Zürich New Testament Blog

Part 2 of the series Observations from a Linguistic Spectator: An Annual Report. For part 1, see here.For part 3, see here.For part 4, see here. A Semiotic Framework I’m going to cheat right away in this first post in this series that discusses an actual linguistic subject – quite a bit of what I […]

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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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There is no doubt that 2019 will be known for decades as the “Year of Greek Grammars” in the English-speaking world. In March, the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek by Evert van Emde Boas, Albert Rijksbaron, Luuk Huitink, and Mathieu de Bakker appeared. In the preface, the authors make it quite clear that they regard […]

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Two years ago I wrote a little note on the occasion of the super bowl in order to promote a book of mine. It begins with the sentence: “I have never seen a Super Bowl game in my whole life.” This statement is still true today – and probably very shocking for my American friends. […]

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The following interview was first published on Mike Bird’s blog. Professor Jōrg Frey is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Zurich and is the author The Letter of Jude and the Second Letter of Peter: A Theological Commentary (trans Kathleen Ess; Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018). Jude and 2 Peter are […]

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Again, we would like to share with you some new reviews of recent monographs by members of our group: Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer in JSNT 39 (p. 103) on Monika Götte‘s Von den Wächtern zu Adam: Frühjüdische Mythen über die Ursprünge des Bösen und ihre frühchristliche Rezeption: This revised Zurich PhD thesis studies the two most important […]

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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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Since we are approaching Christmas and, thus, recitals of Luke’s story of Jesus’s birth all around the world, it seemed appropriate to me to draw attention to the recent publication of volume 2 of the English translation of Michael Wolter’s commentary on the Gospel of Luke. The translation of Wolter’s commentary thus is complete now! […]

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1. Empire and the “Traditional” Paul The notion of “empire” regularly pops up in discussions both in the church and in academic theology. One the one hand, there is the constant consideration of how Christianity relates to present-day power structures, the state, or individual politicians. On the other hand, this conversation often includes reference to […]

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What traditional influences lie behind the recurrent patterns of responses that are found in all four of the Gospels? In this second and final post on my recently published monograph, Responses in the Miracle Stories of the Gospels: Between Artistry and Inherited Tradition, I summarise the findings in the book’s second section. I described the […]

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