THE JOURNAL OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES

THE JOURNAL OF
THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
NEW SERIES APRIL 2012 VOL. 63 PART 1
ARTICLES
CONTENTS
BRINGING THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE OF PSYCHOLOGY TO BEAR ON THE
STUDY OF THE BIBLE. BY JOANNA COLLICUTT 1
WHO IS MAKING DINNER AT QUMRAN? BY CHARLOTTE HEMPEL 49
THE ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ANGELOMORPHIC CHRISTOLOGY IN
THE ASCENSION OF ISAIAH. BY JONATHAN KNIGHT 66
DISCIPLESHIP AFTER THE RESURRECTION: SCRIBAL HERMENEUTICS IN THE
LONGER ENDING OF MARK. BY SUZANNE WATTS HENDERSON 106
VOLUNTARY MARTYRDOM REVISITED. ByP.LORRAINE BUCK 125
INNOCENT I’S LETTER TO LAWRENCE: PHOTINIANS, BONOSIANS, AND THE
DEFENSORES ECCLESIAE. BY GEOFFREY D. DUNN 136
QUESTIONS ON THE ATTRIBUTES (OF GOD): FOUR REDISCOVERED PARISIAN
QUESTIONS OF MEISTER ECKHART. BY MARKUS VINZENT 156
SANDAY’S CHRISTOLOGY REVISITED. BY ANDREW TER ERN LOKE 187
REVIEWS
Disruptive Grace: Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church (Walter
Brueggemann). BY WALTER MOBERLY 198
Nuzi Texts and their Uses as Historical Evidence (Maynard Paul
Maidman). BY CHARLES RHINE 200
Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic
Perspectives on Kinship with Abraham (ed. Martin Goodman, George H.
van Kooten, and Jacques T. A. G. M. van Ruiten). BY MARK FINNEY 203
Breaking Boundaries: Female Biblical Interpreters who Challenged the Status
Quo (ed. Nancy Calvert-Koyzis and Heather Weir).
BY DEBORAH W. ROOKE 206
Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament: God and Humans in Dialogue
(ed. Katharine J. Dell). BY WALTER J. HOUSTON 209
Michal’s Moral Dilemma: A Literary, Anthropological and Ethical
Interpretation (Jonathan Y. Rowe). BY DEBORAH W. ROOKE 212
Torah as Teacher: The Exemplary Torah Student in Psalm 119 (Kent Aaron
Reynolds). BY SUE GILLINGHAM 214
Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets (ed. Chris Franke and Julia M.
O’Brien). BY C. L. CROUCH 218
Aspects of Amos: Exegesis and Interpretation (ed. Anselm C. Hagedorn and
Andrew Mein). BY GRAEME AULD 221
Ethical Dimension of Cult in the Book of Isaiah (Bohdan Hrobon).
BY LENA-SOFIA TIEMEYER 223
An Introduction to the Study of Wisdom Literature (Stuart Weeks).
BY KATHARINE J. DELL 225

ii CONTENTS
Judah between East and West: The Transition from Persian to Greek Rule
(ed. Lester L. Grabbe and Oded Lipschits). BY RICHARD COGGINS 228
Qumran Cave 1. II: The Isaiah Scrolls. Parts 1–2 (Eugene Ulrich and Peter
W. Flint). BY H. G. M. WILLIAMSON
A Greek–English Lexicon of the Septuagint (T. Muraoka).
230
BY ALISON G. SALVESEN
Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora
234
(Tessa Rajak). BY ARIE VAN DER KOOIJ
Christianity in the Making. Volume 2: Beginning from Jerusalem
236
(J. D. G. Dunn). BY JAMES CARLETON-PAGET
Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior. Parallel Pericopes/
Parallelperikopen (ed. Holger Strutwolf and Klaus Wachtel).
240
BY J. K. ELLIOTT
Early Christian Manuscripts: Examples of Applied Method and Approach
246
(ed. T. J. Kraus and T. Nicklas). BY D. C. PARKER
The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary,
including the Gnostic Gospels of Thomas, Mary and Judas
252
(Willis Barnstone). BY A. E. HARVEY
Jesus: A Very Short Introduction (Richard Bauckham).
