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New Testaments
June Boyce-Tillman• Liesl Van der Merwe• Janelize Morelli (eds.) Ritualised Belonging
Oxford, 2021 . XXVI, 406 pp ., 19 fig . b/w . Music and Spirituality. Vol. 15
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This book interrogates the notion of belonging through musicing rituals in the South African context . The authors raise questions such as «What can we learn from musicing rituals?», «What does it mean to belong through musicing?» and «In what ways could musicing address marginalization and transform a broken society?» To answer these questions, the editors employ a range of perspectives from micro-sociological theory to personal accounts of marginalization and belonging through musicing . The contributors employ both established and novel qualitative strategies of inquiry including case studies, narrative inquiry, performative autoethnography, practice as research, and interpretive phenomenological analysis, amongst others . Although this book focuses on musicing in the South African context, international readers will also benefit from the rich theoretical and methodological contributions in this volume . It investigates the potentiality of cultivating a sense of belonging through musicing rituals to heal a mutilated world . The contributions will inform and enhance readers’ repertoire of musicing strategies in both community and educational contexts . Samuel J. Freney Aspectual Substitution
New York, 2020 . XVIII, 306 pp ., 29 tables . Studies in Biblical Greek. Vol. 20
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Aspectual Substitution: Verbal Change in New Testament Quotations of the Septuagint examines quotations where the New Testament author quotes the Septuagint but changes the tense-form of the verb, substituting one aspectual value for another, often in furtherance of a typological, prophetic, or theological connection . Taking into account various models of the verb in Koine Greek, including tenseless and aspectprominent proposals, this study employs contrastive substitution to analyze the significance of aspectual substitution in quotations, concluding that the future tense-form encodes perfective aspect and is marked for future temporal reference .
Eric Owusu The Fate of the Dead and the Living at the Lord’s Parousia: Exegesis of 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 4:13-18; 5:1-11
Berlin, 2021 . 490 pp ., 2 tables . New Testament Studies in Contextual Exegesis. Neutestamentliche Studien zur kontextuellen Exegese. Vol. 13
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This book traces the roots of the Christian belief in resurrection and the afterlife as presented by Paul in First Thessalonians . The Ghanaian author adopted mainly the approach of History of Religion (Religionsgeschichte) to his study of the Pauline exhortations on the fate of the dead and the living at the Lord’s parousia in First Thessalonians . He is of the view that neither the African Traditional Religion nor ancient Greek philosophy and mythology can give the background information on the Pauline exhortations in question but Paul’s origin as a Jewish Pharisee who believed in the resurrection of the dead and valued this belief he inherited from Judaism . The publication can help believers in Christ see death as an event which paves the way for them to begin a new life with God, their creator .
