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The New Testament Interpreted: Essays in Honour of Bernard C. Lategan(124 Novum Testamentum, Supplements)

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This volume, in honour of Bernard C. Lategan, a renowned specialist on the modern reception of the New Testament, covers the broad spectrum of the reception of the New Testament as literature. Interpretations of the New Testament from antiquity through modern day critical scholarship up to contemporary readings in Africa are presented and discussed.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction I. Interpretations of the interpreter Dirkie Smit (Stellenbosch University), Interpreter interpreted. A readers´ reception of Lategan´s legacy François Wessels (Stellenbosch University), The historical Jesus and the letters of Paul. Revisiting Bernard C. Lategan’s thesis Cilliers Breytenbach (Humboldt University Berlin), “Not according to human criteria”: Bernard Lategan’s reading of Galatians in a crumbling apartheid state II. Interpreting the New Testament for the construction of Christianity in antiquity Jens Schröter (University of Leipzig), New Horizons in Historical Jesus Research? Hermeneutical considerations concerning the so-called "Third Quest" of the historical Jesus Pieter F. Craffert (University of South Africa, Pretoria), Multiple realities and historiography: Rethinking historical Jesus research III. Intertextuality in antiquity Johann Cook (Stellenbosch University), Inter-Textual Readings in the Septuagint Gert J. Steyn (University of Pretoria), Torah Quotations common to Philo, Hebrews and some early Churchfathers. What is the common denominator? Majella Franzmann (University of New England, Armidale, Australia), An "heretical" use of the New Testament: a Manichaean quotation/adaptation of Matt 6:19-20 in P. Kell. Copt. 32. Dr. Annemaré Kotzé (Stellenbosch University), Augustine, Paul, and the Manichees IV. Interpreting the New Testament in Africa Elna Mouton (Stellenbosch University), Interpreting the New Testament in Africa: Bernard Lategan on the threshold of diverse theological discourses Jeremy Punt (Stellenbosch University), A politics of difference in the New Testament: Identity and the others in Paul Maarman Samuel Tshehla (University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg) Selected 19th century Sesotho readings of the Bible: David Moiloa and the days of Basotho’s ignorance Jan Botha (Stellenbosch University), The study of the New Testament in African Universities Piet J. Naudé (University of Port Elizabeth), The challenge of cultural justice in Africa. Is the New Testament of any use? V. Interpreting the New Testament as literature Johan C. Thom (Stellenbosch University), Dyads, triads and other compositional beasts in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) Detlev Dormeyer (University of Dortmund) Der gegenwärtige Stand der Forschung zum Markus-Evangelium und die Frage nach der historischen und gegenwärtigen Kontext-Plausibilität Bettina Fischer (University of Cape Town), The chronotope and its discursive function in the Gospel of Luke Charles A. Wanamaker (University of Cape Town) The power of the absent father: A socio-rhetorical analysis of 1 Corinthians 4:14-5:13 Pieter G.R. de Villiers (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein) Wilhelm Bousset’s commentary on Revelation and hermeneutical perspectives on the Revelation of John Indices Subjects and names Biblical and other ancient texts

About the Author :
Cilliers Breytenbach is Professor for Literature, Religion and History of Early Christianity at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Professor extraordinaire for New Testament at the University of Stellenbosch. He has published on a wide range of topics, including the Gospel of Mark, reconciliation and the death of Jesus in Pauline theology as well as the history of Judaism and Christianity in ancient Asia Minor. Johan C. Thom is Professor of Classics at the University of Stellenbosch. His publications include books and articles on philosophical and religious texts from the Hellenistic world (including Pythagorean, Stoic, and Epicurean texts), and their relationship to New Testament material. Jeremy Punt is Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Stellenbosch. He has published on various topics related to biblical hermeneutics as well as on the reception of the Bible, with a focus on postcolonial and related theories, and the Bible in Africa, in the popular media and in politics.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789004153042
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 406
  • Series Title: 124 Novum Testamentum, Supplements
  • Weight: 862 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9004153047
  • Publisher Date: 29 Nov 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays in Honour of Bernard C. Lategan
  • Width: 160 mm


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