Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol 78, No. 1/January 2016

Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 77, No.4 / October 2015

Catholic Biblical Quarterly: Vol. 77, No. 3/ July 2015

Catholic Biblical Quarterly (Vol. 77, No.2/April 2015)

The Agenda of Priestly Taxonomy
Lance Hawley

Ecclesiastes 9:1-12: An Emphatic Statement of Themes
Addison G. Wright, P.S.S.

Creature Features: Monstrosity and the Construction of Human Identity in the Testament of Solomon 
Thomas Scott Cason

Is the Lucan Jesus a "Martyr"?  A Critical Assessment of a Scholarly Consensus
Brian J. Tabb

"I Rather Appeal to Auctoritas": Roman Conceptualizations of Power and Paul's Appeal to Philemon
Timothy A. Brookins

Objects of Mercy in Jude: The Prophetic Background of Jude 22-23
Darian Lockett

Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 77, No.1/ January 2015

"Through Those Who Are Near to Me, I Will Show Myself Holy": Nahab and Abihu and Apophatic Theology
Gary A. Anderson

Who Is Like David?  Was David Like David?  Good Kings in the Book of Kings
Alison L. Joseph

"There is Hope for a Tree": Job's Hope for the Afterlife in the Light of Egytpian Tree Imagery
Christopher Hays

What is Truth?  Jesus, Pilate, and the Staging of the Dialogue of the Cross in John 18:28-19:16a
Sherri Brown

Acts 1:15-26 and the Craft of New Testament Poetry
Matthew G. Whitlock

A Christology of Incarnation and Enthronement: Romans 1:3-4 as Unified, Nonadoptionist, and Nonconciliatory
Matthew W. Bates

Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 76, No. 4 (October 2014)

Creating an Unrighteous Outsider: The Separation of Abram and Lot in Early Scriptural Retellings
Dan Rickett

The Narratives of Numbers 20-21
Joel S. Baden

"Who Are You, My Daughter?" A Reassessment of Ruth and Naomi in Ruth 3
Edward Allen Jones III

The Davidic Key for Counting Generations in Matthew 1:17
Stephen C. Carlson

The Justice of the Gentiles: Revisiting the Purpose of Romans
Robert L. Foster

"They Are Not Gods!" Jewish and Christian Idol Polemic and Greco-Roman Use of Cult Statues
Nijay K. Gupta

New CBQ: Volume 76, No. 3 (July 2014)

Hidden Treasure in Job 14:17
Andrew R. Davis

Prophecy and the Monarch in Haggai and Zechariah
Paul L. Redditt

Election by Allusion: Exodus Themes in the Book of Tobit
Francis M. Macatangay

Anna's Characterization in Luke 2:36-38: A Case for Conceptual Allusion?
Andres Garcia Serrano

"In the Father's Bosom": Breastfeeding and Identity Formation in John's Gospel
Alicia D. Myers

Memory and Hope in the Midst of Chaos: Reconsidering the Structure of 1 Thessalonians
Timothy Milinovich

Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 76, No. 2 for April 2014

Tithes for the Clergy and Taxes for the King: State and Temple Contributions in Nehemiah
Peter Altmann

The Integrity of Job 1 and 42:11-17
Paul Kang-Kul Cho

Ezekiel's Image Problem: The Mesopotamian Cult Statue Induction Ritual and the Imago Dei Anthropology in the Book of Ezekiel
C.A. Strine

A Buried Pentateuchal Allusion to the Resurrection in Mark 12:25
Matthew Thiessen

Burning Questions in Romans 12:20: What is the Meaning and Purpose of "Coals of Fire"?
John W. Martens

"Noah, the Preacher of (God's) Righteousness": The Argument from Scripture in 2 Peter 2:5 and 9
Scott Hafemann

NABRE OT Textual Notes are Now Available Online

Via the Catholic Biblical Association. They were compiled from the work of the original revisers and arranged by Joseph Jensen, O.S.B.

From the CBA:

Please note: To search these notes, two steps are needed: first search for the Old Testament book, then for the particular verse (colon between chapter and verse). Be sure you are at the text you are searching for, because there are many cross-references in these notes.  We hope to have soon a more sophisticated program provided by the USCCB.

