Engaging in Dialogue: Roger d’Argenteuil's 'Bible en françois' and 'Le dyalogue dou pere et dou filz' by Grange, H

“…It was as the final part of the Bible, otherwise made up of glossed summaries of Genesis and the Gospels spliced together with copious quantities of apocrypha, that the Dyalogue came to modern scholarly attention. …”

Book Reviews by Anja Klein, Bo Krister Ljungberg, Carl Johan Berglund, Cecilia Wassén, Cian Power, Jan Retsö, Joel Kuhlin, Josef Forsling, LarsOlov Eriksson, Magnus Halle, Martin Wessbrandt, Mikael Larsson, Mikael Tellbe, Paul Linjamaa, Stefan Green, Stig Norin, Tobias Ålöw, Torsten Löfstedt

“… The following books are reviewed: Aichele, George, Simulating Jesus: Reality Effects in the Gospels (Joel Kuhlin) Amos, Roger, Hypocrites or Heroes? …”
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Jesus in Johannine Perspective: Inviting A Fourth Quest for Jesus by Paul N. Anderson

“…Additionally, the Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John make distinctive contributions of their own. …”
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Die groep vroue by die kruis van Jesus (Johannes 19:25): 'n Narratologiese perspektief by D. Francois Tolmie

“…</strong><span>The women portrayed at the cross of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (John 19:25) are often discussed in commentaries and studies on this part of the Gospel. …”
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Using Objective Stylometric Techniques to Evaluate New Testament Authorship by Kenneth Royal

“…Findings: With regard to substantive findings, the gospels (Matthew, Luke, Mark, and John) and the narrative book of Acts were closely correlated. …”
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Blazoning Mary Magdalene by Sophie Gray

“…However, despite her low social status and sinful past, Mary is featured in all four Gospels and is present at several crucial moments in Christ’s life and death: she anoints his feet as a sign of humbleness, witnesses his crucifixion and is the first to see his resurrection, after which she leaves society to lead a contemplative life in the desert. …”
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The Dialectics of Hope and Despair by De Grandis, Mario

“…Previous studies have also pointed out that in the short story “Medicine”, Lu Xun surreptitiously embedded characters and allusions – as well as adopted a narrative structure – inspired by the Gospel accounts of the Passion. Such Christian references have been interpreted as a literary strategy to reflect on the Chinese national character. …”
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Beyond Reception History: The Qur’anic Intervention into the Late Antique Discourse about the Origin of Evil by Angelika Neuwirth, Dirk Hartwig

“…This figure is portrayed in the Qur’an as a daring “dissenter in heaven”—a dignity that he had proven in various Biblical contexts (Book of Job, Gospels, etc.) before. His main characteristic is his eloquence and logical reasoning, which has earned him the epithet of the “inventor of <i>qiyās</i>/syllogism” in later Islamic tradition. …”
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Gnosticism, Mary Magdalene, Jesus Christ, Mani, The Parthian Manichean hymn of the Crucifixion by hamidreza ardestani rostami

“…In the present Study, one of these common characteristic, i.e., the similar position of Mary Magdalene in Gnostic texts (the Gospels of Thomas, Philip, Truth, Mary, etc.) and Manichean texts, has been investigated relying on the Parthian Text M6281+M6246. …”
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Biblical Turns of Phrase, Repetition and Circularity in Oscar Wilde’s Salome by Sébastien Salbayre

“…Indeed, in Salome, the extremely short accounts of the beheading of John the Baptist that can be found in the Gospels turn into a sexual tragedy in which lust, perversity and frustration are the main motivating forces behind the characters’ actions. …”
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Fleat pro te mater ecclesia: Images of the Church in Ambrose’s Treatise De Paenitentia by Karolína Štauberová

“…Ambrose uses several biblical images, such as the Good Samaritan, Peter the Apostle, Lazarus, and female figures from the Gospels, to show the value and importance of penance and the role of the Church, who got from Christ the power to ‘bind and loose’. …”
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Translating the ‘Hebraeo-Hellenic Apostles’: Hugh Broughton and the Scholarly Context of the English New Testament by Macfarlane, K

“…In the chiefly continental, Latinate world of the most advanced biblical scholarship, scholars studied the Semitic influence on New Testament Greek, explained strange features of the Gospels through post-biblical Judaism, and analysed the historical-philological connections between the Testaments. …”

Filantropi Islam dan Kristen: Studi Komparatif by Muh Luqman Arifin, Rofiq Nurhadi, Ida Zahara Adibah

“…This research uses a type of qualitative research with a normative- sociological approach by taking data on the texts of the Qur'an and the Gospels that talk about philanthropy and understand the verses as religious believers, then see how the verses and texts are implemented in people's lives by both religious believers. …”
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Salt and Light: Reading Matthew 5:13–16 within the Context of the Matthean Community by Frans-Johan Pienaar

“…Some scholars assert that the writers of the Gospels had no particular audience in mind when writing. …”
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Car la Lettre tue mais l’Esprit vivifie : une relecture des textes bibliques selon Elizabeth Gaskell by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…She was convinced that the Pharisees had not disappeared with the Advent of Christ and, in her novels, she used her own, sometimes unorthodox, interpretation and rewriting of the Gospels to convert the Pharisees of her own time to the true essence of Christianity. …”
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Il trattamento delle fonti nel dattiloscritto della Gloria di Giuseppe Berto by Saverio Vita

“…The treatment of sources in the typescript of La Gloria by Giuseppe Berto In the note at the end of La gloria, a novel dedicated to the story of Christ recounted from Judas' point of view, Giuseppe Berto mentions the sources he has taken inspiration from: the Mondadori Oscar edition of the Gospels (1973) and Guido Ceronetti's translations. …”
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Moffat’s seTlhaping translation as invasion: Re-translation resources for decolonisation by Gerald O. West

“…The article then goes on to argue for forms of decolonial ‘re-translation’, focussing on two forms of decolonial translation, Contextual Bible Study (CBS) as translation (as advocated by Esala) and Julius Nyerere’s use of indigenous Tanzanian poetics for translating the gospels. The article uses Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘heterotopic space’ and Sithembiso Zwane’s notions of ‘invigorated space’ and ‘invented space’ to theorise CBS and Nyerere’s poetics as forms of decolonial space for African-led re-translation, with potential implications for African community-based participatory development. …”
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Pure or Noble Materials for Jewish Ritual Vessels: Passover Meal and the First Eucharistic Chalice (Holy Grail) by Manuel Zarzo

“…An exegetical study of the synoptic gospels reveals that this ritual dinner was celebrated in the home of a wealthy disciple of Jesus, who would have lent him the most valuable cup of blessing owned by the family. …”
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Influence of Theodore Beza on the English New Testament by Backus, I, Backus, Irene

“…We conclude that the influence of Beza on the AV Synoptic Gospels is considerable especially in rotters of text and style, and although there is a slight difference between the Bodleian Annotator's and the AV's use of Beza this difference points to two different stages in the process of Revision. …”

A Bard in the Trenches by Leonardo Piana

“…A World War I veteran who had been injured in the tragic battle at the Somme, Jones had converted to Catholicism and was developing a modernist aesthetics, producing paintings and engravings where scenes from the gospels (the flagellation, the crucifixion, the empty tomb) were set on the French front, carried out by helpless British infantrymen. …”
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