scholarly journals Biblical quotations in Faustus’s Capitula

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob A. Van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Catholic Priest ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Roman Africa ◽  
Insight Into

Scholars are still of the opinion that Augustine first started to read and discuss the Bible only once he became a Catholic Christian, or even only after his appointment as a Catholic priest. The possibility of Manichaean influences on Augustine’s reproduction of biblical texts is therefore, in many cases, not taken into account. However, the study of (Latin) Manichaean sources gives us reason to rethink that position. This article is an investigation of the use of Scripture in the most extensive, still existing Manichaean work, originally written in Latin, namely the Capitula. Its author was the Manichaean bishop Faustus (flor. app. 380 CE Roman Africa). The most important subject in the Capitula concerns those parts of Scripture that bear relevance to the real Christian. Therefore, the work provides important insight into the Manichaeans’ use and appreciation of Scripture. Faustus was well-known to the young Augustine and as a consequence the Capitula could well give us important insights into Augustine’s knowledge of and opinions on Scripture as a Manichaean hearer. One problem with this theory is the fact that Augustine only received the work some 13 years after his conversion to Catholic Christianity. However, the examination of the quotations from Scripture, that have as its focus those from the Old Testament, illustrates, amongst others, that Faustus mainly used Biblical texts already quoted in the works of Addas/Adimantus (flor. 270 CE). The Capitula turns out to be an eloquent recycling of earlier Manichaean biblical arguments – a fact that makes it very likely that the content of the Capitula was known to Augustine in his Manichaean years. As a consequence, one should reckon with Manichaean influence on Augustine’s reproduction of biblical texts.

ALEXANDER GEDDES AT THE LIMITS OF THE CATHOLIC ENLIGHTENMENT

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK GOLDIE
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
Catholic Priest ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Catholic Enlightenment ◽  
French Republicanism ◽  
The Revolution ◽  
Episcopal Authority

ABSTRACTIn the closing decades of the eighteenth century, Alexander Geddes (1737–1802) pressed Catholicism and the Enlightenment to the limits of their tolerance. A Catholic priest, he fled the censure of his Scottish superiors and settled in England, where he became a spokesman for the Catholic laity in their controversies with the hierarchy, and mingled in radical Protestant circles among the ‘Rational Dissenters’. In three domains, he appalled his contemporaries. First, Geddes prepared a new version of the Bible, which threatened to undermine the integrity of revelation, and offered mythopoeic accounts of the Old Testament that influenced Blake and Coleridge. Second, he embraced ‘ecclesiastical democracy’, denouncing papal and episcopal authority and proclaiming British Catholics to be ‘Protesting Catholic Dissenters’. Third, he applauded French republicanism, and adhered to the Revolution long after Edmund Burke had rendered such enthusiasm hazardous. Geddes was an extreme exponent of the Catholic Enlightenment, yet equally he was representative of several characteristic strands of eighteenth-century Catholicism, which would be obliterated in the ultramontane revanche of the following century.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Kosmologi Bumi Datar dalam Eskatologi Alkitab

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Asigor Parongna Sitanggang
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Critical Hermeneutic ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
End Times ◽  
The Universe

