This is an interdisciplinary essay on New Testament Sociology which applies a sociological model (a theoretical knowledge frame) into the Jesus Movement (Jewish group gathering in Palestine around Jesus of Nazareth and continuing until 70 b.C.). To do this, in the first chapter …
This dissertation directed by Dr. Dennis Olson builds on the premise that the relative density of Chr's peculiar vocabulary is an accurate indicator of the degree of Chr's redaction of source material. It examines Chr's distinctive vocabulary for use in a multivariate statistica…
Abraham has been perceived as the father of faith by both Jews and Christians. Interpretations of Abraham in later sources tend to idealize his actions. When religious commentators write about Abraham and the other stories in the Abraham cycle they are writing about their own im…
Greek word order variations are yet to be explained by consistently applied principles of linguistic theory. Many in the past have attempted to account for this phenomenon only to express disappointment in their own conclusions. Such findings surely establish Greek word order as…
This dissertation charts the intersection of exegesis, rhetoric, and performance in Ephrem's Hymns on Faith, arguing for a two-pronged interpretation of these poetics: first, Ephrem presents Scripture as a collection of metaphors which God has arranged for the sake of a particul…
This dissertation provides the first full-scale literary and theological treatment of the motif of humans confronting God in rabbinic literature. The sages do not challenge God directly, but indirectly by placing moral critiques of God into the mouths of various biblical heroes.…
The varied literary and rhetorical backgrounds of paraenetic literature make exegesis and theological interpretation of New Testament paraenesis a difficult task. The diversity and apparent unrelated character of individual exhortations in paraenetic materials exacerbate the pro…
This dissertation is a study of the history of the interpretation of the New Testament pericopae of Jesus' Feedings of the Multitudes (Mt 14:13-21, 15:29-38; Mk 6:30-44, 8:1-10; Lk 9:10-17; Jn 6:1-15) by Christian writers from the Patristic period to the present. This history di…
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Prologue -- Part II: Methodological Issues -- Part III: Contextual Issues -- Part IV: Exegetical Issues -- Part V: Implications -- Part VI: Epilogue -- Indices -- Indices Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of References to Paul and the Faithf…
N. T. Wrights Werk Paul and the Faithfulness of God ist der Höhepunkt seiner langen, einflussreichen und oftmals kontroversen Karriere - eine richtungsweisende Untersuchung der Geschichte und des Denkens des Apostels Paulus, welche neue Ansätze für zahlreiche Bereiche neutestame…
The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden …
The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden …
This thesis will probe selected Arabic commentary material on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. The aim is, first, to shed light on the development of Arabic medical commentary; second, to draw attention to issues of continuity and change in medical ideas and debates; third, to shed li…
Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian exegetes of late antiquity operated within an identifiable interpretive tradition that had its roots in the earliest recorded theological criticisms of the Homeric epic tradition, criticisms which were to have far-reaching and decisive influenc…
The centrality of II Corinthians 3:7–18 in the Christian imagination first emerged in 2nd century exegetical debates concerning the inspirational status of Hebrew Scriptures. Arguments marshaled by Irenaeus and Tertullian affirmed that the whole Old Testament was to be considere…
With the collaborative works of Yair Zakovitch and Avigdor Shinan as its methodological model, this dissertation presents the history of Jewish exegesis on Judges 3:12-30 (Ehud and Eglon) as discerned from the Bible, the Old Versions and Ancient Jewish Literature. This study is …