Δευτέρα 1 Ιουνίου 2026

New Testament Studies 71/3 (2026)

 New Testament Studies 71/3 (2026)

  • David G. Horrell, "The New Perspective on Paul — 120 Years Before: John William Colenso’s Commentary on Romans," 249-263 (OA)
  • Katie Marcar, "Passover, Liberation, and the Defeat of Death and the Devil in Hebrews: A Proposal for the Descensus Christi and the Harrowing of Hades in Hebrews 2:14-15," 264-283 (OA)
  • Isaac Soon, "The Alexamenos Graffito as Christian Self-Parody," 284-301 (abstract)
  • Alexander Chantziantoniou, "The Politics of Paul’s Image Parodies: Material Epiphany, Human-Divine Reciprocity and Social Power," 302-319 (abstract)
  • Peter Spitaler, "The Night Burglar: Rethinking the Eschatological Discourse in 1 Thess 4.13–5.11," 320-332 (OA)

Short Study

  • Stephen Fowl, "Jesus is Driving Them Crazy: Language and Context for Luke 6.6-11," 333-336 (OA)

Articles

  • David I. Starling, "Paul the σκηνοποιός: Evaluating Frederick Danker’s Proposal for a Theatrical Understanding of the Term," 337-349 (abstract)
  • Amber M. Dillon, "Martha’s Lament in the Gospel of John," 350-363 (OA)
  • Mateusz Kusio, "Nathanael, the Fig Tree, and the Retrieval of Johannine Polysemy," 364-379 (OA)
  • A. Andrew Das, "The One-Spouse Criterion in the Pastorals (1 Tim 3.2, 12; 5.9; Titus 1.6)," 380-394 (abstract)
  • Filip Doroszewski, Jan M. Kozlowski,  "Zacchaeus Baccheus. The Jericho Episode in Luke 19.1–10 and Euripides’ Bacchae," 395-401 (abstract

    


The Expository Times 137/8 (2026)

 The Expository Times 137/8 (2026)

  • Youngju Kwon, "Faith, Freedom, Communal Integrity in Romans 14:13–23," 353-364 (abstract)
  • Christopher W. Peters, The Festal Feminine: Female Voices in the Megilloth," 365-375 (abstract



    


Σάββατο 23 Μαΐου 2026

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 50:4 (2026)

 Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 50:4 (2026)

  • Michael Wade Martin, "Divine attributes and powers as messianic titles in Isaiah 51.4–8 and cognate passages: A comparison of 1QIsaa and the Old Greek of Isaiah," 351-372 (abstract)
  • Reichert J. Zalameda, "Remember like a man: Memory and masculinity in the Gideon and Jephthah cycles," 373-395 (abstract)
  • Andrew M. Brockman, "The tragedy of Abiathar of Nob: Identifying character-systems as an avenue to authorial intent," 396-419 (abstract)
  • Siru Sun, "Epistemological barrier or divine gift: A reinterpretation of Ecclesiastes 3.11," 420-436 (abstract)
  • Philip Suciadi Chia, "אם שׁלמים‎ or משׁל מים‎ in Nah. 1.12: A study of the ancient translations," 437-452 (OA)
  • Francesco Cocco, "When Moses is not enough: A comparative study of referral narratives in the Torah," 453-473 (abstract)
  • Ming Him Ko, "The honor of Jabez and the acquisition of land in the book of Chronicles," 474-490 (abstract)
  • Norman Simon Rodriguez, "The Israelite Imago Mundi: A hypothetical reconstruction," 491-523 (abstract)  

Δευτέρα 18 Μαΐου 2026

Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 40:1 (2026)

 Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 40:1 (2026)

  • Jonathan Jacobs, "Saul’s Meal at Endor (1 Sam 28,20-25) and Its Contribution to Understanding the Story of Saul at Endor," 1-13 (abstract)
  • Andrew Walton, "Textual Strategies for Navigating the Ambiguity of Rebellion: The Rebellions of Hezekiah and Zedekiah Compared," 14-36 (abstract)
  • Yuval Darabi, "The Talionic Formula and its Three Occurrences in the Pentateuch," 37-54 (abstract)
  • Søren Lorenzen, "Renal Rectitude: On Kidneys, Righteousness, and Justice in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond," 61- 81 (abstract)
  • Phil J. Botha, " 'When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?' (Ps 11,3): Psalms 3-14 as a Call to YHWH to Restore Order in a World Characterised by Social and Political Chaos and a Plea to the Righteous to Remain Steadfast," 82-106 (OA)
  • Stuart Lasine, "Sensing Humor and Its Absence in the Book of Tobit," 107-124 (abstract)
  • Philip Chia, "The Meaning of פרק in Nahum 3:1. Study of Ancient Texts," 125-137 (OA)
  • Daniel Coussin, "Sages or Rabbis? Who Were the Teachers in Galilee during Late Antiquity, and What Did They Teach?" 138-156 (abstract)

