Ένα νέο άρθρο στο τρέχον τεύχος του HTS / A new article in the current issue of HTS

Hervormde Teologiese Studies 76/4 (2020)

Wilhelm J. Wessels, "At the potter’s workshop. Jeremiah 18:1–12: A narrative that reveals more than meets the eye"

Το τρέχον τεύχος του PzB / The current issue of PzB

 Protokolle zur Bibel 29/2 (2020)

 Festheft Franz D. Hubmann 

• Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, "„Festheft Franz D. Hubmann“ – eine Einführung"
• Josef Oesch, "Die Textgliederungszeichen Petuchot und Setumot in Esra-Nehemia Ein Plädoyer für die Einheit des Buches Esra-Nehemia"
• Johannes Schiller, "Vom x-qatal zur Informationsstruktur – und retour Bemerkungen zur Analyse althebräischer Sätze in der Poesie"
• Werner Urbanz, "Ägyptenworte bei den großen Propheten Ein Survey von Jes 18–20; Jer 46 und Ez 29–32"
• Franz Böhmisch, "Die Sirachhandschriften aus Kairo und das Umfeld von Ms. F"
• Eva Plank, "Baruch. Schreiber, Sekretär – oder mehr? Die Rolle Baruchs im Buch Jeremia und im Drama Jeremias von Stefan Zweig"

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

 Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift 37/1 (2020)

• Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg, "»Du aber, JHWH – bis in fernste Zeit thronst du, und dein Gedächtnis währt von Generation zu Generation« (Ps 102,13)," 20-41 (abstract)
• Markus Saur, "Vom Maß der Zeit," 42-58 (abstract)
• Jörg Frey, "Leben und Glauben im Horizont des Endes," 59-82 (abstract)
• Christoph Markschies, "Christliche Identitäten und die Synchronisierung der Zeit in der Antike," 83-118 (abstract)

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

 Interpretation 75/1 (2020)

• Raquel S. Lettsome, "Mary’s Slave Song: The Tensions and Turnarounds of Faithfully Reading Doulē in the Magnificat," 6-18 (abstract)
• Matthew Elia, "Slave Christologies: Augustine and the Enduring Trouble with the “Form of a Slave” (Phil 2:5–7)," 19-32 (abstract)

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

 Stellenbosch Theological Journal 6/1 (2020)

Gender and Household

• Zorodzai Dube, "Healing the female body: Representation of ideas about healing and the female body in Mark's gospel"
• Mary Getui, ; Grace Kambona Richard, "Masculinity and public space in the Greco-Roman period: Implications for Africa today"
• Mary L. Kategile, "The Bible and gender equality in church leadership in Tanzania"
• Elia Shabani Mligo, "The power of silence in marriage: a gender-based reading of John 4:1-11"
• Lethabo M. Molopyane, "The female body on the dance floor: Reclaiming power from the dance floor in Mark's Herodian daughter"
• Halvor Moxnes, "Household and gender: Interpretation in dialogue between the contexts of the New Testament and contemporary cultures"

General articles

• Elma Cornelius, "The rhetorical purpose of the battle between protagonist and antagonist in 2 Maccabees 9"
• Michael Oyebowale Oyetade, "A study of speaking in tongues in Acts and 1 Corinthians and its use and abuse in some selected contemporary churches in Nigeria"

Το τρέχον τεύχος του Biblica / The current issue of Biblica

 Biblica 101/3 (2020)

• Peter Dubovský, "Usual and Unusual Concluding Formulas in 2 Kings 13-14: A Reconstruction of the Old Greek and its Implication for the Literary History," 321-339 (abstract)
• Sigrid K. Kjaer, "Root Variation in Tautological Infinitives: The Case of Jeremiah," 340-351 (abstract) 
• Ariel Kopilovitz, "Land for the Landless: Assigning Land to Gerim in Ezekiel's Restoration Program," 352-372 (abstract) 
• Jerome H.Neyrey, "Rhetoric and the Prologue of John: An Invitation to a New Conversation," 373-387 (abstract)
• Maria Micheal Felix, "Scribal Habits in John 21: A Codicological and Paratextual Analysis of Some of the Early Greek Manuscripts," 388-410 (abstract)
• Alexis Bunine, "Quand Félix a-t-il été nommé gouverneur de Judée? À propos d'Ac 24,27," 411-430 (abstract)
• Janelle Peters, "Slavery and the Gendered Construction of Worship Veils in 1 Corinthians," 431-443 (abstract)

