Scrinium Classical Antiquity

LANDY, Fr., Paradoxes of Paradise. Identity and Difference in the Song of Songs. Almond Press, Sheffield, 1983. 410p. Paperback. € 34.50 (Antiquarian)

LANGE, J., Das Matthäus-Evangelium. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1980. VI,464p. Original light grey cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Series: Wege der Forschung, Band 525. A.o.: W. GRUNDMANN: Die Arbeit des ersten Evangelisten am Bilde Jesu (pp.73-103); E. HAENCHEN: Matthäus 23 (pp.134-164); H. GREEVEN: Die Heilung des Gelähmten nach Matthäus (pp.205-223); G. BORNKAMM: Enderwartung und Kirche im Matthäusevangelium (pp.223-265); G. STRECKER: Das Geschichtsverständnis des Matthäus (pp.326-350); U. LUZ: Die Jünger im Matthäusevangelium (pp.415-441). € 15.00 (Antiquarian)

LEE HUMPREYS, W., The Tragic Vision and the Hebrew Tradition. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1985. VII,151p. Wireless. € 17.00 (Antiquarian)

LENSELINK, S.J., De Nederlandse Psalmberijmingen van de Souterliedekens tot Datheen met hun voorgangers in Duistland en Frankrijk. VanGorcum/Prakke&Prakke, Assen, 1959. XII,600p. Cloth. Cover and spine gilt stamped. Some light pencil annotations. Ex libris. € 42.00 (Antiquarian)

LIERMAN, J., The New Testament Moses. Christian Perceptions of Moses and Israel in the Setting of Jewish Religion. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2004. XIV,368p. Paperback. Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, 173. 'Lierman argues that too little attention has been given to how the NT’s portrayal of Moses helps our understanding of first-century Judaism, rather than just seeing the NT as a source for how Christians should see Moses’ relationship to Christ. In the end, argues Lierman, a clearer conception of how early Judaism viewed Moses (and how the NT contributes to that conception) will actually provide the relevant historical and theological context in which to understand comparisons between Christ and Moses, thus breathing new life into our NT Christology. Lierman arranges his study according to how the NT portrays the various roles/functions of Moses in his relationship to Israel. Thus, there are chapters on Moses as Prophet, Moses as Priest and Apostle. Moses as King, Moses as Lawgiver, Baptism into Moses, and Moses the Focus of Jewish Loyalty. There is also a summary chapter dealing with Moses and Christology. In each chapter Lierman catalogues the contribution of a variety of Jewish sources (from the Assumption of Moses to Philo to various Rabbinic texts) to that particular role/function and then explores the relevant NT texts as well. It is clear that Lierman is well versed in second-temple Judaism and one of the book’s strengths is the vastly detailed sections which plough through a variety of these ancient sources. As a whole, The New Testament Moses is quite an impressive volume in both scope and depth and Lierman covers a lot of theological and historical ground in this single study. However, it is precisely the vast amount of attention paid to ancient Jewish sources that raises a methodological concern in the book. The title of the book (and the introduction) suggests that the focus of the study will be upon the New Testament’s contribution to Jewish understandings of Moses. Thus, we would expect that the NT teaching on Moses would be the starting point of the study, with such passages illuminated and clarified by an examination of the ancient Jewish sources. However, at times the reader gets the impression that it is not the NT texts themselves that are driving the understanding of Moses in any given role (lawgiver, priest, etc), but rather the views of extra-biblical sources. (...) Such methodological concerns aside, Lierman has given the scholarly community a much-needed volume on how Moses was viewed within Second Temple Judaism and how such views were also apparent with the NT itself. Thus, Lierman is successful in his goal. He has provided a broader and fuller picture of Moses which, in the end, enriches our NT theology, and particularly our Christology.' (MICHAEL J. KRUGER in Themelios, 2005, vol.31 - 1). € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

LINDIJER, C.H., Handelingen van de Apostelen I. II. Callenbach, Nijkerk, n.d. 3rd ed. 2 vols. 344,299p. Paperback. Signature on half title. Nice copy. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

