2016)

Richard A. Culpepper, "Jesus as healer in the Gospel of Matthew, part 1: Methodology"
Richard A. Culpepper, "Jesus as Healer in the Gospel of Matthew, Part II: Jesus as Healer in Matthew 8–9"
Elna Mouton, "Jesus as healer in the Gospel of Matthew: In conversation with Alan Culpepper"

Ένα άρθρο βιβλικού ενδιαφέροντος στο τρέχον τεύχος του ExpT / An article of biblical interest in the current issue of ExpT

Expository Times 128:3 (2016)

Matthew R. Malcolm, "Premature Triumphalism in Corinth," 115-125 (abstract)

David Horrell: Reconfiguring Early Christian ‘Faith’

Ecclesiology 12:3 (2016)

David G. Horrell, "Reconfiguring Early Christian ‘Faith’," 354-362

Teresa Morgan’s Roman Faith and Christian Faith provides a major new study of the lexicon of ‘faith’ (pistis/fides) in the early Roman Empire. This review essay provides a summary of the book’s contents as well as a critical assessment. The book begins with study of uses of pistis and fides in Greek and Roman sources, in domestic and personal relations, in military and religious contexts. It then moves to the Septuagint, before turning to the New Testament, which is considered in detail. The early Christian sources are unusual in the prominence and weight they give to pistis, but their usage nonetheless fits within the wider social and cultural matrix, in which pistis and fides primarily express the notion of trust and express the importance of trust and fidelity in a wide range of social and religious relationships. In these early Christian sources there is a heavy focus on divine-human pistis, but this creates networks of trusting and trustworthiness that are crucial to the formation and cohesion of early Christian communities. Some critical questions may be raised – for example, concerning Morgan’s heavy focus on divine-human pistis, and her arguments against the early emergence of a titular usage of pistis to denote the early Christian movement – but overall this is an important study which should reconfigure our sense of early Christian (and especially Pauline) pistis, which is less about ‘belief’, whether salvific or propositional, and more about relationships of trust, which are the foundation of community.

Ένα λιμάνι του Χέοπα / A harbour of Cheops

Αρχαιολόγοι δύτες εντόπισαν στις ακτές του Wadi el-Jarf μέρος του λιμανιού, το οποίο σύμφωνα με παπύρους που είχαν βρεθεί παλαιότερα κατασκευάστηκε από τον Χέοπα (στα αιγυπτιακά Khufu) ως τόπο εισαγωγής υλικών για την ανέγερση της πυραμίδας του. Σύμφωνα με το δημοσίευμα της Haaretz το λιμάνι που χρονολογείται στην εποχή του μεγάλου αυτού Φαραώ (2580-2550 π.Χ.) φαίνεται πως εισήγαγε χαλκό και σίδηρο για την κατασκευή εργαλείων για τους εργάτες της πυραμίδας. Ειδικότερα, οι αρχαιολόγοι εντόπισαν προκυμαία και κυματοθραύστη μήκους 200 μ. πολυάριθμες άγκυρες από ασβεστόλιθο, αγγεία αποθήκευσης αγαθών και ίχνη διοικητικών κτιρίων του λιμανιού. Η περιοχή είχε ήδη προκαλέσει το ενδιαφέρον των ερευνητών καθώς σε γαλαρίες σκαμμένες σε γειτονικό λόφο βρέθηκαν πάπυροι που παρέχουν χρήσιμες πληροφορίες για την εμπορική ζωή του λιμανιού. Στις γαλαρίες βρέθηκαν επίσης αγγεία που φέρουν επιγραφές με τους γεωγραφικούς προορισμούς των αγαθών που κάποτε περιείχαν. Σύμφωνα με τους αρχαιολόγους είναι πιθανό στις γαλαρίες να κατασκευάζονταν βάρκες. Τέλος, το λιμάνι αυτό αντικαταστάθηκε από εκείνο στο Ayn Sukhna στα χρόνια του διαδόχου του Χέοπα. 

Divers uncover world's oldest harbor, in Red Sea

Δύο νέα άρθρα στο τρέχον τεύχος του In die Skriflig / Two new articles of biblical interest in the current issue of In die Skriflig

In die Skriflig 50:1 (2016)

• Philip La Grange Du Toit, "Does the New Testament support Christian Zionism?"

In die Skriflig 50:2 (2016)

• Pieter G.R. de Villiers, "Divine love in the letter to the Romans"

Ένα άρθρο βιβλικού ενδιαφέροντος στο τρέχον τεύχος του HTS / A new article of biblical interest in the current issue of HTR

Hervomde teologiese studies 72:4 (2016)

Huub Welzen, "The transformation of the temple in the Fourth Gospel"

Ένα νέο άρθρο βιβλικού ενδιαφέροντος στο τρέχον τεύχος του Scrinium / A new article of biblical interest in the current issue of Scrinium

Scrinium 12:1 (2016)

Carl Johan Berglund, "Understanding Origen: The Genre(s) of the Gospels in Light of Ancient Greek Philology and Modern Genre Theory
,"  181-214 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του BSR / The current issue of BSR

Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45/3-4 (2016)

• Michael Jerryson, "Introduction: René Girard’s Legacy," 3-5
• Sandor Goodhart, "Criticism, Critique, and Crisis in Assessing the Work of René Girard," 6-15 (abstract)
• David Frankfurter, "The Study of Evil and Violence Without Girard," 17-21 (abstract)
• Jonathan Klawans, "Something Bigger than Girard," 23-27 (abstract)
• Vanessa J. Avery, "Whither Girard and Islam? Reflections on Text and Context," 29-34 (abstract)
• Martha J. Reineke, "The Worm in the Pudding Cup: Violence, Disgust, and Mimetic Theory," 34-46 (abstract)
• Margo Kitts, "Mimetic Theory, Sacrifice, and The Iliad?," 46-57 (abstract)
• Mark Juergensmeyer, "On Girard: Mimesis and Cosmic War," 59-65 (abstract)

To τρέχον τεύχος του JTI / The current issue of JTI

Journal of Theological Interpretation 10:2 (2016)

• Michael G. Azar, "Origen, Scripture, and the Imprecision of 'Supersessionism'," 157-172
• Gratian Vandici, "Reading the Rules of Knowledge in the Story of the Fall: Calvin and Reformed Epistemology on the Noetic Effects of Original Sin," 173-192
• David Ney, "Allegory and Empiricism: Interpreting God’s Two Books in Newtonian England," 193-208
• Gerald P. Boersma, "Augustine’s Deer Visits the Ophthalmologist: Exercising the Eyes of Faith in Enarrationes in Psalmos 41," 209-226
• Bogdan G. Bucur, "Christophanic Exegesis and the Problem of Symbolization: Daniel 3 (the Fiery Furnace) as a Test Case," 227-244
• Tim Meadowcroft, "'One Like a Son of Man' in the Court of the Foreign King: Daniel 7 as Pointer to Wise Participation in the Divine Life," 245-264
• Philip Whitehead, "Habakkuk and the Problem of Suffering: Theodicy Deferred," 265-282
• K. R. Harriman, "The King Arrives, but for What Purpose? The Christological Use of Zechariah 13–14 in Mark 13," 283-298
• Thomas More Garrett, OP, "The Message to the Merchants in James 4:13–17 and Its Relevance for Today," 299-