May 7, 2021 Presentation Open Access

Gary D. Collier

MARC21 XML Export

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<record xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim">
  <leader>00000nam##2200000uu#4500</leader>
  <datafield tag="041" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">eng</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Simon BarJonah</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Gospel of Matthew</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Matthew 12:39</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Matthew 16:17</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Peter in Matthew</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">BarJonah</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Jonah in  Matthew</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <controlfield tag="005">20210508014809.0</controlfield>
  <datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Originally read at the 2018 Stone-Campbell Journal Annual Meeting, Gospel's section.</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <controlfield tag="001">4742949</controlfield>
  <datafield tag="711" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="d">April 6-7, 2018</subfield>
    <subfield code="g">SCJ Conference</subfield>
    <subfield code="a">Stone-Campbell Journal Annual Conference</subfield>
    <subfield code="c">Johnson City, TN</subfield>
    <subfield code="n">Synoptic Gospels</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="s">1284279</subfield>
    <subfield code="z">md5:564bab922148625c3e15d1aac8bcc49f</subfield>
    <subfield code="u">https://zenodo.org/record/4742949/files/Collier--2021_SimonBarJonah+handouts.pdf</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="542" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="l">open</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="y">Conference website</subfield>
    <subfield code="u">http://www.stone-campbelljournal.com/conferences-events/past-conferences/2018-stone-campbell-journal-conference/</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="260" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="c">2021-05-07</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="909" ind1="C" ind2="O">
    <subfield code="p">openaire</subfield>
    <subfield code="p">user-iabc</subfield>
    <subfield code="o">oai:zenodo.org:4742949</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="100" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="u">IABC</subfield>
    <subfield code="a">Gary D. Collier</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="245" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">Hiding in Plain Sight: "Simon Barjona" as Wordplay and Theology in Mt 16:17</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="980" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">user-iabc</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="540" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="u">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode</subfield>
    <subfield code="a">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="650" ind1="1" ind2="7">
    <subfield code="a">cc-by</subfield>
    <subfield code="2">opendefinition.org</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">&lt;p&gt;Why did Jesus call Peter &amp;ldquo;Simon Barjona&amp;rdquo; in Mt 16:17?&amp;nbsp; The name &amp;ldquo;Simon&amp;rdquo; is common enough in the gospels, especially the Gospel of John.&amp;nbsp; But &amp;ldquo;Barjona&amp;rdquo; occurs only once in all of biblical literature.&amp;nbsp; Commentators tend to focus on textual variants, or how this might be related to &amp;ldquo;Simon son of John&amp;rdquo; (Jn 1:42; 21:15-17).&amp;nbsp; Suggestions are often related to &amp;ldquo;historical Peter&amp;rdquo; type questions, ranging from a contraction of &lt;em&gt;Johanan&lt;/em&gt; and so squaring it with the Gospel of John, or Peter&amp;rsquo;s father being known by two names.&amp;nbsp; Older commentators found in it &amp;ldquo;son of the dove.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp; Or some just skip it altogether.&amp;nbsp; Public websites might run wild with speculation focusing on weird etymological possibilities for the secrets of the name.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;By taking the name Jonah as a key, I will focus on how the Gospel of Matthew is crafted in contrast with Mark and Luke, specifically as relating to &amp;ldquo;the sign of Jonah&amp;rdquo; in Mt 12:39 and 16:4.&amp;nbsp; Gundry is right that the &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;son&lt;/em&gt; of Jonah&amp;rdquo; is linked to &amp;ldquo;the &lt;em&gt;sign&lt;/em&gt; of Jonah&amp;rdquo; which points to the death and resurrection of Jesus.&amp;nbsp; And he might be right that &amp;ldquo;the choice of the Semitic &amp;Beta;&amp;alpha;&amp;rho;- instead of the Greek &amp;upsilon;ἱό&amp;sigmaf; suits the semitic character of the names Simon and Jonah.&amp;rdquo; (332)&amp;nbsp; But there is another clue that these are linked.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Everybody in the world is aware of the &amp;pi;έ&amp;tau;&amp;omicron;&amp;sigmaf;/&amp;pi;έ&amp;tau;&amp;rho;&amp;alpha; word play in 16:18. But there is another wordplay in v. 17 that has been entirely overshadowed.&amp;nbsp; It sets up the more famous wordplay and ties it solidly to the sign of Jonah promised in two prior texts:&amp;nbsp; and it makes the sign of Jonah something that hides in plain sight.&lt;/p&gt;</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="773" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="n">doi</subfield>
    <subfield code="i">isVersionOf</subfield>
    <subfield code="a">10.5281/zenodo.4742948</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="024" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">10.5281/zenodo.4742949</subfield>
    <subfield code="2">doi</subfield>
  </datafield>
  <datafield tag="980" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
    <subfield code="a">presentation</subfield>
  </datafield>
</record>