254
BY LESLIE HOULDEN
The Death of Jesus in Luke–Acts and Images of Judaism in Luke–Acts
257
(Joseph B. Tyson). BY ANDREW GREGORY 258
Mark for the Nations: A Text- and Reader-Oriented Commentary (Lars
Hartman). BY NICHOLAS KING, SJ 259
The Jewish Targums and John’s Logos Theology (John Ronning).
BY CHARLES RHINE 261
Paul: A Brief History (Robert Paul Seesengood). BY N. T. WRIGHT
Image and Glory of God: 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 as a Case Study in Bible,
263
Gender and Hermeneutics (Michael J. Lakey). BY GUY J. WILLIAMS 265
Jesus, Paul and the Gospels (James D. G. Dunn). BY DAVID WENHAM
The Early Reception of Paul (ed. Kenneth Liljeström). BY ALEXANDER N.
268
KIRK
Jesus the Light of the World: The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History
of the Bible (ed. Michael Lieb, Emma Mason, Jonathan Roberts, and
271
Christopher Rowland). BY ULRICH LUZ
The Resurrection of the Messiah (Christopher Bryan). BY A. E. HARVEY
273
276
The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament (ed. David E. Aune).
BY A. E. HARVEY 279
Judaism, Jewish Identities and the Gospel Tradition: Essays in Honour of
Maurice Casey (ed. J. G. Crossley). BY J. D. G. DUNN
Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty, and the Greco-Roman World
281
(Bruce W. Longenecker). BY CHRISTOPHER M. HAYS
Flights of the Soul: Visions, Heavenly Journeys and Peak Experiences in the
284
Biblical World (John J. Pilch). BY ERIC C. S. EVE
Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus
287
(Jodi Magness). BY CATHERINE HEZSER 289
The Apocryphal Gospels: Text and Translations (Bart D. Ehrman and
Zlatko Plesˇe). BY J. K. ELLIOTT 292
Desiring Conversion: Hermas, Thecla, Aseneth (Diane Lipsett).
By F. GERALD DOWNING
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (ed. Susan Ashbrook
295
Harvey and David G. Hunter). By LUCY GRIG
Salvation according to the Fathers of the Church: The Proceedings of the
Sixth International Patristic Conference, Maynooth/Belfast, 2005
(ed. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD and Dirk Krausmüller).
297
By JONATHAN L. ZECHER 299

CONTENTS
Reading Patristic Texts on Social Ethics: Issues and Challenges for Twenty-
First-Century Christian Social Thought (ed. Johan Leemans,
iii
Brian J. Matz, and Johan Verstraeten). By RICHARD FINN, OP
Des évêques, des écoles et des hérétiques: Actes du colloque international sur
la ‘‘Réfutation de toutes les hérésies’’, Genève, 13–14 juin 2008
302
(ed. Gabriella Aragione and Enrico Norelli). By M. J. EDWARDS
Origen: Scholarship in the Service of the Church (Ronald E. Heine).
304
By JONATHAN J. ARMSTRONG
Mind, Text, and Commentary: Noetic Exegesis in Origen of Alexandria,
Didymus the Blind, and Evagrius Ponticus (Blossom Stefaniw).
307
By HAN-LUEN KANTZER KOMLINE
Episcopal Elections 250–600: Hierarchy and Popular Will in Late Antiquity
310
(Peter Norton). By ROBIN WARD
Eusebius of Caesarea: Gospel Problems and Solutions. Quaestiones ad
313
Stephanum et Marinum (CPG 3470) (ed. Roger Pearse; trans. David J.
