David Hellholm – författare

In the web of cultural processes of late antiquity ablution rites and initiation rites were performed in different forms and in different contexts. Such rites existed in Early Judaism and Greco-Roman cults and were also applied in early Christianity under the label “baptism”, however, not as one fixed rite uniformly performed and interpreted. Baptismal rites developed diversely corresponding to the diversity among Christian groups of which some later came to be perceived as heretical. Remains of art, architecture and texts from these contexts were discussed in two conferences gathering scholars who are excellent within their respective fields: text studies, studies of rites, archaeology, architecture, history of art, and cultural anthropology. These different fields of research have in recent years generated new knowledge that is relevant for the discussion of ablution and initiation rites and their function in late antiquity. At the same time interests of research have altered in favour of a growing cooperation across discipline borders.The present volumes are the outcome of two conferences in Rome 2008 and at Metochi (Lesbos) 2009.

This volume of collected essays on Ephesians is divided into three sections. The first part deals thoroughly with introductory questions such as composition and style, the relationship to other Early Christian literature and Qumran, authorship (with a new suggestion), addressees and social setting. In the second part the extensive history of Early Christian texts and editions (in the Muratorian canon, the Marcionite prologues and the Euthalian apparatus) with special regard to Ephesians is investigated. The third part is dedicated to the interpretation of texts and themes of special importance for the understanding of this pseudo-pauline letter by one of Paul's younger disciples and co-workers. Here the theological and liturgical setting is reflected upon. Through all the detailed scrutiny of the history and the semantics of the epistle to the Ephesians, the question of its illocutionary function remains in focus. Not only what the auctor of Ephesians says in his letter but what he does by saying it is the central issue in Nils Alstrup Dahl's life-long interest in this intriguing letter. More than half of these essays have never been published before, and one essay is translated from Norwegian into English for the first time.

In diesem Band behandelt Lars Hartman viele wichtige Themengebiete. Einige seiner Aufsätze sind exegetischen und hermeneutischen Problemen gewidmet, so zum Beispiel den theoretischen Betrachtungen im Bezug darauf, was es bedeutet, einen Kommentar zu schreiben. Die folgenden Aufsätze sind detaillierte Untersuchungen diverser Aspekte der Textanalyse als Vorbereitung seines Kommentars zum Markusevangelium. Des weiteren hat Hartman wegweisende Texte zur Taufe geschrieben, im Besonderen hinsichtlich der Namensformel. Die letzten Aufsätze befassen sich mit dem hellenistischen Kontext zahlreicher Texte und Themen des Neuen Testaments, wie zum Beispiel die Untersuchung "Hellenistische Elemente in apokalyptischen Texten". Dieser Band ist eine angemessene Ergänzung zu Lars Hartmans früherer Sammlung textbezogener Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament aus dem Jahre 1997.