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  • DNA in antiquity : revisiting Jesus’s birth 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2016)
    In order to be born fully human (Latin: vere homo) X and Y chromosomes are needed. Without the involvement of chromosomes, Jesus of Nazareth would have had no ties to humanity. Aristotelian (“On the generation of animals” ...
  • Dancehall music and urban identities in Zimbabwe – a constructive postmodern perspective 
    Dube, Zorodzai (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-18)
    Dancehall music may be seen as a commentary over the socio-political events that are unfolding in Zimbabwe since 2008, a period characterised by political and economic uncertainty. The study focuses on how this genre of ...
  • Servant leadership : the path to success 
    Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon (Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, 2016)
    Leadership has been explored extensively by many scholars worldwide, especially in publications by scholars such as Robert Greanleaf, Gene Wilkes and many others. Most of these books on leadership are written from a ...
  • The memorable invention of the death of Jesus 
    Dewey, Arthur J. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-07-08)
    The death story of Jesus of Nazareth has traditionally been understood as a matter of historical fact. The various versions of the story would seem to confirm a documented death scene. Nevertheless, critical appraisals ...
  • The invitation to the eschatological banquet and the call to follow Christ - a note on Mt.22:14' 
    Smit, Peter-Ben A. (Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2013-01)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • African biblical hermeneutics on the threshold? Appraisal and wayforward 
    Speckman, McGlory (University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2016)
    What appears to be African Biblical Hermeneutics often refers to the geographical location of the authors rather than the content. There always appears to be something new on the horizon, but the colonial umbilical cord ...
  • A question of discipleship - remarks on Matthew 8 :18-23 
    Smit, Peter-Ben A. (Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2016)
    This paper analyses Matthew 8:18-23 using a narratological approach. Focusing on a number of narrative 'gaps' in the narrative and the resulting creation of narrative suspense, the paper considers the effect of this suspense ...
  • Negotiating a new world view in Acts 1.8? A note on the expression ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς 
    Smit, Peter-Ben A. (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 ...
  • The command to love the neighbour in Paul and the Synoptics 
    Hiestermann, Heinz A.; Steyn, Gert Jacobus (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-09-30)
    When sayings of Jesus are compared between the Pauline letters and the Synoptic Gospels in an attempt to locate parallels, Galatians 5:14 and Romans 13:8–10 have frequently been put forward as possible parallels to the ...
  • Workplace spirituality : a tool or a trend? 
    Schutte, P.J.W. (Philippus Jacobus Wilhelmus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-19)
    Workplace spirituality is a construct widely discussed over the past few decades and it is a much-disputed inquiry field which is gaining the interest of practitioners and scholars. Some clarifications regarding concepts ...
  • Poverty in the first-century Galilee 
    Hakkinen, Sakari (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-09-22)
    In the Ancient world poverty was a visible and common phenomenon. According to estimations 9 out of 10 persons lived close to the subsistence level or below it. There was no middle class. The state did not show much ...
  • Shades of irony in the anti-language of Amos 
    Domeris, William (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-26)
    The rhetoric of Amos includes a wonderful mixture of humour and threat, sarcasm and irony, hyperbole and prediction. Holding the fabric of this conversation together is Amos’s place within the prophetic minority – the ...
  • Jewish fish (ΙΧΘΥΣ) in post-supersessionist water : Messianic Judaism within a post-supersessionistic paradigm 
    Willits, Joel (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-19)
    This article defines, explains and argues for the necessity of a post-supersessionistic hermeneutical posture towards the New Testament. The post-supersessionistic reading of the New Testament takes the Jewish nature of ...
  • Believing in God the Father : interpreting a phrase from the Apostle's Creed 
    Sarot, Marcel (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-19)
    In our days, the creedal phrase ‘I believe in God the Father almighty’ is interpreted primarily along Trinitarian lines: It is applied to God as the Father of Jesus Christ. Here I argue that it has a dual background: in ...
  • The wisdom of Ben Sira in MENA cultural context : a cultural topical index 
    Pilch, John J. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-19)
    The biblical Books of Proverbs and Ben Sira (Sirach; Ecclesiasticus) yield no narrative continuity or logical outline. They are simply collections. The best way to interpret these books is with the aid of a topical index. ...
  • Holiness and humour 
    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 ...
  • The betrayal of Edom : remarks on a claimed tradition 
    Becking, Bob (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-09-30)
    Biblical and post-Biblical texts refer to the tradition of the betrayal of Edom. During the conquest the brother-nation of Edom would have betrayed Judah by choosing sides with the Babylonians. Historical and archaeological ...
  • Why (suffering) women matter for the heart of transformative missional theology perspectives on empowered women and mission in the New Testament and early Christianity 
    Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-09-30)
    In this article, it is argued that from the beginning of the Christ-following movement, the gospel message represented a challenge to a male-dominated social system. Early Christian literature shows that women, whose ...
  • Holiness as friendship with Christ : Teresa of Avila 
    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 ...
  • De opstanding van Lazarus (Johannes 10:40–12:11) : Bijbelse echo’s in Lazarus is dead (2011) van Richard Beard 
    Weren, Wim J.C. (Wilhelmus Johannes Cornelis) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-26)
    This article discusses the relationship between the modern novel of Beard and John’s stories about Lazarus and Jesus, and wants to give answers to three questions: (1) how is the Lazarus story in John interpreted by ...