D. Miller, Adam C. McCollum, Carol Downer, and others).
By PAUL FOSTER 315
Athanasius Handbuch (ed. Peter Gemeinhardt). By STUART G. HALL
Architects of Piety: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Cult of the Martyrs
316
(Vasiliki M. Limberis). By SUSAN R. HOLMAN
Ambrosius von Mailand: De Fide [Ad Gratianum] / Über den Glauben [An
319
Gratian] (ed. Christoph Markschies). By ANDREW LENOX-CONYNGHAM 322
Ambrose and John Chrysostom: Clerics between Desert and Empire
(J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz). By AIDEEN HARTNEY 324
Das Geistige Theater: Ästhetik und Moral bei Johannes Chrysostomus
(Christoph Jacob). By RAYMOND J. LAIRD 326
Augustine’s Intellectual Conversion: The Journey
Christianity (Brian Dobell). By MARGARET LANE
from Platonism to
328
The Incomprehensibility of God. Augustine as a Negative Theologian
(Paul van Geest). By MARK W. ELLIOTT
Alle origini della teologia di Pelagio: Tematiche e fonti delle Expositiones
330
XIII epistularum Pauli (Sara Matteoli). By JOSEF LÖSSL
Theodoret’s People: Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman
333
Syria (Adam M. Schor). By L. R. WICKHAM 335
Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of his Day (ed. Bas ter Haar
Romey). By BRADLEY MARSH
The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Production, Reception, and
Performance in Western Christianity (ed. Susan Boynton and
337
Diane J. Reilly). By G. R. EVANS
Bernard de Clairvaux: Sermon divers. Tome 1: Sermons 1–22. Tome 2:
Sermons 23–69 (trans. Pierre-Yves Émery and Françoise Callerot) and
340
Bernard de Clairvaux: Sermons variés (trans. Pierre-Yves Émery,
Gaetano Raciti, and Françoise Callerot). By ANTHONY N. S. LANE 341
Thomas Gallus: Explanatio in Libros Dionysii. Glose Super
Ierarchia (ed. Declan Anthony Lawell). By G. R. EVANS
Angelica
343
Julian of Norwich, Theologian (Denys Turner). By STEFAN D. REYNOLDS
Introduction and Notes for Nubes Ignorandi, the Latin Version of The
Cloud of Unknowing in Bodleian Library, Oxford, ms. Bodley 856 (John
Clark). Walter Hilton’s Mixed Life – Further Sources (John Clark). The
Re-Burial of the Remains of Fr. Augustine Baker, O.S.B. (1575–1641)
(John Clark). Cartusia (James Hogg). The Works of Jan van Blitterswyck,
O.Cart.: A Revised List (Anselm J. Gribbin). A Vauvert Liturgical
Manuscript on Sale in Paris (James Hogg). Recommended Reading (James
344
Hogg). By ANSELM J. GRIBBIN, O.PRAEM.
The Uneasy Relationship of the Carthusians of Trisulti with their Neighbours
1208–1947 (James Hogg). Fr. Augustine Baker, O.S.B.: Idiot’s Devotion –
The Penitent (ed. John Clark). Notre Dame de Risque, Boquen: The Rise
and Fall of a French Monastic Revival (James Hogg).
347
By ANSELM J. GRIBBIN, O.PRAEM. 349

iv CONTENTS
Central European Charterhouses in the Family of the Carthusian Order—Die
Mitteleuropäischen Kartausen in der Familie des Kartäuserordens
(ed. Martin Homza, Veronika Kucharská, Stanislava Kuzmová, and
Nad’a Rácová). By ANSELM J. GRIBBIN, O.PRAEM.
Kartäusische Kunst und Architektur mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der
Kartausen Zentraleuropas: Länderübergreifender internationaler Kongress
für Kartäuserforschung Aggsbach (NÖ, Austria) 30.8. –31.8 und Brno/
351
Brünn (CZ) 1.9. –4.9.2005 (ed. James Hogg, Alain Girard, and Daniel
Le Blévec). By ANSELM J. GRIBBIN, O.PRAEM.
Catalogue des manuscrits des dépôts publics français concernant l’Ordre des
354
Chartreux. Volume 1: Abbeville–Lyon. Volume 2: Marseille–Vienne
(ed. Augustin Devaux). By ANSELM J. GRIBBIN, O.PRAEM. 356
St. Symeon of Thessalonika: The Liturgical Commentaries (ed. and trans.
Steven Hawkes-Teeples). By HUGH WYBREW 357
The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia
(Joshua P. Hochschild). By RICHARD CROSS
The Various Versions of the Historia aliquot Martyrum Anglorum maxime
octodecim Cartusianorum sub rege Henrico Octavo ob Fidei Confessionem et
360
Summa Pontificis Jura Vindicanda interemptorum by Dom Maurice
Chauncy (ed. John Clark; introduction by Peter Cunich). By ANSELM J.
