The Provenance of the Interpolator in the ‘Western’ Text of Acts and of Acts Itself

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. C. Hanson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
De Novo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Opposite View

First of all, the title of this paper needs justification. Why should we assume that anyone ever made interpolations in the text of Acts? Ropes, who is still the most considerable authority on this subject, spoke of the ‘Western’ text all through his work on the Text of Acts in The Beginnings of Christianity as if it gave evidence of the work of a reviser of the text, not of an interpolator, and many scholars before him had the same opinion. On the other hand, very recent scholarship has tended to the opposite view, that it is wrong to hold that ‘Western’ readings in the New Testament necessarily represent a single continuous revision done at one particular moment in the history of the text. Professor G. D. Kilpatrick, for instance, in a recent article suggests that every reading in Acts has to be considered on its merits, independently of speculation about whether it represents a revision or a recension or a ‘good’ MS tradition. He believes that the ‘Western’ readings often do not represent a revision or recension, but are single examples of original, correct readings preserved in this particular MS tradition. In his view, word order, orthography, and grammatical, syntactical and philological considerations applied de novo to each reading should be paramount in attempting to discover correct readings. The wisdom of this approach has been confirmed by the careful scholarship applied to the subject by M. Wilcox in his book The Semitisms of Acts (1965).

Kingdom Sayings and Parables of Jesus in the Apocryphon of James: Tradition and Redaction

1983 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Hedrick
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Apocryphal Gospels ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
One Step ◽  
The One

In a recent article Helmut Koester argues against the current practice of distinguishing between canonical Gospels, on the one hand, and apocryphal gospels, on the other, and treating the apocryphal gospels as ‘step children’ of New Testament research. Koester maintains that there are a number of the ‘apocryphal’ gospels which ‘belong to a very early stage in the development of gospel literature — a stage that is comparable to the sources which were used by the gospels of the New Testament.’ One of those texts to which he points is the Nag Hammadi tractate the Apocryphon of James. This paper is an attempt to legitimize one ‘step child’ of New Testament scholarship as a valid source for investigating the earliest levels of the Jesus traditions.

Professor T. W. Manson on Baptism

1950 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Ernest A. Payne
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Treatment ◽  
Infant Baptism ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church

The last number of the Scottish Journal of Theology contained an article of great interest and importance by Professor T. W. Manson under the title “Baptism in the Church”. It was a weighty and illuminating contribution to the discussion of the ordinance of baptism which is now proceeding vigorously in almost every Christian communion. One brought up in the Baptist tradition and adhering to it by conviction read with appreciation Professor Manson's admission of the strength of the case against infant baptism so far as it rests on the New Testament evidence. On the other hand, the general treatment of the subject and the conclusions reached include some rather surprising statements and raise a number of questions.

The Reply of Professor Cullmann to Roman Catholic Critics

1962 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Robert P. Meye
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Subject

I am pleased to have an opportunity to make a provisional reply to my Catholic critics. For the objections formulated by Father G. Bavaud on the subject of my Christology of the New Testament are representative of those which I have encountered in other Catholic writers. I respond all the more willingly to his article since I discern in it a sincere desire to understand me and to converse with me in a spirit of complete honesty. Despite this, I do not feel that he has understood me at a very important point; and this is because I expressed myself too briefly in certain parts of my book. But, on the other hand, since only Catholic theologians (and not all of them) have attributed ideas to me which I do not recognise as my own, I wonder whether, besides a difference of method of which I will speak at the end of this article, there is not something else equally important.

