Background
Zwiep, Arie Wilhelm was born on November 26, 1964 in Schiedam, The Netherlands. Son of Johan Wilhelm and Jacoba Cornelia (De Vlieger) Zwiep.
(This volume builds on the form-critical assessment of the...)
This volume builds on the form-critical assessment of the Lukan ascension story (Luke 24: 50-53, Acts 1: 1-12) as a rapture story. It is motivated by the consideration that the "monotheistic principle" almost inevitably must have led to a re-estimate of the meaning and function of rapture in comparison with heathen rapture stories. The study seeks to investigate the Lukan ascension story in the light of the 1st-century Jewish rapture traditions (Enoch, Elijah, Moses, Baruch and Ezra among others). Arie Zwiep argues that the 1st-century Judaism provides a more plausible horizon of understanding for the ascension story than the Graeco-Roman rapture tradition, and that Luke develops his "rapture Christology" not as are interpretation of the primitive exaltation kerygma (G. Lohfink), but as a response to the eschatological question, ie: the delay of the parousia, so as to secure the unity of salvation history.
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Zwiep, Arie Wilhelm was born on November 26, 1964 in Schiedam, The Netherlands. Son of Johan Wilhelm and Jacoba Cornelia (De Vlieger) Zwiep.
Doctor of Theology, Evangelical Theological Faculty, Louvain, Belgium, 1991. Doctor of Philosophy, University Durham, England, 1996.
Author, Studiebijbel, The Netherlands, since 1987; teacher, Evangelische Theologische Hogeschool, Veenendaal, The Netherlands, since 1996.
(This volume builds on the form-critical assessment of the...)
Member Studiegezelschap Evangelische Nieuwtestamentici (secretary 1993-1996).
Married Francisca Adriana Johanna Janssens, September 30, 1988. Children: Elizabeth Johanna, Joël Cornelis.