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Walter Dietrich Samuelmusik Die Rezeption des
biblischen Samuel in Geschichte, Musik und Bildender Kunst De
Gruyter, 2021, 275 Seiten, Hardcover, 978-3-11-069781-0
102,95 EUR
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Die biblische Figur des
Samuel wird zunächst in seiner
biblischen und nachbiblischen Rezeption, vor allem im antiken
Christentum und Frühjudentum dargestellt. Am Beispiel des Oratoriums
Samuele des deutsch-italienischen Komponisten Giovanni Simone Mayr
(1763-1845) wird dann die frühneuzeitliche und moderne Rezeption der
alttestamentlichen Gestalt des Richters Samuel in der europäischen
Kulturgeschichte demonstriert.
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Daniel Vorpahl Aus dem Leben des Buches Jona
Rezeptionswissenschaftliche Methodik und innerjüdischer
Rezeptionsdiskurs De Gruyter, 2020, 500 Seiten, Hardcover,
978-3-11-069912-8 123,95 EUR
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Daniel Vorpahl untersucht die frühjüdischen und rabbinischen
Rezeptionen des biblischen Propheten
Jona auf ihre überlieferungsdynamischen Aushandlungsprozesse. Einer
eigens entwickelten Methodik folgend werden Rezeptionen Jonas
diskursanalytisch kontextualisiert und entlang einheitlicher
Analysekategorien vergleichend untersucht. Das Ergebnis ist ein
detailreicher Bildausschnitt eines innerjüdischen Rezeptionsdiskurses.
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Oliver Dyma Das Sacharjabuch und seine Rezeptionen
De Gruyter, 2020, 354 Seiten, Hardcover, 978-3-11-068362-2
102,95 EUR
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Auf Grundlage einer synchronen Lektüre des
Sacharjabuches in seiner
hebräischen Textgestalt sowie intertextueller Bezüge inner- und
außerhalb des Dodekapropheton werden verschiedene Rezeptionsvorgänge
untersucht. Diese zeigen sich literarund redaktionskritisch innerhalb
des hebräischen Kanons sowie im Vergleich mit dem griechischen Text.
Exemplarisch werden Aufnahmen im Neuen Testament, bei den Kirchenvätern
sowie im frühen Judentum behandelt.
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Riemer Roukema Micah in Ancient
Christianity Reception and Interpretation De Gruyter,
2019, 283 Seiten, Gebunden, 978-3-11-066340-2 86,95 EUR
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Studies of the Bible and
Its Reception (SBR) 15 What happened when the writing of the Old
Testament prophet Micah from the
8th century BCE was read and interpreted by Christians in the 1st to 5th
century BCE? This research meticulously describes data from patristic
commentaries and other ancient Christian works in Greek and Latin, as
well as the remains of Gnostic receptions of Micah, and it analyses the
interpretative strategies that were adopted. Attention is paid to the
partial retrieval of Origen’s Commentary on Micah, which is lost
nowadays, but was used by later Christian authors, especially Jerome.
This work includes the ancient delimitation of the Septuagint version
and patristic observations on the meaning of particular terms. Other
aspects are the liturgical readings from Micah’s book up to the Middle
Ages, its use in Christ’s complaints about Israel on Good Friday (the
Improperia), and a rabbinic tradition about Jesus quoting Micah. It is
noted whenever patristic authors implicitly use or explicitly quote
Jewish interpretations, many of which are supplied with parallels in
contemporaneous or medieval Jewish works. This first comprehensive
survey of the ancient Christian reception and interpretation of Micah is
a valuable tool for Biblical scholars and historians. |
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M. Andrew Holowchak Thomas
Jefferson’s Bible With Introduction and Critical Commentary
De Gruyter, 2018, 141 Seiten, Hardcover, 978-3-11-061756-6
94,95 EUR
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This
volume is the first full-length book that offers a critical
investigation into the composition of Jefferson’s Bible. In it, the
author looks critically not only at what Jefferson includes, but also at
what he chose to exclude in an effort to uncover the principles that
Jefferson employed in selecting and deselecting verses. In addition to
providing a full text of Jefferson’s Bible, this study places these
documents within a historical, philosophical and theological context
that illuminates their significance and relevance to our time. |
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Edwin Murphy The Bishop and the
Apostle Cyprian's Pastoral Exegesis of Paul De Gruyter,
2018, 229 Seiten, Hardcover, 978-3-11-060103-9 86,95 EUR
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This study examines how Cyprian of
Carthage, the most significant bishop in the early Latin tradition,
appropriates the canonical Paul.Cyprian, like Paul, is a pastoral
theologian, so his pastoral concerns provide a helpful lens through
which to study his use of the apostle. These include divine truth and
eternal glory; the church’s unity, ministry and sacraments; discipline
and repentance; and wealth and welfare. Examining Cyprian’s use of Paul
in these areas allows us to move beyond a simple literal/allegorical