Understanding the eschatology of each group or ecclesiastical school is quite diverse because this subject is indeed a difficult thing. This paper, Pengaruh Kosmologi Bumi Datar dalam Eskatologi Alkitab (The Influence of Flat Earth Cosmology in Bible Eschatology), aims to re-explore biblical texts relating to eschatology or the end of time. Of all the biblical texts available, it is found that the end times do not talk about the destruction of the earth and/or the universe and replace it with something completely or absolutely new, but only include natural disasters without destroying the absolute earth and/or the universe, so it is the renewal of the earth/universe that exists, now, inhabited by humans. This paper is the result of library research using the historical-critical hermeneutic method of the biblical texts used, including the two-source theory for the synoptic gospels. What is intended in this paper is that many eschatological texts or the texts discuss about the end times in the Bible, both Old Testament as also the New Testament, are strongly influenced by the understanding of flat-earth cosmology, so that reading of these biblical texts should not be carried out using the understanding of modern round-earth cosmology round. AbstrakPemahaman eskatologi masing-masing kelompok atau aliran gerejawi cukup beragam karena memang pokok ini adalah hal yang sulit. Makalah ini, Pengaruh Kosmo-logi Bumi Datar dalam Eskatologi Alkitab, bertujuan untuk menggali ulang teks-teks biblis yang berkaitan dengan eskatologi atau akhir zaman. Dari semua teks biblis yang ada, maka ditemukan bahwa akhir zaman tidak berbicara mengenai penghancuran bumi dan/atau alam semesta dan menggantikannya dengan sesuatu yang sepenuhnya atau mutlak baru, melainkan hanya menyertakan bencana-bencana alam tanpa menghancur-kan mutlak bumi dan/atau alam semesta, sehingga itu merupakan pembaruan bu-mi/alam semesta yang ada, yang sekarang, yang didiami manusia. Makalah ini merupa-kan hasil penelitian kepustakaan dengan menggunakan metode hermeneutik historis-kritis atas teks-teks biblis yang digunakan, termasuk teori dua sumber bagi Injil-injil sinoptik. Yang hendak dibuktikan dalam makalah ini adalah terdapat banyak teks eskato-logis atau tentang akhir zaman dalam Alkitab baik Perjanjian Lama maupun Perjanjian Baru yang sangat dipengaruhi oleh pemahaman kosmologi bumi datar (flat-earth cosmology), sehingga pembacaan teks-teks biblis tersebut tidak boleh dilakukan dengan menggunakan pemahaman kosmologi bumi bulat (round-earth cosmology).

scholarly journals Perbudakan dalam Perjanjian Lama: Sebuah Kajian Tekstual dan Intertekstual atas Teks-teks Perbudakan dalam Perjanjian Lama

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 298-314
Author(s):  
Yohanes Rahdianto Suprandono ◽  
Robert Setio
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Cultural Setting ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Postmodern Thinking

Abstract. By not explicitly prohibiting slavery has created the impression that the Bible does accept slavery. This paper intended to examine the biblical texts that raise the idea of slavery. Its main focus was texts in the Old Testament. These texts would be examined by considering the ancient Middle Eastern cultural setting. This paper would also bring together the pro and anti-slavery texts in a tensional relationship. This way distinguishes this writing from other writings which tend to take only one position, either pro or anti-slavery. The idea of seeing texts in a tensional relationship implies a postmodern thinking. The benefit of this paper is to build awareness that slavery is a practice that needs to be opposed but at the same time difficult to abolish. Therefore, a struggle against slavery still needs to be launched even though slavery has been formally and legally abolished.Abstrak. Dengan tidak tegasnya larangan terhadap perbudakan dalam Alkitab telah menimbulkan pemahaman bahwa Alkitab memang menerima perbudakan. Tulisan ini bermaksud memeriksa teks-teks Alkitab yang mengangkat gagasan perbudakan. Fokus utamanya adalah teks-teks dalam Perjanjian Lama. Teks-teks tersebut akan diperiksa dengan mempertimbangkan latar budaya Timur Tengah Kuno. Kemudian beberapa teks yang sering digunakan untuk mendukung dan menetang perbudakan akan dipahami kembali dalam sebuah ketegangan. Pilihan ini sekaligus membedakan tulisan ini dengan tulisan-tulisan lain yang cenderung mengambil salah satu posisi saja, entah pro atau anti perbudakan. Gagasan untuk melihat teks-teks dalam sebuah ketegangan ini secara implisit menyiratkan pemikiran posmodern. Manfaat tulisan ini adalah untuk membangun kesadaran bahwa perbudakan merupakan praktek yang perlu ditentang namun sekaligus sulit dihapuskan.

scholarly journals Menjembatani Teks dan Konteks

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-273
Author(s):  
Agustinus Setiawidi
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

Although efforts to construct Old Testament theology in Indonesia started in the 1970s, as attested in the number of theses and dissertations written by Indonesian scholars, the shape of contextual biblical theology itself remains dominated by a one-way model. The Bible is taken to be source, inspiration, evaluator, or teacher, while readers merely listen, imitate, and adhere to it. Yet readers today, who come from dynamically variegated contexts, are inevitably required to bridge-build between biblical texts and their own respective contexts. In view of this, dialogue in its broadest sense becomes the key to constructing a biblical theology overall, including OT theology. This paper challenges biblical theologians to find available approaches and, deploying them properly, to construct contextual Old Testament theology in Indonesia.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Lipka
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Methodological Foundation ◽  
Women In The Bible ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Biblical Texts

