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New Testament Studies: Recent submissions
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-02-20)This article is the first of three on the relationship between the Sayings Gospel Q and the ancient concept of ‘psychostasia,’ which is the ancient notion that a divine or supernatural figure weighed people’s souls when ...
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(Faculty of Theology of the University of the Orange Free State, 2013)It is the intention of this contribution to investigate the text form of the LXX Torah quotations that overlap between the works of Philo of Alexandria and the Acts of the Apostles. It forms part of a larger project which ...
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(Faculty of Theology of the University of the Orange Free State, 2013)The article assesses the author’s contributions to Matthean studies over the past thirty years. It focuses on the hermeneutical principle of congeniality by means of distinguishing three horizons in Matthew’s narrative ...
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When kingdoms are kingdoms no more : a social-scientific reading of the Mustard Seed (Lk 13:18-19) (Faculty of Theology of the University of the Orange Free State, 2013)This article presents a social-scientific reading of the parable of the Mustard Seed. It is argued that the parable is not a parable of growth or contrast, and does not allude to the Old Testament. In taking the specifics ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Please read the abstract in the thesis.
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-09-12)This article provides a social-scientific interpretation of the role of fasting in Jesus’ parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18:9–14. Specifically, the article considers such social realia as honour ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-10-04)It is the intention of this study to explore the trajectory of the transmission and reception of three elements from Amos 5:25–27 through the stages of its history in ancient religious literature. Four stages in its ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-07-23)This article investigates the legitimacy of a middle position between Reformed orthodoxy and critical theology. Is such a middle position the solution to the current conflict in the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa? ...
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(Baptist Union of Southern Africa, 2012)It is a general statistic' that 50% of children raised up in Christian s homes will not embrace the Christian faith as their own by the time they graduate from high school. This article espouses the recognition of ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-05-13)Many scholars have regarded the parable of the shrewd manager (Lk 16:1–8) as the most puzzling of all parables as Jesus seems to use the unrighteous actions of a dishonest (worldly) manager as a model for emulation by ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-07-30)Drawing on Jungian psychological type theory, the SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching suggests that the reading and proclaiming of scripture reflects the psychological type preferences of the ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-09-05)The article is a academic, reworked version of a public speech in which the author explains his position expressed in his book Fatherless in Galilee: Jesus as Child of God, published in 2001 and which has created ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-06-19)In this contribution the relationship between mission, identity and ethics in Mark was investigated by means of a postcolonial and social-scientific reading, with a focus on patronage as a practice that constituted the ...
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(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 ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-06-26)In this article, James 5:13–20 is investigated. This section deals with the confession of sins in the community of faith and the subsequent healing that will result. James will be compared to Philodemus, a philosopher ...
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(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2013)Paul's reflection on 'speaking in tongues' has been widely discussed and debated both in the public and academic domain. Adequate attention has not been given to the explicit citation presented in 1 Corinthians 14:21 (Isa. ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-05-29)This article investigates the possibility that Ruth 3:7, where Ruth went to lie at Boaz’ ‘feet’, can be read in an intertextual way in the context of Exodus 4:25. In Exodus 4:24–26, whilst at a camping place on their way ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-09-23)No abstract
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-05-09)This article presents a social-scientific and realistic interpretation of the parable of the Feast. The characteristics of a pre-industrial city are used to determine the realism of the parable. The social-scientific ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-12-13)Afrikaans: Die doel van hierdie studie is om deur die gebruikmaking van die insigte van Q¬navorsing die tradisioneel aanvaarde uitgangspunt dat Jesus se etiese uitsprake in terme van 'n apokalipties-eskatologiese raamwerk ...
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