paradigm to appreciate the wide range of reading strategies used by
Cyprian: model, image, maxim, title, contextual exegesis, direct
application, prophetic fulfilment and qualification. It also provides a
different perspective on Paul than the one arrived at by privileging a
handful of texts.This study of Cyprian’s appropriation of Pauline texts
therefore illuminates the interplay between text, context and theology
in his exegesis. It also deepens our understanding of the early North
African hermeneutical tradition and the early reception of Paul. |
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Zbynek Kindschi Garský, Rainer
Hirsch-Luipold Christus in natura Quellen,
Hermeneutik und Rezeption des Physiologus De Gruyter, 2019, 253
Seiten, Hardcover, 978-3-11-049470-9 119,95 EUR
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Was hat der Pelikan mit Christus zu
tun oder das Einhorn mit der Jungfrau Maria? Der Physiologus, eine
ursprünglich in griechischer Sprache in Ägypten abgefasste
frühchristliche Schrift, bietet unter Aufnahme biblischer wie paganer
Motivik und Naturlehre eine christliche Gesamtdeutung der Natur. Über
mittelalterliche Bestiarien findet die Symbolik des Physiologus Eingang
in Kunst, Literatur und Heraldik. Die Bedeutung einer solchen
christologisch grundgelegten Bildsprache bleibt indes heutzutage
vielfach rätselhaft. Im vorliegenden Band wird die Schrift mit ihren
Quellen, ihren onto-theologischen Grundlagen und ihren Deutungsmethoden
sowie ihrer Rezeption breit interdisziplinär ausgeleuchtet (antike
Naturkunde, altorientalische und biblische Bildwelt, Septuaginta,
Kirchenväterliteratur, Rezeption in Kunst und Musik,
Handschriftenkunde), um so zu einem historischen Verständnis
christlicher Tiersymbolik beizutragen. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt
auf der berühmten illuminierten Berner Physiologus-Handschrift, die
vollständig abgedruckt wird. |
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David M. Goldenberg Black and
Slave The Origins and History of the Curse of Ham De
Gruyter, 2017, 300 Seiten, Hardcover, 978-3-11-052166-5
99,95 EUR
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Studies of the Curse of Ham, the
belief that the Bible consigned blacks to everlasting servitude, confuse
and conflate two separate origins stories (etiologies), one of black
skin and the other of black slavery. This work unravels the etiologies
and shows how the Curse, an etiology of black slavery, evolved from an
earlier etiology explaining the existence of dark-skinned people. We see
when, where, why, and how an original mythic tale of black origins
morphed into a story of the origins of black slavery, and how, in turn,
the second then supplanted the first as an explanation for black skin.
In the process we see how formulations of the Curse changed over time,
depending on the historical and social contexts, reflecting and
refashioning the way blackness and blacks were perceived. In particular,
two significant developments are uncovered. First, a curse of slavery,
originally said to affect various dark-skinned peoples, was eventually
applied most commonly to black Africans. Second, blackness, originally
incidental to the curse, in time became part of the curse itself. Dark
skin now became an intentional marker of servitude, the visible sign of
the blacks’ degradation, and in the process deprecating black skin
itself. |
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Brian J. Arnold Justification in
the Second Century
De Gruyter, 2017, 221 Seiten,
Hardcover, 978-3-11-047677-4 99,95 EUR
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This book seeks to answer the following
question: how did the doctrine of justification fare one hundred years
after Paul’s death (c. AD 165)? This book argues that Paul’s view of
justification by faith is present in the second century, a thesis that
particularly challenges T. F. Torrance’s long-held notion that the
Apostolic Fathers abandoned this doctrine (The Doctrine of Grace in the
Apostolic Fathers, 1948). In the wake of Torrance’s work there has been
a general consensus that the early fathers advocated works righteousness
in opposition to Paul’s belief that an individual is justified before
God by faith alone, but second-century writings do not support this
claim. Each author examined—Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch,
Epistle to Diognetus, Odes of Solomon, and Justin Martyr—contends that
faith is the only necessary prerequisite for justification, even if they
do indicate the importance of virtuous living. This is the first major
study on the doctrine of justification in the second century, thus
filling a large lacuna in scholarship. With the copious amounts of
research being conducted on justification, it is alarming that no work
has been done on how the first interpreters of Paul received one of his
trademark doctrines. It is assumed, wrongly, that the fathers were
either uninterested in the doctrine or that they misunderstood the
Apostle. Neither of these is the case. This book is timely in that it
enters the fray of the justification debate from a neglected vantage
point. |
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Justin Glessner The Making(s) of
