Zürich New Testament Blog

Part 1: Introduction For part 2, see here.For part 3, see here.For part 4, see here. Why this blog post series? Beginning this April, I will work as an assistant at the University of Basel at the chair of Prof. Moisés Mayordomo. Already on my second work day, I was going to give a presentation […]

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Check out these brand-new, very positive reviews of two books by members of our group in leading German-speaking journals: Prof. Andreas Lindemann in the „Theologische Rundschau“ (82/3) on Jordash Kiffiak’s Responses in the Miracle Stories of the Gospels: Between Artistry and Inherited Tradition: „Das letzte hier vorzustellende Buch, 2017 erschienen, ist die an der Hebräischen […]

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Are the frequent depictions of characters’ responses to the various miraculous occurrences in the Gospels merely vestiges from an earlier stage in the developments of the traditions about Jesus? Do the responses function simply as a round of applause to commend Jesus to those hearing a given gospel being read? Or is this response motif […]

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Introduction Reflecting upon the different events we had staged during 2016, the fact attracted my attention that we had had three workshops on various aspects of ancient languages and that they – even though they dealt with quite different issues and even though I would not want to claim that it is possible to identify […]

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For Part 1 of this series, see here. For Part 2, see here. Jörg Frey: Demythologizing Apocalyptic? Imagining a debate between two scholars of such status as N. T. Wright and Jörg Frey, you might think of a confrontation of truly “apocalyptic” dimensions. And at least with regard to the page count, this expectation is […]

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For Part 1 of this series, see here. Theresa Heilig and Christoph Heilig: Historical Methodology A few essays further into the book – in the midst of the section on “Methodological Issues” – Theresa and I address specifically the historical methodology employed by Wright in his reconstruction of Paul’s activity (in the broadest sense). In […]

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 A Zwingli for our own day? A couple of months ago, Mohr Siebeck published the 800pp-volume God and the Faithfulness of Paul in the WUNT II series. As the title indicates and the subtitle clarifies, this work is “A Critical Examination of the Pauline Theology of N. T. Wright.” Over 30 scholars participate in this […]

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