1 Kings 18:27: Doing His Business

I was recently reading 1 Kings 18 concerning the famous and amusing story of Elijah vs. the Prophets of Baal.  This may have been the first time I read it in the NABRE, so I noticed something at 18:27 that was different from most other translations:  

RSV:
And at noon Eli′jah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”

NRSV:
At noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud! Surely he is a god; either he is meditating, or he has wandered away, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”

NAB:
When it was noon, Elijah taunted them: "Call louder, for he is a god and may be meditating, or may have retired, or may be on a journey. Perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.

NABRE:
When it was noon, Elijah taunted them: “Call louder, for he is a god; he may be busy doing his business, or may be on a journey. Perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.

The NABRE's "He may be busy doing his business" was striking when I came across it.  (The ESV and NLT have similar renderings, but the NABRE's is slightly different.)   I decided to do a little research on this and fairly quickly found an old CBQ article from July 1988 by Gary A. Rendsburg about this verse. Rendsburg is a Jewish history professor at Rutgers.  As Rendsburg points out: "In short, there is good reason to conclude that both elements in the hendiadys, siah and sig, refer to excretion and the phrase should be rendered 'he may be defecating/urinating.'  These would certainly be powerful words from the mouth of Elijah and would be a most appropriate mock of the Canaanite god Baal (416)."  Indeed it certainly would be.  They also seem to fit the context of what Elijah is saying, more so than "meditating" or "musing" do.  Elijah is calling-out the bogus god Baal and rendering him counterfeit.  

It seems the vast majority of other translations do not follow this, the exception being the new NABRE Old Testament.  If you go with interpretation, the next question is how to translate this into English.  Do you go with something like "he may be defecating?"  The ESV and NLT go with "relieving himself."   Or perhaps, like the NABRE, do you go with a less explicit wording?  I think most American readers will be able to understand what "doing his business" means, but would "relieving himself" have been a better rendering?

Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 76, No. 1

Catholic Biblical Quarterly  Vol. 76, No. 1/January 2014

Mark 1:1-15: A "New Evangelization"

Richard J. Dillon

The History of Legal Theory and the Study of Biblical Law

Joshua Berman

"Associative Meetings" in the Character Evaluation of Lot's Daughters

Jonathan Grossman

The Affirmation of Prophetic Power and Deconstruction of Royal Authority in the Elisha Narratives

Walter Brueggemann and Davis Hankins

Storing UP Treasure with God in the Heavens: Celestial Investments in Matthew 6:1-21

Nathan Eubank

Assessing Stanley E. Porter's Objection to Richard B Hays's Notion of Metalepsis

Alec J. Lucas

Catholic Biblical Quarterly: October 2013

Here are the articles for the October 2013 issue of Catholic Biblical Quarterly:

Forgiveness as Private and Public Act: A Reading of the Biblical Joseph Narrative
J. Gordon McConville

Love Is (Strong as) Death: Reading the Song of Songs through Proverbs 1-9
Kathryn Imray

Rebuke or Recall? Rethinking the Role of Peter in Mark's Gospel
Robyn Whitaker

Cloaks, Conflicts, and Mark 14:51-52
Erin Vearncombe

"Zealots for Good Works"
Benjamin J. Lappenga

Constructing Jesus and the Son of Man
Francis J. Moloney, SDB

Mary of Bethany and the Hermeneutics of Remembrance
Mary Ann Beavis

Catholic Biblical Quarterly July 2013 Articles

I am going to begin posting, each quarter, the main articles for the most recent edition of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly.   The CBQ is published quarterly (January, April, July, October) by the Catholic Biblical Association at the Catholic University of America.

For July (Vol. 75, No.3):

"Who Would Not Write?" The Prophet as Yhwh's Prey in Amos 3:3-8
Sara J. Milstein

Newly Discovered Literary Devices in the Prayer of Habakkuk
Michael L. Barre, S.S.

Lord or God? Tobit and the Tetragrammaton
Daniel A. Machiela

Rachel's Cry for Her Children: Matthew's Treatment of the Infanticide by Herod
Eugene Eung-Chun Park

Deaf or Defiant? The Literary, Cultural, and Affective-Rhetorical Keys to the Naming of John (Luke 1:57-80)
Karl Allen Kuhn

The Eloquent Blood of Jesus: The Neglected Theme of the Fidelity of Jesus in Hebrews 12:24
Kevin B. McCruden

Synchrony and Diachrony in Contemporary Biblical Interpretation
Koog P. Hong