Jason Andrew Staples

Bio: Jason Andrew Staples is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Judaism & Biblical studies. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 247 citations.

Vessels of Wrath and God’s Pathos: Potter/Clay Imagery in Rom 9:20–23

Abstract: Abstract Starting from the concept of divine patience in Rom 9:22, this article argues that Paul employs the potter/clay metaphor not (as often interpreted) to defend God’s right to arbitrary choice but rather as an appeal to what Abraham Heschel called divine pathos—the idea that God’s choices are impacted by human actions. The potter/clay imagery in Rom 9:20–23 thus serves to highlight the dynamic and improvisational way the God of Israel interacts with Israel and, by extension, all of creation.

František Ábel, Ed. Israel and the Nations: Paul’s Gospel in the Context of Jewish Expectation

Abstract: No abstract is available.

神圣的帷幕 : 宗教社会学理论之要素 = The sacred canopy elements of a sociological theory of religion

Abstract: Peter Berger (1929) is an American sociologist best known for his collaboration with Thomas Luckman in writing The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. That book argues that human reality, and knowledge of it, is a social construct, emerging from the individual or group’s interaction with larger social structures (institutions). Social structures, once widely adopted, lose their history as social constructions (objectivation), and come over time, by the people who live within them, to be deemed natural realities independent of human construction (reification). Berger predicted, in his later book, The Sacred Canopy, near-term all-encompassing secularization of religion, which prediction has proved false, especially in the third world (as Berger himself has acknowledged in his later work, Desecularization).

The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts

Abstract: Preface Introduction: The Role of the Reader I. Open 1. The Poetics of the Open Work 2. The Semantics of Metaphor 3. On the Possibility of Generating Aesthetic Messages in an Edenic Language II. Closed 4. The Myth of Superman 5. Rhetoric and Ideology in Sue's Les Mysteres de Paris 6. Narrative Structures in Fleming III. Open/Closed 7. Peirce and the Semiotic Foundations of Openness: Signs as Texts and Texts as Signs 8. Lector in Fabula: Pragmatic Strategy in a Metanarrative Text Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography

The Gospel of Matthew

Abstract: Introduction 1. Myth Theory, Comparison, and Embedded Scripture Texts 2. Love as Societal Vision and Counter-Imperial Practice in Matthew 22.34-40 - Warren Carter 3. Matthew's Earliest Interpreter: Justin Martyr on Matthew's Fulfillment Quotations - J.R.C. Cousland 4. 'The Book of the Genesis of Jesus Christ' The Purpose of Matthew in Light of the Incipit - Craig A. Evans. 5. Mark, Elijah, the Baptist and Matthew: The Success of the First Intertextual Reading of Mark - Mark Goodacre 6. Reading Zechariah and Matthew's Olivet Discourse - Clay Alan Ham 7. From History to Myth and Back Again: The Historicizing Function of Scripture in Matthew 2 - Thomas R. Hatina 8. Plotting Jesus: Characterization, Identity, and the Voice of God in Matthew's Gospel - Michael P. Knowles 9. The King as Shepherd: the Role of Deutero-Zechariah in Matthew - John Nolland 10. Matthew's Atomistic Use of Scripture: Messianic Interpretation of Isaiah 53.4 in Matthew 8.17 - Lidija Novakovic 11. Scribal Methods in Matthew and Mishnah Abot -Lawrence M. Wills 12. Matthew's Intertexts and the Presentation of Jesus as Healer-Messiah - Andries G. van Aarde Bibliography Index of References Index of Authors.