Recently added articles from The Catholic Biblical Quarterly:
"When You Pray, Go into Your (...) (Matthew 6:6): But Why?
Oct 01, 2009; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) ... (Matt 6:6) But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. (NRSV) THIS PIECE of Matthean advice on prayer sets up ...
An Other Home: Discipleship in Mark as Domestic Asceticism
Oct 01, 2009; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) WHATEVER ELSE the Gospel of Mark may be as a narrative, it certainly invites the reader to join with various characters in the text struggling to find and to follow Jesus of Nazareth.1 In this regard, the Gospel definitely is about ...
Locating the Eunuch: Characterization and Narrative Context in Acts 8:26-40
Oct 01, 2009; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) ALTHOUGH THE STORY of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:26-40) could be called a hot spot in contemporary Acts scholarship only with some exaggeration, a number of interpretive issues concerning the story have beguiled exegetes who ...
"Great Is Artemis of the Ephesians": Acts 19:23-41 in Light of Goddess Worship in Ephesus
Oct 01, 2009; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) AT THE END of Paul's lengthy stay in Ephesus, which included miraculous healings, exorcisms, and even a book burning, Luke records the story of a riot that took place after Paul had decided that it was time for him to move on from the ...
Paul and Works of Obedience in Second Temple Judaism: Romans 4:4-5 as a "New Perspective" Case Study
Oct 01, 2009; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) As has been widely documented, scholars had long caricatured Second Temple Judaism as a religion of crass legalism. E. P. Sanders exposed the carica- ture: the requirement of obethent works remained within a gracious framework of God's ...