Discriminating Love God’s Love As Distinctiveness, Preference, and Judgment Research Programme Biblical Exegesis and Systematic Theology (BEST) 2018-2023 Theological University Apeldoorn & Theological University Kampen [VERSION 2021 05 05] Programme leader: Prof. Dr. A. Huijgen Secretary: Dr. A.J. den Heijer Table of Contents Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................... 2 Part I Introduction and General Information .................................................................................... 5 1. Mission and Vision of BEST ............................................................................................................. 5 2. Programme Title .............................................................................................................................. 5 3. Overview of the Programme ........................................................................................................... 5 4. Researchers ..................................................................................................................................... 6 5. Description of the Research Programme ........................................................................................ 7 6. Organisation .................................................................................................................................. 10 7. Goals for Publication and Visibility ................................................................................................ 11 8. Institutional embedding ................................................................................................................ 11 9. International network ................................................................................................................... 12 10. Societal network .......................................................................................................................... 12 11. Education ..................................................................................................................................... 12 12. Budget/fundraising ...................................................................................................................... 13 13. Summary for the general public .................................................................................................. 13 Part II Research Projects ........................................................................................................................ 14 1. Thematic Conferences ....................................................................................................................... 15 MD 1 Covenant .................................................................................................................................. 15 MD 2 Israel as Hermeneutical Challenge .......................................................................................... 15 MD 3 The Nature and Logic of God’s Love ........................................................................................ 15 MD 4 Discriminations in the Bible ..................................................................................................... 15 2. Multidisciplinary Research Projects .................................................................................................. 15 Divine Preference in Genesis 1–11 (OT/ST) ...................................................................................... 15 A Methodological Framework for Doing Biblical Exegesis and Systematic Theology ....................... 16 Mary: Icon of Grace ........................................................................................................................... 17 3. Old Testament ................................................................................................................................... 19 3.1 God’s Love and Judgment in the OT Prophets ................................................................................ 19 Biblical Theological Contours of the Book of Isaiah .......................................................................... 20 The Oracles Against the Nations in the Book of Jeremiah ................................................................ 22 Jeremiah 52: Text, Context, Redaction [completed] ......................................................................... 24 Messages of Hope in the Book of Jeremiah ....................................................................................... 26 Shame and Disgrace in the Books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel .............................................................. 27 The Vulnerability of God in the book of Jeremiah ............................................................................ 29 The Philistines oracles ....................................................................................................................... 29 Diversitas and Unitas: The Word of God in the Book of Amos ......................................................... 30 3.2 Other Projects.................................................................................................................................. 31 Concepts of the Promised Land......................................................................................................... 31 Qoheleth’s Evaluation of Israel’s History .......................................................................................... 33 Human Relations in Old Testament Ethics ........................................................................................ 34 God’s Covenants with Humans in the Old Testament ...................................................................... 35 The Cutting Edge of Reality in God’s Discriminating Love................................................................. 38 God’s Patience, its Place and Significance in the Old Testament Divine Revelation ........................ 41 Diachronic linguistics in the book of Isaiah ....................................................................................... 43 4. New Testament ................................................................................................................................. 45 Identity formation in the New Testament and Dead Sea Scrolls through the use of the contrast light and darkness ..................................................................................................................................... 45 Christus Sunthronos: an investigation of the origin and character of the use of Ps 110 in the New Testament .......................................................................................................................................... 46 Babylon destroyed: an exegetical investigation into the communication strategy in Revelation 1846 Abraham and the Riches of Christ: The Pauline Concept of Inheritance .......................................... 46 God’s Justice in the Catholic Epistles: The Stories of Cain & Abel and Sodom & Gomorrah according to James, John, Peter and Jude ......................................................................................................... 47 The Public Performance of Paul in the Book of Acts as Demonstration of God’s Discriminating Love [completed] ....................................................................................................................................... 49 God’s Discriminating Love according to Acts .................................................................................... 51 Messengers of discriminating love. The twelve apostles as disciples of Jesus and missionaries of the gospel ................................................................................................................................................ 52 Suffering from a perspective of honor and shame ........................................................................... 54 The resurrection of the beheaded and the millennial kingdom in Revelation 20:1-6: a study on the vindication of the martyrs ................................................................................................................. 56 Paul’s Use of Scripture as a Formative Framework for his Understanding of God’s discriminating Love for Israel and its Hermeneutical Impact ................................................................................... 58 The Vengeance of God in the New Testament ................................................................................. 61 Spiritus Interpres. Hermeneutical implications of the New Testament affirmations about the illuminating work of the Holy Spirit ................................................................................................... 63 Crucicentrism in African evangelical theology? ................................................................................ 64 5. Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics ..................................................................................... 67 5.1 The Trinity and the Logic of Love .................................................................................................... 67 A Trinitarian Hermeneutic of the Old Testament.............................................................................. 68 The Logic of Trinitarian Love ............................................................................................................. 69 Discriminating