The scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian tradition : essays in honour of Maarten J.J. Menken

497 Pages·2013·4.24 MB·English

by  M J J Menken

The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish
and Christian Tradition
Supplements
to
Novum Testamentum
Executive Editors
M.M. Mitchell
Chicago
D.P. Moessner
Texas Christian University
Editorial Board
L. Alexander, Sheffield – H.W. Attridge, New Haven
F. Bovon, Cambridge MA – C. Breytenbach, Berlin
J.K. Elliott, Leeds – C.R. Holladay, Atlanta
M.J.J. Menken, Tilburg – J.C. Thom, Stellenbosch
P. Trebilco, Dunedin
VOLUME 148
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Maarten Menken as seen by his wife, Corja Menken-Bekius
2011, oil on canvas on board, 30 × 40 cm
The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish
and Christian Tradition
Essays in Honour of Maarten J.J. Menken
Edited by
Bart J. Koet, Steve Moyise, and Joseph Verheyden
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2013
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian tradition : essays in honour of
Maarten J.J. Menken / edited by Bart Koet, Steven Moyise, and Joseph Verheyden.
  pages cm. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum, ISSN 0167-9732; 148)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-23100-9 (hardback : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-90-04-24772-7 (e-book)
1. Bible. N.T.—Relation to the Old Testament. 2. Bible. O.T.—Criticism, interpretation, etc.—
History. 3. Typology (Theology) 4. Menken, M. J. J. I. Menken, M. J. J. II. Koet, B. J. (Bart J.)
III. Moyise, Steve. IV. Verheyden, Jozef.
 BS511.3.S375 2013
 220.6—dc23
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations  ................................................................................................... ix
List of Contributors  ........................................................................................ xv
INTRODUCTION
Maarten Menken: A Portrait in Words  .................................................... 3
Bart J. Koet
INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew’s Bible in the Infancy Narrative  ............................................... 11
Steve Moyise
Theme and Variations: Isaiah’s Song of the Vineyard and
Its Influence in the New Testament  .................................................... 25
Joost Smit Sibinga†
The Function of the Two Quotations from Isaiah in Luke 3–4  ........ 41
Joop Smit
The Use of Scripture in Luke 9:51–56  ....................................................... 57
Adelbert Denaux
The Reception of Tobit in the New Testament and Early Christian
Literature, with Special Reference to Luke-Acts  .............................. 81
Susan Docherty
“Are these things so?” (Acts 7:1): A Narrative-intertextual
Approach to Reading Stephen’s Speech  ............................................. 95
Peter Doble
A Cry for Help: A Note in the Margin of Acts 16:9  ............................... 115
Joseph Verheyden
vi contents
“Bethany beyond the Jordan” (John 1:28) in Retrospect:
The View from John 10:40 and Related Texts  ................................... 129
Wendy E.S. North 
Reinigung und Heiligung im Johannesevangelium  .............................. 141
Ulrich Busse
The Signs of the Messiah in the Fourth Gospel: The Problem of a
“Wonder-working Messiah”  .................................................................... 159
Gilbert Van Belle
Paul’s Use of the Old Testament and His Attack on Apollos’
Adherents in Corinth  ................................................................................ 179
Harm W. Hollander
The Text Form of the Torah Quotations Common to the Corpus
Philonicum and Paul’s Corinthian Correspondence  ........................ 193
Gert J. Steyn 
Observations on the Significance of the Old Testament in
Galatians  ....................................................................................................... 211
Martinus C. de Boer
Intertextuality—Christology—Pseudepigraphy: The Impact of
Old Testament Allusions in 2 Thess 1:5–12  ........................................ 227
Tobias Nicklas
Why Bother Going Outside?: The Use of the Old Testament in
Heb 13:10–16  ................................................................................................. 239
David M. Allen
Tracing Scriptural Authority  ....................................................................... 253
John M. Court
„Das Buch dieser Prophetie‟ – die Schriften Israels und die
Schrift des Sehers: Überlegungen zur Schrifthermeneutik der
Johannesoffenbarung  ................................................................................ 265
Michael Labahn
contents vii
The Theologoumenon “New”: Bridging the Old and the
New Testament  ........................................................................................... 285
Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen
“Which if a man do them he shall live by them”: Jewish and
Christian Discourse on Lev 18:5  ............................................................. 303
Eric Ottenheijm
The Old Testament in the New: A Resource for an Ecological
Reading  ......................................................................................................... 317
Margaret M. Daly-Denton
INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE AFTER THE NEW TESTAMENT
“Bearing the Entire Yoke of the Lord”: An Explanation of
Didache 6:2 in the Light of Matthew 11:28–30  ................................... 331
Huub W.M. van de Sandt 
Isaiah 60:17 as a Key for Understanding the Two-fold Ministry
of ἐπισκόποι and διάκονοι according to First Clement
(1 Clem 42:5)  ................................................................................................ 345
Bart J. Koet
Biblical Quotations in Judaeo-Greek Inscriptions  ................................ 363
Pieter W. van der Horst 
The Use of the Old Testament in Scripture Readings in Early
Christian Assemblies ................................................................................. 377
Henk Jan de Jonge 
Saint Augustine’s Sermons 38–41 on the Book of Ben Sira  ................ 393
Pancratius C. Beentjes 
Jan van den Driessche (Johannes Drusius) 1550–1616 and the
Study of the Old Testament in the New  ............................................. 409
J. Lionel North 
Bibliography of Maarten J.J. Menken (August 2012)  ............................ 425
Index of Names  ................................................................................................ 433
Index of References  ........................................................................................ 442