Überlegungen zu ausgewählten Aspekten der Behandlung des Jeremiabuchs in der Monographie von Benjamin Ziemer „Kritik des Wachstumsmodells“ (2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-215
Author(s):  
Hermann-Josef Stipp
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Redaction Criticism ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
One Stage ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
Book Of Jeremiah ◽  
Old Testament Studies

Abstract In a massive study, Benjamin Ziemer has launched a scathing stricture of redaction criticism in Old Testament studies. Based on comparative material from an impressive range of Ancient Near Eastern, biblical, early Jewish and early Christian literature, he maintains that diachronic research is unable to deliver meaningful reconstructions that reach more than one stage of textual development behind the present biblical text. Moving beyond that boundary would amount to unfettered speculation. While his appraisal is overwhelmingly negative, there is one biblical book on which he endeavors to devise a redaction-critical hypothesis of his own: the book of Jeremiah. The article evaluates Ziemer’s theory on Jeremiah and draws some general conclusions regarding the validity of his verdict on traditional redaction-critical research.

scholarly journals Metafora soli w Biblii i literaturze wczesnochrześcijańskiej

Vox Patrum ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 221-243
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Celestyn Paczkowski
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
The Way

The article presents the complex symbolism of salt that was strongly in­fluenced by the rites and beliefs of the pagan and the biblical world as well as early Christian literature. The salt is an element present in every aspect of human life (food, medicine and religious cults). It played an important role in sacrifices and offerings of Old Testament. For this reason, Jesus’ use of this metaphor was extremely familiar to His followers. On the biblical bases the various allegorical motifs of salt were present in Christian authors. Metaphors associated with the salt became precise and rich. Salt was a symbolic figure of wisdom, moral cleanness and incorruptibility. God’s salt enabled one to triumph over the spiritual enemy. The Fathers taught to point others to the way of life, to show how they might be preserved from death and destruction. They pointed out how the purpose of Christian life depended on their spiritual saltiness.

scholarly journals RHETORICAL CRITICISM AND THE AFFECTIVE DIMENSION OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-353
Author(s):  
Ley Roy Martin
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Rhetorical Criticism ◽  
New Method ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Affective Dimension ◽  
Affective Content ◽  
Form Criticism ◽  
Old Testament Studies

In the years since James Muilenburg challenged biblical scholars to move beyond form criticism, rhetorical criticism has become an accepted method within Old Testament studies. Biblical scholars, however, have been hesitant to examine the affective argument of biblical rhetoric, what Aristotle called pathos. This article suggests that the biblical documents advocate for certain agendas, and they use both logical and affective proofs to form their arguments. Therefore, what is offered here is a critical approach to examining the affective content of the biblical text, not as a new method, but as one part of the larger hermeneutical strategy

scholarly journals Is die Massoretiese teks die Ou Testament?

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
F. E. Deist
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Orthodox View ◽  
Theological Concept ◽  
Old Testament Studies

Is the Massoretic text the Old Testament? The equation of “the Old Testament” with the Massoretic text resulted from, inter alia, the Reformation’s sola scriptura principle and the orthodox view of verbal inspiration, and led to a definition of textual criticism as text restoration. Text-critical research of the past two decades suggests, however, that this equation may be a short circuit. The term “Old Testament" refers to a theological concept, not a text, and “the Old Testament” is something different from “the Hebrew Bible”. Therefore, a great deal of rethinking is called for in Old Testament studies.

Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. deSilva
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Early Judaism ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Era

Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha are terms used to label a large body of early Jewish and early Christian literature written between the 3rd century bce and the first centuries of the common era. The Apocrypha, or Deuterocanonical Books (a term referring to the collection’s canonical status within certain Christian bodies), exists as a collection because of the reading practices of early Christians, who placed an especially high value on these texts and often included them in codices of their Scriptures (the Septuagint), and by ongoing canonical debates about the extent of the “Old Testament” within the Christian Church. Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches include these books as part of the Old Testament; Protestant Christians, following the Jewish canon of Scriptures, do not. The Pseudepigrapha is a much broader collection of extrabiblical literature. “Pseudepigrapha” refers technically to texts with a false attribution of authorship, though the collection has come to include several anonymous texts as well. The scope of texts included in the collection varies from edition to edition. Generally, the collection contains at a minimum pseudonymous Jewish extrabiblical writings from about 200 bce to 200 ce. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha are of immense value as windows into the development of biblical interpretation, theology, ethics, and liturgy in Early Judaism and Christianity, as well as into the sociocultural and historical contexts within which these developments occurred.

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