scholarly journals The son of man: “Is it constructive theology and history of Jesus for the New Testament writing?”

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-102
Author(s):  
Halim Wiryadinata
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
High Priest ◽  
Constructive Theology ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of

Many scholars and lay people try to figure out the reasons why the Lord JesusChrist uses the title of the son of man to designate Himself. He uses the title ofthe son of man throughout the Gospels, but there are some incidents only appear outside of the Gospels. This appearance is impressing to find out the reasons why the term occurrences in the Gospel. However, the term also appears in few passages outside the Gospels. Therefore, using the method of critical analysis through the library research as the qualitative methodology in order to seek the development of the argument from beginning up today and to see how the New Testament scholars clear up the message of Jesus in using that title. Few scholars comment that term has significant for the Christological development of the New Testament due to the messianic proclamation as thesaviour of the world. Furthermore, the idea of representative between man andGod apparently introduces the idea of the high priest in the New Testamentwriting for Jesus’ Christology. This idea will bring the consumption for BiblicalTheology when scholars seek this terminology in the New Testament writing.

scholarly journals “Son of man” and exegetical myths

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Loba-Mkole
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of

This article aims to show that some of the New Testament interpretations of the "son of man" phrase appear to be, according to B Lindars “a myth, created, not by the thinkers of the New Testament times, but by modern critical scholarship.” This view is substantiated in two ways: the first deals with an exegesis of the expression "son of man", while the second highlights some exegetical myths about "son of man". The first part includes sections on the linguistic origin of "son of man", "son of man" in the history of religions, and "son of man" as a historical figure according to Mark and Q. The second part comprises the sections dealing with the understanding of myth, and the myth of the "son of man" as a messianic title adopted by Jesus and by the early Church.

God’s Pedagogy of the Embodied Soul

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-110
Author(s):  
Bart van Egmond
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of

This chapter deals with Augustine’s thinking on the soteriological meaning of God’s judgement during his stay in Rome and Thagaste. In this period, Augustine starts to engage explicitly with the Manichaean view of evil in the world. Against the Manichees, he interprets the evil that we suffer as a corrective punishment of the Creator on the sinful soul. In continuity with the Alexandrian tradition, Augustine still believes that man by his free will is capable of making a good use of this divine incentive to return. The chapter also addresses God’s use of judgement in the history of salvation. It opposes the views of scholars who have argued that the early Augustine sees the history of salvation as a process of moral progress from the Old to the New Testament, which would imply that God ceased using earthly punishments to educate his people in the time of the New Testament. A final section treats Augustine’s experience of ordination. It argues that Augustine understood his ordination as divine chastisement for his own arrogance.

scholarly journals Engaging Politics in the New Testament Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Shepardson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interesting Class ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
The University

Teaching the historical study of the New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Tennessee requires creativity, confidence, and compassion. The forty-person upper-level “Introduction to the New Testament” course that I teach every year is my most challenging and most pedagogically interesting class, and also the most rewarding. My goal in this class is to make space for a variety of responses to the material while teaching the context and history of the New Testament texts as well as how to think critically about the politics of their interpretation. The challenge is to take the diverse passions that my students bring to the class and help them all to engage together critically with both the historical study of early Christianity and the politics of its interpretation that are so visible in the world around them.

A Sidelight on the ‘Son of Man’

1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gelston
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Previous History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Small Contribution ◽  
The Third ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of

The term ‘Son of Man’ is one of the enigmas of the Gospels. G. Vermes has re-examined the Aramaic background of the phrase in Appendix E of the third edition of M. BlacK's Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts. Even if his argument that barnāsh (ā) is in some passages a mere circumlocution for ‘I’ is not wholly convincing,page 2 he has demonstrated beyond doubt that the phrase was not in New Testament times a title with a clear and recognised meaning, whether messianic or other. The phrase in itself merely signifies ‘man’, whether mankind in general, or a particular man. Only the context can determine its meaning more precisely. Apart from Act 7.56 it is used virtually exclusively in the New Testament by Jesus, and the question of the crowd in John 12.34—‘who is this Son of Man?’ —shows clearly that the expression was not immediately intelligible to the first century,page 3 and that we are not at liberty to dismiss it as no more than an elaborate way of saying ‘man’ or ‘I’. This is the justification of the immense activity that has gone into the exploration of the previous history of the expression, and to which this article is a small contribution.page 4

Orientierung durch Katastrophen

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 362-373
Author(s):  
Michael Labahn
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Apocalyptic Literature ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
Narrative Spaces ◽  
Current Reality

Abstract Catastrophes that threaten life and health have characterized the history of humankind from the very beginning, as has the search for meaning. The descriptions of end-time catastrophes in apocalyptic literature are also concerned with their meaning for the present. In the New Testament, the book of Revelation belongs to this kind of literature. It does not provide a roadmap for the end of the world; the horror images of a subversive narrative aim at understanding the current reality. Using the example of the so-called »damage cycles« (Rev 6:1-17; 8:2-11:19; 15:1-16:21), it will be argued that these texts aim at a theological interpretation that consoles and admonishes its readers by creating narrative spaces for the transience of the seemingly unchangeable Roman rule.