Scripture and Tradition

1953 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Oscar Cullmann
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The problem of the relationship between Scripture and Tradition is in the first place a problem of the theological relationship between the apostolic period and the period of the Church. All the other questions depend on the solution that we give to this problem. The alternatives—co-ordination or subordination of Tradition to Scripture—derive from the question of knowing how we must understand the fact that the period of the Church is the continuation and unfolding of the apostolic period. For we must note right away that this fact is capable of divergent interpretations. That is why agreement on the mere fact that the Church continues the work of Christ on earth does not necessarily imply agreement on the relationship between Scripture and Tradition. Thus in my thesis developed in Christ and Time as well as in my studies on the sacraments in the New Testament I came considerably nearer to the ‘Catholic’ point of view. In fact I would affirm very strongly that through the Church the history of salvation is continued on earth. I believe that we find this idea throughout the New Testament, and I should even consider it the key for the understanding of the Johannine Gospel. I would maintain, moreover, that the sacraments, Baptism and Eucharist, take the place in the Church of the miracles performed by Jesus Christ in the period of the Incarnation. And yet I am going to show in the following pages that I subordinate Tradition to Scripture.

scholarly journals Tranen in Gods ogen. De keerzijde van het oordeel in het boek Jeremia

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
H.G.L. Peels
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
New Testament ◽  
The Other ◽  
Divine Judgment ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Divine Violence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Biblical Texts

Among the biblical ‘texts of terror’, the prophetic oracles against the nations stand out in their depictions of human and divine violence. Jeremiah’s lengthy oracle of merciless divine judgment against Moab (Jer. 48), centrally focuses on the curse ‘on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed’ (vs 10). Total annihilation leaves Moab without a future (vs 42). More than the other oracles of Jeremiah 46-49, chapter 48 has a theological interest. The prophetic announcement of Moab’s destruction shows an idiosyncratic alternation of judgment and lament, i.e., fierce divine fierce anger and his regret, divine judgment and his wailing over Moab. Detailed analysis shows that YHWH is most likely the subject of weeping several times in Jeremiah 48. This essay seeks to interpret this language of divine grief not figuratively as an ‘ironic inversion of the lamentation’ (Jones), but as a sign of divine compassion (Fretheim). The appearance of God’s tears in the midst of divine violence, inspires the hope that destruction will not have the last word, thereby pointing to a future the New Testament reveals.

scholarly journals A Re-examination of Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus

1959 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 260-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Family ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sample Page

Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus has been the neglected member of the family of great uncials. Photographic facsimiles have been produced of ℵ, A, B, D, and others, but only a sample page or two of the valuable palimpsest is available in textbooks. All the important codices have been studied and collated more than once. But as regards Codex C only Tischendorf has transcribed its text and edited it according to modern standards. In textbooks on textual criticism Codex C has been given—almost without excepdon—less than half the space of any of the other main uncials. To be sure, it is a difficult manuscript to read, and many lacunae exist. Yet because of its age and the quality of its text, as well as the fact that it contains portions of all the sections of the New Testament, every possible detail should be accurately extracted from this once beautiful codex. Owing to this unwarranted neglect of Codex C, especially the fact that no one had tested the accuracy of Tischendorf's work, a new study was undertaken and a new edition is being prepared. The present article will include (1) a brief history Of thern manuscript and its use by textual critics; (2) introductory items on which new light may be shed or on which previous statements need to be corrected; and finally, (3) a list of the more significant errors found in Tischendorf's edition.

FÉ E RAZÃO: SUA RELAÇÃO EM AGOSTINHO, MESTRE ECKHART E EMANUEL KANT

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (128) ◽  
pp. 349
Author(s):  
Norbert Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
New Testament ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Meister Eckhart ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
Great Simplicity

