Scriptural Interpretation at the Interface between Education and Religion. In Memory of Hans Conzelmann

368 Pages·2018·1.687 MB·English

by  Florian Wilk

Scriptural Interpretation at the Interface between Education and Religion
Themes in
Biblical Narrative
Jewish and Christian Traditions
Editorial Board
Jacques T.A.G.M van Ruiten
Robert A. Kugler
Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Advisory Board
Reinhard Feldmeier
George H. van Kooten
Judith Lieu
Hindy Najman
Martti Nissinen
J. Ross Wagner
Robyn Whitaker
volume 22
The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/tbn
Scriptural Interpretation
at the Interface between
Education and Religion
In Memory of Hans Conzelmann
Edited by
Florian Wilk
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustration: Manuscripts showing passages from the Qurʾan (Q 15), the Habakkuk Pesher (1QpHab IV)
and the Gospel of Matthew (Mt 6).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Conzelmann, Hans, honouree. | Wilk, Florian, editor.
Title: Scriptural interpretation at the interface between education and
 religion : in memory of Hans Conzelmann / [edited] by Florian Wilk.
Description: Boston : Brill, 2018. | Series: Themes in biblical narrative:
 Jewish and Christian traditions, ISSN 1388-3909 ; volume 22 |
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018038661 (print) | LCCN 2018039617 (ebook) |
 ISBN 9789004385696 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004385344 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Bible—Hermeneutics. | Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
 Koran—Hermeneutics. | Koran—Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Classification: LCC BS476 (ebook) | LCC BS476 .S385 2018 (print) |
 DDC 220.6—dc23
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Contents
Preface vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Florian Wilk
“Textual Communities”: Brian Stock’s Concept and Recent Scholarship
on Antiquity 5
Jane Heath
“The Paideia of the Lord”: Moral Formation in Old Greek Isaiah 36
J. Ross Wagner
Interpreting Torah: Jubilees at the Interface between Education and
Religion 56
Jacques van Ruiten
Copying, Rewriting, and Interpretation in Community Formation:
the Pesher Habakkuk from Qumran Cave 1 72
Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Schriftauslegung als Bildungsvorgang im ersten Korintherbrief des
Paulus – untersucht ausgehend von 1Kor 4,6 88
Florian Wilk
Auslegung und Apotheose: Ps 110 und die lukanische Interpretation
der Auferstehung 112
Reinhard Feldmeier
Bildung, Religion, and Politics in the Gospel of John: the Erastic,
Philhellenic, Anti-Maccabean, and Anti-Roman Tendencies
of the Gospel of ‘the Beloved Pupil’ 123
George van Kooten
vi Contents
Ein starkes Stück Schrift: Über den Judasbrief in der
frühchristlichen Bildungswelt und über die Bildungswelt des
Judasbriefes – mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tradition
über Michael und den Teufel in Judas 9 178
Jan Dochhorn
Interpreting Readers: the Role of Greco-Roman Education in Early
Interpretation of New Testament Writings 204
Carl Johan Berglund
„Habe für alles ein Zeugnis aus der Heiligen Schrift!“: Monastische
Diskurse über Schriftauslegung und Bildung in der Spätantike 248
Peter Gemeinhardt
Jesus and Mary: Qurʾānic Echoes of Syriac Homilies? 284
Clare Wilde
Theologie als Schriftauslegung: zum Werk von Hans Conzelmann
(1915−1989) 303
Andreas Lindemann
Index of Ancient Sources 333
Index of Modern Authors 354
Preface
The present volume contains essays which originated in an international sym-
posium, Schriftauslegung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Bildung und Religion
(Scriptural Interpretation at the Interface between Education und Religion),
held October 7–9, 2015, at the Ländliche Heimvolkshochschule Mariaspring
near Göttingen. The participants specialize in Judaic Studies, New Testament
Studies, Patristics and Islamic Studies. In gathering a group of experts on
these subjects, the organizer sought to foster the interdisciplinary study of
Scriptural interpretation in antiquity. At the same time, the colloquy was con-
vened with the purpose of connecting three research initiatives that before
then had not been related to each other: the book series “Themes in Biblical
Narrative” (TBN), the U4 University Network of Ghent University, University
of Göttingen, University of Groningen and Uppsala University, and the
Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1136) “Bildung und Religion in Kulturen
des Mittelmeerraums und seiner Umwelt von der Antike bis zum Mittelalter
und zum Klassischen Islam” at the University of Göttingen. The fruitful conver-
sations during the symposium prompted the request that the participants ex-
pand their papers into essays which could be published in a congress volume,
and thankfully, most of them were willing and able to do so.
The editor owes a great debt of gratitude to the many individuals and in-
stitutions that have supported the work of the symposium and the pub-
lication of the present volume. I thank the teams both of the Ländliche
Heimvolkshochschule Mariaspring and of the Historical Building of the
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB) Göttingen who
kindly hosted the conference and its public lecture respectively. I gratefully
acknowledge the generous financial support provided by the Federal Ministry
of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the publishing house
Brill in Leiden and the Faculty of Theology at Göttingen. Sincere thanks are
due as well to Konrad Otto, who helped with logistics; to the members of the
editorial board of TBN, who accepted the manuscript into the series; to Janine
Müller and Julian Bergau, who assisted me in doing the editorial work; and to
the staff at Brill who saw to the process of publication.
The public lecture of the symposium was delivered in remembrance of Hans
Conzelmann, born in 1915 and Professor of New Testament at Göttingen from
1960 to 1978, a scholar rightfully renowned both for his way of doing theology
as Scriptural interpretation and for his lasting contributions to research into
viii Preface
the relationship between education and religion in antiquity. It is only right,
therefore, that the present volume is published in memory of him.
Florian Wilk
Göttingen, April 26, 2018
Notes on Contributors
Carl Johan Berglund
Doctoral/PhD student in New Testament Exegesis,
Department of Theology,
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Jan Dochhorn
Associate Professor of New Testament,
Department of Theology and Religion,
Durham University, UK
Reinhard Feldmeier
Professor of New Testament,
Faculty of Theology,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Peter Gemeinhardt
Professor of Church History,
Faculty of Theology,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Jane Heath
Assistant Professor of New Testament,
Department of Theology and Religion,
Durham University, UK
George (G.H.) van Kooten
Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity,
Faculty of Divinity,
University of Cambridge, Great Britain
Andreas Lindemann
Professor emeritus of New Testament,
Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel, Germany
x Notes on Contributors
Jacques (J.T.A.G.M.) van Ruiten
Professor of the Reception History of the Bible,
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies,
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Professor in New Testament Studies,
Faculty of Protestant Theology,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
J. Ross Wagner
Associate Professor of New Testament,
Duke University Divinity School,
Durham, NC, USA
Clare (C.E.) Wilde
Assistant Professor of Formative Islam,
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies,
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Florian Wilk
Professor of New Testament,
Faculty of Theology,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany