Q in Matthew: A Review Essay

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 169-191
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Rollens
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Memory Theory

This essay reviews Alan Kirk’s recent book Q in Matthew: Ancient Media, Memory, and Early Scribal Transmissions of the Jesus Tbrradition, which analyzes the techniques of ancient scribal composition alongside memory theory to better understand how the author of the Gospel of Matthew used his sources.

Rethinking Soviet Marxism: The Case of Evald Ilyenkov

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-195
Author(s):  
Giuliano Andrea Vivaldi
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Soviet Marxism ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
The Ideal

This review-essay explores approaches to the thought of the creative Soviet Marxist thinker Evald Ilyenkov as discussed in a recent book edited by Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen, Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism. The book consists of a series of commentaries and contextual essays which centre on the translated text of Ilyenkov’s Dialectics of the Ideal. The approach the authors take to Ilyenkov’s work differs from previous ones of exploring the totality of Ilyenkov’s thought or eclectic aspects of it. By commenting on and contextualising Ilyenkov’s major text on the Ideal they locate the contribution of Ilyenkov in dialogue with traditions of classical European philosophy, and Western and Soviet Marxism, and in his importance to contemporary issues in philosophy and other disciplines. A deep analysis of Ilyenkov’s dense and often complex text is also given. By doing so the authors highlight the immense contribution of Ilyenkov to contemporary thought.

Islamic Law in Action: A Historical Discussion

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (04) ◽  
pp. 1041-1057
Author(s):  
Boğaç A. Ergene
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Made In

This review essay engages Kristen Stilt's recent book, Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt (2011), in a fashion that highlights its contributions to the study of Islamic law. In particular, it underlines the methodological arguments made in the book that might help us think about Islamic legal practice in sophisticated and historically grounded ways. As elaborated in the article, these arguments have important implications for modern as well historical settings. Specifically, Stilt's discussion of “Islamic law in action” reveals the inherent flexibility of Islamic legal practice to accommodate political change. The article also discusses how further research on the topic could benefit from specific approaches and orientations.

Memory as Method: Some Observations on Two Recent Accounts

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-61
Author(s):  
Andrew Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Memory Theory ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Scribal Culture

This review essay considers the use of social memory theory in two monographs on the gospels, and the extent to which that theory aids their arguments and conclusions. In the case of Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee, by Chris Keith, I argue that the author uses social memory theory to provide a helpful account of what historians do, but that his conclusion could stand without explicit appeal to his theoretical understanding. In the case of Q in Matthew: Ancient Media, Memory, and Early Scribal Transmission of the Jesus Tradition, by Alan Kirk, I argue that his use of social memory theory, alongside his account of individual neurobiological memory and cognitive processes, is a vital part of the argument that he presents.

The Abusive Society: A Review Essay

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Abuse Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
English Speaking

This essay reviews a recent book on a New Zealand child abuse case which has become well-known in that country. It uses the review to explore broader issues associated with the differing and controversial forms of child sexual abuse that have come into focus in some English speaking societies over the last 20 years and the social context which has made their emergence possible.

Ehrman, Bauckham and Bird on Memory and the Jesus Tradition

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Memory Research ◽  
Memory Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian Origins

The past twenty years have seen numerous studies applying memory research to problems in the history of the Jesus tradition and also in historical Jesus research, where it has become a point of controversy. Three recent book-length contributions to these debates are Bart Ehrman’s Jesus Before The Gospels (2016), the just-released second edition of Richard Bauckham’s 2006 volume, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (2017), and Michael Bird’s The Gospel of the Lord (2014). Respectively these authors represent quite different appropriations of memory theory. Analysis of their contributions will clarify where, twenty years on, applications of memory theory in Gospels and Christian origins scholarship stand.

scholarly journals Matthew, memory theory and the New No Quest

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeba Crook
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Memory Distortion ◽  
Memory Theory

This article explores the effects of cognitive and social memory theory on the quest for the historical Jesus. It is not the case that all memory is hopelessly unreliable, but it is the case that it commonly is. Memory distortion is disturbingly common, and much worse, there is no way to distinguish between memories of actual events and memories of invented events. The Gospel of Matthew was used to illustrate this very difficulty. This article also draws attention to the fact that although numerous criteria have been developed, refined and used extensively in order to distinguish between original Jesus material and later church material, those criteria have long been unsatisfactory, and most recently, because of the effects of thinking about memory theory and orality, have been revealed to be bankrupt. Since memory theory shows that people are unable to differentiate accurate memory from inaccurate and wholly invented memory, and since the traditional quest criteria do not accomplish what they were intended to, this article argues that scholarship about Jesus has been forced into a new no quest.

scholarly journals More Than Just Guide Tones: Steve Larson's Analyzing Jazz—A Schenkerian Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Henry Martin
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Jazz Studies ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Music Theorist

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;">Henry Martin, a composer, music theorist, professor of music at Rutgers University–Newark, and co-editor of the <em>Journal of Jazz Studies</em></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;">, contributes a review-essay about Steve Larson’s recent book, <em>Analyzing Jazz: A Schenkerian Approach </em></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Adobe Caslon Pro&quot;;">(Pendragon Press, 2009).</span>

Advancing the Aristotelian Project in Contemporary Metaphysics: A Review Essay

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-442
Author(s):  
Robert C. Koons ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Philosophy Of Physics ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Central Focus

In a recent book, Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar, Ross Inman demonstrates the contemporary relevance of an Aristotelian approach to metaphysics and the philosophy of nature. Inman successfully applies the Aristotelian framework to a number of outstanding problems in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of physics. Inman tackles some intriguing questions about the ontological status of proper parts, questions which constitute a central focus of ongoing debate and investigation.

The Biblical Quotations in Matthew

1943 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherman E. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Hebrew Text ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Greek Version ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Principal Source ◽  
Old Greek

In his most recent book, the great Semitist, Professor Charles Cutler Torrey, presents a new theory to explain the phenomena of the Old Testament quotations in the Gospel of Matthew, and thus adds one more element to the recurrent debate on Aramaic origins of the gospels. Hitherto most critics have held that the vast majority of citations in the first gospel were taken over from the Septuagint (or, more properly, the Old Greek) version, the chief exceptions being the Reflexionszitate or “formula citations,” a group of passages introduced by some such formula as “in order that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying” (1:22). The latter were thought to have been made on the basis of the Hebrew text, either directly by the evangelist, or borrowed from an old book of Christian testimonies or proof-texts, or, as Bacon believed, taken over from the Aramaic “targumic material” which had grown up in Syria around Mark's gospel. Torrey completely rejects this usual view, which assumes that our Mt. was originally written in Greek. The original Mt., he says, was in Aramaic, and its principal source was the originally Aramaic Mk.; its biblical quotations were, however, in the Hebrew of the Bible. If, at many points, quotations in the Greek Mt. agree with Greek Mk., it is only because the translator of Mt. made use of the latter.

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