Online First: δύο ενδιαφέροντα άρθρα στο JSNT / Online First: two interesting new articles in JSNT

Το περιοδικό Journal for the Study of the New Testament, όπως κι άλλα περιοδικά, παρέχει τη δυνατότητα πρόσβασης σε άρθρα που πρόκειται να δημοσιευθούν σε προσεχή τεύχη. Διαβάστε τα δύο τελευταία των Cédric Brélaz και της Angela Standhartinger: 

• Cédric Brélaz, "The Provincial Contexts of Paul’s Imprisonments: Law Enforcement and Criminal Procedure in the Roman East"
• Angela Standhartinger, "Greetings from Prison and Greetings from Caesar’s House (Philippians 4.22): A Reconsideration of an Enigmatic Greek Expression in the Light of the Context and Setting of Philippians"

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

 PHASIS: Greek and Roman Studies 23 (2020)

• Thomas Emmrich, "Pygmalionismus. Über Narzissmus, Gender und Kunst," 4-53
• Magda Mtchedlidze, "The Biblical Quotations in the Old Georgian Translations of The Hexaemeron of Basil of Caesarea," 54-73
• Simone Rendina, "The Cities of the Greek East after the First Mithridatic War. Aspects of Sulla’s Financial Policy," 74-92
• Luca Ricci, "Anatomical Ex-Votos as a Reflection of "Religious Romanization"? Reappraising a Central Italian Practice," 93-116

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

 Hervormde Teologiese Studies 77/4 (2021)

Woo Min Lee, "A hybrid Christian identity in Philippians 1:15–18"

Το τρέχον τεύχος του JSIJ / The current issue of JSIJ

 Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal 19 (2020)

Special Josephus Issue

• Michael Avioz and Meir Ben Shahar,  "Editors’ Preface"
• Kenneth Atkinson, "Josephus's Use of Scripture to Describe Hasmonean Territorial Expansion"
• Meir Ben Shahar, "Dating the Destruction of the First Temple: Tradition and Interpretation in Josephus"
• Silvia Castelli, "Between Tradition and Innovation: Josephus's Description of the Tabernacle (Ant. 3.108-150) as an Improved Alternative to the Greek Bible"
• Jonathan Klawans, "Heresy, Forgery, Novelty: Condemning and Denying Innovation in Josephus"
• Étienne Nodet, "Josephus, 1 Maccabees, and Hanukkah"
• Ishay Rosen-Zvi, "Between Ethnos and Nomos: Josephus and the Goyim"
• Daniel R. Schwartz, "Hellenism, Judaism, and Apologetic: Josephus's Antiquities According to an Unpublished Commentary by Abraham Schalit"
• Jan Willem Van Henten, "Herod's Law Against Theft in its Literary, Legal, and Historical Contexts"

[Θερμές ευχαριστίες στον καλό συνάδελφο Michael Avioz για την είδηση] 

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

 Revue Théologique de Louvain 51/4 (2020)

• Nathalie Siffer, "De quelques perspectives en exégèse biblique," 420 - 438 (abstract)
• Geert van Oyen, "Pour l'amour du récit: En écho à Nathalie Siffer," 439 - 445 

Το τρέχον τεύχος του ETL / The current issue of ETL

 Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 96/4 (2020)

• Sarah Schwartz, "From Rhetoric to Demagoguery: A New Reading of the Spies' Report (Num 13,26-33)," 583 - 602 (abstract)
• Dietrich-Alex Koch, "The Collection for Jerusalem: A Joint Action of Paul and Pauline Communities in Greece and Asia 53-56 AD," 603 - 622 (abstract)
• John Nolland, "LXX Translation of אשׁם, with Special Reference to the אשָָׁם Offering," 649 - 660 (abstract)
• Olegs Andrejevs, "A Source-critical Analysis of the Lord's Prayer: Multiple Autonomous Recensions or Q?" 661 - 679 (abstract)

Οι πινακίδες του Deir ‘Alla / The tablets of Deir ‘Alla

Η πινακίδα αρ. 3291 (Φωτο:  Gerrit van der Kooij)

 Στην ιστοσελίδα ANE Today ο Michel de Vreeze (Πανεπιστήμιο του Durham) συζητά τη σημασία των πήλινων πινακίδων που βρέθηκαν στο Deir ‘Alla και οι οποίες χρονολογούνται στην Ύστερη Εποχή Χαλκού. Συμβάλουν στην ανίχνευση της ιστορίας του χαναανιτικού αλφαβήτου και την άμεση σύνδεσή του με συγκεκριμένες ομάδες γραφέων στα τοπικά ιερά:

The Enigmatic Tablets from Late Bronze Age Deir ‘Alla

Νέα άρθρα στο τρέχον τεύχος του HTS / New articles in the current issue of HTS

Hervormde Teologiese Studies 77/3 (2021)

