NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 62, Issue 2, 2008

This article reviews Lexikonpolitik. Die erste Auflage der RGG im Horizont protestantischer Lexikographie , , , , ; + pp., € 128, ISBN 10: 3110189143.

Since the Romantic period, painters have no longer made use of traditional Christian iconography to express religious transcendence. Taking their cue from Schleiermacher’s Über die Religion, painters have sought for new, personal ways to express religious transcendence. One example is Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘Monk by the Sea’. Rosenblum argues, in his Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition, that there is Read More

In post-Old Testament Jewish literature both a zealot and an anti-zealot Elijah tradition emerge. Particularly in Luke, but also in Mark and John, the miracle stories of Elijah and Elisha function as models for the miracles that are told about Jesus. In the Synoptics we find a reframing of the Elijah tradition: only the miracles with a positive outcome are used and zealot features are rejected. Together with other New Testament data ( Read More

In his book God is so great that He doesn’t have to exist, Gerrit Manenschijn claims that God exists in language. Religious language consists of metaphors and has a performative rather than a descriptive nature. Since religious reality is an invention rather than a discovery we cannot make truth-claims about God and other religious entities. Although Manenschijn claims that moral reality takes shape in the same way, there is Read More

This article reviews eschatological interpretations of Isaiah, Psalms, and Daniel in the New Testament in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Q 7:18-23 and 4Q521 attest to a horizon of expectation that an anointed messenger (Isa. 61:1) and divine miracles (e.g. Isa. 26:19) confirm hope in the Lord – hope that the Jesus-movement identified with Jesus as Lord. The Davidic messianism that exegesis of Ps. 110:1 in Mrk. 12:35-37a par. co Read More