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The relationship between Law and Gospel remains something of a conundrum for biblical scholarship. A significant factor contributing to this difficulty is the interpretation of Matthew 5:17, and in particular what is meant by Jesus’ having come “to fulfil” the Law and the Prophets. What precisely is meant by “to fulfil the Law and the Prophets” is an exegetical enigma. Utilizing an eclectic array of methods, including literary, historical, and theological approaches, this study attempts to articulate the nature of fulfilment in Matthew 5:17. We begin by surveying a selection of previous contributions, from which we deduce four possible interpretations. Next, we outline the historical, literary, and theological contexts, in order to provide the background for the exegetical and theological discussions that follow. This leads us into a thorough exegesis of Matthew 5:17-20, with special attention directed towards the key term ω. We argue that ω is best understood in light of its usage elsewhere in Matthew, highlighting its salvation-historical significance. In addition, we argue that the focus on the Law and the Prophets, Matthew’s understanding of the prophetic function of the Law (11:13), and the so-called antitheses of 5:21-48, lead us to understand “to fulfil” as the realization of what the Law and the Prophets – the Old Testament – pointed towards. When Jesus says that he has come to “fulfil” the Law and the Prophets he means that all that they anticipated has now come about in him. But it is important to move beyond regular historical-critical methods of exegesis and also to examine the passage in light of its biblical-theological significance: what did the Law and Prophets anticipate? Our study attempts to advance discussion of ω in this passage by considering how ‘biblical theology’ might aid us in understanding what precisely was pointed towards by the Old Testament. We therefore discuss the bearing of a theology of the kingdom of God on Matthew 5:17. The significance of the concept of the kingdom of God/heaven – mentioned three times in Matthew 5:17-20, central in both Matthew’s Gospel and the Sermon on the Mount, and descriptive of Jesus’ mission (4:17) – has often been overlooked in the interpretation of this passage. In addition to regular arguments made on the basis of historical-critical exegesis – including discussion of the nature of ω in Matthew’s Gospel, the sense in which the Law prophesies, and the contribution of the so-called antitheses of 5:21-48 – we argue that the biblical-theological theme of the kingdom of God clarifies a salvation-historical reading of these verses. The concept of the kingdom of God provides a helpful lens through which to understand the nature of the fulfilment brought about by Jesus. When the theme of the kingdom of God in the Old Testament is considered, it is seen that this concept summarizes the Jewish hope – it is what the Law and the Prophets pointed towards. Therefore, when it is said that Jesus has come “to fulfil” the Law and the Prophets, an eschatological or salvation-historical reading shows that what the Law pointed towards has arrived in the teaching and ministry of Jesus. But a biblical-theological reading of the kingdom of God helps us to add a measure of precision to this statement. Jesus “fulfils” the Law and the Prophets by bringing into being what they anticipated: the kingdom of God, to which the Old Testament looked forward, has come. What the Law and Prophets anticipated was the arrival of the kingdom of God. “Fulfilment”, then, should be construed in terms of this motif. Jesus fulfils the Law and the Prophets by inaugurating the kingdom of God, which they anticipated. This bypasses discussions over whether it is primarily Jesus’ teaching or Jesus’ life that is in view, since the kingdom of God is inaugurated through both. / MA (New Testament), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

The relationship between Law and Gospel remains something of a conundrum for biblical scholarship. A significant factor contributing to this difficulty is the interpretation of Matthew 5:17, and in particular what is meant by Jesus’ having come “to fulfil” the Law and the Prophets. What precisely is meant by “to fulfil the Law and the Prophets” is an exegetical enigma. Utilizing an eclectic array of methods, including literary, historical, and theological approaches, this study attempts to articulate the nature of fulfilment in Matthew 5:17. We begin by surveying a selection of previous contributions, from which we deduce four possible interpretations. Next, we outline the historical, literary, and theological contexts, in order to provide the background for the exegetical and theological discussions that follow. This leads us into a thorough exegesis of Matthew 5:17-20, with special attention directed towards the key term ω. We argue that ω is best understood in light of its usage elsewhere in Matthew, highlighting its salvation-historical significance. In addition, we argue that the focus on the Law and the Prophets, Matthew’s understanding of the prophetic function of the Law (11:13), and the so-called antitheses of 5:21-48, lead us to understand “to fulfil” as the realization of what the Law and the Prophets – the Old Testament – pointed towards. When Jesus says that he has come to “fulfil” the Law and the Prophets he means that all that they anticipated has now come about in him. But it is important to move beyond regular