In The Lawsuit Motif in John's Gospel from New Perspectives Per Jarle Bekken sheds fresh light on aspects of the lawsuit motif in John from the background of Diaspora-Jewish and Greco-Roman data and ...perspectives.
After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. ...The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.
Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as ...a conflicted judge convinced of Jesus's innocence in the Gospels, and as either a pious Christian or a virtual demon in later Christian writings. This book takes Pilate's role in the trial of Jesus as a starting point for investigating the function of legal judgment in Western society and the ways that such judgment requires us to adjudicate the competing claims of the eternal and the historical. Coming just as Agamben is bringing his decades-long Homo Sacer project to an end, Pilate and Jesus sheds considerable light on what is at stake in that series as a whole. At the same time, it stands on its own, perhaps more than any of the author's recent works. It thus serves as a perfect starting place for readers who are curious about Agamben's approach but do not know where to begin.
Après avoir été définis, dans leur acception revisitée par les neurosciences, les dilemmes moraux « personnels » ont été comparés aux dilemmes moraux impersonnels. Les dilemmes moraux dits personnels ...sont ceux qui peuvent aboutir à un préjudice sévère à l'égard d'un être humain et dont le sujet se ressent en outre clairement comme l'agent direct. Ils ont fait l'objet d'études scientifiques qui valident l'option préférentielle faite par les populations étudiées, pour un choix déontologique, puissamment mobilisé par l'émotion par rapport à un choix utilitariste, essentiellement sous-tendu par des stratégies cognitives. Les dilemmes moraux impersonnels conduisent plus volontiers à un choix utilitariste, impliquant essentiellement des stratégies cognitives. En prenant appui sur le comportement et les paroles de Pilate lors du procès de Jésus, tels qu'ils sont rapportés dans les quatre évangiles canoniques, peut-on considérer que Pilate a été immergé dans un dilemme moral et plus précisément dans un dilemme personnel ou impersonnel ? La neuropsychologie tente d'approfondir les liens entre les comportements et le fonctionnement du cerveau humain. Même si le courant dit neurophilosophique tente de diriger la neuropsychologie vers le matérialisme, cette discipline scientifique n'est prisonnière d'aucun choix métaphysique. Que le comportement humain puisse s'accompagner de modifications de l'activité cérébrale ne saurait scientifiquement faire confondre le cerveau humain et la personne humaine. C'est pourquoi la neuropsychologie doit tenter d'apporter sa contribution à l'interprétation des Écritures. Having pinpointed the revised meaning given to 'personal' moral dilemmas by the neurosciences, these were then compared with impersonal moral dilemmas. So-called personal moral dilemmas are those liable to result in serious harm being done to a human being, where the subject also clearly feels himself to be the direct agent. They have been the object of scientific studies which confirm that the populations under examination prefer to make deontological choices that are powerfully conditioned by emotion, as opposed to utilitarian choices, underwritten mainly by cognitive strategies. Impersonal moral dilemmas lead more readily to utilitarian choices, mainly involving cognitive strategies. Based on Pilate's words and behaviour during Jesus' trial, as these are reported in the four canonical gospels, is it possible to conclude that Pilate was caught up in a moral dilemma; and more precisely, was this a personal or impersonal dilemma? Neuropsychology seeks to deepen the links between types of behaviour and the functioning of the human brain. Although the so-called neurophilosophical trend seeks to take neuropsychology in a materialistic direction, it is a scientific discipline free from any particular metaphysical commitments. The fact that human behaviour might be accompanied by modifications in brain activity need not entail that science confuses the human brain with the human person. This is why neuropsychology should attempt to make a contribution towards the interpretation of the Scriptures.
After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. ...The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.
This study reconstructs the historical Pontius Pilate and looks at the way in which he is used as a literary character in the works of six first century authors: Philo, Josephus and the four ...evangelists. The first chapter provides an introduction to the history and formation of the imperial Roman province of Judaea. The following two chapters examine the references to Pilate in Philo and Josephus, looking at each author's biases before going on to assess the historicity of their accounts. The next four chapters look at the portrayal of Pilate in each gospel, asking how a first century reader would have interpreted his actions. Each chapter asks what this portrayal shows about the author's attitude towards the Roman state, and what kind of community found this useful. The conclusion distinguishes between the 'historical Pilate' and the different 'Pilate of interpretation' preserved in our first century literary sources.
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