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New essays include, in the Hellenism and Judaism section: Jewish SelfDefinition by Way of Contrast in Oracula Sibyllina III 218-247; in Judaism and
Christianity: &dquo;The Finger of God.&dquo; Miscellaneous Notes on Luke 11.20 and its
Umwelt; and in Hellenism and Christianity: &dquo;A Simple Philosophy.&dquo; Alexander
of Lycopolis on Christianity, and Platos Fear as a Topic in Early Christian
Apologetics. These new essays are interspersed through the original collection at
the appropriate points. An unfortunate by-product of the new type-setting-compounded, I imagine, by the change of house-style from the original edition, published by Kok Pharos, to the new edition, published by the new owners, Peeters-is
that the page-lengths of the first edition essays do not match with the second
edition. As a result, it is somewhat annoying trying to find the true locus of page
references given for the original, and not as simple as adding the amount of new
pages to the original count.
It seems that van der Horst has no area in which he is not expert, when it comes
to anything to do with Judaism or Christianity from approximately the fifth or
fourth centuries BCE to the end of the Late Antique period (and beyond). The essays
in this volume, as disparate as their topics are in chronological and geographical
distribution, religious affiliation and linguistic origin, are all executed with an enviable mastery. Because van der Horst clearly recognizes the unifying factor of the
culture of Hellenism throughout his period of interest, this translates into a collection that, though expert in each of its individual topics, is able to present them as
part of a larger whole. Anyone willing to give this volume (and indeed van der
Horsts entire oeuvre) the time it deserves will not find themselves disappointed.
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in ch. 2, that the genitive in 3.22 is objective, that the diatribal style continues in ch.
5, that Jewish understanding of Adam lies behind 5.12-21, that one should avoid
concepts of corporate personality, that chs. 9-11 fit with 1-8. But there are a
number of places where I am less convinced. One is in the area of Schreiners textual criticism. Such notorious cruxes as 5.1 are not convincingly handled, in this
instance failing to appreciate that the context can be read such that the subjunctive
is confirmatory of the clearly stronger external evidence. He seems to have a penchant for defending the Nestle-Aland text. There are also a number of other questionable judgments. For example, Schreiner suggests that the use ofydp indicates a
dictated text (p. 2), he seems to follow a fairly rigid time-based view of the tenseforms, even where his exegesis runs contrary (e.g. 2.16), to the point of calling
aorist tense-forms past tenses (e.g. p. 85, but cf. n. 1; p. 386), he seems to let his
theology dictate his understanding of Greek (e.g. pp. 187, 287, 682, 688), and he
follows more of a theological and less of an epistolary outline. Schreiner certainly
has read an abundance of secondary literature, to which he makes reference
throughout.
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