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Joel Marcus
New Testament and Christian origins scholar and Duke emeritus professor, studying the Gospels in their Jewish context.
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Joel Marcus is Duke’s Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Christian Origins. His research concerns the Gospels and relations between Judaism and Christianity in the early centuries. [1]
His 2023 study examines Matthew’s sayings that answer inherited law with “but I say to you.” In some cases he favours revision of the biblical rule itself and questions the assumption that talion always softened an earlier penalty. This is his attributed interpretation. [2]
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- Duke, Joel Marcus profile; main biography, field, degrees and relevant publications read. Emeritus status, not a current rank inferred from an old CV. Return to the text ↑
- Joel Marcus, The Enigma of the Antitheses, NTS 69(2023), pp.121–137; abstract and selected passages from pp.121,124–125,130–131 read, not every part of those pages or the whole paper. DOI:10.1017/S 0028688522000352. Return to the text ↑
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IL Archive, «Joel Marcus», Edition 3, https://ilarchive.com/en/people/joel-marcus-new-testament