NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 42, Issue 1, 1988

Abstract In contrast to the opinion expressed in Volume III.1 of (he revised Schürer (Edinburgh 1986. p. 493) it is argued on the basis of recent publications that Symmachus was not an Ebionite Christian, but a Jewish translator, even ‘the translator of the Jews’ (Origen), who wrote his translation about the year 200 A.D. (part 1 of the article). Further, two recent major studies on the style of the translation of Symmachu Read More

Abstract This article takes into consideration the dilemma that Isas arisen in modem debate concerning the scientific status of theology. Sofar, it has been argued that theology can either be defined in a classical sense, as a science of God (dogmatics), or, in a modern sense, as a cultural science of ‘God’ and religion. However, both conceptions seem not to be able to account for the legitimation of the existence of centers Read More

Abstract The problem of the orthodoxy or heterodoxy of Hieronymus Bosch has been intensively discussed in the literature about this great painter without having led to a consensus. The author does not claim to offer new material for solving this dilemma, but has investigated the arguments given using the methods of science of religion, his own discipline. Doing this he shows up all main arguments used pro and contra as inv Read More