Browsing Research Articles (New Testament Studies) by Title

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  • Genre en plot georiënteerde narratief-kritiese eksegese van Evangeliemateriaal : inleiding tot narratiewe kritiek 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-06)
    This contribution to methodology and hermeneutics, consisting of two articles, aim to argue for combining historical criticism and narrative criticism. The first article shows how genre orientation can provide hermeneutical ...
  • Geweld in 'n evangelie van liefde : die Evangelie van Johannes se perspektief op geweld teen Jesus en sy dissipels 
    Van der Watt, J.G. (Jan Gabriel), 1952-; Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-11)
    Violence in a gospel of love. The perspective of the Gospel of John on violence against Jesus and his disciples. This article is the first of two articles in which violence in the Gospel of John is discussed. In these ...
  • The Gift of the Spirit in John 19:30? A Reconsideration of ... 
    Smit, Peter-Ben A. (Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2016-07)
    Based on insights from the history of interpretation, a Synoptic comparison, linguistic considerations, and narrative observations, I argue that the unusual expression in John 19:30 indicates primarily that Jesus has ...
  • Globalised mission as opportunity 
    Jacobs, Pierre J.; Van Eck, Ernest (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-06-26)
    Globalisation develops at a staggering pace that envelopes and infiltrates local South African communities in various ways. Through technology a person can have access to anything today. Should the church try to keep up, ...
  • ‘God van de vrede’ in het Nieuwe Testament 
    Van Houwelingen, Pieter Harry Robert (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-07-13)
    Why does the New Testament use the expression ‘the God of peace’ and what is the meaning of this phrase? In the Old Testament, the God of Israel is often connected with peace, but he is never called ‘the God of peace’. ...
  • God's health and human health : a proposal for the world of well-being 
    Ellens, J. Harold,1932- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    This article reflects on people’s presuppositions with regard to God’s mental health as it has been recounted throughout history. The article asserts that the dominant report of a ‘sick god’ has nothing to do with God ...
  • God, the beautiful and mathematics : a response 
    Smit, Peter-Ben A.; De Heide, Rianne (AOSIS, 2021-03-17)
    Volker Kessler (‘God becomes beautiful … in mathematics’ – HTS 2018) argues two points to Rudolf Bohren’s list of four areas where (1) God becomes beautiful should be extended with a fifth one: mathematics and (2) ...
  • God, the Christ and the Spirit in William P. Young’s bestseller The shack seen from a Pauline and Johannine perspective 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    Among its more than a million readers, The shack has empowered traditionalists and seekers among Christian spirituals but has also been condemned for patripassionism and modalism. This article consists mainly of two sections. ...
  • God’s patronage constitutes a community of compassionate equals 
    Malan, Gert Jacobus (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-07-15)
    The central themes of Jesus’ preaching, the kingdom and household of God, are root metaphors expressing the symbolic universe of God’s patronage subverting patronage and patriarchy structuring contemporary Mediterranean ...
  • The gospel myth of Christian origins 
    Schutte, P.J.W. (Philippus Jacobus Wilhelmus) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-03)
    In Burton Mack's latest book, entitled "The Christian myth. Origins, logic, and legacy", he raises challenging arguments with regard to those issues of the Christian myth mentioned in the title. The aim of this review ...
  • The Gospel of Matthew, John the elder and the Papias tradition : a response to R H Gundry 
    Sim, David C. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-03)
    As far as the origin of the Gospel of Matthew is concerned, most modern scholars tend to discount the testimony of Papias. The major exception in this regard is R H Gundry, who argues that the tradition transmitted by ...
  • Griekse manuskrip van die Kindheidsevangelie van Tomas in Kodeks Sinaïtikus (Gr 453) vertaal in Afrikaans 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Fourteen Greek manuscripts and early translations exist of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. The Greek version in Codex Sinaiticus (Gr 453) represents the most authentic version. The article shows that the reproduction of this ...
  • Hapax legomena in disputed Pauline letters : a reassessment 
    Van Nes, Jermo (De Gruyter, 2018-02)
    To argue for the pseudonymity of disputed Pauline letters on the (partial) basis of their disproportional high number of hapax legomena continues to be common practice among New Testament scholars. By means of ...
  • The harvest and the kingdom : an interpretation of the Sower (Mk 4:3b–8) as a parable of Jesus the Galilean 
    Van Eck, Ernest (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-20)
    This article attempts to read the parable of the Sower (Mk 4:3b–8) as a parable of the historical Jesus. In this reading, the focus is different from almost all previous interpretations of the parable. It is proposed ...
  • The healing of the blind man in John 
    Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2012)
    John's healing narratives are all presented as semeia or spiritual signs in the Gospel. It therefore always has two levels of meaning: the one level narrates a biological and socio-cultural healing act, and at the same ...
  • Healing the female body : representation of ideas about healing and the female body in Mark’s gospel 
    Dube, Zorodzai (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)
    Using narrative, reader-response and social feminist approaches, the study takes a discourse analysis of looking into representations of female bodies within the Jewish- Christian healthcare and Greek Hippocratic healthcare ...
  • Healthy economics or cautionary tales? The narrative microeconomics of four Matthean healing stories 
    Anderson, Laura (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    This article explores the four Matthean stories wherein an individual supplicant requests a healing on behalf of someone else: the centurion for his paralyzed servant, the ruler for his dead daughter, the Canaanite woman ...
  • Hearing God’s voice : evaluating some popular teachings on the subject 
    Joubert, Callie; Maartens, Nick (South African Theological Seminary, 2018-03)
    Hearing the voice of God is for many Christians part of their everyday life and undoubtedly biblical. But what exactly do they mean by ‘hearing God’s voice’ and how do they distinguish between God’s voice, their own thoughts ...
  • Hebrews 5:7 as the cry of the Davidic sufferer 
    Bertolet, Timothy (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-10-20)
    This article proposes a better source for the Son’s cry in Hebrews 5:7. It begins by surveying sources previous scholars have identified, including Jesus’ cry in Gethsemane and Golgotha, several Psalms, and the Maccabean ...
  • Hebrews' angelology in the light of early Jewish apocalyptic imagery 
    Steyn, Gert Jacobus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2011)
    Hebrews’ references and allusions to angels are investigated in the light of early Jewish apocalyptic imagery and against the backdrop of similarities with a number of aspects that possibly underlie the Qumran community. ...