Chapter Four- A Study of the Day of YHWH Traditions in the Old Testament and in the Prophetic Traditions of the Minor Prophets other than Zephaniah 197

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Minor Prophets

The Minor Prophets as Christian Scripture in the Commentaries of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hauna T. Ondrey
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Cyril Of Alexandria ◽  
Theodore Of Mopsuestia ◽  
Positive Account ◽  
Mosaic Law ◽  
Recent Tendency ◽  
The Church ◽  
Minor Prophets

This work compares the Minor Prophets commentaries of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria, isolating the role each interpreter assigns the Twelve Prophets in their ministry to Old Testament Israel and the texts of the Twelve as Christian scripture. It argues that Theodore does acknowledge christological prophecies, as distinct from both retrospective accommodation and typology. A careful reading of Cyril’s Commentary on the Twelve limits the prospective christological revelation he ascribes to the prophets and reveals the positive role he grants the Mosaic law prior to Christ’s advent. Exploring secondly the Christian significance Theodore and Cyril assign to Israel’s exile and restoration reveals that Theodore’s reading of the Twelve Prophets, while not attempting to be christocentric, is nevertheless self-consciously Christian. Cyril, unsurprisingly, offers a robust Christian reading of the Twelve, yet this too must be expanded by his focus on the church and concern to equip the church through the ethical paideusis provided by the plain sense of the prophetic text. Revised descriptions of each interpreter lead to the claim that a recent tendency to distinguish the Old Testament interpretation of Theodore (negatively) and Cyril (positively) on the basis of their “christocentrism” obscures more than it clarifies and polarizes no less than earlier accounts of Antiochene/Alexandrian exegesis. The Conclusion argues against replacing old dichotomies with new and advocates rather for an approach that takes seriously Theodore’s positive account of the unity and telos of the divine economy and the full range of Cyril’s interpretation.

The Spirit in Daniel and The Twelve

Pneuma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 384-390
Author(s):  
Rick Wadholm
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Constructive Theology ◽  
Canonical Order ◽  
Minor Prophets

Abstract The Spirit moves through the books of Daniel and The Twelve (Minor Prophets). In this article, the relevant texts of these books are examined in brief and summarized with regard to the Spirit’s person and work by means of engagement with those passages making use of ‮רוח‬‎. These summaries that follow the canonical order of the Old Testament are then pointedly summarized by a brief constructive theology of the Spirit in four points: the Spirit testifies, the Spirit judges, the Spirit is life, the Spirit is gift.

scholarly journals Prophets carrying texts by other authors in Byzantine painting: Mistakes or intentional substitutions?

2007 ◽  
pp. 229-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubica Popovich
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Standard Practice ◽  
Byzantine Art ◽  
The Church ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Minor Prophets

Since there are no two identical churches in Byzantine art, consequently there are no two identical iconographic programs. This observation also applies to the representation of prophets in the drums of the domes or in other locations in Byzantine churches. Research dealing with this group of Old Testament figures reveals many variations regarding the planned selection of prophets and choices of the texts that they carry inscribed on their scrolls. This study examines the instances when one of the authors of the prophetic books carries the text by another author. These occurrences are neither frequent nor accidental. Such deviations from standard practice that are explored in this article demonstrate the following: first of all exchanges of text can occur due to the mistake by the artist, as exemplified in the Palace Chapel in Palermo, or by the mistake of the person who inscribed the texts, as in the Chapel of Joachim and Anna in the Monastery Studenica. Secondly, in a number of monuments the text-bearer and the selection of the text by another prophet-author are not accidental. For example, if a number of quotations to be used are chosen from the book by the prophet Isaiah, and he is only represented once, because repetition of the same prophet within a group of Old Testament figures was not practiced, what is to be done? Therefore, other, usually minor, prophets, were selected to hold the scrolls inscribed with the text by other authors, for example Isaiah. Such cases are well documented in the churches of Panagia ton Chalkeon and the Holy Apostles in Thessalonike, and in the church of the Resurrection in Verroia, where the selection of prophets? quotations, usually inspired by the liturgical tradition, furthermore serves to underscore a certain idea of a theological or iconographic nature.

