Texts and Traditions: Essays in Honour of J. Keith Elliott (New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Volume 47)

Texts and Traditions: Essays in Honour of J. Keith Elliott (New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Volume 47)

Language: English

Pages: 439

ISBN: 2:00290230

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The methodology of New Testament textual criticism, the critical evaluation of readings, and the history and texts of early Christianity is the focus of the influential work of J. K. Elliott. Texts and Traditions offers eighteen essays in his honour. The essays, by colleagues and students from his long career, reflect Elliott's wide interest and impact. From questions of the purpose and practice of textual criticism, to detailed assessment of New Testament literature and the readings of its manuscripts, to provocative studies of the reception of Jesus and the New Testament in the second century, this volume will be of value to those studying the New Testament and Early Christianity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Testament Textual Research (1997–).36 Other simple titles included the following: a Greek title, Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ, by George D. Kilpatrick (1958),37 an exception in modern times that raises the question of why a Latin title has persisted so long for a collection of writings in Greek; a German title by Bernhard Weiss, Das Neue Testament (1894–1900);38 an English title, The Greek New Testament, for these editions: United Bible Societies, edited by K. Aland, et al. (19661–19834); R.V.G. Tasker

empire of heaven.” – Apuleius, Metamorphoses, 4.30: “Look at me [Isis], the primal mother of all that exists, the original source [initialis] of the elements, the bountiful mother of the whole world.” The English Term Usages In light of this Latin background, we turn directly to the English term, Initial, which, as an adjective, had its first recorded usage in 1526, in The Pilgrimage of Perfection, 1526 (1531), 73 b: “The iniciall feare, that is to say, the feare of good beginners.” Applying the

with his own use of the dual 38 39 J.K. Elliott, “Jerusalem in the Acts and the Gospels,” in idem, Essays and Studies in New Testament Textual Criticism (Córdoba: El Almendro, 1992), 113–120 (116); idem, “An Eclectic Study,” 19–22. Idem, “An Eclectic Study,” 22. eclecticism and the book of acts 83 spelling for Jerusalem in his letters that from his point of view the city was no longer the religious centre of authority, even if he honoured the position of those Jewish disciples for whom that

Message in the Longer Ending of Mark (WUNT 2.112; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000), 258–260. In Mark 9:38, the imperfect tense of ἐκωλύομεν can be construed as conative, indicating an attempted action (so Pesch, Markusevangelium, 2:108–109 [on 9:38]; and the NRSV: “we tried to stop him”). Yet since ἐκωλύομεν occurs with the imperfect ἠκολούθει ἡμῖν (“he was not following us”), it makes better sense to construe both ἐκωλύομεν and ἠκολούθει as iterative imperfects, with the implication that the man

remaining eleven apostles but would not apply even to them without qualification: even a post-resurrection change of heart by some or all of them after they abandoned Jesus (cf. 14:50) would be insufficient unless they were to continue to endure “to the end” amidst hardship and persecution. Especially in the passion narrative, Mark continues to have hardly anything positive to say about the Twelve, except that they prepare the Passover and celebrate it with Jesus (14:12–25). When an anonymous

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