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Monday, August 31, 2009
Hebrews Carnival August 2009
Starting off the month of August Jared Calaway in his post Sword-in-Mouth Disease continued with his musings on the sword/mouth imagery that is found in several ancient sources including Hebrews.
Jared has also posted some reflections on Ken Schenck's book Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews.
Stephen Hebert continues his series on the textual variants in Hebrews 2:9. In Part 4 he continues to examine the internal evidence in favor of χωρις, rather than χαριτι. χωρις is more in accord with the vocabulary of Hebrews than χαριτι. Furthermore, it is the more difficult reading, since a scribe would more likely have changed χωρις to read χαριτι. It appears then that the external evidence and the internal evidence conflict with one another. In Part 5 he deals with the methodological issues involved in using patristic citations.
In other postings on textual criticism, Peter Head first deals with a textual variant in Hebrews 1:1, "God spoke to our fathers." He then deals with textual variants in Hebrews 1:3, "the word of power."
And finally, Tommy Wasserman reported an announcement by Claire Clivaz on the registration of a new fourth-century, papyrus fragment, P126, containing Hebrews 13:12-13, 19-20.
Scot McKnight gives his recommendations for commentaries on Hebrews. No qualms about this list. See also the recommendations in the comments section.
Peter Lopez announced in his post, Hebrews Bible Study, that he will be teaching a Bible study on Hebrews at his home church and that he will be blogging about his experience. The comments section has some discussion about commentaries. He offers his study notes on chapter 1 and chapter 2, as well as his reflections on week 1 of his study.
Also going around the blogs this month was a clever little video produced by Aaron Rathburn introducing Hebrews 1:1-4 with a Star Wars theme.
Jared has also posted some reflections on Ken Schenck's book Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews.
Stephen Hebert continues his series on the textual variants in Hebrews 2:9. In Part 4 he continues to examine the internal evidence in favor of χωρις, rather than χαριτι. χωρις is more in accord with the vocabulary of Hebrews than χαριτι. Furthermore, it is the more difficult reading, since a scribe would more likely have changed χωρις to read χαριτι. It appears then that the external evidence and the internal evidence conflict with one another. In Part 5 he deals with the methodological issues involved in using patristic citations.
In other postings on textual criticism, Peter Head first deals with a textual variant in Hebrews 1:1, "God spoke to our fathers." He then deals with textual variants in Hebrews 1:3, "the word of power."
And finally, Tommy Wasserman reported an announcement by Claire Clivaz on the registration of a new fourth-century, papyrus fragment, P126, containing Hebrews 13:12-13, 19-20.
Scot McKnight gives his recommendations for commentaries on Hebrews. No qualms about this list. See also the recommendations in the comments section.
Peter Lopez announced in his post, Hebrews Bible Study, that he will be teaching a Bible study on Hebrews at his home church and that he will be blogging about his experience. The comments section has some discussion about commentaries. He offers his study notes on chapter 1 and chapter 2, as well as his reflections on week 1 of his study.
Also going around the blogs this month was a clever little video produced by Aaron Rathburn introducing Hebrews 1:1-4 with a Star Wars theme.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Hebrews Carnival July 2009
Instead of listing new postings on Hebrews every week, I have decided to list them once a month, modeling them after the monthly carnivals for other topics.
Jared Calaway in his posting The Sharp Word in 1 Enoch and Hebrews sees a correlation between 1 Enoch 62:2 and Hebrews 4:12-16 regarding the word of God. I don't see the correlation nearly as "sharply" as Jared. I think the word functions in two different ways in the two passages. In 1 Enoch the word is used to destroy the unrighteous, while in Hebrews it has the function of revealing the inner thoughts of human beings. While both passages may be viewed as relating to judgment, the 1 Enoch passage is much more severe.
Jared Calaway also has a discussion on Hebrews 2:10-11 regarding the confusing pronouns in these verses. Be sure to read the comments section that follows.
Jared also has a post on Hebrews in Codex Sinaiticus, noting some of the features of this particular text.
Jared then has a reflection on Hebrews 11:27, Moses' Vision of the Invisible. Moses is the only one of whom it was said that he saw the invisible.
Jared then has a reflection on Hebrews 11:27, Moses' Vision of the Invisible. Moses is the only one of whom it was said that he saw the invisible.
Jim West has a review of the new book The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology. He chose to focus on Richard Hays' essay on supersessionism. West contends that "New Covenantalism"--the term used by Hays--appears to be no different from supersessionism. He only makes scant references to a couple of other essays, so the review is by no means exhaustive.
Clifford Kvidahl, however, in his post New Covenantalism with Richard Hays, tends to agree with Hays that Hebrews is not supersessionistic.
For the moment I am going to have to side with Jim West on this one. I have not been persuaded by recent attempts to downplay Hebrews as supersessionistic. If the New Covenant is superior to the Old Covenant and replaces it, then that is supersessionism. I believe the recent to downplay the supersessionism of Hebrews is an attempt to be sensitive to our Jewish colleagues. But isn't the Rabbinic Judaism that developed after the destruction of the Temple also supersessionistic?
Clifford Kvidahl, however, in his post New Covenantalism with Richard Hays, tends to agree with Hays that Hebrews is not supersessionistic.
For the moment I am going to have to side with Jim West on this one. I have not been persuaded by recent attempts to downplay Hebrews as supersessionistic. If the New Covenant is superior to the Old Covenant and replaces it, then that is supersessionism. I believe the recent to downplay the supersessionism of Hebrews is an attempt to be sensitive to our Jewish colleagues. But isn't the Rabbinic Judaism that developed after the destruction of the Temple also supersessionistic?
Jim West also posted a quotation by John Calvin on Hebrews 11 on the topic of hope.
Stephen Hebert has begun an eight-part series on the textual variants of Hebrews 2:9, entitled "separated by grace." Part one sets up the problem. The majority reading reads χαριτι θεου, while the minority reading is χωρις θεου. Part two notes that the external evidence favors the majority reading. Part three begins to examine the internal evidence. He argues that if the original reading was χαριτι θεου, then it is hard to explain how it gave rise to the alternate reading of χωρις θεου.
Word has gotten out among the blogs that the program book for the upcoming SBL conference in New Orleans is now available online. Several papers on Hebrews are scheduled for the conference. Since this is only the preliminary program book and the program is bound to change, I will not list the papers on Hebrews until sometime in November.
Stephen Hebert has begun an eight-part series on the textual variants of Hebrews 2:9, entitled "separated by grace." Part one sets up the problem. The majority reading reads χαριτι θεου, while the minority reading is χωρις θεου. Part two notes that the external evidence favors the majority reading. Part three begins to examine the internal evidence. He argues that if the original reading was χαριτι θεου, then it is hard to explain how it gave rise to the alternate reading of χωρις θεου.
Word has gotten out among the blogs that the program book for the upcoming SBL conference in New Orleans is now available online. Several papers on Hebrews are scheduled for the conference. Since this is only the preliminary program book and the program is bound to change, I will not list the papers on Hebrews until sometime in November.
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