Browsing Research Articles (New Testament Studies) by Title

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  • Schutte, P.J.W. (Philippus Jacobus Wilhelmus) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1999)
    The aim of this article is to demonstrate that the research results of one subject in the theological curriculum could be used in other subjects as well. In this article the results of historical Jesus research are used ...
  • Loba-Mkole, Jean-Claude (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    This article argues for the importance of Bible translations through its historical achievements and theoretical frames of reference. The missionary expansion of Christianity owes its very being to translations. The early ...
  • Van der Watt, J.G. (Jan Gabriel), 1952- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)
    An analysis is made of different translations of gennavw in 1 John 5:1-4. The inconsistencies in and among translations are noted. The influence of the socio-cultural ecology as well as the literary and grammatical aspects ...
  • Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-03)
    In this article the phrases "getting in" and "staying in" relate to the technical term "covenantal nomism". The article's aim is to argue that this concept is radically redefined in the so-called "great commission" in ...
  • Houck, Anita (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-09-30)
    Although Christian spirituality includes a long tradition of suspicion of humour, humour can express and further holiness in several ways. Humour serves holiness in religious satire; it can also communicate the ...
  • Soughers, Tara K. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-09-30)
    Teresa of Avila, writing in the 16th century when ideas of holiness often excluded women and lay people, developed a radically inclusive understanding of holiness as friendship with Christ. Her idea also allowed for ...
  • Kim, Victor S.; Nel, Malan; Van Eck, Ernest (AOSIS, 2022-08-30)
    This article proposes a homiletical model as an alternative to traditional homiletical approaches in response to the recent membership decline in evangelical churches in Korea. While socio-economic and sociocultural aspects ...
  • Francis, Leslie John; Jones, Susan H.; McKenna, Ursula (AOSIS, 2020-12)
    One of the key intentions of fresh expressions of church is to reach the kind of people inherited church find it hard to reach. Psychological type profiling of church congregations has demonstrated that Anglican churches ...
  • Wheeler, Rachel (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-21)
    The purpose of this article is to uncover the meaning of holy feigning in the late-antique Christian text the Apophthegmata Patrum, or Sayings of the Desert Fathers [and Mothers]. Whereas stories in this text depict ...
  • Brawley, Robert L. (Robert Lawson) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06)
    This article has located Jesus’ saying about homelessness in the context of the Roman Empire as it was experienced in Galilee. Homelessness is part of a broader picture that translates into loss of access to the resources ...
  • Van Eck, Ernest; Barnard, Ralph (LitNet, 2013-12)
    Die debat oor homoseksualiteit val in baie kringe nog vas by die bespreking van sewe tekste uit die Bybel. Hierdie artikel bring die sewe tekste weer eens onder die soeklig. Die eerste vertrekpunt is dat die artikel poog ...
  • Van Eck, Ernest (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-06-11)
    This article presents a social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the Unmerciful Servant. The parables of Jesus are realistic stories about everyday events in 1st-century Palestine that evoke specific ...
  • Hays, Christopher M. (Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2019)
    The publication of Matthew Suriano’s A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible was bound to be a significant event for scholars who study the Bible and death in antiquity. Suriano brings expertise in biblical studies and ...
  • Osiek, Carolyn (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    We know very little about the everyday life of Christ believers in the first years. What can be extrapolated from other ancient sources must be combined with the minimal evidence from Christian sources. The two major ...
  • Zimmermann, Ruben, 1968- (Faculty of Theology of the University of the Orange Free State, 2009-06)
    For many years, the exegesis of the parables of Jesus was determined by assumptions that were largely purported by Adolf Jülicher and subsequently underwent only insignificant modification. The Kompendium der Gleichnisse ...
  • Human, Dirk J.; Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.); Veldsman, D.P. (Daniel Petrus), 1959- (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017)
    The chapter forms part of the centennial celebration of the FT at the UP. The focus is on the two scholarly journals attached to the FT in Pretoria, namely HTS and VE. The first and longer section of the chapter is on HTS, ...
  • Thomaskutty, Johnson (AOSIS, 2021-07-30)
    This article is an attempt to explore the theme of ‘humanhood’ in the Fourth Gospel. The most important questions to be posed at the outset are the following: who is the model human presented in the gospel as per the ...
  • Van Eck, Ernest (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-03)
    Marriage in the first-century Mediterranean world (I) : females in a male world This article is the first of a three-part series that aims to stimulate the hermeneutical debate in the church about marriage. Attention is ...
  • Van Eck, Ernest (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-03)
    This article is the second in a three-part series that aims to stimulate the hermeneutical debate in the church about marriage as Biblical institution. The first-century Mediterranean world had a very specific understanding ...
  • Van Eck, Ernest (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    This article is the third in a three-part series that aims to stimulate the hermeneutical debate in the church regarding marriage as Biblical institution. In the first article attention was given to the relevant cultural ...