Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence. By James D.G. Dunn. Louisville: SPCK/ WJK, 2010. Pp. 176. $20.00.
Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence. By James D.G. Dunn. Louisville: SPCK/ WJK, 2010. Pp. 176. $20.00.
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10.1163/18712207-12341239
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2012
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关于这本书，有几句一般性的评论是有次序的。首先，邓恩把这本书献给理查德·鲍克汉姆和拉里·赫尔塔多，他们是“对话中的伙伴”，这一奉献在引言和正文的第3-6页用相关的参考书目脚注进行了详细阐述。此外，它还得到了如下的支持理由：“那些熟悉这一领域（书名）最近讨论的人会很清楚这一领域的巨大贡献……由[这]两位英国资深学者所作”(p。“我冒昧地加入讨论……因为我关心的是确保整个画面被带入视野，而那些表明更大复杂性的文本，那些甚至可能与塑造了赫尔塔多和鲍克汉姆观点的主要文本相冲突的文本，不会被忽视。”4)。随后的脚注引用了他们（当然还有其他人）发表的言论，补充了这篇关于有意建立对话伙伴关系的开场白。这一公开带来了一些关于读者和本文档类型的问题。关于后者，由研讨会或其他公共论坛共同撰写的“对话伙伴关系”卷是很常见的。在这种情况下，一个典型的格式是每个贡献者都给出一个地址，然后由其他人评论-或一些变化-然后整个-可能是摘要回应-被发布。这里的情况并非如此，由于缺乏“实时”回应而造成的距离并不完全令人满意，尽管如上所述，作者非常认真地记录了他的对话者的声音。至于读者，认为读者很可能熟悉“最近关于本书主题的讨论”以及乌尔塔多和鲍克汉姆的立场的假设是有问题的。通过作者透彻的分析，以及他对读者的热情（超越了以行会为中心的狭隘兴趣），读者对讨论的熟悉程度——令人高兴的是——远远超过了阅读这本书的前提。与此相关的是，人们不禁注意到，例如，在第四章和第五章中，作者在他近乎说教的神韵中投入了个人精力，并热情地将表达转变为夸张，如“令人惊讶”、“闻所未闻”、“令人兴奋”、“引人注目”、“引人注目”、“强调”、“明确”、“引人入胜”、“挑衅”等。转向更实质性的问题，读者在这里遇到了经典新约学者詹姆斯·邓恩。事实上，他在阐述和提炼这个项目的问题时，经常引用并借鉴二十世纪经典圣经研究的基础，他把这个项目称为“探究”、“研究”和“调查”。他的技能
Several remarks of a general nature are in order about this present volume. First, Dunn dedicates the book to Richard Bauckham and Larry Hurtado,“partners in dialogue,” a dedication that is elaborated upon with pertinent bibliographical footnotes on pp. 3-6 of the Introduction and passim. It receives supportive rationale, moreover, as follows:“Those familiar with recent discussion in this area [of the book’s title] will be well aware of the considerable contribution... made by [these] two senior scholars in Britain”(p. 3).“I make bold to enter the discussion... because I am concerned to ensure that the whole picture is brought into view, and that texts that indicate a greater complexity, and that may even jar with the principal texts that have shaped Hurtado’s and Bauckham’s views, are not neglected”(p. 4). Subsequent footnotes supplement this opening statement on an intended dialogical partnership with quotations to their—and of course others’—published remarks. This opening disclosure brings with it some problems regarding audience and the genre of this document. Regarding the latter, multi-authored “dialogical partnership” volumes, resulting from a symposium or some other public forum, are common. In such, a typical format is that each contributor has given an address, which is then critiqued by the others—or some variation thereof—and then subsequently the whole—perhaps with summary responses—is published. This was not the case here and the distance created by the absence of “real time” responses is not entirely satisfactory, even though, as noted above, the author has been exceedingly conscientious about footnoting the voices of his interlocutors. And regarding audience, the assumption that the reader may well bring a familiarity “with recent discussion” on the subject matter of this volume and the positions of Hurtado and Bauckham is problematic. As becomes eminently clear through the thoroughness of the author’s analysis and the passion of his engagement for a readership that exceeds the narrowness of guild-centered interests, audience familiarity with the discussion is—happily—far more the promise of reading this book than it is its presupposition. Relatedly, one cannot help but notice, for example, in chapters four and fijive the personal investment of the author in his almost homiletical verve and enthusiastic shifts of expression to hyperbolism such as “astonishing,”“unheard of,”“mind-blowing,”“striking,”“remarkable,”“emphatic,”“defijinitive,”“riveting,”“provocative” etc.Turning to more substantive issues, the reader meets here the James Dunn of classical New Testament scholarship. He actually refers with frequency to and draws upon the foundations of classical Twentieth Century biblical studies as he states and refijines the question of this project, which he dubs variously as “inquiry,”“study,” and “survey.” His skills as