an Average Joe Gender, the Everyday, and the Reception of
Joseph of Nazareth in Early Christian Discourse De Gruyter, 2021, 300
Seiten, Hardcover, 978-3-11-047674-3 86,95 EUR
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This study confronts competing views of
conventional masculinity found in the earliest, and often overlooked,
receptions of the character of Joseph of Nazareth found in the Gospels
of Luke and Matthew, the Protevangelium of James, and the Infancy Gospel
of Thomas. Supplementing critical studies of spectacular gender
performances in early Christianity, the author reveals deep
instabilities inherent even (or especially) in seemingly ordinary or
‘everyday’ coding of masculine subjectivities in ancient Christian
narratives, while also putting to the test ways in which canonical
infancy material might be considered part of reception history. The
study exposes the political mechanics behind Joseph’s colorful
characterizations and opens interpretive possibilities for rethinking
normative views of manliness in early Christianity and beyond. |
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Martin Whittingham A History of
Muslim Views of the Bible The Bible and Muslim Identity
Formation (7th to 11th century CE) De Gruyter, 2020, 245 Seiten,
Gebunden, 978-3-11-033494-4 86,95 EUR
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This book aims to produce something not
previously attempted - a synthetic history of Muslim responses to the
Bible, stretching from the rise of Islam to the present day. It combines
scholarship with a genuine narrative, so as to tell the story of Muslim
engagement with the Bible. The book, covering Sunni, Imami Shi'i and
Isma'ili perspectives, offers a scholarly overview of three areas of
Muslim response, namely ideas of corruption, use and abrogation of the
Biblical text. For each period of history the important figures and
dominant trends, along with exceptions, are identified. The interplay
between using and criticising the Bible is explored, and how the
respective emphasis on these two approaches rises and falls in different
periods and locations. The book critically engages with existing
scholarship, probes received views on the subject, and thereby sheds
light on an important area of interfaith concern. |
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David W. Jorgensen Treasure
Hidden in a Field Early Christian Reception of the Gospel
of Matthew De Gruyter, 2016, 321 Seiten, Gebunden,
978-3-11-047655-2 99,95 EUR
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Studies of the Bible and
Its Reception (SBR) 6 This reception history of the
Gospel of Matthew utilizes
theoretical frameworks and literary sources from two typically distinct
disciplines, patristic studies and Valentinian (a.k.a. “Gnostic”)
studies. The author shows how in the second and third centuries, the
Valentinians were important contributors to a shared culture of early
Christian exegesis. By examining the use of the same Matthean pericopes
by both Valentinian and patristic exegetes, the author demonstrates that
certain Valentinian exegetical innovations were influential upon, and
ultimately adopted by, patristic authors. Chief among Valentinian
contributions include the allegorical interpretation of texts that would
become part of the New Testament, a sophisticated theory of the
historical and theological relationship between Christians and Jews, and
indeed the very conceptualization of the Gospel of Matthew as sacred
scripture. This study demonstrates that what would eventually emerge
from this period as the ecclesiological and theological center cannot be
adequately understood without attending to some groups and individuals
that have often been depicted, both by subsequent ecclesiastical leaders
and modern scholars, as marginal and heretical.
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Jennifer R. Strawbridge The
Pauline Effect The Use of the Pauline Epistles by Early
Christian Writers De Gruyter, 2017, 309 Seiten, Broschur
978-3-11-057815-7 19,95 EUR
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Studies of the Bible and
Its Reception (SBR) 5 This study offers a fresh approach to
reception historical studies of New Testament texts, guided by a
methodology introduced by ancient historians who study Graeco-Roman
educational texts. In the course of six chapters, the author identifies
and examines the most representative Pauline texts within writings of
the ante-Nicene period: 1Cor 2, Eph 6, 1Cor 15, and Col 1. The
identification of these most widely cited Pauline texts, based on a
comprehensive database which serves as an appendix to this work, allows
the study to engage both in exegetical and historical approaches to each
pericope while at the same time drawing conclusions about the
theological tendencies and dominant themes reflected in each. Engaging a
wide range of primary texts, it demonstrates that just as there is no
singular way that each Pauline text was adapted and used by early
Christian writers, so there is no homogeneous view of early Christian
interpretation and the way Scripture informed their writings, theology,
and ultimately identity as Christian.
