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In this collection of essays, Australian ancient historian and biblical scholar, James R. Harrison, compares aspects of today’s cult of celebrity, fuelled by various media, to the quest for glory in Roman antiquity. This was a quest characterised by the constant self-advertisement of the Roman nobility, who were so keen not only to equal the glory of their ancestors, but to surpass it. Against the backdrop of this well-attested quest for ancestral and personal glory, Harrison examines how the “shame of the cross overturns the deeply entrenched Graeco-Roman culture of esteem and, in a surprising case of social levelling, establishes humility as its crowning virtue for the great man and his dependents” (vi). This leads to the question of how this “cultural collision, still reverberating today, affected the civic ethics of Paul’s converts, their communal ethos and paradigms of group identity, their pedagogical curriculum, and their understanding of honour and dishonour?” (vi). In addition to the introductory and concluding chapters, Harrison has added three new studies (chapters 2, 3, and 6) for this collection. Five previous studies have been updated to emphasise their contribution to an understanding of how the cross of Christ effected moral transformation in the face of the self-assertive values espoused by the luminaries of the ancient celebrity circuit (vi).

Danna Nolan Fewell (editor). The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative. Christoph Stenschke Stephan Anthony Cummins & Jens Zimmermann (editors), Acts of Interpretation: Scripture, Theology and Culture. Pieter van der Zwan Hemchand Gossai (editor), Postcolonial Commentary and the Old Testament. Pieter van der Zwan

Sneed, Mark R. (ed.), Was There a Wisdom Tradition: New Perspectives in Israelite Wisdom Studies. 325 + xi pages. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-6283-7099-7; R623.00. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2015. Mirjam Zimmermann, Ruben Zimmermann (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Bibeldidaktik. UTB (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013). Xviii + 748 S., kartoniert. ISBN 978-3-8252-3996-1. 40 Euro Johanna Stiebert. First-Degree Incest and the Hebrew Bible. Sex in the Family. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. 228 pages, hard cover, price £59.90. ISBN 978-0-5676-0033-2.

James, Joshua T. 2017. The Storied Ethics of the Thanksgiving Psalms (Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies 658). London – New York, NY: Bloomsbury T&T Clark. 161 Pages. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-5676-7521-7. John Goldingay. Reading Jesus’s Bible: How the New Testament Helps Us Understand the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017. 262 pages, soft cover, $ 24.00. ISBN 978-0-8028-7364-4. Mirjam Zimmermann, Ruben Zimmermann (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Bibeldidaktik. UTB (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013). Xviii + 748 S., kartoniert. ISBN 978-3-8252-3996-1. 40 Euro

Merling Alomía, Daniel: El profeta mesiánico. Vol. 2. Pieter van der Zwan Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, ed. The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film. Parts 1, 2. Christoph Stenschke

Wolfgang Schütte, Israels Exil in Juda: Untersuchungen zur Entstehung der Schriftprophetie Benjamin Kilchör William S. Morrow. An Introduction to Biblical Law Christoph Stenschke James, Joshua T. The Storied Ethics of the Thanksgiving Psalms Beat Weber

Malachi. S. D. (Fanie) Snyman. S. I. (Fanie) Cronjé Bleibendes Nachwirken des Exils: Untersuchung zur kanonischen Endgestalt des Ezechielbuches. Tobias Häner. Benjamin Kilchör Origenes: Die Homilien und Fragmente zum Hohelied: Eingeleitet und übersetzt von Alfons Fürst und Holger Strutwolf. Prof. Dr. Christoph Stenschke The Deuteronomist’s History: The Role of the Deuteronomist in Historical-Critical Research into Genesis–Numbers. Hans Ausloos. Pieter van der Zwan The Formation of the ‘Book’ of Psalms: Reconsidering the Transmission and Canonization of Psalmody in Light of Material Culture and the Poetics of Anthologies. David Willgren Beat Weber

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https://doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2018/v31n3a23

It only matters how it is obtained and how it is employed � the dangers and chances of money in the New Testament This article examines statements about money and other forms of material wealth in the New Testament. After a general survey of the surprisingly many occurrences of money, coins, wealth or property and the contexts in which they appear, the article describes the spiritual dangers involved in the desire for and use of money as addressed by various New Testament books. A further section is devoted to an often neglected aspect, namely the positive chances of money rightly used that are also mentioned. Money, otherwise also called mammon, can be used to support those in need and to further the kingdom of God and even to express spiritual truths and bonds. This is followed by a summary of New Testament statements on obtaining money legitimately and using it properly. A final section reflects on the way how Christians today are to use the means that have been entrusted to them.

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This paper argues that 1 Peter should be read against the background of early Christian mission. The readers of 1 Peter have a predominantly Gentile background. The letter assures these Gentile Christians that they now share the status and spiritual privileges of Israel. However, this cherished status also includes an existence as exiles and strangers in the world they live in. This experience was hitherto unknown to them. As God’s people they have a new task: to share their faith in Christ by conduct and by word. Their experience of slander and persecutions cannot and need not bring their calling into question but is part and parcel of being God’s people in the world.