Tag: Acts

TC 21

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The newest volume of TC has been released, containing eight book reviews and the following articles:

  • Gregory R. Lanier, “A Case for the Assimilation of Matthew 21:44 to the Lukan “Crushing Stone” (20:18), with Special Reference to 104”
  • Aron Pinker, “A New Attempt to Interpret Job 30:24”
  • Georg Gäbel, The Import of the Versions for the History of the Greek Text: Some Observations from the ECM of Acts
  • Katie Marcar, “The Quotations of Isaiah in 1 Peter: A Text-Critical Analysis”

HT: New Articles and Reviews in the TC Journal — Evangelical Textual Criticism

Lightfoot, Works

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Rob Bradshaw has collected John Pitman’s 13-volume set of John Lightfoot’s works.

Among other things, Lightfoot’s works include a series of “Hebrew and Talmudical Exercitations” on Matthew–1 Corinthians (i.e., discussions of texts in light of select Talmudic and other Jewish literary parallels).

Via a convenient master table of contents page, the set is available in one PDF file per printed volume.

New Testament Studies 59, no. 3

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New Testament Studies
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The latest issue of New Testament Studies includes:

  • Joel Marcus, “Passover and Last Supper Revisited”
  • Klaus B. Haacker, “Der Geist und das Reich im Lukanischen Werk: Konkurrenz oder Konvergenz zwischen Pneumatologie und Eschatologie?”
  • Anthony Le Donne, “The Improper Temple Offering of Ananias and Sapphira”
  • Richard Last, “The Election of Officers in the Corinthian Christ-Group”
  • Joel R. White, “‘Peace and Security’ (1 Thessalonians 5.3): Is It Really a Roman Slogan?”
  • Thomas R. Blanton, “The Benefactor’s Account-book: The Rhetoric of Gift Reciprocation according to Seneca and Paul”
  • David J. Downs, “Justification, Good Works, and Creation in Clement of Rome’s Appropriation of Romans 5–6”
  • James A. Kelhoffer, “Reciprocity as Salvation: Christ as Salvific Patron and the Corresponding ‘Payback’ Expected of Christ’s Earthly Clients according to the Second Letter of Clement”
  • Benjamin R. Wilson, “Taking up and Raising, Fixing and Loosing: A Chiastic Wordplay in Acts 2.23b–24”

Currents in Biblical Research 11, no. 3

Reading time: < 1 minutesThe latest issue of Currents in Biblical Research includes the following:

  • Serge Frolov, “Sleeping with the Enemy: Recent Scholarship on Sexuality in the Book of Judges”
  • Jason Hood and Matthew Emerson, “Summaries of Israel’s Story: Reviewing a Compositional Category”
  • Coleman Baker, “Peter and Paul in Acts and the Construction of Early Christian Identity: A Review of Historical and Literary Approaches”
  • Bruce Worthington, “Alternative Perspectives beyond the Perspectives: A Summary of Pauline Studies that has Nothing to Do with Piper or Wright”
  • F. S. Naiden, “Recent Study of Greek Religion in the Archaic through Hellenistic Periods”

On the Web (January 18, 2013)

Reading time: < 1 minutesOn the web:

  • Mark Hoffman notes that Google Maps’ street view now includes several additional locations of significance around Israel.
  • Charles Jones identifies several publicly accessible dissertations from the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Dirk Jongkind reflects on Acts 17:3 in connection with the two latest Nestle-Aland texts.