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Frauke Uhlenbruch The Nowhere
Bible Utopia, Dystopia, Science Fiction De Gruyter,
2015, 210 Seiten, Hardcover, 978-3-11-041154-6 109,95
EUR
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Studies of the Bible and
Its Reception (SBR) 4 The Bible contains passages that allow both
scholars and believers to project their hopes and fears onto
ever-changing empirical realities. By reading specific biblical passages
as utopia and dystopia, this volume raises questions about
reconstructing the past, the impact of wishful imagination on reality,
and the hermeneutic implications of dealing with utopia – “good place”
yet “no place” – as a method and a concept in biblical studies.A
believer like William Bradford might approach a biblical passage as
utopia by reading it as instructions for bringing about a significantly
changed society in reality, even at the cost of becoming an oppressor. A
contemporary biblical scholar might approach the same passage with the
ambition of locating the historical reality behind it – finding the
places it describes on a map, or arriving at a conclusion about the
social reality experienced by a historical community of redactors. These
utopian goals are projected onto a utopian text. This volume advocates
an honest hermeneutical approach to the question of how reliably a past
reality can be reconstructed from a biblical passage, and it aims to
provide an example of disclosing – not obscuring – pre-suppositions
brought to the text.
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Sara Kipfer Der bedrohte David Eine
exegetische und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Studie zu 1Sam 16 -
1Kön 2 de Gruyter, 2015, 650 Seiten, Gebunden,
978-3-11-040057-1 133,95 EUR
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Motiv der Daviderzählungen: der bedrohte und gefährdete
Emporkömmling und Herrscher. Dabei wird gezeigt, dass sich weder
synchron eine Steigerung der Bedrohung festmachen lässt, noch
dass diachron die Bedrohung Davids einem bestimmten Autor oder
Redaktor zugewiesen werden kann. Vielmehr findet sich das Motiv
der Bedrohung in den gesamten Daviderzählungen und wurde in
unterschiedlichen Zeiten aufgenommen und erweitert. Eben
dieses Motiv wurde dann auch in der frühen Neuzeit aufgegriffen
und vielfältig rezipiert. Herrscher identifizierten sich mit dem
bedrohten David, Hofprediger legitimierten dagegen mit Verweis
auf Natan und Gad ihre Kritik am Herrscher. Exemplarisch wird
dies anhand des Werkes David von Benito Arias Montano,
Deckengemälden in Schloss Eggenberg bei Graz und Zeichnungen von
Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens und Jan Boeckhorst
aufgezeigt. Diese Studie wirft somit nicht nur ein neues Licht
auf die Daviderzählungen in 1Sam 16 - 1Kön 2, sondern auch auf
den Diskurs rund um Macht und Ohnmacht im sogenannten Zeitalter
des "Absolutismus".
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Stefan Alkier
Miracles Revisited New Testament Miracle Stories
and their Concepts of Reality De Gruyter, 2016, 414 Seiten,
Softcover, 978-3-11-048792-3 24,95 EUR
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Since David Hume, the
interpretation of miracle stories has been dominated in the West
by the binary distinction of fact vs. fiction. The form-critical
method added another restriction to the interpretation of
miracles by neglecting the context of its macrotexts. Last but
not least the hermeneutics of demythologizing was interested in
the self-understanding of individuals and not in political
perspectives.The book revisits miracle stories with regard to
these dimensions: 1. It demands to connect the interpretation of
Miracle Stories to concepts of reality. 2. It criticizes the
restrictions of the form critical method. 3. It emphasizes the
political implications of Miracle Stories and their
interpretations.Even the latest research accepts this modern
opposition of fact and fiction as self-evident. This book will
examine critically these concepts of reality with
interpretations of miracles. The book will address how concepts
of reality, always complex, came to expression in stories of
miraculous healings and their reception in medicine, art,
literature, theology and philosophy, from classic antiquity to
the Middle Ages. Only through such bygone concepts, contemporary
interpretations of ancient healings can gain plausibility.nity. |
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"Nancy Klancher The Taming of
the Canaanite Woman Constructions of Christian Identity in
the Afterlife of Matthew 15:21-28 De Gruyter, 2013, 317 Seiten,
Hardcover, 978-3-11-032106-7 119,95 EUR
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Current reception histories emphasize
the world of Biblical readers, their socio-historical contexts, and the
myriad effects of Biblical exegesis. This reception history studies
interpretations of Jesus’ encounter with a Canaanite woman (Matt
15:21–28) as normative “scripts” that exhort specific types of
compliance in a broad range of historical and cultural settings,
revealing remarkably diverse understandings of Christian identity and
community.
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