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The topic “Biblical Concepts and Our World” is brought into focus in Gareth Moore’s title “Hearing the Voice of God.” As he poses the problem (p. 3), it is not involved in reading the Bible “simply as a work of ancient literature,” but “as part of their [modern Christians’] Christian religious practice.” It is precisely this focus on the Bible as intended for religious practice that calls for a more radical approach than would be the case if it were looked upon merely as ancient literature.
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Rudolf Bultmann, New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (ed. Schubert M. Ogden; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984). Bultmann’s proposal was first presented as a lecture in 1941. His concern at the time was that the necessity of the Confessing Church (to which he belonged) to close its ranks against the Nazi threat would lead to an untenable kind of neo-orthodoxy.
Thomas Jefferson, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth: Extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French, and English (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904).
Christoph Friedrich von Ammon, Die Geschichte des Lebens Jesu mit steter Rücksicht auf die vorhandenen Quellen, 1842–47.
Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarums to Wrede (ed. James M. Robinson; New York: Macmillan, 1968), p. 105.
Myles M. Bourke, “The Literary Genus of Matthew 1–2”, CBQ 22 (1960), pp. 160–75, esp., p. 175. See my essay, “Scripture and Theological Method: A Protestant Study in Sensus Plenior”, CBQ 27 (1965), pp. 6–27.
James M. Robinson, “The Matthean Trajectory from Q to Mark”, in Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Bible and Culture: Essays in Honor of Hans Dieter Betz (ed. Adela Yarbro Collins; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998), pp. 122–54, esp., pp. 143–44.
Ulrich Luz, “Die Wundergeschichten von Mt 8–9”, in Tradition and Interpretation in the New Testament: Essays in Honor of E. Earle Ellis for his 60th Birthday, ed. Gerald F. Hawthorne and Otto Betz (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans and Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1987), pp. 149–65.
See Luz’s effort to cope with his resultant conclusion that Matthew invented unhistorical healing stories, which might seem to question Matthew’s integrity: “Fiktivität und Traditionstreue im Matthäusevangelium im Lichte griechischer Literatur”, ZNW 84 (1993), pp. 153–77.
Günther Bornkamm, “The Stilling of the Storm in Matthew”, in Tradition and Interpretation in Matthew (eds Günther Bornkamm, Gerhard Barth, and Heinz Joachim Held; London: SCM, and Philadelphia: Westminster, 1963), pp. 52–7, first published as “Die Sturmstillung im Matthäus-Evangelium,” in Wort und Dienst, Jahrbuch der Theologischen Schule Bethel (1948), pp. 49–54.
See the 45-page “Bibliographia Academia F. Neirynck” by G. Van Belle, in The Four Gospels 1992: Festschrift Frans Neirynck (3 vols, eds F. Van Segbroeck, C. M. Tuckett, G. Van Belle, and J. Verheyden (2 vols; Leuven: University Press and Uitgeverij Peeters, 1992) 1, pp. 3–47.
Bultmann, “On the Problem of Demythologizing” (1952), in New Testament Mythology and Other Basic Writings, pp. 95–30, esp. pp. 99–100. In footnote 12 (p. 126) he lists Werner Georg Kümmel, Helmut Thielicke, and Amos N. Wilder as persons who have suggested the position he here criticizes.
The Critical Edition of Q; Synopsis including the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Mark and Thomas with English, German, and French Translations of Q and Thomas (eds James M. Robinson, Paul Hoffmann, and John S. Kloppenborg; Minneapolis: Fortress, and Leuven: Peeters, 2000).
Christian Hermann Weiße, Die evangelische Geschichte kritisch und philosophisch bearbeitet (Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 2 vols, 1838).
James M. Robinson, “The Critical Edition of Q and the Study of Jesus” (BETL; Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming 2001; typescript pp. 10–12).
Rudolf Bultmann, “The Primitive Christian Kerygma and the Historical Jesus”, in The Historical Jesus and the Kerygmatic Christ (eds Carl E. Braaten and Roy A. Harrisville; Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1964) pp. 15–42, esp. p. 42. The essay was originally an address at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 1960.
James M. Robinson, “Building Blocks in the Social History of Q”, in Reimagining Christian Origins: A Colloquium Honoring Burton L. Mack (eds Elizabeth A. Castelli and Hal Taussig; Valley Forge, PA, Trinity Press International, 1996), pp. 87–112, esp. pp. 87–90.
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Robinson, J.M. (2004). The Hermeneutics of the Voice of God. In: Phillips, D.Z., von der Ruhr, M. (eds) Biblical Concepts and Our World. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504790_2
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