Σάββατο 16 Μαΐου 2026

Journal for the Study of Judaism 57/2 (2026)

 Journal for the Study of Judaism 57/2 (2026)

  • Jakob Trugenberger, "Der Königsbrief Antiochos’ VII. an Simon (1 Makk 15,2–9): Ein Beitrag zur Authentizitätsfrage," 125–167 (abstract)
  • Christine Trotter, "Is Sibylline Oracles 4 “Anti-temple”? Consolatory Rhetoric in Sibylline Oracles 4," 168–190 (abstract)
  • Simcha Gross, "The Conversion of Adiabene:  The Politics of Jewishness on the Near Eastern Frontier,"  191–236 (abstract)

Horizons in Biblical Theology 48/1 (2026)

 Horizons in Biblical Theology 48/1 (2026)

  • Yusak Budi Setyawan, "Religious Minority in the Majority’s Ideology:  An Indonesian Postcolonial Perspective on Christian Communities in Ephesus Responding to the Roman Imperial Ideology,"  1–21 (abstract)
  • Presian Renee Burroughs, "In the Image of God and Earth: 'Let Us Make' and the Agency of Earth in Genesis 1:26," 22–46 (abstract)
  • Linda Joelsson, "Corinthian Starvation: Cognitive Dissonance as a Rhetorical Resource in 1 Corinthians 11:17–34," 47–63 (abstract)

Τετάρτη 13 Μαΐου 2026

Biblical Theology Bulletin 56:2 (2026)

 Biblical Theology Bulletin 56:2 (2026)

  • David W. Congdon, "The Historian and the Theologian: On the Role of New Testament Studies in the Christologies of McCormack and DeHart," 76-91 (abstract)
  • David J. Zucker, "David’s Wives: Michal," 92-98 (abstract)
  • Wookyoung Lee, "A Study on the Intertextuality Between Plato’s Myth of Er and Luke’s Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man: Focusing on the Intertextual Reader," 99-108 (abstract)
  • Annet Nadunga - Robert Kuloba Wabyanga - Joy Mukisa Isabirye, "A Critical Review of Contemporary Scholarship: Conceptualizing an ideal wife of Proverbs 31:10-31," 109-119 (abstract)
  • Damian Onyemaechi Odo, "Exploring Psalm 137 through the lens of affect," 120-128 (abstract)    


Σάββατο 9 Μαΐου 2026

Ο αρχαίος Ιουδαϊσμός πέρα από τα κείμενα: αντικείμενα, επιγραφές και καθημερινή ζωή / Ancient Judaism Beyond the Texts: Objects, Inscriptions, and Everyday Life

 Το πρόσφατο άρθρο της Karen Stern στο Ancient Jew Review, με αφορμή τον δεύτερο τόμο της σειράς The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization: Emerging Judaism, 332 BCE–600 CE, προσφέρει μια καλή ευκαιρία να ξανασκεφτούμε τον τρόπο με τον οποίο μελετούμε τον αρχαίο Ιουδαϊσμό. Ο τόμος, σε επιμέλεια της Carol Bakhos, είναι μια εκτενής συλλογή κειμένων και οπτικών τεκμηρίων για την ιουδαϊκή ζωή από την ελληνιστική εποχή έως την ύστερη αρχαιότητα.

Η Stern επισημαίνει ότι η ιδιαίτερη συμβολή του τόμου έγκειται στην ευρεία αντίληψη του όρου «τεκμήριο». Δεν πρόκειται μόνο για λογοτεχνικά ή ραββινικά κείμενα, αλλά και για επιγραφές, παπύρους, λυχνάρια, φυλακτά, αρχιτεκτονικά κατάλοιπα, συναγωγές, τάφους και αντικείμενα της καθημερινής ζωής. Ακόμη και τα ίδια τα κείμενα αντιμετωπίζονται ως υλικά και ιστορικά τεκμήρια που δεν «μιλούν» από μόνα τους, αλλά χρειάζονται ερμηνευτική ανάλυση.

