The New Testament interpreted : essays in honour of Bernard C. Lategan / edited by Cilliers Breytenbach, Johan C. Thom, and Jeremy Punt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breytenbach, Cilliers, 1954-

Lategan, Bernard C.

Thom, Johan Carl, 1954-

Punt, J. (Jeremy)

Series:

Supplements to Novum Testamentum 0167-9732 ; v. 124.

Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 0167-9732 ; v. 124

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Bible.

Bible. New Testament.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

x, 404 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Summary:

This volume contains a collection of essays in honour of Bernard C. Lategan, a renowned specialist on the modern reception of the New Testament. Besides offering anayses of Lategan's own contribution to New Testament scholarship, the essays present and discuss interpretations of the New Testament from antiquity through contemporary critical scholarship. Topics covered include hermeneutical issues of historical Jesus research, intertextuality in antiquity, the interpretation of the New Testament in Africa, and the New Testament as literature. The collection thus provides a representative perspective on the diversity of New Testament scholarship in South Africa and elsewhere.

Contents:

Part 1 Interpretations of the Interpreter

/ D. J. Smit Interpreter interpreted: A readers' reception of Lategan's legacy 3

/ G. Francois Wessels The historical Jesus and the letters of Paul: Revisiting Bernard C. Lategan's thesis 27

/ Cilliers Breytenbagh "Not according to human criteria": Bernard Lategan's reading of Galatians in a crumbling apartheid state 53

Part 2 Interpreting the New Testament for the Construction of Christianity in Antiquity

/ Jens Schroter New horizons in historical Jesus research? Hermeneutical considerations concerning the so-called "Third Quest" of the historical Jesus 71

/ Pieter F. Craffert Multiple realities and historiography: Rethinking historical Jesus research 87

Part 3 Intertextuality in Antiquity

/ Johann Cook Intertextual readings in the Septuagint 119

/ Gert J. Steyn Torah quotations common to Philo, Hebrews, Clemens Romanus and Justin Martyr: What is the common denominator? 135

/ Majella Franzmann An "heretical" use of the New Testament: A Manichaean adaptation of Matt 6:19-20 in P. Kell. Copt. 32 153

/ Annemare Kotze Augustine, Paul and the Manichees 163

Part 4 Interpreting the New Testament in Africa

/ Elna Mouton Interpreting the New Testament in Africa: Bernard Lategan on the threshold of diverse theological discourses 177

/ Jeremy Punt A politics of difference in the New Testament: Identity and the others in Paul 199

/ Maarman Samuel Tshehla Selected 19th century Sesotho readings of the Bible: David Moiloa and the days of Basotho's ignorance 227

/ Jan Botha The study of the New Testament in African Universities 247

/ Piet J. Naude The challenge of cultural justice under conditions of globalisation: Is the New Testament of any use? 267

Part 5 Interpreting the New Testament as Literature

/ Johan C. Thom Dyads, triads and other compositional beasts in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) 291

/ Detlev Dormeyer Der gegenwartige Stand der Forschung zum Markus-Evangelium und die Frage nach der historischen und gegenwartigen Kontext-Plausibilitat 309

/ Bettina Fischer The chronotope and its discursive function in the Gospel of Luke 325

/ Charles A. Wanamaker The power of the absent father: A socio-rhetorical analysis of 1 Corinthians 4:14-5:13 339

/ Pieter G. R. de Villiers Wilhelm Bousset's commentary on Revelation and hermeneutical perspectives on the Revelation of John 365.

Notes:

"This volume is the result of an Alexander von Humboldt Colloquium 'Interpreting the New Testament,' which took place at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advance Study (STIAS) from 12 to 14 August 2004. ... [it] only includes revised versions of the papers presented ... and selected after a peer-review process."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9004153047

9789004153042

OCLC:

70630612

Publisher Number:

9789004153042