Literature on the New Testament in Germany, Holland, and the Scandinavian Countries, 1921–1924

1926 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-114
Author(s):  
Hans Windisch
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Usual Method ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Complete Analogy

A methodological discussion of the value and use of parallels from the history of religion retains its value, especially to-day, when the ‘religionsgeschichtliche Methode’ is rejected even by some scholars of genuine insight.Deissner,a conservative theologian, recognizes in principle the justification of the method, and aims to set the New Testament in its relation to the history of civilization and of religion. He holds the comparison of Christian traditions with kindred non-christian facts to be indispensable, but criticizes the usual method, as employed for instance by Bousset, on the ground that it pays too much attention to the connection of the New Testament with the world of religion outside and too little to the specific nature of Christianity itself. To him, comparison with other religions is a means for determining the connection and contact of the New Testament with the world at large (for example, in the field of language) with the object of showing how incomparable is the New Testament, how underived, real, original — dogmatically speaking, of showing its supernatural character, built up of elements which the conception of a purely immanent cause leaves unexplained. His book is intended to be conciliatory, and formulates in detail various sound principles, such as the distinction between adopting alien religious terminology and filling it with new and distinctive contents. He errs in making the problem too simple and trying to solve it by a dogma. The relations of primitive Christianity to the development of religion in general are too complicated to be covered by the mere distinction between form and contents. It is also a mistake to identify the individual and distinctive with the essential. To the essential elements of primitive Christian tradition belong in fact those which find complete analogy in syncretism and Judaism, and it is dangerous to rest the character of Christianity as revelation on those elements only which a scholar thinks not to be derivative or to have no analogies. Others may think differently, or the missing analogies may be found to-morrow! (See also Bultmann, ThLZ, 1922, no. 10.)

Jewish Women’s Life and Practice in the World of the New Testament

2019 ◽  
pp. 219-237
Author(s):  
Tal Ilan
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament

The women of the New Testament were Jewish women, and for historians of the period their mention and status in the New Testament constitutes the missing link between the way women are portrayed in the Hebrew Bible and their changed status in rabbinic literature (Mishnah and Talmud). In this chapter, I examine how they fit into the Jewish concepts of womanhood. I examine various recognized categories that are relevant for gender research such as patriarchy, public and private space, law, politics, and religion. In each case I show how these affected Jewish women, and how the picture that emerges from the New Testament fits these categories.

scholarly journals What Did Angola Learn from the World and What Did the World Learn from COVID-19? Reflection on Epidemiological Surveillance in Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-540
Author(s):  
Euclides Nenga Manuel Sacomboio
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Epidemiological Surveillance ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Scientific Reflection ◽  
Epidemiological Situation

The global community is racing to slow down and eventually stop the spread of COVID-19, which is a pandemic that has killed thousands of lives and made tens of thousands sick. The new coronavirus has already reached Angola, with 25 confirmed cases, among them 2 died and 6 were cured. The government has decreed a state of emergency on 24 March 2020 for 15 days, which was extended twice for the same number of days that will make it possible to reduce clusters of people and keep them at home. This study reflected on the diverse ways of leadership. It is an article of theoretical, technical and scientific reflection, based on the experience of a new epidemiological situation, with a critical analysis based on technical, scientific and professional experience, with bibliographic input of data obtained from information published in scientific articles, newspapers, magazines and other official documents published in Angola and worldwide related to COVID-19. This article emerged from critical thinking based on the current situation of COVID-19 in Angola in the world and is reflected in this article, what Angola should learn and learned from the experience of other countries that also imported the disease, their history of investment in health, characteristics of their populations, their economies and other aspects.

Die messiaanse interpretasie van die psalms in enkele Antiocheense en Oos- Siriese psalmkommentare

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (2/3) ◽  
Author(s):  
H.F. Van Rooy
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Supplementary Data ◽  
Theodore Of Mopsuestia ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Psalm 110 ◽  
History Of ◽  
Psalm 22 ◽  
Allegorical Interpretation

The messianic interpretation of the psalms in a number of Antiochene and East Syriac psalm commentariesThe Antiochene exegetes interpreted the psalms against the backdrop of the history of Israel. They reconstructed a historical setting for each psalm. They reacted against the allegorical interpretation of the Alexandrian School that frequently interpreted the psalms from the context of the New Testament. This article investigates the messianic interpretation of Psalms 2 and 110, as well as the interpretation of Psalm 22, frequently regarded as messianic in non-Antiochene circles. The interpretation of these psalms in the commentaries of Diodore of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia and Išô`dâdh of Merv will be discussed, as well as the commentary of Denha-Gregorius, an abbreviated Syriac version of the commentary of Theodore. The commentaries of Diodore and Theodore on Psalm 110 are not available. The interpretation of this psalm in the Syriac commentary discussed by Vandenhoff and the commentary of Išô`dâdh of Merv, both following Antiochene exegesis, will be used for this psalm. The historical setting of the psalms is used as hermeneutical key for the interpretation of all these psalms. All the detail in a psalm is interpreted against this background, whether messianic or not. Theodore followed Diodore and expanded on him. Denha-Gregorius is an abbreviated version of Theodore, supplemented with data from the Syriac. Išô`dâdh of Merv used Theodore as his primary source, but with the same kind of supplementary data from the Syriac.

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