Religious Studies

This volume tests the »within Judaism« paradigm as a heuristic rather than a presupposition. Contributors explore how New Testament texts formed within the pluralism of Second Temple Judaism and assess their value as expressions of groups embedded in Jewish history, with attention to boundaries, external perceptions, and literary genres.

While past scholarship has emphasized graphic imagery, Matthew Michael engages in the soundscape of the book of Revelation. Blending biblical studies with sound theory, he shows the strategic use of sound, noise, and weeping scenes in challenging Rome's power and the re-imagination of a new world.

Samuel L. Voo examines certain types of allusions called »composite allusions« in the Fourth Gospel and compares these to similar phenomena in other ancient Jewish literature. The author employs methods from three different sub-fields: literary criticism, ancient Jewish exegesis, and ancient media criticism.

Mathias Sånglöf compares occurrences of the Spirit of God in Pauline and Johannine texts on a lexical, grammatical, and conceptual level and asks the following questions: What are the common traits associated with the Spirit? What is the unique profile of each corpus? Can one corpus help us understand the other better?