Categoriearchief: Oude Testament

2014 – HSV-Studiebijbel

De HSV-Studiebijbel is een vertaling en bewerking van de ESV Study Bible (2008).
M.J. Paul en T.M. Hofman (hoofdred.), HSV-Studiebijbel. Heerenveen: Royal Jongbloed, 2014 (tweede druk 2015), 2448 pagina’s.

2014 – Toekomst van Israël – vroegchristelijke kerk

‘Ik zend u de profeet Elia’: de toekomst van Israël volgens de vroegchristelijke kerk
Artikel in Theologia Reformata 57-1 (2014) 22-39

Engelse samenvatting van het Nederlandstalige artikel:
Many early church theologians believed that the Christian church had replaced God’s chosen people Israel to become recipients of Old Testament promises. At the same time many writers expected a future conversion of Israel. This article reviews the latter position during the first five centuries of the church.
The analysis reveals that the expectation of a future conversion of Israel rests on the promises of several Old Testament prophets and the words of Paul in Romans 11, not on the view that the covenant with Abraham extends to his natural descendants. The role of Elijah according Malachi is also important.
Several theologians expected a combination of conversion and return of Jews to the land of Israel, but the majority did not. Their emphasis is on the conversion to Christ at the end of the times and on the participation of the converted Jews in the church. The contemporary replacement of Israel by the church is not expected to be lasting because in the future God will give salvation to his formerly chosen people.

Downloaden: Paul – Elia Theol Ref 2014-1

2006: Der archimedische Punkt der Pentateuchkritik

‘Der archimedische Punkt der Pentateuchkritik – zur josianischen Datierung des Deuteronomiums’, Jahrbuch für evangelikale Theologie 20 (2006) 115-137.

Pdf: JeTh – 2006 – Josia und Deuteronomium

Im 19. Jahrhunderte wurden wichtige Entscheidungen über die historischen Glaubwürdigkeit von Pentateuch und Chronik gefällt. Die Rekonstruktion der Geschichte unter dem Einfluss naturalistischer Voraussetzungen und die dieser folgenden Exegese gewann einen großen Einfluss. De Wettes These lieferte der Pentateuchkritik den archimedischen Punkt um die synagogal-kirchliche Tradition aus den Angeln zu heben. Doch wenn dieser Punkt nicht fest steht, ist es nicht mehr möglich, aufgrund dieser Argumente eine bestimmte Datierung des Pentateuchs und seiner Teile zu liefern. Heute hat das Interesse an diachronen Fragen nachgelassen, doch ist an manchen Stellen der Einfluss dieser Rekonstruktion noch spürbar, betrachtet man die neuen Formen der Exegese, speziell in Datierungsfragen. Darum ist es gut, die Geschichte der Exegese zu kennen.

Summary in Englishl: The decisive point in pentateuchal criticism: dating Deuteronomy in the time of Josiah

For centuries is has been assumed, in synagogue and church, that the authorship of the book of Deuteronomy rests with Moses himself. Yet in 1805 Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette defended a thesis expressing a completely different view. According to him, the book of Deuteronomy is of a more recent date. He states that is was written in the 7th century B.C., shortly before the reformation of king Josiah. More and more the view expressed in this thesis has gained widespread approval. J. Wellhausen in particular contributed to this by his book Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels (1878).

In this article Mart-Jan Paul gives some observations from the history of exegesis. The arguments of De Wette were partly exegetical, but were also influenced by the Enlightment. The author cites several forerunners of the Enlightment, who were characterised by a rationalistic and deistic slant, and question the integrity of the high priest Hilkiah with regard to the finding of the old book of the law.

De Wette assumes that there was no centralisation of the cult in the oldest history of Israel, and therefore the law of Ex 20,24-26 has to be much older than the obligation for centralisation in Dtn 12. The book of Chronicles is untrustworthy and a tabernacle did not exist. Only after the elimination of these stumbling blocks could De Wette and Wellhausen give an alternative history of the cult in Israel.

In the second part of this article Paul gives a critical evaluation of the main arguments for this view on the centralisation of the cult. He assumes two levels in the cult in ancient Israel: a local level (Ex 20; Dtn 16, 27, 33) and a national level (Tabernacle in Ex 25-40; Dtn 12). It is not necessary to see a tension between the two levels and to attribute them to different ages in history.

In the last century many archaeological finds give us a better understanding of the cult [S. 137] in the Ancient Near East. There is no longer any necessity to question the historicity of the tabernacle. The late dating of Deuteronomy is thus open for reconsideration.

2004: Bijbelcommentaar Genesis – Exodus

M.J. Paul, G. van den Brink, J.C. Bette (red.), Bijbelcommentaar Genesis – Exodus
Studiebijbel Oude Testament, deel 1 (van 12).
Centrum voor Bijbelonderzoek te Veenendaal, 2004. www.studiebijbel.nl

Hierin o.a. Excurs 1, ‘Chronologie’
Excurs 5, ‘Belangrijke archeologische tekstvondsten met betrekking tot Genesis en Exodus’
Excurs 10, ‘Wetsteksten in het oude Nabije Oosten en in het boek Exodus’
Excurs 11, ‘De historiciteit en betekenis van de tabernakel’.

In de digitale editie is in 2009 de uitleg van Gen.1-9 sterk uitgebreid.
In 2015 zijn de inleidende artikelen en de excursen van Genesis en Exodus herzien en uitgebreid.  Inmiddels is ook de uitleg van 1-32 herzien. Er wordt gewerkt aan de verdere herziening van Genesis en Exodus. Dit gebeurt in de digitale editie.

2008 : Gezag in beweging

9085250269Pieter Boersema, Jan Hoek, Mart-Jan Paul, Maria Verhoeff (red.), Gezag in beweging. Kerkelijk leiderschap tussen tekst en context. Heerenveen: Protestantse Pers, 2008.

– Met Simeon Folkertsma, ‘Bij de gratie Gods. De gezagsdragers in Deuteronomium 16:18-18:22’, in Gezag in beweging, 79-94.

– ‘Van richters naar koningen: leiderschap in de boeken Samuël’, in Gezag in beweging, 127-143.