Harvard Theological Review articles from January 2002

Harvard Theological Review archives from January 2002

Introduction to "the Hebrew inscriptions from Sardis".(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Five of these inscriptions on stone in Hebrew were excavated in the Roman synagogue at Sardis, sixty miles northeast of Izmir in Turkey, during the excavation seasons of 1962 and 1963; the sixth is a stray find from near the Temple of...

The Hebrew inscriptions from Sardis *.
January 1, 2002... The inscriptions in Hebrew found in the Sardis Synagogue are few and fragmentary in comparison with the rich deposit of Greek inscriptions. One may compare the coeval synagogue in Hammath-Tiberias with its similar proportion of Greek and...

Wisdom and apocalypticism in the Wisdom of Solomon.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... If Emerson was correct that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," then the mind of the Wisdom of Solomon' s author may be considered both supple and expansive, since an ongoing theme of scholarship on the book has been the...

The recently published Gospel of the Savior ("Unbekanntes Berliner Evangelium"): righting the order of pages and events.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... The most recent addition to the corpus of ancient Christian gospels first became known to scholars from a lecture presented by Charles W. Hedrick at the Sixth International Congress of Coptic Studies in 1996. (1) Three years later, the new...

The Gospel of Barnabas and the Dietessaron.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... The so-called Gospel of Barnabas is attested by two textual witnesses, an Italian manuscript probably dating from the end of the sixteenth century and presently kept in Vienna, and a lacunar Spanish manuscript from the eighteenth century...

Augustine and the corporeality of God *.
January 1, 2002... It has been recognized by at least some scholars that many early Christians, and not only the simpliciores, believed God to be corporeal (materially embodied) or anthropomorphic (humanlike in form), as some biblical narratives portray him....

Why did the bystanders think Jesus called upon Elijah before he died (Mark 15:34-36)? The Markan position. (Notes And Observations).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... (34) And in the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani," which is translated, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (35) When some of the bystanders heard this, they said, "See, he is calling...

Books received.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2002... Akenson, Donald Harman. Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 658 pp. $25.00 pb. Alexandrakis, Aphrodite, ed., and Nicholas J. Moutafakis, assoc. ed. Neoplatonism and...