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Ausgabe:

April/2016

Spalte:

329-331

Kategorie:

Bibelwissenschaft

Autor/Hrsg.:

Cook, John Granger

Titel/Untertitel:

Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2014. XXIV, 522 S. = Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 327. Lw. EUR 69,00. ISBN 978-3-16-153124-8.

Rezensent:

Gunnar Samuelsson

John Granger Cook, Professor of Religion at LaGrange College, has written extensively about various aspects of crucifixion and the interaction between the biblical world and its Greco-Roman context. All this knowledge has now been brought together in an impressive and welcome volume.
The book addresses an ongoing discussion about crucifixion with D. W. Chapman (Ancient Jewish and Christian Perceptions of Crucifixion [Mohr Siebeck, 2008]) and me (Crucifixion in Antiquity [Mohr Siebeck, 2013]). While Chapman essentially approaches the topic from an Old Testament and Jewish point of view, and I from the language of the New Testament and the Greek speaking world, C. places his point of departure in Rome and the Latin language. The book was aimed to revise Martin ...


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