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Loving one's neighbor in JETS

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:00:02 +0000

As I mentioned earlier, the current issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (60.2) contains Henry Kelly’s essay on “Love of Neighbor as Great Commandment in the Time of Jesus: Grasping at Straws in the Hebrew Scriptures” (265–81). According to the abstract,

One’s “neighbor,” generously interpreted to include everyone else in the world, even personal and impersonal enemies, looms large in the NT, especially in the form of the second great commandment, and in various expressions of the Golden Rule. The NT also contains expansive claims that neighbors have a similar importance in the OT. The main basis that commentators cite for these claims is a half-verse in the middle of Leviticus (“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” 19:18b), as fully justifying these claims, supported by other isolated verses, notably, Exod 23:45, on rescuing the ass of one’s enemy. Relying on these verses has the appearance of grasping at straws in order to justify the words of Jesus, but it seems clear that in the time of Jesus they had indeed been searched out and elevated to new significance. John Meier has recently argued that it was Jesus himself who gave the Levitical neighbor his high standing, but because the Gospels present the notion as already known, this article suggests that it had achieved a consensus status by this time.

Loving one's neighbor in JBL and elsewhere

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:00:23 +0000

The most recent issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature carries Matthew Goldstone’s essay “Rebuke, Lending, and Love: An Early Exegetical Tradition on Leviticus 19:17–18” (307–21). According to the abstract,

In this article I posit the presence of an early Jewish exegesis of Lev 19:17–18 preserved in the Tannaitic midrash known as Sifra, which is inverted and amplified in Did. 1:3–5, Q 6:27–35, Luke 6:27–35, and Matt 5:38–44. Identifying shared terminology and a sequence of themes in these passages, I argue that these commonalities testify to the existence of a shared exegetical tradition. By analyzing the later rabbinic material I delineate the contours of this Second Temple period interpretation and augment our understanding of the construction of these early Christian pericopae. In commenting on Lev 19:17, Sifra articulates three permissible modes of rebuke: cursing, hitting, and slapping. In its gloss on the subsequent verse, Sifra exemplifies the biblical injunction against vengeance and bearing a grudge through the case of lending and borrowing from one’s neighbor. The Didache, Matthew, and Luke invert the first interpretation by presenting Jesus as recommending a passive response to being cursed or slapped, and they amplify the second interpretation by commanding one to give and lend freely to all who ask. The similar juxtaposition of these two ideas and the shared terminology between Sifra and these New Testament period texts suggest a common source. By reading these early Christian sources in light of this later rabbinic work I advance our understanding of the formation of these well-known passages and illustrate the advantages of cautiously employing rabbinic material for reading earlier Christian works.

Wallace, "Medieval manuscripts"

Mon, 15 May 2017 15:44:04 +0000

In its first 2017 issue (currently behind the society membership paywall), the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society has a version of Daniel Wallace’s presidential address from the 2016 annual Evangelical Theological Society meeting: “Medieval Manuscripts and Modern Evangelicals: Lessons from the Past, Guidance for the Future” (5–34). Per the abstract, the essay focuses on

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58, no. 1

Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:28:22 +0000

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58, no. 1 contents.

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 56, no. 3

Tue, 08 Oct 2013 23:39:00 +0000

The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society includes:

Gregory Goswell, “Two Testaments in Parallel: The Influence of the Old Testament on the Structuring of the New Testament Canon”
Michael A. Grisanti, “Recent Archaeological Discoveries that Lend Credence to the Historicity of the Scriptures”
Vern S. Poythress, “Presuppositions and Harmonization: Luke 23:47 as a Test Case”
Martin Pickup, “‘On The Third Day’: The Time Frame of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection”
Andrew B. Spurgeon, “1 Timothy 2:13–15: Paul’s Retelling of Genesis 2:4–4:1”
Eliezer Gonzalez, “Healing in the Pauline Epistles: Why the Silence?”
Stanley E. Porter, “Not Only That (οὐ μόνον), But It Has Been Said Before: A Response to Verlyn Verbrugge, or Why Reading Previous Scholarship Can Avoid Scholarly Misunderstandings”
Verlyn D. Verbrugge, “Response to Stanley E. Porter”

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 56, no. 2

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:41:16 +0000

The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 56, no. 2 includes the following:

