The Craft of History and the Study of the New Testament. By Beth M. Sheppard. Resources for Biblical Study, 60. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012. Pp. xii + 267. Paper, $32.95.

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-155
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Skinner
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
Biblical Study ◽  
The New Testament

scholarly journals Rhetorical criticism and the hermeneutics of the New Testament

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E.M. Cornelius
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Rhetorical Criticism ◽  
Potential Effectiveness ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
The New Testament

It is argued that rhetorical criticism is increasingly recognized as a method of interpretation of biblical literature. From the discussion in this article it becomes clear that there are different perspectives of rhetorical criticism just as there are different theories of rhetoric. It is argued that contemporary critics need to develop an interdisciplinary method of rhetorical criticism in order to answer questions about the potential effectiveness of a rhetorical act. It is concluded that the rhetorical critic needs a combination of "old" methods in order to answer new questions.

scholarly journals Questioning Bonhoeffer on Temptation

2020 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-285
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Munzer
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Biblical Study ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
In Christ

This article engages critically and constructively with Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s biblical study ‘Temptation’ (1938). His study does not always do justice to the text of the New Testament or the theodicean and hamartiological issues pertaining to temptation. And his position that biblically temptation is not the testing of strength, but rather the loss of all strength and defenceless deliverance into Satan’s hands, is hard to defend. However, Bonhoeffer’s idea of Christ-reality undergirds his suggestion that all persons can find in Christ participation, help, and grace in resisting temptation. Bonhoeffer’s most important insight, which requires some unpacking, is that ‘my temptation is nothing other than the temptation of Jesus Christ in me.’

The Theological Appropriation of the Old Testament by the New Testament

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Black
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Biblical Study ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Law

To speak, in general terms, of trends in modern biblical study is often to over-simplify; and certainly to claim that there has been, in recent years, a trend away from the traditional classicist or ‘hellenist’ approach to New Testament problems towards a more Hebraic or semitic-centred approach would be to be guilty of the same exaggeration as E. C. Hoskyns in 1930: ‘(There are) grounds for supposing no further progress in the understanding of … Christianity to be possible unless the ark of New Testament exegesis be recovered from its wanderings in the land of the Philistines (sic) and be led back not merely to Jerusalem, for that might mean contemporary Judaism, but to its home in the midst of the classical Old Testament Scriptures — to the Law and the Prophets.’ There is, nevertheless, some truth in A. M. Hunter's later statement: ‘After ransacking all sorts of sources, Jewish and Greek (and, we may add, starting all sorts of “hares”, some of which have not run very well), (scholars) are discovering the truth of Augustine's dictum, “The New Testament lies hidden in the Old, and the Old is made plain in the New”’ (Novum Testamentum in vetere latet, vetus in novo patet).

Recent Eastern Orthodox Interpretation of the New Testament

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-340
Author(s):  
Timothy Clark
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Orthodox Interpretation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Study ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Eastern Orthodox Church

Interpretation of the Bible in the Eastern orthodox Church has until recently been largely determined by the dogmatic imperatives of the ecclesial institution. in the “last several decades, however, a variety of Orthodox scholars have launched significant investigations of the Bible and particularly of the New Testament using methododolgy modeled on that of the Western scholarly academy, while in some cases continuing to search for a specifically 'Orthodox' approach to biblical study. This article concentrates primarily on developments in New Testament interpretation among orthodox biblical scholars in North america over the last three decades, focusing on the contributions of a generation of researchers responsible for the first significant expansion of Orthodox biblical study into modern academia and looking forward to newer voices and research directions in the orthodox world.

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