Studies in New Testament and Early Christian Literature: Essays in Honor of Allen P. Wikgren

278 Pages·1972·16.897 MB·English

by  David Edward Aune (Editor)

SUPPLEMENTS TO
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
EDITORIAL BOARD
W. C. VAN UNNIK, PRESIDENT
P. BRATSIOTIS - K. W. CLARK - H. CLAVIER - J. W. DOEVE - J. DORESSE
C. W. DUGMORE - J. DUPONT - A. GEYSER - W. GROSSOUW
A. F. J. KLIJN - PH. H. MENOUD - Bo REICKE - K. H. RENGSTORF
E. STAUFFER
VOLUME XXXIII
LEIDEN
E. J. BRILL
1972
STUDIES IN NEW TESTAMENT
AND
EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE

STUDIES IN NEW TESTAMENT
AND
EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ALLEN P. WIKGREN
EDITED BY
DAVID EDWARD AUNE
LEIDEN
E. J. BRILL
1972
ISBN 90 04 03504 4
Copyright 1972 by E. J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or
translated in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche
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PRINTED IN BELGIUM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE vu
I. TEXTUAL AND LEXICOGRAPHICAL STUDIES
HENRY J. CADBURY, Animals and Symbolism in Luke (Lexical
Notes on Luke-Acts, IX) 3
BRUCE M. METZGER, The Text of Matthew 1.16 . 16
FLOYD V. FILSON, Capitalization in English Translations of the
Gospel of Matthew 25
ERNEST C. COLWELL, The Greek New Testament with a Limited
Critical Apparatus : Its Nature and Uses 31
II. LITERARY STUDIES
OLOF LINTON, The Q-Problem Reconsidered . 43
M. JACK SUGGS, The Christian Two Ways Tra.dition : Its Anti-
quity, Form and Function 60
MARTIN RIST, Pseudepigraphy and the Early Christians . 75
WILLIAM A. BEARDSLEE, Proverbs in the Gospel of Thomas 92
III. HISTORICAL STUDIES
HOWARD M. TEEPLE, The Historical Beginnings of the Resur-
rection Faith . 107
Bo REICKE, Synoptic Prophecies on the Destruction of Jerusalem 121
MORTON S. ENSLIN, Luke, the Literary Physician . 135
HORST R. MOEHRING, The Census in Luke as an Apologetic Device 144
KE""NETH WILLIS CLARK, The Israel of God . 161
HARRY M. BUCK, Redactions of the Fourth Gospel and the
Mother of Jesus 170
SHERMAN E. JOHNSON, Unsolved Questions about Early Chris-
tianity in Anatolia . 181
DAVID E. AUNE, The Phenomenon of Early Christian "Anti-
Sacramentalism" 194
ROBERT M. GRANT, Christians and Imperial Economic Policy
in the Early Fourth Century . 215
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IV. THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
OTTO BETZ, The Concept of the So-called "Divine Man" in Mark's
Cbristology 229
GERALD F. HAWTHORNE, Christian Baptism and the Contri-
bution of Melito of Sardis Reconsidered . 241
ROBERT W. ALLISON, Allen P. Wikgren : Biography and Biblio-
graphy 252
INDEX OF AUTHORS 259
INDEX OF REFERENCES 263
PREFACE
The colleagues of .Allen Wikgren, including many former students,
take great delight in presenting him with this collection of essays
written in his honor. The occasion is his sixty-fifth birthday and
coincident retirement from the position of Professor of New Testament
and Chairman of the Department of New Testament and Early
Christian Literature at the University of Chicago.
Both the title and contents of the present volume reflect the kinds
of concerns which have characterized this Department since its
inception in 1892 under the leadership of Ernest De Witt Burton.
Other distinguished predecessors of Professor Wikgren, who has
chaired the Department since 1953, include Edgar J. Goodspeed
(acting chairman, 1923-25; chairman, 1925-37), Donald Wayne Riddle
(acting chairman, 1937-38), Ernest Cadman Colwell (1938-46), and
Amos N. Wilder (1946-53). Two of these scholars, E.D. Burton and
E.C. Colwell, subsequently held the position of President of the
University.
At the insistence of President Harper and Professor Burton, the
Department was originally established to function in both the Divinity
School and the Division of Humanities of the University. In conse
quence of this, the Department has continued to maintain close ties
with the Biblical Field of the Divinity School and has also sought
to foster close relationships with other departments within the
Division of the Humanities, particularly those concerned with
classical and oriental languages and literatures. The first three
sections of the present volume, which constitute the great majority
of contributed essays, includes studies in text and lexicography,
literary studies and historical studies. Emphasis on these areas has
become a tradition vigorously maintained throughout the past eighty
years. The lack of departmental preoccupation with theological
studies (a more characteristic concern of the Biblical Field within
the Divinity School of the University), is fortuitously represented
in the present volume by the fourth-and shortest-section.
Both the desirability and feasibility of a collection of essays in
honor of Professor Wikgren was initially discussed with Professors
Calvin Katter and Norman Ericson; the editor is grateful for the
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stimulus provided by these discussions. An additional word of appre
ciation is due the firm of E.J. Brill and its Classical Editor, Mr. T.A.
Edridge, for helpful suggestions and a willingness to see the volume
through to publication.
DAVID E. AUNE