historical-critical methods of exegesis and also to examine the passage in light of its biblical-theological significance: what did the Law and Prophets anticipate? Our study attempts to advance discussion of ω in this passage by considering how ‘biblical theology’ might aid us in understanding what precisely was pointed towards by the Old Testament. We therefore discuss the bearing of a theology of the kingdom of God on Matthew 5:17. The significance of the concept of the kingdom of God/heaven – mentioned three times in Matthew 5:17-20, central in both Matthew’s Gospel and the Sermon on the Mount, and descriptive of Jesus’ mission (4:17) – has often been overlooked in the interpretation of this passage. In addition to regular arguments made on the basis of historical-critical exegesis – including discussion of the nature of ω in Matthew’s Gospel, the sense in which the Law prophesies, and the contribution of the so-called antitheses of 5:21-48 – we argue that the biblical-theological theme of the kingdom of God clarifies a salvation-historical reading of these verses. The concept of the kingdom of God provides a helpful lens through which to understand the nature of the fulfilment brought about by Jesus. When the theme of the kingdom of God in the Old Testament is considered, it is seen that this concept summarizes the Jewish hope – it is what the Law and the Prophets pointed towards. Therefore, when it is said that Jesus has come “to fulfil” the Law and the Prophets, an eschatological or salvation-historical reading shows that what the Law pointed towards has arrived in the teaching and ministry of Jesus. But a biblical-theological reading of the kingdom of God helps us to add a measure of precision to this statement. Jesus “fulfils” the Law and the Prophets by bringing into being what they anticipated: the kingdom of God, to which the Old Testament looked forward, has come. What the Law and Prophets anticipated was the arrival of the kingdom of God. “Fulfilment”, then, should be construed in terms of this motif. Jesus fulfils the Law and the Prophets by inaugurating the kingdom of God, which they anticipated. This bypasses discussions over whether it is primarily Jesus’ teaching or Jesus’ life that is in view, since the kingdom of God is inaugurated through both. / MA (New Testament), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:27:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gbedey Mebounou Nyekplola.pdf: 1404323 bytes, checksum: 375fb3d8e2a3eb56289c72e8baf3e196 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-02 / This thesis is a study on Psalm 139. The principal aim of the research is to present the image of God transmitted by this poem and investigate how mankind, created and known by God can relate to his experience of faith with the struggle for survival in this world, marked by people who insist on injustice and violence due to their wickedness. In order to justify the research on psalm 139, the Hebrew text was chosen, since it is the language in which the text was originally composed. By so doing the guarantee of being close to the first meaning of the text is more assured. Particularly being a language that lays emphasis, on knowledge of other important parallels in the whole canon of the Scriptures, especially other writings (books) that form the Hebrew Bible. In the light of what has been stated above, the Hebrew Concordance of Old Testament has become the most important research tool. Always attentive to the literary-stylistic dimensions of Psalm 139, the study aims to describe the theological dimensions of this biblical prayer. The research progresses along the verses and stanzas that compose the poem, commenting word by word, sentence by sentence and stanza by stanza. Psalm 139 meditates on human existence as determined by God. For someone who feels unjustly treated and threatened in his life. It is interesting to see from this biblical poem, the divine omniscience, omnipresence, divine omnipotence and God's creative act; God, the good shepherd and liberator. This religious perspective offers hope because at the long run GOD is aware of all life experience: being omniscient, powerful and the one who liberates mankind from all sort of danger and slavery / A presente dissertação apresenta um estudo sobre o Salmo 139. O objetivo é, sobretudo, apresentar a imagem de Deus transmitida por este poema e investigar como o ser humano, conhecido por este Deus, pode conciliar sua experiência de fé com sua luta pela sobrevivência neste mundo, marcada pela injustiça e pela violência instauradas por quem insiste na impiedade e até nos crimes de sangue. A pesquisa justifica-se na medida em que é promovida uma leitura do texto hebraico do Salmo 139, língua em que o texto originalmente foi composto. Assim, a aproximação ao sentido primeiro do texto é mais garantida, em especial, por ocorrer uma leitura que insiste no conhecimento dos importantes paralelismos em todo o cânon das Sagradas Escrituras, em especial, nos escritos que formam a Bíblia Hebraica. Desta forma, a Concordância tornou-se o instrumento de pesquisa mais importante. Sempre atento às dimensões literário-estilísticas do Salmo 139, o estudo se propõe a descrever as dimensões teológicas desta oração bíblica. A pesquisa avança junto aos versículos e às estrofes que compõem o poema, comentando palavra por palavra, frase por frase e estrofe por estrofe. O Salmo 139 medita sobre a existência humana enquanto determinada por Deus. Impressiona imaginar, junto ao poema bíblico, a onisciência divina, a onipresença divina, a onipotência criadora de Deus e o agir do Deus libertador e pastor. Para quem se sente injustiçado e ameaçado em sua sobrevivência, esta perspectiva religiosa oferece esperança, pois, finalmente, toda a realidade é ligada a um Deus conhecedor, potente e libertador