Αυτό έχει σημασία και για τη μελέτη του κόσμου της Καινής Διαθήκης. Ο Ιουδαϊσμός της εποχής δεν υπήρξε ενιαίος, στατικός ή αποκλειστικά «βιβλικός». Διαμορφώθηκε μέσα σε διαφορετικά γεωγραφικά και πολιτισμικά περιβάλλοντα: ελληνιστικά, ρωμαϊκά, παρθικά και σασσανιδικά. Η Stern τονίζει εύστοχα ότι ο τόμος αμφισβητεί παλαιά δίπολα, όπως Ιουδαϊσμός/Ελληνισμός, κέντρο/διασπορά, κείμενο/αντικείμενο, προτείνοντας μια πιο σύνθετη εικόνα των αρχαίων ιουδαϊκών πολιτισμών.

Το άρθρο είναι χρήσιμο ακριβώς, επειδή μας θυμίζει ότι η ιστορία δεν καταγράφεται μόνο στις μεγάλες κειμενικές συνθέσεις, αλλά και στα ταπεινά αντικείμενα: σε έναν πάπυρο, σε μια επιγραφή, σε έναν λύχνο, σε ένα φυλακτό, σε ένα μωσαϊκό δάπεδο. Η μελέτη τους δεν αντικαθιστά τα κείμενα· τα εντάσσει όμως στον κόσμο των ανθρώπων που τα διάβασαν, τα αντέγραψαν, τα ερμήνευσαν και έζησαν μαζί τους.

Karen Stern, "Jewish Cultures and Material Artifacts"

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The recent article by Karen Stern in Ancient Jew Review, occasioned by the second volume of the series The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization: Emerging Judaism, 332 BCE–600 CE, offers a good opportunity to reconsider the way we study ancient Judaism. Edited by Carol Bakhos, the volume is an extensive collection of texts and visual evidence concerning Jewish life from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity.

Stern points out that the volume’s distinctive contribution lies in its broad understanding of what counts as “evidence.” It includes not only literary or rabbinic texts, but also inscriptions, papyri, lamps, amulets, prayer phylacteries, architectural remains, synagogues, tombs, and objects of everyday life. Even the texts themselves are treated as material and historical artifacts that do not simply “speak” for themselves, but require interpretive analysis.

This is also important for the study of the world of the New Testament. The Judaism of this period was not uniform, static, or exclusively “biblical.” It took shape within diverse geographical and cultural settings: Hellenistic, Roman, Parthian, and Sasanian. Stern rightly emphasizes that the volume challenges older binaries, such as Judaism/Hellenism, center/diaspora, text/object, and proposes a more complex picture of ancient Jewish cultures.

The article is useful precisely because it reminds us that history is not recorded only in major textual compositions, but also in humble objects: in a papyrus, an inscription, a lamp, an amulet, a mosaic floor. Studying them does not replace the texts; rather, it situates them within the world of the people who read them, copied them, interpreted them, and lived with them.

Karen Stern, "Jewish Cultures and Material Artifacts"

Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute 50 (2025)

 Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute 50 (2025)

  • Yutaka Maekawa, "The Function of Confessions of Faith in the Gospel of John" (abstract)
  • Takashi Onuki, „Das Reich Gottes ist ,innen‘ in euch“ (Lk 17,21) in Kontrast zum Geierlogion Lk 17,37 (abstract)
  • Filip Čapek, "Temples in the Southern Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age – Analysing Changes in Material Culture and Textual Traditions" (abstract)
  • Aren M. Maeir, "The End and Disappearance of the Biblical Philistines: Archaeological and Historical Evidence and Comparison to the Israelite and Judahite Exiles"  (abstract)
  • Meira Polliack, "What Goes Up: Tracing Vertical Directionality in Esther and its Reception Exegesis" (abstract)

Special Section: Lived Ancient Religion in the Circum-Mediterranean Region

  • Maria Dell’Isola, "The Experience of the Body: Forms of “Radical” Asceticism in Late Antique Christianity" (abstract)
  • Kumi Makino, "Lids in Palestine during the Mishnaic Period: From the Lived Religion Perspective" (abstract)
  • Takahiko Yamano, "The Synagogue at Tel Rekhesh: An Archaeological Investigation of the Galilean Synagogue of the First Century CE" (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του Journal of Early Christian Studies / In the current issue of Joyrnal of Early Christian Studies

 Journal of Early Christian Studies 34:2 (2026)

  • Karl M. Berg, "Fresh Epigraphic Light on the Martyrdom of Polycarp and the Date of Its Protagonist's Death," 151-178 (abstract)
  • John D. Doss, "Diognetus, Paul, and John:: The Pauline-Johannine Expression of Christianity in Diognetus," 179-211 (abstract)
  • Isaac T. Soon, "The Devil as Perdix: The Origin and Development of the Satanic Partridge in Early Christianity," 231-253 (abstract)