There was relatively little scholarship focusing on women, gender, and sexuality in the Hebrew Bible until the 1970s, when modern feminist biblical scholarship first started to emerge as an outgrowth of second-wave feminism. In the 1980s, feminist biblical criticism fully blossomed as a discipline, inspiring a large body of work focusing on issues such as the depiction, treatment, and roles of women, the interrelationship between gender and power, and views toward women’s sexuality in biblical texts, and what can be discerned about various aspects of the lives of women in ancient Israel based on biblical and other evidence. In the past few decades, as the body of scholarship on women in the Bible has continued to grow, it has also broadened its scope as new methodologies and hermeneutical approaches have been introduced. Inspired in part by the rise of third wave feminism in the 1990s, there has also been an increasing amount of scholarship focusing on the intersection of race, class, and ethnicity with gender and sexuality in biblical texts, and an increasing awareness of the need to include more voices from the “two-thirds” world in the scholarly dialogue. In addition to being subjects covered by those engaging in feminist criticism, gender and sexuality studies both emerged as discrete fields in the 1980s, as biblical scholars, building upon the methodological foundation established by theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, began to examine the social, cultural, and historical construction of gender and sexuality in biblical texts. The last few decades have seen a flourishing of scholarship on gender and sexuality in the Bible that continues to both build on these foundations and go beyond them, as scholars incorporate new approaches and methodologies from the areas of gender theory, queer studies, masculinities studies, and, most recently, intersex studies into their work, offering innovative and incisive readings that shed a vivid new light on seemingly familiar biblical texts.

The Ten Commandments, Postcards, and Methodological Issues and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
pp. 503-520
Author(s):  
Scott M. Langston
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Protestant Christianity ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

Understanding the relationship between the Bible and popular culture requires a multidimensional approach that recognizes and integrates the various factors involved in particular uses of the Bible. Rather than studying these features in isolation from each other, focusing on their dynamic interplay demonstrates how biblical texts function as but one of many components in larger cultural productions. Furthermore, it shows how popular culture can act as a filter that selects and excludes elements of a biblical text for its own purposes, while transforming the text’s meanings. Popular uses of the Bible frequently reflect keen insight into biblical texts and often create innovative readings that go beyond academic methodologies, purposes, and abilities. Scholars therefore can learn much about the Bible from popular culture. Gilded Age and Progressive Era picture postcards of the Ten Commandments reflect this interplay, illustrating how factors such as capitalism, Victorian gender norms, American Protestant Christianity, and American exceptionalism combined to shape biblical expressions and uses.

scholarly journals Die huwelik as identiteitsmerker in die Ou Testament

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter M. Venter
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Marriage as identity marker in the Old Testament The formularies used for consecrating marriages in the Nederduitsch Hervormde Church reflect this church’s view on matrimony. As the biblical bases of the formularies are deficient, new ways of exploring biblical information on this subject should be followed. This article proposes that data on marriage in the Bible always be used in conjunction with other concepts to form theological constructs to outline who God is and who his people are. It is always intended to be an identity marker to the members of the church. In the three Genesis cycles of Genesis 11:10-25:11; 25:12-35:29 and 36:1-50:26 heirship, marriage and land are used in an integrated construct to indicate the identity of the post-exilic community in Yehud. In the penitential prayers of Ezra 9:6-15 and Nehemia 9:5b-37 the concepts law, land and marriage are jointly used to depict the identity of the “real” Israel. The conclusion drawn from this investigation is that the Bible does not present models for marriage, but rather theological constructs to understand the relationship with the Lord in metaphorical terms and to reflect on the meaning of everyday life of that relationship including matrimony under ever changing social circumstances.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Hofreiter
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Reception History ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts

The introduction sketches out the moral, theological, and hermeneutical problems posed by ‘genocidal texts’ in the Old Testament, framing the hermeneutical challenge in terms of the following inconsistent set of propositions: (1) God is good. (2) The Bible is true. (3) Genocide is atrocious. (4) According to the Bible, God commanded and commended genocide. (5) No good being, let alone the supremely good Being, would ever command or commend an atrocity. The most pertinent biblical texts are then briefly presented. In addition, the methodological approach, that is, reception history, is set in its historical context, which includes a discussion of its recent resurgence and contemporary relevance. Finally, recent academic treatments of similar topics are discussed and an overview of the rest of the work is given.

