Contested Spaces: Houses and Temples in Roman Antiquity and the New Testament. Edited by David L.Balch and AnnetteWeissenrieder. WUNT, 285. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. Pp. xi + 561. Cloth, €129.00.

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-42
Author(s):  
Richard S. Ascough
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Roman Antiquity

scholarly journals The socio-rhetorical force of ‘truth talk’ and lies: The case of 1 John

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietmar Neufeld
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Communal Identity ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
1 John ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Witness Set ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Rhetorical Force

This article canvassed Greek and Roman sources for discussions concerning truth talk and lies. It has investigated what social historians and/or anthropologists are saying about truth talking and lying and has developed a model that will examine the issue of truth and lying in socio-religious terms as defined by the Graeco-Roman sources. The article tracked down the socio-rhetorical force of truth talk and lies, in terms of how they are strategically deployed to negotiate authority, to exert epistemic control, to define a personal and communal identity and to defend innovation in the midst of competing truth claims. It focused on the New Testament writing (1 John) and demonstrated that the author, in his desire to establish and defend his vision of truth, resorts to a style of truth talk endemic to the literary habits of Graeco-Roman antiquity. In so doing, the author established himself as a credible witness, set himself apart from those propounding falsehoods and, to some extent, distanced himself from the vision of truth propounded in the Gospel of John.

Erasmus and the New Testament: The Pastoral Context

Moreana ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (Number 133) (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Germain Marc’hadour
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Great Freedom ◽  
The New Testament

Erasmus, after the dry philological task of editing the Greek text of the New Testament with annotations and a new translation, turned to his paraphrases with a sense of great freedom, bath literary and pastoral. Thomas More’s debt to his friend’s Biblical labors has been demonstrated but never systematically assessed. The faithful translation and annotation provided by Toronto provides an opportunity for examining a number of passages from St. Paul and St. James in the light of bath Erasmus’ exegesis and More’s apologetics.

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