Contributions of Commentaries on the Minor Prophets to the Formation of Distinctive Lutheran and Reformed Confessional Identities

2012 ◽  
Vol 92 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 237-260
Author(s):  
G. Sujin Pak
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Confessional Identity ◽  
Sacred History ◽  
Minor Prophets

The essay explores the question of the evidence of distinct Lutheran and Reformed confessional practices of exegesis particularly concerning interpretations of Old Testament prophecy. It begins by outlining differences in Martin Luther and John Calvin’s practices of christological exegesis and vision of sacred history in their interpretations of the Minor Prophets. Next, it traces the evolution of these differences in a set of figures from the next generation of Lutheran and Reformed exegetes in order to discern whether consistent patterns emerge to indicate ways in which biblical interpretation shaped confessional identity. Through a survey of commentaries on the Minor Prophets by a set of next generation Lutherans (Philip Melanchthon, Aegidius Hunnius, Lucas Osiander, and Nicolas Selnecker) and next generation Reformed (David Pareus, Lambert Daneau, Johannes Drusius, and Johannes Piscator) the author provides a picture of how biblical interpretation did indeed play a significant role in the formation and expression of confessional identity in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hauna T. Ondrey
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Biographical Sketches ◽  
Commentary Tradition ◽  
Minor Prophets

This introductory chapter establishes the scope and significance of the study. In addition to his Christology, Theodore’s Old Testament commentaries were implicated at Constantinople II for their dearth of christological interpretation. Cyril, whose writings featured prominently in Theodore’s condemnation, is, by contrast, judged a pre-eminently christocentric Old Testament interpreter. A close comparison of extant commentaries on the Minor Prophets by both Theodore and Cyril illuminates the Old Testament interpretation of both consequential figures. As Antiochene and Alexandrian interpreters, the comparison bears on the shift away from an Antioch/Alexandria antithesis. Situating the study that follows, this shift is traced and evaluated, highlighting alternate reductions to which the rhetorical turn is vulnerable. Brief biographical sketches then establish the setting of each commentary and locate each interpreter within the broader commentary tradition. An overview of the book’s organization and primary arguments concludes the chapter.

The Shaping of Jonah

1977 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-310
Author(s):  
Mary Katharine Deeley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Divinity School ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Manuscript Copy ◽  
Minor Prophets ◽  
Old Testament Studies

This imaginary exchange of correspondence between his editor and Jonah, the fifth in line of the twelve minor prophets, reminds us of the literary process of transcribing prophecy to prose. Authors always tend to be suspicious of editors; witness the dire anathema pronounced by the author of the Apocalypse against all meddling redactors (Rev. 22:18-19). But sometimes editors and publishers are needed to get immortal narratives into print. Biblical scholars are usually so busy scrutinizing the text, or disputing about hermeneutical methodology, that the rest of us may be completely unaware of the initial state of manuscript copy-editing. Anyway, here is a witty, and scholarly, fantasy about the writing of Jonah, one of the fantastic biblical books. The correspondence comes to us through the good graces of Professor Brevard Childs of Yale Divinity School. Mary Katharine Deeley is a graduate student at Yale, working with Dr. Childs in Old Testament studies. She is an alumna of Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois, and she has taught religion in a parochial high school. We hope our readers are not confused as to who is who among authors, editors, publishers, and literary entrepreneurs. After a reading of the correspondence, perhaps a fresh perusal of the Book of Jonah is in order. It's a little book with a big message—one that Jesus applied to himself (Matt. 12:40).

Cyril of Alexandria

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hauna T. Ondrey
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Cyril Of Alexandria ◽  
Moral Teaching ◽  
The Church ◽  
Minor Prophets

Chapter 5, “Cyril of Alexandria: The Twelve as Christian Scripture,” considers the meaning Cyril draws from the Minor Prophets as Christian scripture. For Cyril, the texts of the Twelve ground the identity of the church in Christ’s work, identifying those within the church as the single beneficiaries of the restoration effected in Christ’s incarnation, death, and resurrection. Through his commentary, Cyril further calls the church to its mission of extending Christ’s victory through true doctrine and virtuous lives, and equips his readers for this mission through the doctrinal and moral teaching of the prophets—most significantly, offering moral interpretation from the plain sense of prophetic admonitions. The Commentary on the Twelve Prophets warrants an expanded account of Cyril’s Old Testament interpretation, acknowledging the prominence of moral and ecclesial exegesis as well as Cyril’s ecclesiology as the necessary context for his supersessionism.

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