Textweek/ATLAS proper 25 ordinary 30 Pentecost+21a October 29, 2017

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

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• • Mwombeki, Fidon R., "Between Text and Sermon, Leviticus 19:1-37," Interpretation, 1999.
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  “Preaching this text is challenging but worthwhile. The text is rich with issues that resonate with our current situation. We should receive the text as the word of God, which we need even when it judges our failings. We see in these commands and prohibitions the God who is holy, and the God who calls us to holiness. That holiness is not simply ritual and spiritual, but tangibly related to the way we choose to live together as members of local communities, specific and connected congregations, and the one global village.”

  • Powery, Emerson, "Under the Gaze of the Empire: Who Is My Neighbor?" Interpretation, 2008.
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  “The treatment of the neighbor says more about one's theological commitments than any ecclesial confession. Indeed, how one defines the neighbor—that is, how one determines who is one's neighbor—reveals the kind of God in whom one believes.”

  • Malherbe, Abraham J., "Gentle As a Nurse: The Cynic Background to 1 Thessalonians 2," Novum Testamentum, 1970.
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  “The similarities between Paul and Dio, and between Paul and Cynicism in general, can be extended, but these suffice to show that there are verbal and formal parallels between Paul and Dio that must be taken into account in any consideration of I Thess. ii.”

  • Weima, Jeffrey A.D., "Infants, Nursing Mother, and Father: Paul's Portrayal of a Pastor," Calvin Theological Journal, 2002.
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  “It is striking that Paul, a single man who elsewhere argues in favor of celibacy, chooses to portray his pastoral labors among the Thessalonian Christians with the family metaphors of an infant, a nursing mother, and a father. The apostle effectively defends the integrity of his mission-founding work by asserting that he acted in away that was as innocent as an infant, as loving as a nursing-mother, and as authoritative as a father. These three family metaphors provide not only pastors but also teachers of pastors with powerful pictures of how they ought to conduct themselves in their divine calling.”

  • Selvanayagam, Israel, "Interpreting a Riddle: Jesus' Subversion of the Davidic Legacy," Black Theology, 2008.
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  Abstract: “Using the ambiguity of a text, the writer suggests Jesus was implicitly arguing that though he could be perceived to be the Messiah, the title "son of David" should not lead people to think that he was going to restore, unite and rule the kingdom of Israel. Jesus in fact was doing a silent revolution subverting the tyrannical legacy of David and his original son Solomon. The writer offers a rereading of the "son of David" verses in the Gospels which cohere around the Matthean version of Jesus' "triumphal entry into Jerusalem." The Gospel writers contrast David with Jesus, with special reference to their three areas of identification: geographical, ministerial and administrative. This contrast, he shows, finds its climax in the last of book of the Bible where a mighty "lion of Judah" turns out to be a "vulnerable Lamb" who is projected as holding the key of history and is the crucified centre of all powers and authorities. This study challenges the uncritical glorification of David in the Christian tradition.”