The Extent and Nature of the Use of Classical Sources in Villalón's El scholástico

1983 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-398
Author(s):  
Jean Moore Kiger
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
The University ◽  
Cristobal De Villalon

El scholástico, written by Cristóbal de Villalón in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, is a typical philosophical treatise of the Renaissance, the most striking evidence of which is its very extensive employment of figures and learning from Classical literature. All but a handful of the 57I different names which appear in El scholástico, and a large majority of all materials used therein, originated in the period before A.D. 500.A complex treatise, approximately two-thirds the length of the New Testament, El scholástico reflects at once a Renaissance ideal and a classical tradition in its setting, literary form, and format. The dialogue, which is essentially Ciceronian in style (although Villalón states that his models for the dialogue were Plato and Macrobius), represents a lengthy interchange between illustrious contemporary scholars of the University of Salamanca.

If We Do Not Cut the Parables out of Their Frames

1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birger Gerhardsson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The University

The New Testament discipline is a rather odd bird within the university. The object of our research is small, a book we can have in our pocket. And the learned work with this book has been carried out for a long time: acute theologians have studied it for almost two millennia and critical scholars for two centuries; there is hardly any counterpart. The secondary literature is as the grains of sand on the sea-shore.

An Overview of the Catenae

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-154
Author(s):  
Gilles Dorival
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Biblical Commentary ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Persuasive Arguments ◽  
Severus Of Antioch

Catenae appeared in Judaea/Palestine at the beginning of the sixth century. They consist of commentaries, homilies, scholia of the past centuries, and any other literary form in which Scripture verses are explained. Ecclesiastical writings are quoted in the form of extracts, sometimes literal, sometimes rewritten, according to the order of the verses of each Biblical book. Each extract is normally preceded by the name of its author in the genitive case. With time, the catenae were formed not only from commentaries, homilies, scholia, and other patristic writings, but also from pre-existing catenae mixed with these sources. After the sixth century, catenae became the most important media of biblical commentary until the end of the Byzantium Empire (1453). Many debated issues remain. Is Procopius of Gaza (470–530) the father of the catenae? Maybe the two-author catenae predate him, even if this form is better connected with the Byzantine humanism of the ninth and tenth centuries. As for the multiple-author catenae, it is not certain if any of them do are prior Procopius. The compilers of the catenae began their project with the Old Testament, as it was considered to be obscure and foundational to the New Testament, whereas the New Testament was considered to be clear and explicative of the Old Testament. The identity of the compilers of the catenae is shrouded in mystery. Only a few names are known: chiefly, Procopius of Gaza in Palestine and Nicetas of Heraclea in Constantinople. Other names have been proposed: the patriarch Photius, Peter of Laodicea, John Drougarios, but without any persuasive arguments. A final issue concerns Monophysite (or Miaphysite) catenae: were some catenae Monophysite? Or was this literary form indifferent to questions of orthodoxy? In some catenae, Severus of Antioch is called ‘saint’, which may indicate a Monophysite origin. Finally, despite recent progress, many catenae still await publication. For instance, Nicetas’ catena on the Psalms is a monumental work of Byzantine scholarship and it deserves to be available to modern readers.

Double Honor: Elite Hutterite Women in the Sixteenth Century

2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 753-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Darlage
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Early Church ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Church

Studies of early modern Anabaptism have shown that many Anabaptists sought to model their communities after the examples of the New Testament and the early church before the “fall” of the church into a coercive, sword-wielding institution through the person of Constantine in the fourth centuryc.e.The Anabaptists claimed that one had to voluntarily choose to become a Christian through believer's baptism and suffer for his or her faith just as the martyrs of old had done in the face of Roman persecution. During the course of the sixteenth century, their Protestant and Roman Catholic enemies did not disappoint, as hundreds of Anabaptists were executed for their rejection of “Christendom.” To the “magisterial” Christians, Anabaptists were dangerous heretics because they denied the God-given power of spiritual and secular authorities.

scholarly journals Die historiese ondersoek na Jesus van Nasaret in perspektief

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (2/3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andries Van Aarde
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
The Real ◽  
Central Topic ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

Historical Jesus research in perspective. The quest for the historical Jesus has been a vitally central topic in New Testament scholarship. The article aims at explaining to non-scholars some of the premisses and methods of this historical critical enterprise. Issues concerning the question about who the 'real' Jesus is, the relevance of the quest seen from the angles of both the church and the university, the nature of historical inquiry and criteria applied in historical Jesus research, and the resurrection and the virginal conception are discussed. The article is written from the assumption that the Jesus who matters is both the Jesus of history and the Jesus of faith. It is shown that historical investigation reveals trajectories respectively with regard to reports about the resurrection and the virgininal conception of Jesus in the New Testament and with regard to creedal statements.

Interpreting the Bible

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Rivers
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Bible Reading

The Bible was the most important book for the writers and readers discussed in this study. This chapter covers access to the Bible and advice on how to read it for children, families, and those of little education; Bible distribution; responses to Bible reading; biblical abridgements and extracts; works targeted at educated readers who disdained biblical in comparison with classical literature; annotated editions of the whole Bible or the New Testament, for families and those with no knowledge of the biblical Hebrew or Greek. The biblical recommenders and editors discussed include Isaac Watts, Henry Venn, John Reynolds, Sarah Trimmer, James Hervey, David Simpson, and Matthew Henry, and there are detailed accounts of the structure and aims of Philip Doddridge’s Family Expositor, John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, and Thomas Scott’s The Holy Bible … with Original Notes, and Practical Observations.

11Q Melchizedek and the New Testament

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. De Jonge ◽  
A. S. Van Der Woude
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The University

The following article is the result of frequent conversations between the two authors about the fragments of a scroll from the 11th Cave at Qumran, recently published by A. S. van der Woude. At a later stage the fragments as well as the material for this article were discussed in a number of meetings of the Qumran seminar in the University of Groningen. The authors wish to thank the members of that seminar (and others) for stimulating comments and suggestions and hope that their article in turn will stimulate others to further research on this interesting new document.

A Literary Form in the New Testament

1964 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-50
Author(s):  
Terence Y. Mullins
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Koine Greek ◽  
Different Order

AbstractThe Disclosure is a literary form identifiable in koine Greek of the New Testament period. Its characteristics are four: the use of identification of the person addressed, a noetic verb in the infinitive, and the information, usually introduced by óIt may also have a vocative address. The termination of the New Testament Thanksgiving form can be delineated by the appearance of a recognizable element of the Disclosure or, more often, of the Petition. The elements of the Disclosure appear in a fairly rigid order in the non-literary papyri; a far less rigid and quite different order is followed in the New Testament uses of the Disclosure.

Symposium on the Shema

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-147
Author(s):  
Peter Zaas
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
National Association ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The University

A panel of scholars ostensibly addressed “Shema in the Synoptic Gospels” at the 2017 Boston meeting of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. “Ostensibly” because while all the essays acknowledge the significance of the keystone of both Jewish theology and liturgy for the authors of the New Testament, every essay focused on something larger than the narrow announced topic. Each, following the lead of Dr. Roberta Sabbath of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, who describes the polemical nature of the Shema, notes how the statement of God's unity (whether or not followed by the Love and Tzitzit Commands) functions within the theological and cultural argument among Jews, Christians and Muslim, and within the Jewish and Christian communities as well.

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