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New Testament Studies: Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-02-28)This study was motivated by a crisis in Biblical hermeneutics within postmodernity. Within postmodernity the Bible is no longer read for various reasons and therefore it has become inaccessible for many people although ...
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(Insitute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2012)This investigation presents a brief survey of the interjection between the occurrences of fire imagery and its connections with prophecy as Theophany in the Greek Old Testament and with reference to the Revelation of John. ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-07-19)By drawing parallels with the function of ancestors in African traditional religions, this article looks at the possibility that the Israelite ancestors mentioned in Hebrews played a far more dynamic role for the author ...
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(Baptist Union of Southern Africa, 2012)This article explores the African traditional value of Ubuntu as embedded in the Bembe concept of lubunga. In our attempt to develop a practical contextual leadership model, we have deliberately avoided to make use of the ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-05-02)How should the academy teach the Bible? I noted two challenges to this endeavour. Firstly, the Bible has been used as superstructure to justify and to solidify colonialism and apartheid in South Africa which resulted in ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-03-04)The practice of ministry is an intricate issue which involves the combination of individual efforts from diverse backgrounds. This diversity has been a breeding ground for conflict between the clergy and all the stakeholders ...
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‘To refer, not to characterise’: a synchronic look at the son-of-man logia in the sayings Gospel Q (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-03-12)The article intends to address the Son-of-Man problem by applying Delbert Burkett’s ‘question of reference’ to those Son-of-Man logia that appear in the Sayings Gospel Q. A position is taken that recent philological ...
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(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2012)John's healing narratives are all presented as semeia or spiritual signs in the Gospel. It therefore always has two levels of meaning: the one level narrates a biological and socio-cultural healing act, and at the same ...
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(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2012)The article starts by describing the present state of research on Alexander of Lycopolis (Egypt), who formerly was considered to be a Christian bishop converted from Manichaeism to orthodox Christianity, but now is ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-08-15)In modern Western culture, gossip is seen as a malicious activity that should be avoided. In ancient oral-cultures, gossip as a cultural form did not have this negative connotation. Gossip was a necessary social game ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-02-08)Recent technological advancements in Bioethics have been rapid and incremental, leaving little time for Christian ethicists to reflect or develop a coherent methodological approach. To assess the situation in the Reformed ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-08-17)Drawing on Jungian psychological type theory, the SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching maintains that different psychological type preferences are associated with distinctive readings of scripture. ...
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(Unisa Press, 2011)The writer argues that Luke uses Malachi’s motif of eschatological figures as is clear from the literary and thematic structure of the Gospel of Luke. The Lord’s messenger and (the messenger of the covenant) are identified ...
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(Unisa Press, 2011)The study explores the textual history of the book of Revelation with special regard to the angels of the congregation in chapters 2–3. These angels has been interpreted in the reception history as either earthly or ...
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(Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)All Afrikaans translations of John 3:8 translates πνευμα as “wind”. A progression of the meaning of the word πνευμα is evident considering the background of πνευμα in Greek and Jewish thought. This progression is helpful ...
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(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2011)Hebrews’ references and allusions to angels are investigated in the light of early Jewish apocalyptic imagery and against the backdrop of similarities with a number of aspects that possibly underlie the Qumran community. ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-06-29)In the Pauline communities, ethics, ethos and identity were closely intertwined. This essay analyses the way in which Paul emphasised the mental boundaries of the Christ communities to turn them into moral boundaries. ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-06-29)Elements of the mission discourse of the Synoptic Gospels are found in Mark 6:6b−13; Matthew 9:35−10:15; Luke 9:1−6 and Luke 10:1−20. Similarities and differences in these accounts have led many New Testament scholars ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-06-29)In Romans 15:22−33 (the concluding section of Paul’s last written letter) ‘the apostle for the gentiles’ motivates his financial contribution (diakonia) to the poor (ptōchous) in Jerusalem in terms of his mission to the ...
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