Immaterial wealth in Luke between wisdom and apocalypticism: Luke's Jesus tradition in light of 4QInstruction

Hogeterp, Albert

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“…80 The Dead Sea discoveries also include Hebrew fragments of Jubilees (4Q216-224 [4QJub a−h ]; 4Q225-227 [4QpsJub a−c ]), and the book of Jubilees appears to be quoted as an authoritative text in the Damascus Document (CD 16.3-4 // 4QD f frg. 4 col. 2 l. 5) 81 and in 4Q228 frg. 1 col. 1 ll.…”

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Including the Ancient Near East as “Western Identity”: The Case of Enochic Traditions in Early Christian Literature

Hogeterp¹

2023

Antiquity - Including the “East” as “Western Identity”

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The study of early Christianity has often been approached from the perspective of the Graeco-Roman world, with its acculturation being determined by Rome more than by Jerusalem, and by Hellenists more than by Hebrews. This teleological perspective tends to overlook settings of ancient Near Eastern traditions which remain understudied. A case in point may concern Enochic traditions. Examples range from Enoch being part of the Lucan Jesusʼs genealogy (Luke 3:23–28 at v. 37), to Enochic apocalyptic woes paralleling Lucan woes (Luke 6:24–26), to Enoch being a paradigm of deathless faith (Hebrews 11:5), and to Enochic discourse being quoted in terms of prophecy in Jude 14–15. This chapter will revisit intertextuality and interdiscursivity of early Christian literature with Enochic traditions, taking into account the Enochic writings among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The chapter then evaluates how this adds to the understanding of Christian cultural heritage in the discussion of “Western identity.”

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“…[64] 41-43 further refers to fragmentary Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses to the text of Jubilees, next to four complete Ethiopic manuscripts. 81 Thus e.g. Ref.…”

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Including the Ancient Near East as “Western Identity”: The Case of Enochic Traditions in Early Christian Literature

Hogeterp¹

2023

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“…While the genealogy does point to a Gentile audience and not a specific Gentile audience per se, it demonstrates a way of thinking for the evangelist, which significantly differs from that of Matthew. As Green has argued, all 1095Hogeterp, 2013: 41-63. 1096 Cf.…”

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"Luke’s Gospel and Greco-Roman Panegyrics: The Sermon on the Plain (LK 6:20-49) in its Social Context"

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The dissertation argues that the Sermon on the Plain is best interpreted from the perspective of the Greco-Roman paradigm of praise and blame. In the first chapter, the dissertation outlines the historical challenges in the interpretation of the Sermon and proposes panegyric praise and blame as a plausible framework for its reading. In the second chapter, the thesis argues that Greco-Roman makarisms and woes have their context in praise and blame. The (established) affinities between Greco-Roman and Lucan makarisms and woes, therefore, provide a basis for interpreting the latter from the perspective of praise and blame. The third chapter takes up the analysis of the function of praise and blame in the Greco-Roman context. It argues that in the Greco-Roman world, panegyrics served, inter alia, in the integration of victors and the re-enforcement of community values. These core functions provide the methodological framework for the interpretation of the Sermon. In chapter 4 the thesis demonstrates how the different layers of communication in the Sermon, its conception of community and communion, and the presentation of riches and poverty reflect its Greco-Roman context. At the heart of the discussion is the question of Greco-Roman conception of power and powerlessness (embedded in poverty and riches) which had implications for identity and social interactions between the rich and poor in the Lucan churches. Therefore, in the exegesis of the Sermon in chapter 5, the study identifies the integration of catechumens and the re-enforcement of the value of κοινωνία as the major thrust of the Sermon. In chapter 6 the dissertation traces the paradigm of praise and blame across the Gospel. It argues that the praise of God and Jesus' magnanimity on the one hand, and Jesus' praise and blame of generosity and stinginess, respectively, on the other, demonstrates the rhetorical role of the praise and blame in the Gospel. Finally, since a panegyric reading of the Sermon implies a community reading of the text, such an approach has implications on the Gospel community debate. Therefore, in chapter 7, using old and new evidence from both primary and secondary sources, the dissertation argues for the local audience thesis as the most plausible reading of the Gospels.

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Gendering Jesus the Jew

Hogeterp

2020

Relig. Gend.

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Gendering Jesus has been a matter of divergent interpretations, ranging from emphasis on typical features of masculine power to ‘unmanly’ character by ancient elite standards. This article explores anew Jesus’ Jewish masculinity. It revisits a recent study of the question what Jesus looked like, by mutually reconsidering ancient literary and rhetorical traditions of description, literary data about Jesus’ physical and social appearance, major aspects in the literary record about Jesus the Jew in comparison with Jewish tradition including the Dead Sea Scrolls, and recent findings in iconography. Jesus the Jew comes off as an unconventional challenger of male power at the time, whose appearance would neither have adhered to elite standards of physical and social apparel nor to late antique adaptations through the Romanization of Christian iconography.

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Immaterial wealth in Luke between wisdom and apocalypticism: Luke's Jesus tradition in light of 4QInstruction

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Including the Ancient Near East as “Western Identity”: The Case of Enochic Traditions in Early Christian Literature

Including the Ancient Near East as “Western Identity”: The Case of Enochic Traditions in Early Christian Literature

"Luke’s Gospel and Greco-Roman Panegyrics: The Sermon on the Plain (LK 6:20-49) in its Social Context"

Gendering Jesus the Jew

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