LOREIN, G.W., The Antichrist Theme in the Intertestamental Period. T&T Clark, London / New York, 2003. XIV,283p. Paperback. Series: Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Supplements Series 44. Nice copy. Like new. ‘The complete lack (…) of a correct use of concepts makes Loren’s book weak. One can nicely describe how early Judaism was thinking about negative eschatological figures, or about evil protagonists of the ‘ Heilsgeschichte’ (and in this descriptive part Lorein made a valuable work). But labelling these figures with a term that is entirely lacking from the studied corpus is conceptually nonsense. (…) In its details, the book is interesting. A good part of the Introduction (1-26) is a comprehensive Forschungsgeschichte, focusing on the monograph-length treatments of the Antichrist in the past century, from Bousset to Lietaert Peerbolte. At the end of this long passage, the reader finds a subchapter on ‘ The problem of Definition’ (25-26). Unfortunately, after reading these two pages, the intended definition of Lorein remains a problem (…) After this, a chapter on the Antichrist in the New Testament and early Christianity follows. The ‘ Conclusion and Definition’ of it (29), is especially useless from the viewpoint of the entire thesis: the Antichrist figure depicted in this manner is so vague that nearly every negative protagonist of religious writing can fit into it. (…) In the so-called ‘intertestamental period’ we cannot find an Antichrist. Wat we can indeed find are the ‘antecedents’ of this figure, as Lietaet-Bolte has demonstrated nearly a decade ago.I am afraid that Loren’s book cannot in any sense replace that predecessor.’ (GÉZA XERAVITS INJournal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period, 2006, pp.131-132). € 110.00 (Antiquarian)

MACGREGOR, G.H.C., and A.Q. MORTON, The Structure of the Fourth Gospel. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh/London, 1961. 135p. Cloth. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

MAZURE, M.A., Cours de Latin Chrétien. Comprenant 1° Éléments de la Grammaire Latine; 2° Thèmes; 3° Vocabulaire Français-Latin, pour les thèmes; 4° Versions (Textessacrés), 5° Vocabulaire Latin-Français, pour les Versions; 6° Corrigé des Thèmes et des Versions. Victor Palme, Paris, 1864. 629p. Rebound. Spine with private library mark. Back joints a bit cracked, showing underneath tissue, but still tight. Some pages a bit rust stained. € 50.00 (Antiquarian)

METZGER, B.M., The Text of the New Testament. Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1964. XI,268,XVIp. Original blue cloth. Spine gilt titled. Spine a little bit bumped. Edges a bit yellowed. Fore edge a bit rust stained. Signature on free endpaper. ‘Professor Metzger has already put his colleagues in his debt by a series of bibliographical publications, one devoted to the textual criticism of the New Testament. This is a field in which considerable advance has been made in the past thirty years and where an up-to-date handbook and guide to the beginner and to the non-specialist is lacking. In the work under review, the author seeks to expound ‘the science and art’ of this discipline (…). He has divided his treatment into three main sections, respectively dealing with the materials for textual criticism, the history of the New Testament textual criticism, and the application of criticism to the text of the New Testament, He appends a check-list of the Greek papyri of the New Testament, which notes of location and publication. The book (…) is intended to be for the beginner, but Metzger’s colleagues, even those who would claim to be specialists in his field, will find much to enrich their own learning in the bibliographical detail with which certain sections of the book are adorned. (…) Even regarded as an introduction to the subject it has some disappointing features. (…) Nowhere does Metzger give any sketch of the history of the text in ancient days: we gather from scattered remarks that he holds a modified view of the theory of local texts based on acts of recension, but he never gives us the historical background against which such a doctrine may be established and defended. (…) Everyone can gain much (..) from Metzger’s book: but it meets only one of two problems which are encountered in introducing students to this field.’ (J. NEVILLE BIRDSALL in The Classical Review (New Series), 1967, p.388). € 30.00 (Antiquarian)