<p><p>In the first book of the Bible, every patriarch and many of the matriarchs have significant encounters with anger. However, scholarship has largely ignored how Genesis treats this emotion, particularly how Genesis functions as Torah by providing ethical instruction about handling this emotion's perplexities. This dissertation aims to fill this gap in scholarship, showing both how anger functions as a literary motif in Genesis and how this book offers moral guidance for engaging this emotion.</p></p><p><p>After an introductory chapter outlining the goals, methods, and limitations of this study (ch. 1), this dissertation draws on works in translation theory, anthropology, and cross-cultural psychology to lay a theoretical framework for analyzing emotion described in another language by another culture (ch. 2). Next, it appropriates the findings of cognitive linguistics to analyze the terminology, conception, and associations of anger in the Hebrew Bible (ch. 3). The following chapter evaluates the advances that have taken place in the field of Old Testament ethics in recent decades, supplementing them with insights from philosophical, literary, and critical theorists to formulate an understanding of ethics and narrative that aligns with the contours of Genesis (ch. 4). The next chapter employs a rhetorical-literary approach to examine how texts in Genesis provide a conversation with one another about anger and its moral perplexities (ch. 5). Various themes from this study are then collected and summarized in the concluding chapter (ch. 6).</p></p><p><p>This dissertation concludes that understanding Genesis' message about anger requires laying aside traditional Western assumptions about both emotion and ethics. Genesis does not, for example, provide a set of ideal principles for engaging anger. Rather, readers who experience Genesis' narratives view anger from a variety of perspectives and in different lights, gaining wisdom for diverse encounters with anger they may face. They acquire a deep sensitivity to human frailty, an acute awareness of anger's power, and a realistic range of possibilities for engaging this emotion.</p></p> / Dissertation

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Friedrich Mildenberger's Theology. The submitted dissertation represents generally first presen- tation of Friedrich Mildenberger's theology with distinctive concentration on his opus magnum three-volume Biblical Dogmatics. Friedrich Mildenberger is the only systematic theologian who was developing "pan-biblical theology" lifelong. Overwhelming majority of his work is con- nected with his working at the theological faculty in Erlangen. Mildenberger strove for the proper use of scripture in church which historical-critical interpreting cannot meet. His Biblical Dogmatics principally combines biblical theology with dogmatic questioning and endeavours to understand scripture applicably. Biblical Dogmatics is conceived of as posing the questions to which the biblical texts are to be discussed as answer For Mildenberger's interpreting of the Bible, it's peculiar to interlacing theology (the constitution of reality in God) and economics - or with James Barr rather oikonomia -, i.e. the restitution of reality by God. The specificity of his questioning and originality (!) determines the abandonment of the traditional encyclopaedic separation/division and theology study. Mildenberger follows the Lutheran Orthodoxy tradi- tion, Enlightenment, the so-called dialectical theology and contemporary theological...

[pt] Este trabalho estuda os textos doxológicos do livro de Amós (Am 4,13; 5,8-9; 9,5-6), considerando particularmente a imagem de Deus aí delineadas e verificando sua relação com a menção de um terremoto que ocorre em outros textos do livro. Tais textos apresentam uma imagem de Deus criador associada à imagem de um Deus destruidor, como forma de indicar sua soberania e poder sobre a história, por meio dos fenômenos naturais. A referência ao terremoto, que ocorre na introdução do livro (Am 1,1) e no seu desenvolvimento (Am 8,8 e 9,1) indica que, a partir do momento em que o ser humano rompe a ordem do direito e justiça, YHWH pode romper a ordem cósmica. A finalidade destas ameaças, considerado o conjunto do escrito, é que, por meio da mudança brusca realizada na natureza, o povo de Israel se converta e restabeleça a ordem harmônica na vida humana. / [en] The present assay approaches the doxological texts in the book of Amos (Am 4,13; 5,8-9; 9,5-6), especially considering the image of God there outlined and checking their relationship with the mention of an earthquake that occurs in other texts of the book. Such texts present an image of God, the Creator, associated with the image of a destroyer God, as a way of stating His sovereignty and power over the story through natural phenomena. The reference to the earthquake, which occurs in both introduction (Am 1,1) and development (Am 8,8 and 9,1), indicate that YHWH can break the cosmic order at any time the human being disrupts the order of law and Justice. In this context, these threats aim the convertion of the people of Israel through sudden changes in nature, restoring the harmonic order in human life.