The Temple

1950 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-287
Author(s):  
Thomas Hannay
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Main Structure ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Temple

For some time past there has been a great need that theology should become more biblical, and that biblical studies should become more theological. To-day there are welcome signs that this is coming about, which is in effect a reviving sense of the authority of the Bible. There is a feeling that if criticism has not finished its task—which can hardly be the case—it is time that it was supplemented by something else; that it has too long dominated biblical studies as though it were the very building, whereas it is in fact a means of securing the foundations on which the main structure can be raised; that its necessary method of analysis, increasingly elaborated, has tended to destroy the recognition of the majestic structure of the biblical revelation and its unity. Thus Dr Vincent Taylor in the introduction to his Jesus and His Sacrifice confessed that after twenty-five years devoted to the minutiae of synoptic criticism, he had a great desire to consider what the Gospels really have to say for themselves. In the realm of Old Testament studies there has emerged a sense that, Israel's history being so remarkable, it is useless to brush aside all the later developments of, let us say, the Priestly Code as regrettable and retrograde; it is wiser and more helpful to ask what their significance really is, and whether they do not rather witness to the rich fulness of religion under the old covenant. The point to be driven home is just this: when the sources have been analysed and dated as far as may be, then begins the real task of considering what is the significance of the contents. That can and will only be found in our Lord Jesus Christ. But that in effect means allowing the Bible to be its own interpreter, explaining one part by another. Especially when seeking for the significance of the Old Testament must the search be carried over into the New Testament. It seems worth while to try and work this method out on the theme of the temple.

scholarly journals Konsistensi Konsep Keselamatan adalah Anugerah dalam Masa Intertestamental

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Agustin Soewitomo Putri
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
God's People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Power Of God

The period between the Old Testament and the New Testament is often referred to as the intertestamental period which is approximately 400 years apart, during which time no prophet appears to be the successor of God's voice. Ended by the prophet Malachi and the book of Chronicles the Bible does not give any record. This certainly raises so many questions as to what happened in that dark age, whether God really did not do anything among God's people, especially the Israelites, while at that time the Israelites had repeatedly experienced good colonization from Persian, Greek or Roman. By using descriptive methods and historical analysis, this discussion will provide an insight into God's faithfulness to His covenant to the people, and how the concept of salvation has not changed even though in the 400 years that God did not speak to His people. Understanding the consistency of the concept of salvation is a gift in intertestamental times will open a new understanding of the power of God in keeping the covenants and His Word.AbstractMasa antara Perjanjian Lama dengan Perjanjian Baru seringkali disebut dengan masa intertesta-men yang berjarak lebih kurang 400 tahun, di mana sepanjang masa tersebut tidak ada nabi yang muncul menjadi penerus suara dari Tuhan. Diakhiri oleh Nabi Maleakhi dan kitab Tawarikh maka Alkitab tidak memberikan catatan apa pun. Hal tersebut tentu memunculkan begitu banyak pertanyaan dengan apa yang terjadi dalam masa kegelapan tersebut, apakah memang Allah betul-betul tidak berbuat sesuatu apapun di tengah-tengah umat Tuhan, khususnya bangsa Israel, sementara pada masa tersebut bangsa Israel berkali-kali mengalami penjajahan baik dari Persia, Yunani ataupun Romawi. Dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif dan analisis historis, pemba-hasan ini akan memberikan pandangan tentang kesetiaan Allah dengan perjanjianNya kepada umat, serta bagaimana konsep keselamatan itu tidak mengalami pergeseran sekalipun dalam keadaan 400 tahun Tuhan tidak berbicara kepada umatNya. Memahami konsistensi konsep keselamatan adalah anugerah dalam masa intertestamental akan membukakan pemahaman baru tentang kekuatan Allah dalam memelihara perjanjian dan FirmanNya.

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