Dieter Roth - Böcker

Mark, Manuscripts, and Monotheism is organized into three parts: Mark’s Gospel, Manuscripts and Textual Criticism, and Monotheism and Early Jesus-Devotion. With contributors hailing from several different countries, and including both senior and junior scholars, this volume contains essays penned in honor of Larry W. Hurtado by engaging and focusing upon these three major emphases in his scholarship. The result is not only a fitting tribute to one of the most influential New Testament scholars of present times, but also a welcome survey of current scholarship.

Mark, Manuscripts, and Monotheism is organized into three parts: Mark’s Gospel, Manuscripts and Textual Criticism, and Monotheism and Early Jesus-Devotion. With contributors hailing from several different countries, and including both senior and junior scholars, this volume contains essays penned in honor of Larry W. Hurtado by engaging and focusing upon these three major emphases in his scholarship. The result is not only a fitting tribute to one of the most influential New Testament scholars of present times, but also a welcome survey of current scholarship.

Few New Testament topics have been discussed as often and as intensely as Q, the hypothesized second major source alongside the gospel of Mark for the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and the parables. And yet, no monograph to date has been devoted to considering the parables in Q. In addition to filling this gap in New Testament scholarship, Dieter T. Roth addresses the need to move scholarship on both Q and the parables forward along methodological and interpretive lines. Roth considers Q not as a text behind Matthew and Luke that needs to be reconstructed but rather as an intertext between Matthew and Luke that offered plots, characters, and images in parables that were taken up by Matthew and Luke and utilized in their own respective texts. In addition, Roth draws on recent parables research in his examination of the 27 parables in Q (two spoken by John the Baptist, one by the Centurion, and 24 by Jesus) in order to consider their purpose and function in this early Christian text.

Few New Testament topics have been discussed as often and as intensely as Q, the hypothesized second major source alongside the gospel of Mark for the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and the parables. And yet, no monograph to date has been devoted to considering the parables in Q. In addition to filling this gap in New Testament scholarship, Dieter T. Roth addresses the need to move scholarship on both Q and the parables forward along methodological and interpretive lines. Roth considers Q not as a text behind Matthew and Luke that needs to be reconstructed but rather as an intertext between Matthew and Luke that offered plots, characters, and images in parables that were taken up by Matthew and Luke and utilized in their own respective texts. In addition, Roth draws on recent parables research in his examination of the 27 parables in Q (two spoken by John the Baptist, one by the Centurion, and 24 by Jesus) in order to consider their purpose and function in this early Christian text.

Dieter T. Roth presents an extensive study of the so-called “staurogram,” argued to be the earliest visual depiction of the crucifixion of Christ. Roth examines the origins of this depiction in early New Testament manuscripts as a ligature or compendium of two letters in certain abbreviations of the words “cross” (stauros in Greek) or “crucify” (stauroo in Greek) in which the Greek letter rho is superimposed upon the Greek letter tau. In this work, the staurogram, ultimately understood to be a simple yet powerful depiction of Jesus crucified, is analyzed and located within the framework of ancient abbreviations, the nomina sacra, and the developing Christian visual culture in order to offer, for the first time, a wide-ranging presentation of this symbol in early Christianity. From the symbol’s origins within words in some of our earliest, extant New Testament manuscripts to its use as a free-standing Christogram, this volume provides important insight into how Christians, beginning with the staurogram, depicted visually their faith in a crucified Christ.

Dies ist die aktualisierte Ausgabe eines Lehrbuchs über empirische Wahlf- schung, geschrieben für Studenten, Journalisten und politisch Interessierte. Die Wahlforschung – misst man sie an der Nachfrage ihrer Ergebnisse – hat im le- ten Jahrzehnt weiter an Bedeutung gewonnen. Auch die Veröffentlichungen aus diesem Bereich sind deutlich gestiegen. Wer wissen will wie die oft zitierten und auch kritisierten oder bezweifelten Ergebnisse der empirischen Wahlforschung zustande kommen, kann sich in diesem Buch informieren. Es werden die gän- gen Theorien zur Erklärung von Wahlverhalten dargestellt und die Techniken der Datenerhebung und der Analyse beschrieben, die benutzt werden, um die Fragen in diesem Bereich zu beantworten. Insbesondere wird aber auf die vielen F- lermöglichkeiten auf dem Weg zu gültigen Ergebnissen hingewiesen und auf die Begrenztheit der möglichen Aussagen. Das Buch ist eine praxisorientierte E- führung in die empirische Wahlforschung. Es hat auch in der aktualisierten Form nicht den Anspruch, alle diskutierten Probleme des Faches abzudecken. Für die nicht behandelten Themen habe ich mich bemüht, Hinweise zu geben, wo man weitersuchen kann. Zum Zeitpunkt der Erstausgabe dieses Buches hat es eine Lücke ausgefüllt. Inzwischen sind viele methodischen Fragen von anderen Autoren aufgegriffen und behandelt worden. Trotzdem scheint eine Einführung noch eine Berech- gung zu haben, denn es besteht Nachfrage. Die meisten Beispiele wurden ern- ert. Dabei griff ich – wie zuvor – auf die Datenbestände der Forschungsgruppe Wahlen e. V. zurück. Mit den Mitarbeitern dort habe ich einzelne Aspekte immer wieder diskutiert.