On the Web (January 28, 2011)
On the Web:
- Alin Suciu provides a PDF of the now public-domain R. Draguet, Julien d’Halicarnasse et sa controverse avec Sévère d’Antioche sur l’incorruptibilité du corps du Christ (Louvain: Smeesters, 1924). The bibliographic entry is available here (BibTeX).
- Google Books has Adolf Deissman’s Bible Studies (trans. Alexander Grieve; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1903) available for download in PDF format. The bibliographic entry is available here (BibTeX).
- Logos 4.5 (SR1) is available with some minor bug fixes, and Evernote for Windows gets a major update for its PDF handling.
- Jim Davila notes a couple updates about recent stories of Jewish manuscript finds in Afghanistan (1, 2), as does John Byron.
- John Byron reflects on a selection from Thomas à Kempis and lectures on rewritten Bible.
- Marc Cortez discusses “How to Reject a Rejection Letter,” announces a series on the value of blogging, and begins this series by considering how blogging can improve writing.
- Richard Hays delivers lectures on “Torah Reconfigured: Reading Scripture with Matthew” and “The One Who Redeems Israel: Reading Scripture with Luke” (HT: Kerry Lee).
- Matthew Montonini notes some new Durham University dissertations that are available and collects links to audio resources by Rikk Watts.
- Charles Jones mentions the website of the Berliner Papyrusdatenbank, which includes some papyrus images.
- Robert Woods discusses C. S. Lewis’s “Reading of Old Books.” For links to the essay’s full text, please see here.
- Larry Hurtado considers “Bousset and ‘Early High Christology.’”
- Brian LePort notes an interview with Peter Williams on the Gospels’ reliability.
- Greg Goswell has the latest article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, “An Early Commentary on the Pauline Corpus: The Capitulation of Codex Vaticanus.” For the full text of the article, please see the JGRChJ’s current volume page.
Logos 4.5
Despite what was apparently some earlier confusion about the timing of the release, Logos 4.5 is now shipping. This significant update mainly introduces improvements in highlighting and note taking, but it contains several other improvements also. For the full release notes, see here.
Master of the Sea, Son of God
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Matthew 14:22–33 narrates Jesus’ walking on water. Yet, unlike the parallel accounts in Mark 6:45–52; John 6:15–21, Matt 14:33 reports that the disciples’ conclusion, at the end of this episode, was ἀληθῶς θεοῦ υἱὸς εἶ (truly, you are the son of God). Apparently thinking along the lines similar to Heb 3:5–6, Archelaus, Disputation with Manes, 44 (ANF 6:220), relates this text to Jesus’ superiority to Moses. Perhaps more to the point here, however, is a chaos-versus-creation motif (Boring, “Matthew,” NIB 8, 327) in which Jesus subjects the surrounding disorder (Graves, “Followed by the Sun,” RevExp 99, no. 1 [2002]: 92; Ladd, Theology of the New Testament, rev.ed., 163; Verseput, “The Faith of the Reader,” JSNT 46 [1992]: 14–16; cf. Augustine, Serm., 25.6 [NPNF1 6:338]; Jerome, Epist., 30 [NPNF2 6:45]). He does so, first, by walking on the sea himself and then all the more by causing Peter to do the same (Chrysostom, Hom. Matt., 50.2 [NPNF1 10:311–12]). In this framework, then, if Israel’s God is master of the seas (e.g., Job 9:8; Ps 89:9, 19–37; Hab 3:8, 15; cf. Gen 1:2 [LXX; LSJ, s.v. ἐπιφέρω, §§2–3])—a kind of mastery not otherwise within the realm of human experience—Jesus’ walking on the sea is an eminently good reason for identifying Jesus as θεοῦ υἱός (son of God) and worshiping him as such (see Matt 14:33; Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity, 6.51 [NPNF2 9:117]; cf. Mark 6:51–52; John 6:21; Aristotle, Poetics, 5.6, 6.2).
On the Web (January 20, 2011)
On the web:
- Duane Smith repeats Jim Davila’s recent excerpt about the availability of the Babylonian Talmud online (English, Hebrew-Aramaic). The basic bibliographic entry for the Soncino version is available here (BibTeX).
- Jim Davila notes the completion of Sheffield’s Dictionary of Classical Hebrew.
- Daniel Roth highlights five articles about SOPA, including John Gaudiosi’s report of the White House’s disapproval of the bill as it stands.
Hays, “Unexpected Echoes”
New Romans Fragment
New within the past few days in Hobby Lobby’s collection of biblical antiquities is a small fragment from Rom 9–10 (HT: Peter Williams). For the fragment’s brief spot on CNN, see here. The fragment’s proposed date is the mid-second century. The side displayed in the CNN footage contains five lines. The image quality isn’t fantastic, but the last letters on the fragment look like they could be ΕΚΤΟΥ, which could seem to put that part of the fragment at Rom 9:12 or 21. If line 3 begins ΚΡΙ and line 4 ends ΗΣ*ΣΟΥ, could we then be looking at Rom 9:20–21 here?
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54, no. 4
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The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following:
- Al Wolters, “An Early Parallel of αὐθεντεῖν in 1 Tim 2:12″
- Michael Harbin, “Jubilee and Social Justice”
- Gary Smith, “Isaiah 40–55: Which Audience Was Addressed?”
- Don Garlington, ” ‘Salt of the Earth’ in Covenantal Perspective”
- Gavin Ortlund, “Resurrected as Messiah: The Risen Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King”
- Eric Johnson, “Rewording the Justification/Sanctification Relation with Some Help from Speech Act Theory”
- Jason Sexton, “The State of the Evangelical Trinitarian Resurgence”
- Bruce Davidson, “Glorious Damnation: Hell as an Essential Element in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards”