Animadversiones

• Łukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò, "The Levites, *ra-wo, λαός / λαοί: A New Proposal for Lexical and Historical Relationship," 444 - 452 

Open Access: The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism

Kαι ένα δεύτερο βιβλίο από τον εκδοτικό οίκο de Gruyter ελεύθερο για καταφόρτωση:

Erich S. Gruen, The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism: Essays on Early Jewish Literature and History, Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 29 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016)

Open Access: Using Ostraca in the Ancient World

 Ο εκδοτικός οίκος de Gruyter παρέχει δωρεάν πρόσβαση στο εξής νέο βιβλίο:

Clementina Caputo and Julia Lougovaya, Using Ostraca in the Ancient World: New Discoveries and Methodologies, Materiale Textkulturen 32 (Berlin: de Gruyter 2021)

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

 Journal of Jewish Studies 71/2 (2020)

Avigail Manekin-Bamberger, "Who were the Jewish ‘magicians’ behind the Aramaic incantation bowls?" 235-254

This article focuses on the social and professional contexts of the producers of Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls. Based on the vast amount of legal terminology deployed in the bowls, as well as a reference to bowl writers as ‘writers of books’ in bowl AMB6, I argue that bowl scribes were part of a professional guild of scribes (soferim) that engaged in a variety of forms of Jewish writing. Furthermore, I suggest that the scribal context of the practitioners of the magic bowls was different from the professional context of the contemporaneous corpus of Jewish metal amulets. Identifying the unique Sitz im Leben of the bowls reveals that for Jews in Sasanian Babylonia the line between magic, law and religion was not rigid, and perhaps non-existent. Further work on the context of ancient Jewish magic may therefore lead to new perceptions of ancient Jewish society.

Sonja Noll, "In pursuit of a hapax: divergent interpretations of the root s-k-t," 255-268

A shift occurred in the lexicographical tradition of the hapax legomenon הַסְכֵּת (Deut. 27:9) between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The hiphil imperative had previously been understood to mean ‘listen’ or ‘pay attention’, a tradition reflected in the Targumim, Peshitta, Vulgate, Aquila and early dictionaries. With the introduction of Arabic cognate evidence into Hebrew dictionaries in the seventeenth century, however, the meaning ‘be silent’, from the Arabic cognate سكت, began to appear in entries for this root. Dictionaries also began to include the translation σιώπα, ‘be silent’, from the Greek Septuagint, and eventually the gloss ‘be silent’ replaced ‘listen’ in bilingual biblical Hebrew dictionaries. The difference in meaning is minor, but this case study serves to illustrate the striking influence of cognate scholarship on the development of biblical Hebrew dictionaries.

Reuven Friedman, "A tale of two baraitot: the Western Galilee borders of the rabbis in archaeology and texts," 269-296

The purported border of Jewish settlement in the Western Galilee is identified in two separate tannaitic texts, each referring to the ̔Akko–Akhziv road. One text cites this road as the western border of Jewish settlement, while the other cites the same road as the eastern border. The border of Jewish settlement is also described in another rabbinic text, also discovered in the Reḥov synagogue excavations. This text is inconsistent with the texts referring to the ̔Akko–Akhziv road. Archaeologists give priority to the Reḥov inscription and dismiss the contradictory texts as a scribal error. Talmudic scholars validate the authenticity of the apparently contradictory texts using critical textual analysis, but leave the apparent contradictions unresolved. This article uses archaeological evidence in conjunction with a critical review of the texts to resolve the apparent contradiction, proving that the rabbinic texts authenticated by Talmudic scholars are consistent with the Reḥov inscription.

Το τρέχον τεύχος του JSJ / The current issue of JSJ

 Journal for the Study of Judaism 51/4-5 (2020)

• Jacob P.B. Mortensen, "Signs of Greek Education in the Book of Judith," 457–486 (abstract)
• Matan Orian, "The Purpose of the Balustrade in the Herodian Temple," 487–524 (abstract)
• Blake Wassell, "εἰ δή τις … συκοφαντοίη: Impiety and the fiscus Iudaicus in Josephus, War 1.11," 525–570 (abstract)
• Avner Ecker and Boaz Zissu, "The Boule of Baitolethepha (Beit-Nattif): Evidence for Village and Toparchy Administration in Judea," 571–582 (abstract)