A fé cristã, que se baseia no Novo Testamento e, por conseguinte, se apoia em uma nova história da salvação, motivou eminentes pensadores como Agostinho, Mestre Eckhart e Emanuel Kant, a investigar, também filosoficamente, a verdade desta mensagem. Agostinho estava convencido de que filosofia (como desejo da sabedoria) e religião não estão mutuamente em uma irreconciliável oposição (Vera rel. 8); Mestre Eckhart procura compreender a verdade supratemporal da doutrina da encarnação e Kant vê a fé cristã como uma “admirável religião“, que “na grande simplicidade de seu relato enriqueceu a filosofia com concepções, bem mais definidas e puras, da moralidade, do que as que até então ela tinha conseguido fornecer” (KU B 462 nota). A religião cristã deve hoje de novo confrontar-se com objeções críticas a respeito de sua verdade. Os autores aqui tratados fornecem orientações, que até agora não foram suficientemente consideradas e merecem ser recordadas.Abstract: The Christian faith, based on the New Testament and, therefore, on a new history of salvation, instigated eminent thinkers such as Augustine, Meister Eckhart and Immanuel Kant to investigate even philosophically the truth of the Gospel’s message. Augustine was convinced that philosophy (as the desire for wisolom) and religion are not necessarily in an irreconcilable opposition (Vera rel. 8); Meister Eckhart sought to comprehend the supratemporal truth of the doctrine of incarnation and Kant believed the Christian Faith to be a “wonderful religion“that in the great simplicity of its statement enriched philosophy with far more definite and purer concepts of morality than philosophy itself could have previously supplied“ (KU B 462 footnote). The Christian religion today is, once again, being confronted to critical objections concerning its own truth. The authors herein mentioned provide us with insights which, until now, have not been considered enough and deserve our attention.

The Eschatology of Tertullian

1952 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Pelikan
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
History Of Theology ◽  
Historical Theology ◽  
The Trinity

One of the most important results of the New Testament study that has gone on during the past generation is its realization that the theology of the New Testament is unintelligible outside the context of its eschatological message. The precise meaning of that message is still the subject of much investigation and controversy, but its importance has become a matter of general agreement among New Testament students. Much less general is the realization of the implications of this insight for other areas of theological concern. Rudolf Bultmann's recent essay on mythology and the New Testament has served to raise again the question of the relevance of New Testament eschatology for systematic theology. That question has far-reaching implications for the study of the history of theology as well, implications with which historical theology has not yet come to terms. The relation between primitive Christian eschatology and the development of ancient Christian theology is a problem deserving of more study than the standard interpretations of the history of dogma have given it, for it can help iiluminate the origins of such dogmas as the Trinity and ancient Christology. Among the historians of dogma, only Martin Werner has taken up the problem in great detail, and his discussion of it has not yet issued in any new historico-theological synthesis.

Le Paraclet dans la notice antimontaniste du PseudoHippolyte, Refutatio omnium haeresium VIII, 19 Les commentaires prophétiques de Priscilla et Maximilla

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-284
Author(s):  
David Pastorelli
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women's Ministry ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Underlying Principle ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Prophetic Office

AbstractThe anti-Montanist notice of Pseudo-Hippolytus, Ref. VIII, 19 is often quoted in research in order to show that the Phrygian prophets wrote numerous books to complete the New Testament. It is, however, marked by an obvious editorial activity: the motive of countless books belongs to the author's heresiological arsenal and should not be counted as a testimony for the history of the New Testament canon. The author is more concerned about the issue of women's ministry : the conflict is on the one hand about the status of Priscilla and Maximilla as prophetic teachers, based on the prophetic office of the Paraclete, and on the other hand about their claims to write « prophetic » commentaries. The underlying principle is the Pauline prohibition that women teach, a fortiori that they write books.

scholarly journals Some Remarks on the Alogi

1890 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
George Park Fisher
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Of late the Alogi (so-called) have been the subject of renewed discussion in Germany. The topic is handled by Dr. A. Harnack in his able and elaborate article on “Monarchianism” in Herzogand Plitt's Encyclopædia (vol. x.), and in his “Dogmengeschichte” (second edition, 1888). It is considered at length in the first half of the first volume of Zahn's “History of the New Testament Canon” (1888). This last publication has called out a polemical review from Harnack, in which the Alogi forms one of the prominent themes. In Zahn's brief pamphlet in reply to Harnack, however, this particular topic is not taken up. The subject, as all are aware, is interesting as a branch of the history of Christology in the second century. It is especially important now for its connection with the debate respecting the authorship of the Fourth Gospel.

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