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New Testament Studies, Volume 56 - Issue 02 - April 2010

NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES
Volume 56 - Issue 02 - April 2010

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… κτρϕϵτϵ αὐτὰ ν παιδϵίᾳ καὶ νουθϵσίᾳ κυρίου (Eph 6.4): Kinder in der Welt des frühen Christentums
Andreas LindemannNew Testament Studies, Volume 56, Issue 02, April 2010, pp 169 - 190
doi:10.1017/S0028688509990257 Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Mar 2010
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This paper inquires into the situation of small children during the Hellenistic-Roman era, including NT texts and later Christian writings in the first two or three centuries. There was an early form of , and probably, children of baptized parents belonged to the Christian communities. In 1 Cor 7.14, Paul indirectly argues in favour of a on the by the father or mother. In Eph 6.4, the author, speaking about , argues that in a Christian household children should have instruction in the Christian faith. The question of the baptism of small children might be answered by the interpretation of 1 Cor 1.14 house of Stephanas 16 is a mirror of a discussion between those who people for bringing children to Jesus, and Jesus himself who interprets their action as a , thus escalating the conflict to a fundamental one, which probably refers to the question of baptism of children. During the last century, we have learned (again?) to see childhood not only as a transitional period of human life but one to be protected by society. Possibly similar ideas existed during the times when our texts were written.
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Something about Mary? Remarks about the Five Women in the Matthean Genealogy
Peter-Ben SmitNew Testament Studies, Volume 56, Issue 02, April 2010, pp 191 - 207
doi:10.1017/S0028688509990191 Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Mar 2010
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The occurrence and significance of the five women in Jesus' genealogy in the Gospel of Matthew has been a source of continuous scholarly debate. Taking a gender-sensitive approach, this contribution argues for looking at the five women as one group, viewing them as simultaneously accentuating the messianic line that Jesus is part of and vindicating his somewhat irregular birth, as well as substantiating the openness of Israel for Gentiles by adducing precedents from Israel's history.
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Hymnus, Enkomion oder Psalm? Schattengefechte in der neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft
Samuel VollenweiderNew Testament Studies, Volume 56, Issue 02, April 2010, pp 208 - 231
doi:10.1017/S0028688509990269 Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Mar 2010
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For much of the twentieth century scholars tried to reconstruct various cultic hymns beneath the surface of NT texts. With the rise of rhetorical criticism the focus of research has shifted to the properties of epideictic rhetoric. Exegetes, therefore, often tend to contrast with or . To avoid any shadow boxing one has to consider which descriptive language would fit best the texts. A brief examination of ancient hymnic traditions and their treatment in rhetoric demonstrates that while encomia interact strongly with hymns each genre has its own characteristics; hymns, whether in poetry or prose, consist especially of praise of divinities and are addressed to divinities. Future formgeschichtliche analysis has to distinguish carefully between (in a narrow sense), and (which does not refer particularly to divine beings). In early Christian literature, as far as it relates to the textual surface, we find beside hymns to God only a few hymns directed to Christ. Nevertheless Christ's divine status is praised with rich hymnic rhetorical devices. This amazing tension corresponds exactly with what we call .
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Judaizing the Nations: The Ritual Demands of Paul's Gospel
Paula FredriksenNew Testament Studies, Volume 56, Issue 02, April 2010, pp 232 - 252
doi:10.1017/S0028688509990294 Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Mar 2010
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Much current NT scholarship holds that Paul conducted a mission to Gentiles. In this view, Paul fundamentally repudiated the ethnic boundaries created and maintained by Jewish practices. The present essay argues the contrary: Paul's principled resistance to circumcising Gentiles precisely preserves these distinctions , which were native to Jewish restoration eschatology even in its Pauline iterations. Paul required his pagans not to worship their native gods Law-free mission.
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Persönliche Korrespondenz des Paulus: Zur Strategie der Pastoralbriefe als Pseudepigrapha
Manabu TsujiNew Testament Studies, Volume 56, Issue 02, April 2010, pp 253 - 272
doi:10.1017/S0028688509990270 Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Mar 2010
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The three Pastoral letters present themselves as Paul's personal correspondence, but their contents would fit better the genre of a community letter. The pseudonymous author has forged them as personal letters from , because he had to reckon with his readers' critique concerning their authenticity, above all with critical scrutiny directed at possible contradictions in their circumstances of origin. Through the genre of a private letter he has attempted to concoct previously unknown letter-situations, and to make understandable the late discovery of the letters. At the same time, through the construction of three letters he has made a claim for general validity in respect of geography and time, so as to spread the of the statements in the Corpus Paulinum.
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Short Study
A Scribal Solution to a Problematic Measurement in the Apocalypse
Juan HernándezNew Testament Studies, Volume 56, Issue 02, April 2010, pp 273 - 278
doi:10.1017/S002868850999018X Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Mar 2010
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Orthographic variation within the manuscripts of the Greek NT is seldom a cause c bre beyond the ranks of diehard textual critics. Even among these most will concede that orthographic irregularities amount to little more than evidence of scribal incompetency or inconsistency in their spelling practices. To find the same word both spelled correctly and misspelled within a single manuscript by the same scribe is not uncommon. It approaches the norm. The critical editions of our Greek NTs have therefore opted, on good grounds, to exclude textual variants displaying non-standardized spelling. To include them would make it impossible for anyone to use the critical apparatuses in a meaningful way. The deluge of senseless errors would drown out variants of demonstrable textual significance.
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Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
THE SIXTY-FOURTH GENERAL MEETING
M. C. de BoerNew Testament Studies, Volume 56, Issue 02, April 2010, pp 279 - 283
doi:10.1017/S0028688509990300 Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Mar 2010
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Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND OFFICERS FOR 2009–2010
New Testament Studies, Volume 56, Issue 02, April 2010, pp 284 - 284
doi:10.1017/S0028688509990312 Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Mar 2010
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MEMBERSHIP LIST, 2010
New Testament Studies, Volume 56, Issue 02, April 2010, pp 285 - 311
doi:10.1017/S0028688509990324 Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Mar 2010
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