Jason DeRouchie, “The Blessing-Commission, the Promised Offspring, and the Toledot Structure of Genesis”
Jeffrey Niehaus, “God’s Covenant with Abraham”
Douglas Petrovich, “Identifying Nimrod of Genesis 10 with Sargon of Akkad by Exegetical and Archaeological Means”
Todd Scacewater, “Galatians 2:11–21 and the Interpretive Context of ‘Works of the Law’”
Andrew Wilson, “Apostle Apollos?”
Keith Campbell, “The American Evangelical Academy and the World: A Challenge to Practice More Globally”
Gerald McDermott, “The Emerging Divide in Evangelical Theology”
Daniel Strange, “For Their Rock Is Not as Our Rock: The Gospel as the ‘Subversive Fulfillment’ of the Religious Other”

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 56, no. 1

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:16:41 +0000

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The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following:

Paul House, “Investing in the Ruins: Jeremiah and Theological Vocation”
Daniel Block, “‘What Do These Stones Mean?’: The Riddle of Deuteronomy 27”
Paul Tanner, “The Cost of Discipleship: Losing One’s Life for Jesus’ Sake”
Greg Rhodea, “Did Matthew Conceive a Virgin?: Isaiah 7:14 and the Birth of Jesus”
Daniel Wallace, “Sharp’s Rule Revisited: A Response to Stanley Porter”
Stanley Porter, “Granville Sharp’s Rule: A Response to Daniel Wallace, Or Why a Critical Book Review Should Be Left Alone”
Daniel Wallace, “Granville Sharp’s Rule: A Rejoinder to Stan Porter”
Walter Schultz, “Jonathan Edwards’s Concept of an Original Ultimate End”
Shawn Bawulski, “Reconciliationism, a Better View of Hell: Reconciliationism and Eternal Punishment”

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55, no. 4

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:55:56 +0000

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The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in today’s mail and includes the following:

Matthew Akers, “What’s in a Name?: An Examination of the Usage of the Term ‘Hebrew’ in the Old Testament”
G. K. Beale, “The Use of Hosea 11:1 in Matthew 2:15: One More Time”
Joseph Greene, “The Spirit in the Temple: Bridging the Gap between Old Testament Absence and New Testament Assumption”
Moyer Hubbard, “Kept Safe through Childbearing: Maternal Mortality, Justification by Faith, and the Social Setting of 1 Timothy 2:15”
Peter Davids, “What Glasses Are You Wearing?: Reading Hebrew Narratives through Second Temple Lenses”
Bryan Litfin, “Eusebius on Constantine: Truth and Hagiography at the Milvian Bridge”
Steven Cowan, “Does 1 Corinthians 10:13 Imply Libertarian Freedom?: A Reply to Paul A. Himes”
Paul Himes, “First Corinthians 10:13: A Rejoinder to Steven Cowan”
Luke Van Horn, “On Incorporating Middle Knowledge into Calvinism: A Theological/Metaphysical Muddle?”

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55, no. 3

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:30:11 +0000

The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55, no. 3 includes several articles of interest.

Open-Access JETS Archive

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:21:51 +0000

If I had noticed it before, it had since slipped my mind. But, the PDF archive for the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society is largely open-access. The open-access portion of the archive contains all the Journal’s volumes except those from the past two full years, which are accessible to subscribers. The archive also contains the first four volumes of the older Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55, no. 2

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:54:48 +0000

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following:

David Chapman and Andreas Köstenberger, “Jewish Intertestamental and Early Rabbinic Literature: An Annotated Bibliographic Resource Updated (Part 1)”
Armin Baum, “A Theological Justification for the Canonical Status of Literary Forgeries: Jacob’s Deceit (Genesis 27) and Petr Pokorný’s Sola Gratia Argument”
Walter Kaiser Jr., “Is It the Case that Christ is the Same Object of Faith in the Old Testament? (Genesis 15:1–6)”
Josh Chatraw, “Balancing Out (W)Right: Jesus’ Theology of Individual and Corporate Repentance and Forgiveness in the Gospel of Luke”
Stanley Porter and Bryan Dyer, “Oral Texts?: A Reassessment of the Oral and Rhetorical Nature of Paul’s Letters in Light of Recent Studies”
Adam Hensley, “Σιγάω, λαλέω, and ὑποτάσσω in 1 Corinthians 14:34 in Their Literary and Rhetorical Context”
Victor Rhee, “The Author of Hebrews as a Leader of the Faith Community”
Russell Moore, “The Kingdom of God in the Social Ethics of Carl F. H. Henry: A Twenty-first Century Evangelical Reappraisal”

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55, no. 1

Fri, 11 May 2012 12:59:49 +0000

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following:

