Journal ArticleNew Testament Studies · April 1, 2023
While it is easy to interpret the first and second of the Matthean Antitheses (5.21-30) as intensifications of the Mosaic law, it is difficult to interpret the remaining Antitheses (5.31-48) in this manner. In the history of interpretation, two main strate ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for the Study of the Historical Jesus · January 1, 2021
The critics of JBHT in this issue have questioned three main aspects of the book: its assertion that early Christians competed with people who believed that John the Baptist was the principal figure in the history of salvation, its assertion that early in ...
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Journal ArticleNew Testament Studies · January 1, 2018
The second half of the Akhmîm fragment of the Gospel of Peter distinguishes the recalcitrant Jewish leaders, who suppress the truth of Jesus' resurrection, from the Jewish people, who regret their murder of Jesus the moment he dies- A distinction best expl ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for the Study of the New Testament · March 1, 2017
John Barclay's Paul and the Gift features a powerful and illuminating comparison and contrast between Paul's theology of grace and theologies of gift and reward in other Second Temple Jewish texts. Barclay is right to critique E.P. Sanders's conflation of ...
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Journal ArticleNew Testament Studies · September 10, 2014
Dale Allison is right to assert that 'the twelve tribes in the Diaspora' invokes Jewish ideas about the Ten Lost Tribes, but wrong to disassociate this thesis from the scholarly consensus that the pseudepigraphal author sees the church as Israel. For James ...
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Journal ArticleNew Testament Studies · July 1, 2013
Although Jesus' Last Supper probably took place on the night before Passover (as in John) rather than on the first night of Passover itself (as in the Synoptics), it contained elements strongly marked by the Jewish institution of the Passover seder (fixed ...
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Journal ArticleNovum Testamentum · January 1, 2013
The word é À. in Zech 14:21b (there will no longer be a é À. in the house of the Lord of hosts), has usually been interpreted either in an ethnic (Canaanite) or in a mercantile sense (trader, merchant), and it is possible that in its original context it wa ...
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Book · December 1, 2009
In the final nine chapters of the Gospel of Mark, Jesus increasingly struggles with his disciples' incomprehension of his unique concept of suffering messiahship and with the opposition of the religious leaders of his day. The Gospel recounts the events th ...
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Journal ArticleNew Testament Studies · October 1, 2009
J. Louis Martyn and others have argued that a decision by late first-century rabbis to introduce a liturgical curse against heretics (Birkat Ha-Minim) provides the background for early Christian passages about Christians being excluded from and cursed in s ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion Disability and Health · December 1, 2008
In Mark 10:35-45, Jesus does not reject the human desire to be great but transforms it by identifying servanthood as the path to greatness. This dynamic is illustrated by the story of the author's teenage daughter, who emerged from depression when she bega ...
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Journal ArticleInterpretation Journal of Bible and Theology · January 1, 2006
The New Testament inherits its attitude toward idolatry from the Old Testament and early Judaism. In all three, idolatry is the primal sin and is connected with sexual immorality and avarice. Both Jesus, in his response to the question about tribute, and P ...
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Journal ArticleRevue Biblique · December 1, 2003
A look at selected passages in the Gospels (Mark 2:10; 2:27-28; 10:45; Matt 24:27//Luke 17:24; Matt 25:31-46; John 5:26-27; 6:27) confirms the thesis argued more generally in Part I that "Son of Man" means "Son of Adam" and that Jesus' self-designation coh ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Biblical Literature · December 1, 1984
This study sets Jesus' puzzling statement about parable purpose in the context of the epistemology of Jewish apocalyptic literature and of Mark's Gospel as a whole. Apocalyptic motifs in Mark's epistemology include a divinely-willed dualism of revelation ...
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Journal ArticleCatholic Biblical Quarterly · October 1, 1982
The influence of the Jewish concept of the Evil Inclination (yētser) on the Epistle of James is investigated. The development of this concept in the OT, Sirach, Qumran literature, Philo and Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is first outlined. In each b ...
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