GRIBBIN, O.PRAEM.
Evangelical Free Will: Philipp Melanchthon’s Doctrinal Journey on the
363
Origins of Faith (Gregory B. Graybill). By CHARLOTTE METHUEN
Reading Augustine in the Reformation: The Flexibility of Intellectual
366
Authority in Europe, 1500–1620. (Arnold S. Q. Visser). By CHARLOTTE
METHUEN 369
Enlightened Evangelicalism: The Life and Thought
(Jonathan M. Yeager). By ANDREW ATHERSTONE
of John Erskine
371
La Congregación Nacional de los Cartujos Españoles [1785–1855]. Volume
1: Estudio. Volume 2: Facsímil de la Cartuja de Valdecristo (Juan Mayo
Escudero). By ANSELM J. GRIBBIN, O.PRAEM.
La Cartuja en América – A Cartuxa em América – The Carthusians in
America (ed. James Hogg, Alain Girard, and Daniel Le Blévec).
373
By ANSELM J. GRIBBIN, O.PRAEM. 374
Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790–1865
(ed. Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy JeVrey). By JOHN H. Y. BRIGGS 375
Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in
Nineteenth-Century America (Elizabeth A. Clark). By FRANCES YOUNG
Saint Sergius of Radonezh, his Trinity Monastery, and the Formation of the
Russian Identity (David B. Miller), The Heart of Russia: Trinity-Sergius,
Monasticism, and Society after 1825 (Scott M. Kenworthy), and Spiritual
377
Elders: Charisma and Tradition in Russian Orthodoxy (Irina Paert).
By JOHN BINNS 379
Autorität und Glaube: Edward Bouverie Pusey und Friedrich August
Gotttreu Tholuck im Briefwechsel (1825–1865) (ed. Albrecht Geck).
By ROBERT MORGAN 383
Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851 (GeoVrey Cantor).
By CHRISTIAN T. GEORGE 384
The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860–1915 (Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay).
By ANDREW ATHERSTONE
Prelude to the Modernist Crisis: The ‘Firmin’ Articles of Alfred Loisy
387
(trans. Christine E. Thirlway; introduction by C. J. T. Talar).
By MARK CHAPMAN 390
Performing the Reformation: Public Ritual in the City of Luther (Barry
Stephenson). By CHARLOTTE METHUEN 391

CONTENTS v
The Real Peace Process: Worship, Politics and the End of Sectarianism
(Siobhán Garrigan). By STEVE BRUCE 393
The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology (ed. Gerald R. McDermott).
By JASON S. SEXTON 396
God and Being: An Enquiry (George Pattison). By G. M. NEWLANDS 399
Divine Humanity: Kenosis Explored and Defended (David Brown).
By G. M. NEWLANDS 400
Trinitarian Theology after Barth (ed. Myk Habets and Phillip Tolliday).
By DARREN O. SUMNER
Cross Theology: The Classical Theologia Crucis and Karl Barth’s Modern
402
Theology of the Cross (Rosalene Bradbury). By DARREN O. SUMNER
The Nonviolent Atonement (J. Denny Weaver). Second edition.
405
By DANIEL CASTELO
The ‘‘Plainly Revealed’’ Word of God? Baptist Hermeneutics in Theory and
408
Practice (ed. Helen Dare and Simon Woodman). By JOHN H. Y. BRIGGS
The Perspective of Morality: Philosophical Foundations of Thomistic Virtue
410
Ethics (Martin Rhonheimer). By DANIEL COSACCHI 412
Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagements with an American Original
(ed. Daniel F. Rice). By DAVID COWAN 415
Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church
(William T. Cavanaugh). By TIM GORRINGE
The Worship Mall: Contemporary Responses to Contemporary Culture
417
(Bryan D. Spinks). By STEPHEN PLATTEN
Pope Benedict XVI and the Liturgy: Understanding Recent Liturgical
419
Developments (Anselm J. Gribbin). By DAVID TOREVELL
New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics
422
(Robert J. Spitzer). By PETER BUSSEY
Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism (Bernard Schweitzer).
425
By BENJAMIN B. DEVAN 427
BOOKS RECEIVED 432