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Tradition und Redaktion im Matthäusevangelium : Formale und inhaltliche Charakteristika matthäischer Redaktionspraxis
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ISBN: 3110703750 Year: 2021 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Obwohl in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten sowohl die Theologie des Matthäusevangeliums als auch dessen Verhältnis zu seinen Quellen, dem Markusevangelium und der Logienquelle, verstärkt Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Diskussion waren, fehlt bisher eine Untersuchung, welche die matthäische Redaktionspraxis umfassend in den Blick nimmt.Heiko Wojtkowiaks Studie füllt dieses Desiderat, indem sie umfänglich die formalen und inhaltlichen Redaktionscharakteristika des Evangelisten Matthäus darlegt. Hierzu erfolgt eine Untersuchung von dessen redaktionellen Umgang mit dem Markusevangelium und den in der Regel der Logienquelle zugewiesenen Texten. Dabei werden zwei weitergehende Fragen besonders berücksichtigt: 1) Lässt sich eine besondere Nähe zu einer dieser beiden Quellen nachweisen? 2) Erscheint eine direkte Abhängigkeit vom Lukasevangelium (ergänzend oder alternativ zur Annahme einer Abhängigkeit von der Logienquelle) plausibel?Die Studie bietet hiermit eine Grundlage sowohl für die weitere Untersuchung der matthäischen Theologie als auch für die in der Forschung neu auflebende Diskussion um die synoptische Frage. This study offers a comprehensive presentation of the formal and content-related redactional characteristics of the Evangelist Matthew. It examines the editorial treatment of the Gospel of Mark and the line sources of the texts. It considers in particular a special connection to one of the sources and a possible direct connection to the Gospel of Luke.


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The Scribe in the Biblical World : A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures

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This book offers a fresh look at the status of the scribe in society, his training, practices, and work in the biblical world. What was the scribe’s role in these societies? Were there rival scribal schools? What was their role in daily life? How many scripts and languages did they grasp? Did they master political and religious rhetoric? Did they travel or share foreign traditions, cultures, and beliefs? Were scribes redactors, or simply copyists? What was their influence on the redaction of the Bible? How did they relate to the political and religious powers of their day? Did they possess any authority themselves? These are the questions that were tackled during an international conference held at the University of Strasbourg on June 17–19, 2019. The conference served as the basis for this publication, which includes fifteen articles covering a wide geographical and chronological range, from Late Bronze Age royal scribes to refugees in Masada at the end of the Second Temple period.


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Ezekiel's vision accounts as interrelated narratives : a redaction-critical and theological study
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ISBN: 3110406659 3110406829 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter,

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Ezekiel is one of the best-structured books in the Old Testament. It is commonly recognized that the strongly interrelated vision accounts (Ez 1:1–3:15; 8–11; 37:1–14; 40–48) contribute greatly to this impression of unity. However, there is a marked lacuna in publications focusing on the vision accounts in Ezekiel as an interconnected text corpus. The present study combines redaction-critical analysis with literary methods that are typically used in a synchronic approach. Drawing on the paradigm of Fortschreibung, it is the first to present a united redaction history that takes into account the growing interconnections and dependencies between the vision accounts. Building on these results, the second part follows the development of selected themes, such as the relationships between characters, the roles of intermediate figures and anthropological and theological implications, throughout the stages of redaction.The study thus represents an important step towards an understanding of the complex redaction history of the book of Ezekiel, and indeed of its theology. The combination of diachronic and synchronic methods makes it relevant for scholars of both directions and is itself a methodological statement.


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Reconsidering the Book of the Four : The Shaping of Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zephaniah as an Early Prophetic Collection
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ISBN: 3110649942 3110650266 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Although many scholars recognize literary similarities between Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zephaniah, defining the compositional relationship between these texts remains a matter of debate. Following the scholarly trajectory of exploring the compositional relationship between the Twelve prophets, several scholars argue that these four prophetic texts formed a precursory collection to the Book of the Twelve. Yet even among advocates for this 'Book of the Four' there remain differences in defining the form and function of the collection. By reexamining the literary parallels between these texts, Werse shows how different methodological convictions have led to the diverse composition models in the field today. Through careful consideration of emerging insights in the study of deuteronomism and scribalism, Werse provides an innovative composition model explaining how these four texts came to function as a collection in the wake of the traumatic destruction of Jerusalem. This volume explores a historic function of these prophetic voices by examining the editorial process that drew them together.