• Madipoane Masenya, "Kgarebe (virgin) and carnal knowledge: Reading Genesis 19:30–38 from the margins" 

Hervormde Teologiese Studies 77/4 (2021)

• Sanrie M. De Beer, "The ‘coming-out’ of a hero: The character of Esther in LXX-Esther revisited"
• Solomon O. Ademiluka, "Interpreting the David–Bathsheba narrative (2 Sm 11:2–4) as a response by the church in Nigeria to masculine abuse of power for sexual assault"
• Tshitangoni C. Rabali, "Bible translations for the minorities’ languages today: A biblical theological exploration"

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του Biblical Annals / In the current issue of Biblical Annals

 Biblical Annals 67/2 (2020)

Jozef Jančovič, "Blood Revenge in Light of the Imago Dei in Genesis 9:6: Its Semantics and Pragmatics," 191-206

In recent years, some scholars have claimed that God’s creation of humani-ty in the divine image (Gen 1:26-28) presents both a royal-functional reading and also the model of nonviolence that counters recurrent violence throughout the Hebrew Bible. This nonviolent reading of humanity created in God’s image disregards the mention of this concept at the end of the Flood Narrative in Gen 9:6. This article firstly takes into consid-eration the proximate context and semantics of Gen 9:6 expressed through its structural, linguistic and syntactic aspects. Moreover, the pragmatics of this saying will be analyzed through the investigative criteria of discursive analysis to better identify how semantic meaning and other contextual features underpin what is communicated by this challenging utterance.

Stanisław Bazyliński OFMConv, "Salmo 116 – preghiera di un malato?" 207-224

This article deals with the putative event that gave rise to Psalm 116. The author proposes a serious illness of the devotee as its interpretative matrix. This assumption is developed in three stages. First, the problematic verse 3 is examined along with other expressions. This analysis leads to the conclusion that there are no decisive obstacles to the aforementioned hypothesis. Second, the whole of Psalm 116 is taken into account in order to place the problematic elements within the Psalm into a broader context; and so as to highlight previously overlooked details in favor of the illness interpretation. Third, the vocabulary and the literary motifs of the Psalm are compared and contrasted with other OT texts dealing with illness, to justify the validity of the proposals.

 

Tomasz Bąk, "A Critical Edition and Philological Analysis of the Text of Isa 42:1–44:5 on the Basis of the Coptic Manuscript sa 52 (M 568) and Other Coptic Manuscripts Written in the Sahidic Dialect of Coptic and the Greek Text of the Septuagint," 225-260
This paper provides a critical edition and philological analysis of Isa 42:1–44:5, which was worked out on the basis of the Coptic manuscript sa 52.2 and other available man-uscripts of the Sahidic dialect. The first part presents general information on the fragment of codex sa 52 (M 568) that includes the discussed text. The next part gives a list and brief characteristics of the other manuscripts containing at least some verses of Isa 42:1–44:5.The main section of the paper is a presentation of the Sahidic text and its translation into English. The differences between the Sahidic text and the Septuagint, on which the Coptic translation is based, have been presented in tables. They include additions and omissions in the Coptic translation, lexical changes and semantic differences. Finally, the paper examines difficult philological questions observed in the Coptic text. Of special attention are the verses of Isa 42:1–44:5, which occur only in manuscript sa 52.2, and so far have not been published.

Mateusz Krawczyk, "Michael Riffaterre’s ‘Interpretant’ Reinterpreted. An Approach for the Hypertextual Reading of Wisdom and Romans," 261-277

Bible exegesis is dealing at times with the accusation of superficial implementa-tion of methods from various fields of science and of disrespect for the theological charac-ter of the Bible in hermeneutical and methodological presuppositions. This accusation can be directed also towards the many uses of intertextuality in biblical scholarship. The ar-ticle challenges this situation and proposes what has been called a ‘theological model of intertextual interpretation’ – an approach based on literary theory of the ‘interpretant’ as understood by Michaele Riffaterre – that tends to respect more fully the theological character of the biblical text. After a detailed description of the approach and its method-ological elements, the second part of the article deals with an example of the application of thereof – an intertextual exegesis of Rom 2:7 and Wis 2:23; Wis 6:18.19.

Ποιοι ήταν οι Υκσώς; / Who were the Hyksos?

 Στην ιστοσελίδα TheTorah.com ο Joseph Weinstein παρουσιάζει ιστορικά δεδομένα σχετικά με τους Υκσώς, η δυναστεία που συνδέεται με την παρουσία των Εβραίων στην Αίγυπτο και την Έξοδο:

We Were Slaves to the Hyksos in Egypt