By North, J. Lionel; North, J. Lionel; Moyise, Steve
This choice of papers from individuals of the 'Use of the outdated testomony within the New testomony' seminar (held at St Deinid's, Hawarden, Wales) has been commissioned to honour its retiring chairperson, J.L. North. It comprises contributions by way of Michael Goulder (Isaiah 61), Joel Marcus (Matthew), Maurice Casey (Christology), George Brooke (Parables), Judith Lieu (John), Peter Doble (Acts), Morna Hooker (Philippians), John O'Neill (Galatians), Ivor Jones (2 Thessalonians), Martin Menken (Matthew) and Steve Moyise (Intertextuality). BLURB AS REWRITTEN by way of PRD eleven JANUARY 2000: it truly is renowned, yet no longer continuously preferred that the 'Bible' of the earliest Christians used to be the previous testomony. How did the recent testomony writers justify their religion within the risen Messiah from those Jewish scriptures? during this booklet, exceptional biblical students offer solutions to those questions, either typically phrases and from particular examples. below overview come person New testomony writers (Matthew, Paul, John) and critical topics (the Anointed One, monogamy and divorce), whereas the most important passages reminiscent of John eleven, Isaiah sixty six and Revelation 12 are placed below the microscope. This assortment demonstrates the ingenuity and energy of early Christian scriptural exegesis, and gives the reader an up-to-the-minute photograph of the newest study in a single of the relevant problems with New testomony literary and theological study.
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The use of Scripture will have helped to ensure this. Professor Larry Hurtado The major attempt to argue that a serious change in Jewish monotheism took place much earlier than I have suggested is that of Professor Larry Hurtado, and it is of such importance that a detailed critique must be offered here. In several learned and ingenious works, Hurtado has argued that worship of Jesus altered Jewish monotheism, and was the major factor in Christological development. He has described this as a 'binitarian mutation'.
By these standards of judgment, the cultic veneration of Jesus was seriously lacking in the following ways. First, there was no sacrificial cultus devoted to him. This marks him off from all serious deities, including God himself. Second, no temple was built to him. Third, to make prayers and hymns to him a serious matter, we have to generalise from one prayer-like expression (|iapava0a), one or two expressions (calling upon his name), and a small number of passages which do not particularly have the structure of hymns, and which are never said to have been sung.
The text contains both the name of God, and a word for God, DTl^N. Consequently, it can be interpreted of the two figures, Jesus and God. For example, the LXX of Isa. 25 reads: drco KDpioi) 8iKaico0f|aovTai icai 8v TOO 08C 8v8o^aa0f|oovTai rcdv TO orcepiua TOOV weov Iapar|A,—'They shall be justified by the Lord, and in God all the seed of the sons of Israel will be glorified'. It is not difficult to interpret that of the Gentile mission, in which Gentiles were justified by faith in the Lord Jesus, and of the ultimate salvation of Israel in accordance with God the Father's overall plan for salvation (cf.