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Uncovering Ancient Editing : Documented Evidence of Changes in Joshua 24 and Related Texts
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ISBN: 3110600110 3110602245 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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The Hebrew Bible is a product of ancient editing, but to what degree can this editing be uncovered? "Uncovering Ancient Editing" argues that divergent textual witnesses of the same text, so-called documented evidence, should be the starting point for such an endeavor. The book presents a fresh analysis of Josh 24 and related texts as a test case for refining our knowledge of how scribes edited texts. Josh 24 is envisioned as a gradually growing Persian period text, whose editorial history can be reconstructed with the help of documented evidence preserved in the MT, LXX, and other ancient sources. This study has major implications for both the study of the book of Joshua and text-historical methodology in general.


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Rewriting the feeding of the five thousand : John 6.1-15 as a test case for Johannine dependence on the Synoptic Gospels
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ISBN: 9781453901533 143310606X Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Peter Lang,

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Rewriting the Feeding of Five Thousand reveals the connection between John and the Synoptics with a focus on John 6.1-15. Statistical analyses establish the percentages of verbal and word order agreement between John 6.1-15 and the Synoptic parallels. An analysis of contextual agreements between the narratives in John and the Synoptics facilitates observing the percentage of agreement between them on a verse-by-verse basis, the average percentage of agreement between them, and the average percentage of agreement between them when Johannine material without parallel in the Synoptics is excluded from the data. Furthermore, this book analyzes the Matthean and Lukan redaction of Mark in their versions of the feeding of the five thousand and their influence on the Johannine narrative, as well as how John's narrative can be understood as a thorough rewriting of the Synoptic accounts. «In critical dialogue and making excellent use of previous and contemporary scholarship on the feeding miracle in the Fourth Gospel, Steven A. Hunt argues that John had read and thoroughly digested all three of the Synoptic Gospels. This first-rate book is highly recommended to all Johannine scholars who are still wrestling with the question of John's dependence on the Synoptics. A provocative, scholarly and readable book.» (Gilbert Van Belle, Professor Ordinarius of New Testament, Faculty of Theology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium) «Like a canny detective, Steven A. Hunt re-opens the file on John's relationship to the Synoptics and, on the incident of the loaves and fishes, goes over the data with an unmatched combination of comprehensiveness, precision, and patience. In the end the jury's task is easy. The simplest explanation that accounts for the data - the preferred explanation in scientific method - is that John used the Synoptics.» (Thomas L. Brodie, Director, Dominican Biblical Institute, Limerick, Ireland) «A compelling case for John's use of the Synoptics! Steven A. Hunt definitely convinced me that, in John 6:1-15 anyway, the author's use of the Synoptics amounts to 'transformative imitation' (to use his words). Any future study of the relationship between John and the Synoptics cannot neglect this important contribution.» (D. Francois Tolmie, Dean, Professor of New Testament, Faculty of Theology of the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)


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The composition and redaction of the Book of Amos
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ISBN: 1282425811 9786612425813 3110212722 9783110212723 9781282425811 9783110212716 3110212714 6612425814 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin New York De Gruyter

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This Oxford dissertation offers a fresh redactional analysis of the Book of Amos. It starts with a critical survey of existing approaches and an examination of the methodological issues involved and proceeds with a detailed exegetical analysis of the prophetic text which forms the basis for the redactional conclusions. It steers a middle course between extreme conservative treatments which trace all the material back to the prophet Amos and more radical sceptical approaches which attribute most of the prophetic oracles to the work of later redactors. The composition of the book began with two collections: the Polemical scroll written not long after the end of Amos' ministry and the Repentance scroll composed shortly before 722 BC. The Repentance scroll was reworked in Judah towards the end of the 8th century BC and the two scrolls were combined to form a single work sometime during the 7th century BC. The Book underwent only one redaction during the exilic period which sought to actualise its message in a new historical context. The study pays special attention to the literary structure, aim and probable historical circumstances of the various collections which gradually evolved into the present Book of Amos and seeks to show how the prophetic message lived on and spoke to the various communities which preserved and transmitted it.


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The organization of the pyramid texts : typology and disposition
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ISBN: 9004218653 9786613683687 9004227490 1280772913 9789004227491 9789004218659 9789004230019 9789004230026 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts form the oldest sizable body of religious texts in the world. Discovered in the late nineteenth century, they had been inscribed on the interior stone walls of the pyramid tombs of third-millennium kings and queens. From their content it is clear that they were concerned with the afterlife state of the tomb owner, but the historical meaning of their emergence has been poorly understood. This book weds traditional philological approaches to linguistic anthropology in order to associate them with two spheres of human action: mortuary cult and personal preparation for the afterlife. Monumentalized as hieroglyphs in the tomb, their function was now one step removed from the human events that had motivated their original production.


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Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve

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The formation of the Book of the Twelve is one of the most vigorously debated subjects in Old Testament studies today. This volume assembles twenty-four essays by the world's leading experts, providing an overview of the present state of scholarship in the field. The book's contributors focus on questions of method, history, as well as redactional and textual history.

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