Clinton Arnold, “Sceva, Solomon, and Shamanism: The Jewish Roots of the Problem at Colossae”
Nicholas Lunn, “Allusions to the Joseph Narrative in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts: Foundations of Biblical Type”
Daniel Hays, " ‘Sell Everything You Have and Give to the Poor’: The Old Testament Prophetic Theme of Justice as the Connecting Motif of Luke 18:1–19:10"
Paul Tanner, “James’s Quotation of Amos 9 to Settle the Jerusalem Council Debate in Acts 15”
Jonathan Lunde and John Dunne, “Paul’s Creative and Contextual Use of Isaiah in Ephesians 5:14”
Emmitt Cornelius, “St. Irenaeus and Robert W. Jenson on Jesus in the Trinity”
Michael Bräutigam, “Good Will Hunting: Adolf Schlatter on Organic Volitional Sanctification”

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54, no. 4

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:48:02 +0000

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The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following:

Al Wolters, “An Early Parallel of αὐθεντεῖν in 1 Tim 2:12”
Michael Harbin, “Jubilee and Social Justice”
Gary Smith, “Isaiah 40–55: Which Audience Was Addressed?”
Don Garlington, " ‘Salt of the Earth’ in Covenantal Perspective"
Gavin Ortlund, “Resurrected as Messiah: The Risen Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King”
Eric Johnson, “Rewording the Justification/Sanctification Relation with Some Help from Speech Act Theory”
Jason Sexton, “The State of the Evangelical Trinitarian Resurgence”
Bruce Davidson, “Glorious Damnation: Hell as an Essential Element in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards”

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54.3

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:53:23 +0000

The latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes the following:

Josh Chatraw, “Disunity and Diversity: The Biblical Theology of Bart Ehrman”
Paul Wegner, “How Many Virgin Births Are in the Bible? (Isaiah 7:14): A Prophetic Pattern Approach”
Jason Parry, “Desolation of the Temple and Messianic Enthronement in Daniel 11:36–12:3”
Abraham Kuruvilla, “The Naked Runaway and the Enrobed Reporter of Mark 14 and 16: What Is the Author Doing with What He Is Saying?”
Mark Brighton, “The Sicarii in Acts: A New Perspective”
Veryln Verbrugge, “The Grammatical Internal Evidence for ἜΧΟΜΕΝ in Romans 5:1”
Jerry Hwang, “Turning the Tables on Idol Feasts: Paul’s Use of Exodus 32:6 in 1 Corinthians 10:7”
Michael Allen and Scott Swain, “In Defense of Proof-Texting”

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54.1

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:45:48 +0000

The spring issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in the mail late last week and includes the following:

Eugene Merrill, “Old Testament Scholarship and the Man in the Street: Whence and Whither?,” 5–17
Thomas Schreiner, “The Saving Righteousness of God in Christ,” 19–34
Frank Thielman, “God’s Righteousness as God’s Fairness in Romans 1:17: An Ancient Perspective on a Significant Phrase,” 35–48
N. T. Wright, “Justification: Yesterday, Today, and Forever,” 49–63
John Rhoads, “Josephus Misdated the Census of Quirinius,” 65–87
Mark Saucy, " Regnum Spiriti: The Role of the Spirit in the Social Ethics of the Kingdom," 89–108
William Dennison, “The Christian Academy: Antithesis, Common Grace, and Plato’s View of the Soul,” 109–131

The essays from Schreiner, Theilman, and Wright are versions of their plenary addresses at this past November’s annual Evangelical Theological Society meeting. So, those who were interested in hearing these addresses but were unable to attend the meeting may find these three articles particularly interesting.

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 52.4

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:45:55 +0000

The winter issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in the mail today and includes the following:

New Testament

Al Wolters, “ΑΥΘΕΝΤΗΣ and Its Cognates in Biblical Greek” 719–29
Nicholas Lunn, “Jesus, the Ark, and the Day of Atonement: Intertextual Echoes in John 19:38–20:18” 731–46
David Huttar, “Did Paul Call Andronicus an Apostle in Romans 16:7?” 747–78
Joseph Hellerman, “ΜΟΡΦΗ ΘΕΟΥ as a Signifier of Social Status in Philippians 2:6” 779–97

Jewish Scripture

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 52.3

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:32:20 +0000

The fall issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society arrived in the mail yesterday and includes the following:

New Testament

Kevin W. McFadden, “The Fulfillment of the Law’s Dikaiōma: Another Look at Romans 8:1–4,” pgs. 483–97

Jewish Scriptures

Greg Goswell, “The Order of the Books in the Greek Old Testament,” pgs. 449–66
Chee-Chiew Lee, “גים in Genesis 35:11 and the Abrahamic Promise of Blessings for the Nations,” pgs. 467–82
Andrew S. Malone, “God the Illeist: Third-Person Self-References and Trinitarian Hints in the Old Testament,” pgs. 499–518

Systematic Theology