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Satan and Circumcision: The Devil as the ἄγγελος πονηρός in Barn 9:4 (2021)
Journal Article
Soon, I. T. (2022). Satan and Circumcision: The Devil as the ἄγγελος πονηρός in Barn 9:4. Vigiliae Christianae: A Review of Early Christian Life and Language, 76(1), 60-72. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10035

This study argues that the ἄγγελος πονηρός in Barn 9.4 was Satan. James Carleton Paget, Adolf Hilgenfeld, Ferdinand Prostmeier and Geza Vermes gestured toward this interpretation, but none offered evidence for this identification other than assertion... Read More about Satan and Circumcision: The Devil as the ἄγγελος πονηρός in Barn 9:4.

Her Body Healed: IATAI in Mark 5:29 (2021)
Journal Article
Soon, I. T. (2021). Her Body Healed: IATAI in Mark 5:29. Novum Testamentum: An International Quarterly for New Testament and Related Studies, 63(3), 289-303. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341699

This article revives an accentuation of ιαται present in a number of medieval minuscules that has been neglected by most critical editions of the Greek New Testament since Erasmus. It argues that there is good external and internal evidence for readi... Read More about Her Body Healed: IATAI in Mark 5:29.

“In strength” not “by force”: Re-reading the circumcision of the uncircumcised ἐν ἰσχύι in 1 Macc 2:46 (2020)
Journal Article
Soon, I. T. (2020). “In strength” not “by force”: Re-reading the circumcision of the uncircumcised ἐν ἰσχύι in 1 Macc 2:46. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 29(3), 149-167. https://doi.org/10.1177/0951820720902086

This article challenges the dominant reading of 1 Macc 2:46, both that (a) the syntagm ἐν ἰσχύι means coercion and that (b) the literary context of 1 Maccabees understands the circumcising of the uncircumcised in 2:46 as coercive. An analysis of the... Read More about “In strength” not “by force”: Re-reading the circumcision of the uncircumcised ἐν ἰσχύι in 1 Macc 2:46.