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  • J D Crossan's construct of Jesus' "Jewishness" : a critical assessment 
    Cromhout, Markus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    The article focuses on J D Crossan's reconstruction of the historical Jesus and the content he assigns to Jesus' "Jewishness". Guided by Crossan's own work and the insights of ethnicity theory, the continuities and ...
  • Jesus - Kind van God, vaderloos in Galilea 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2001)
    This article consists of four sections. Firstly, it reflects on the public debate regarding Jesus' alleged illegitimacy. The article argues that illegitimacy here refers to fatherlessness. Secondly, Joseph is focused on. ...
  • Jesus - prophetic emissary of God 
    Dannhauser, Estelle Henrietta; Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-06)
    The present study examines three models of research, all reaching the same conclusion, namely that Jesus was a prophet. The aim is to determine what their point of origin in research was, to determine on what basis they ...
  • Jesus : the infected healer and infectious community - liminality and creative rituals in the Jesus community in view of COVID-19 
    Dube, Zorodzai (AOSIS, 2020-11)
    Using theories in medical anthropology, especially the ideas inspired by Hector Avalos and George Foster, the study explains three activities associated with the early Christian healthcare system: (1) touching infectious ...
  • Jesus and Afro-Pentecostal prophets : dynamics within the liminal space in Galilee and in Zimbabwe 
    Dube, Zorodzai (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-07-23)
    What happens when religious and spiritual interventions are used to explain concrete social economic reality? This study suggests that Afro-Pentecostal prophets in Zimbabwe exist within the liminal context; the prophets ...
  • Jesus and Isaiah 
    Moyise, Steve (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2009)
    The Jesus Seminar assigns the OT quotations attributed to Jesus in the Gospels as the work of the early church (Funk, 1993). More recently, Geza Vermes ends his study on The Authentic Gospel of Jesus (2003) by concluding ...
  • Jesus and spirituality : reading the fourth gospel in the light of the Indian culture 
    Thomaskutty, Johnson (MDPI, 2021-09)
    The Gospel of John is considered as one of the significant literary masterpieces that appeals to Indian spirituality and ideals in multifarious ways. The Gospel has unique features as a universalistic rhetoric that ...
  • Jesus and the law revisited 
    Loader, William R.G. (Bill), 1944- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    This article revisited the issue of Jesus’ attitude towards the Torah on the basis of a critical discussion of the most recent extensive treatment of the theme by Meier in his A marginal Jew: Rethinking the historical ...
  • Jesus and the tyche of Jerusalem : a reflection on the mission of Jesus in Luke 19:41-44 with special reference to the mission of Kairos in Greek mythology 
    Speckman, McGlory (Unisa Press, 2014-11)
    The paper argues that Luke 19:41-44 has, since the publication of the Kairos Document in South Africa in 1985, been understood in eschatological terms by biblical scholars and missiologists. However, when read as an ...
  • Jesus as brugbouer : Jesus en die buitestanders in Johannes 4:1-42 
    Marais, Bennie; Van Eck, Ernest; Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2018)
    This article deals with Jesus and the outsiders in John 4, with particular focus on John 4:1-42. Methodologically, the study focuses on social identity theory, and asks the question of how Jesus gets the Samaritan woman, ...
  • Jesus en geweld : Markus 12:1-12 (en par) en Thomas 65 
    Van Eck, Ernest (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-11)
    Jesus and violence: Mark 12:1-12 (and par) and Thomas 65. As an advanced agrarian (aristocratic) society, first-century Palestine's social fabric was built on systemic tensions and conflicts between the elite (rulers) and ...
  • Jesus en sy dissipels se reaksie op geweld in die Johannesevangelie 
    Van der Watt, J.G. (Jan Gabriel), 1952-; Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-11)
    The reaction of Jesus and his disciples to violence in the Gospel of John. This article is the second of two articles in which violence in the Gospel of John is discussed. It is argued that Jesus' disciples used techniques ...
  • The Jesus of Paul : a contribution from the social sciences 
    Guijarro, Santiago (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    The letters of Paul speak more frequently of the resurrected and exalted Jesus than they do of the earthly Jesus. Nonetheless, this does not mean that the apostle and his addressees did not know the teachings and main ...
  • Jesus the village psychiatrist : a summary 
    Capps, D.E. (Donald Eric) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-08)
    This paper was a response to a panel discussion on the author’s book, Jesus the village psychiatrist, published by Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KY, 2008 which formed part of the Society of Biblical Literature’s ...
  • Jesus the ‘teacher-saviour’ or ‘saviour-teacher’ : reading the Gospel of Matthew in Chinese contexts 
    Yieh, John Y.H. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    While every interpretation is culturally particular and context-specific, the critical assessment of the hermeneutical principles and social consequences of real examples from different cultures may facilitate fresh readings ...
  • Jesus – the immigrant Egyptian Jews in Matthew’s Sondergut : a migration perspective 
    Dube, Zorodzai (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-08-15)
    Using pull and push factors inspired by the migration theory, this study explains Matthew’s Sondergut concerning Jesus’ flight to Egypt from the perspective of possible pull–push factors associated with Egypt and Palestine ...
  • Jesus' mission to all of Israel emplotted in Matthew's story 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2007)
    The aim of this article is to argue that, although the "crowd" and the "gentiles" do not fulfill the same character roles in the plot of the Gospel of Matthew as narrative, both groups function together as the object of ...
  • Jesus, Josephus, and the fall of Jerusalem : on doing history with Scripture 
    Den Hollander, William (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-08-14)
    The destruction of the temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in AD 70 was an unquestionably traumatic event in the history of the Jewish people. By all accounts it was a social, political, and theological disaster. As such, ...
  • Jesus, psychological type and conflict : a study in biblical hermeneutics applying the reader perspective and SIFT approach to Mark 11:11–21 
    Francis, Leslie John; Ap Sion, Tania (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-17)
    The Marcan account of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, cursing the fig tree and overturning the tables of the money changers in the temple provides a classic scriptural reference point for a Christian discussion ...
  • Jesus’ death and resurrection as cultural trauma 
    Dube, Zorodzai (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2013)
    In her recent book, The Case for Mark Composed in Performance (2012), Antoinette Wire proposes that Mark's gospel was composed of accounts from people who retold Jesus' story over the decades, and not from scattered fragments ...