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Browsing New Testament Studies by Type "Postprint Article"
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(Baptist Union of Southern Africa, 2015)In an article entitled “Race and Racism” Andrews (2014:402) quoting Shivers (2008), argues that to build on the cornerstones of repentance and reconciliation requires us to deal with racism’s legacy. While the South African ...
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(Amsterdam University Press, 2022-10)No abstract available.
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(Sage, 2024-12)Did Paul intend for Philemon to manumit Onesimus? This article aims to present evidence in support of a manumissive view of Paul’s communicative intent to Philemon. Through a cognitive functional approach to discourse ...
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(Sage, 2016)In this paper the famous “hymn” in Philippians 2:5–11 is considered from the perspective of the study of ritual failure. It is argued that the crucifixion of Jesus, as it is mentioned in this text, can well be considered ...
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(Amsterdam University Press, 2024-04)
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(Routledge, 2015-10)‘Adoptionism’ is an early Christian ‘heresy’ often associated with early strands of Jewish Christian tradition. It figures as such in handbooks of church history and New Testament studies alike. This essay investigates ...
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(Sage, 2021-09)This article will present and heuristically utilize the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) to analyze fear appeals in the Apocalypse of John. John sought to increase the fear of God in his hearers as a means to cope ...
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(Wiley, 2014-07)This article seeks to enhance this imagination and further it by presenting a recent venture in global ecumenism that crosses cultural/contextual, confessional, and disciplinary boundaries as an inspiring paradigm for ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)What led to the issues that Paul addresses in 1 Corinthians 8? This paper argues that the missionary expansion of the early community led to a renegotiation of its ritual boundaries, in particular concerning question of ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-07)The following study takes its cue from a body of literature that seeks to challenge the academic discourse on “religion” as transcendent, irreducible, and unique – sui generis. Naturally, a sui generis conception of religion ...
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(Sage, 2018-03)New Testament scholars continue to debate the number of missing ‘particles’ in disputed Pauline letters in order to advocate or challenge their pseudonymity. Surprisingly, however, participants in the debate do not usually ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2017)This article argues that the expression ‘to the end of the earth’ in Acts 1.8, while not referring to one specific geographical location, as has often been argued in contemporary scholarship on Acts, is best understood as ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2016-04)It is generally agreed among contemporary scholars that the modern critique of the authorship claim of the New Testament letters addressed to Timothy and Titus originated in early nineteenth-century Germany with the studies ...
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(Springer, 2015-01)The article reflects on the scientific progress that psychological biblical criticism has offered to biblical hermeneutics. The inquiry concerns the explanation of textual traditions and transmission of traditions; genre ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-12)The Galatian community is disrupted with different notions of the gospel than Paul intended. Paul, surprised that this community is confused so easily, sets out in Gal 3 to explain what justification by faith entails. Paul ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2014-03)This paper considers the role of foodstuffs and their (non-)consumption in 4 Ezra. While foodstuffs figure prominently in this work, no systematic research has been done into it. The paper argues that both the narrative ...
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(Sage, 2017)This article suggests that the metaphor of Paul as seed-picker who gathers dirt from the market in Athens (Acts 17:18) is part of the broad slave metaphor found in Greco-Roman literature and in the New Testament. The stigma ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2020-07)During the first and second centuries of the Common Era the Christ cult spread from rural Palestine to the large cities of the Empire. This article draws insights from social network theory and from epidemiology, arguing ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)This article discusses the Son of Man as Minister and Life giver in Mk 10.45. The Son of Man as Minister is the servant who did not come on earth to be ministered to but to minister to others. The Son of Man as the Life ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2018-10)Mark 10:42–45 is a key text for discussions of ‘diakonia’ and the related ministry of ‘deacons’ in the church. This paper uses a gender-critical approach to analyse the text, in the course of which a new exegetical proposal ...
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