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Neville Clark
The Expository Times
1998; 109; 278
DOI: 10.1177/001452469810900910
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278
the
Arguably,
the
strengths
of this work
mainly
reside in
study
of
Jewish and rabbinic evidence
(conclusions
always
balanced and
informed),
the
exposure
of
Matthaean
perspectives
(benefiting
from
the
author’s
current
’commentary’
writing)
and the
examination
of
the
Spirit/water
tension in the Fourth
Gospel (drawing
on
the
author’s earlier dissertation
material).
If
at
the conclusion
we are
left with the
lurking impression
that the mountain
has
brought
forth
a
mouse,
this
may
be
due
to
the
dangers
that
so
often
lie in wait when
thesis
rejigging
intrudes
into
the
field
of
wider
publication.
In
this
case,
as so
DONA TIST
USE OF
THE BIBLE
often,
the food
and the
fascination - of both
of
which there is
plenty -
lie in the
journey
rather than
its
terminus.
NEVILLE
CLARK,
CARDIFF
SUFFERING IN HEBREWS
The
conventional
requirements
of
a
dissertation
on
biblical material tend
to
push
in
two
directions.
There
is
the pressure
to
survey
the centuries
for
any material
or
comment
remotely
relevant
to
the
limited
theme,
often
resulting
in the
sense
that
a
sledgehammer
has been
deployed
to
crack
a
nut.
There is also the
more
positive
imperative
to
probe
with
exegetical precision,
so
that
from
the
disentangling
and identification of
contributory
threads
the
shape
and colour
of
a
coherent
tapestry
may
emerge. In both
directions,
Endurance
in
Suffering:
Hebrews 12.1-13 in
its
rhetorical,
religious,
and
philosophical
context
by
N.
Clayton Croy (SNTSMS
98,
Cambridge University
Press,
1998,
£35.00/$59.95,
pp.
249,
ISBN
0-521-59305-0)
betrays
its
origins.
The
tabling
of the
history
of research and the
plundering
of
Jewish,
Greek
and Roman literature
for
agonistic
language
and
perspectives
on
suffering arguably
help
to
reveal
a
biblical
author well-attuned
to
the
rhetorical
and
philosophical
currents
of
his
day.
Yet
since
Croy
rightly
and
regularly
stresses
that
it
is
context
that
is
the
all-important
control
on
meaning
and
interpretation
and,
in
the
making
of
the
turn to
close
exegesis,
concludes
in connection with
the work
of another
commentator
that
’an
interesting history
of research ... does
not
constitute
an
exegetical argument’
(p.
184),
one
is left
wondering
about the
precise
cash value
of
much
of
the
preceding
survey
material.
Be
that
as
it may, the
exegetical probe
is
in
the end
impressively deployed
to
conclude
that
agonistic
imagery
marks that call
to
endurance in
faith of which
Jesus
is
paradigmatic
exemplar,
and that
paideia
is used with
a
disciplinary
connotation which is formative and
educative
rather
than
punitive.
By
way
of
epilogue
there
are
offered
some
brief
and
necessarily
inconclusive
reflections
on
the
contribution of
Hebrews
to
a
theology
of
suffering
and the relevance
of it for
a
Christian
The
title,
The Bible in Christian
North
Africa:
The
Donatist
World,
by
Maureen A.
Tilley
(Fortress
Press,
1997,
n.p.,
pp. 232,
ISBN
0-8006-2880-2),
may
lead
to
misunderstanding.
It is
not
concerned with
the
origin
and
text
of the African Old Latin version
of
the
Bible but
’with the
use
made of the Bible
by
Donatist
pastors
and
controversialists in
creating
and
defending
a
theology
of
their church
during
its
lifespan.
Tilley rejects
the
common
notion of
Donatism
being always
a
fanatical millennial
movement, which
never
changed
its
ideology
in the
course
of
its
career,
and
argues,
making
use
of
anthropological
theories of
conceptual world-building
and
world-maintenance,
and of the
methods of
historically-
based
scriptural interpretation,
and
employing
what she
calls ’a hermeneutic
of
&dquo;suspicious
retrieval&dquo;’ of
information, that,
far from
being
intellectually
static,
Donatist
theology developed
in the
course
of
the
movement’s evolution from
a
minority
movement
in
north
Africa
to
a
major
church,
which
regarded
itself
as
inheriting
the role
of
Israel among the
Gentiles
in the
changed
world
of
the Christian
Roman
Empire:
’a
diachronic
study
of Donatist
uses
of
Scripture
shows that
their
hermeneutics
changed markedly’
(p.
13).
Tilley
sees
the
Donatists
as
theological
heirs of Tertullian and
Cyprian,
but
as
modifying
their doctrines
to
take
account
of the altered
circumstances
brought
about
by
the
Constantinian revolution
and
the
Theodosian
settlement.
In
this
her
conclusions
agree with
those of
Robert
F.
Evans in
his
study
of the Latin
patristic
doctrine
of the
Church,
One and
Holy (1972),
which
rather
surprisingly
does
not
appear in her
bibliography.
Tilley
recognizes
that
very
few
Donatist
original
works
have
survived
and that
to reconstruct
their
views from
Catholic critics is
difficult,
in view of the
possibility
of
hostile
misrepresentation.
Nevertheless,
she has
made
a
useful contribution
to
our
understanding
of
the
Donatist
mentality
by
the
study
of
Donatist
exegesis,
which should
encourage
others
to
follow her
pioneering study.
GERALD
BONNER,
UNIVERSITY
OF
DURHAM
AMBROSE
IN A
RELIGIOUS CONTEXT
Ambrose
theodicy.
NEVILLE
CLARK,
CARDIFF
by
Boniface
Ramsey
OP
(Routledge,
1997,
£45.00,
pb. £14.99, pp. 238,
ISBN
0-415-11841-7,
pb. -11842-5)
is
the third in
a new
series,
which
aims
at
making
the
texts
of the Fathers accessible
to
modem
readers
by
means
of
new
translations of
their
most
important
works.
This volume
translates five of
Ambrose’s texts, and
the life
of
Ambrose
written
by
the
deacon,
Paulinus of
Milan.
The
texts
are
On
Virgins,
On
Naboth,
On
the
Mysteries,
the
Prologue
from the
commentary
on
Luke,
the four
undoubtedly
genuine
hymns,
and the letters
relating
to
the affair of the Altar of
Victory.
In
terms
of
range
the
texts
are
well
chosen,
for
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