NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 42, Issue 2, 1988

Abstract Joel 2:1-11 shows the structure of concentric symmetry; the theme of the Day of YHWH forms the inclusion (vs. 1, 2a; 10, 11) and the centre (vs. 6) of the pericope. In between one finds the description of a plague of locusts, beginning and ending with theophanic motifs. These motifs as well as those of the Day of YHWH do not indicate that Joel 2:1-11 is meant as a description of (apocalyptic) enemies threatenin Read More

Abstract This contribution deals with the peculiar addition (§ 2, 1-2) in Matth. 17, 26, found in ‘Codex Algerinae Peckover’ (Scr. 561, Sod. ε 351, Greg. 713) now preserved in Selly Oak College, Birmingham. This medieval cursive (§ 3, 1-3), which betrays not a few affinities with the Ferrar group of minuscels, has undergone the influence of Syriac and Tatianic tradition. The addition of 713 is also found in the Diatessaron (§ 4 Read More

Abstract The habit of naming children after (grand)parents can hardly be traced in the O.T. and is not corroborated by pre-exilic epigraphical data, in contrast with neighbouring countries like Egypt or Phoenicia. Its first appearance among Jews is at Elephantine c. 500 B.C. In Palestine it emerges only after Alexander, no doubt in imitation of the Ptolemies and Seleucids. Instances are given from the aristocracy and the ‘Goliath fam Read More

Abstract The Teachings of Silvanus (NHC VII, 4) show some influence of the Greek gnomic tradition. NHC VII, 102, 16-22, contains a combination of Sentences of Sextus, 352 and 22, which is also found in Origen (apud Epiphanius, Panarion 64, 7, 3). Both Origen and Silvanus reflect a later stage in the tradition of the Sextine sentences, in which originally independent maxims had been put together. The same phenomenon can be Read More

Abstract This article surveys the evidence, both literary and archaeological, for a Samaritan diaspora from the third century B.C.E. till the seventh century C.E. It stresses the importance of distinguishing between Samarians (inhabitants of Samaria) and Samaritans (members of the Samaritan religious community) and concludes that there must have been a very considerable Samaritan diaspora in late antiquity, in spite of the f Read More