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  • Do not question my honour : a social-scientific reading of the parable of the minas (Lk 19:12b-24, 27) 
    Van Eck, Ernest (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-10-03)
    This article attempted to read the parable of the minas in a 30 CE context, employing a social scientific reading. The integrity of the parable was delimited to Luke 19:12b–24 and 27. It was argued that this version of ...
  • Regeneration and resurrection in Matthew - peasants in campo hearing time signals from scribes 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-10-03)
    The article aimed to describe the distinctive element in the use of the motif of the resurrection in the Gospel of Matthew in comparison with Mark, Luke and the Sayings Gospel Q. It argued that the distinctive element ...
  • Salt for the earthen oven revisited 
    Pilch, John J. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    The symbolic interpretation of the salt sayings in the New Testament (Mt 5:13; Mk 9:42–50; Lk 12:49–53; 14:34–35) is best based on the long-standing cultural practice of using salt as a catalytic agent to burn dung, the ...
  • John’s Apocalypse : dynamic word-images for a new world 
    Rosell, Sergio (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    The aim of the article is to investigate the function of the symbols and images in the Apocalypse of John. Its aim is to focus on the ‘mental scenarios’ readers are bringing to the text, rather than on John’s supposed ...
  • Post-modern spirituality : experience, rather than explain 
    Schutte, P.J.W. (Philippus Jacobus Wilhelmus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    Cassirer, Jung and Bultmann share at least one principle, namely their appreciation of the role played by myth in experiencing the language of faith. All three of the theorists advocate the reading of mythological texts ...
  • The pacifist Jesus and the violent Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew 
    Sim, David C. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    The Gospel of Matthew presents two starkly different depictions of Jesus. The earthly Jesus of the past is a pacifist who teaches non-violence, compassion, non-retaliation, forgiveness and love of enemies, and he lives ...
  • The socio-rhetorical force of ‘truth talk’ and lies : the case of 1 John 
    Neufeld, Dietmar (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    This article canvassed Greek and Roman sources for discussions concerning truth talk and lies. It has investigated what social historians and/or anthropologists are saying about truth talking and lying and has developed ...
  • How much do we really know about the lives of early Christ followers? 
    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 ...
  • Resurrection in Paul as both affirmation and challenge to the Israelite cycle of meaning 
    Cromhout, Markus (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2011)
    Pieter Craffert correctly insists that scholars must move away from ontological monism, and, inter alia, should interpret the resurrection of Jesus within the Israelite cycle of meaning. In view of 2 Cor 5:16, however, ...
  • Mission and ethics in Galatians 
    Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    In this article, it is investigated how the concepts identity, ethics and ethos interrelate, and how the ethics of the Pauline communities in Galatians functioned against the background of the missionary context of the ...
  • Disaffiliation in associations and the ἀποσυναγωγός of John 
    Kloppenborg, John S., 1951- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    This article tries to understand what might have been at stake for the synagogue from which the Johannine Jesus partisans had been expelled and what was at stake in the coinage of the term ἀποσυναγωγός. It we refuse to ...
  • Seeing the world through the eyes of Andries van Aarde : radical inclusivity 
    Jackson, Glenna S. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    In the article the author reflected on her personal and existential experience of a journey to Egypt, and how this highlights radical inclusivity. The article focused on the issues of the violence of poverty, the history ...
  • Do not worry in Kinywang’anga : reading Matthew 6:25–34 in a Tanzanian village 
    Hakkinen, Sakari (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    One of the presumptions of this article is that most of the people in the nascent ’Christian’ communities were ordinary people struggling with questions of living under harsh conditions in a country that was occupied by ...
  • Does John 17:11b, 21−23 refer to church unity? 
    Malan, Gert Jacobus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    In ecumenical circles, John 17:11b, 21–23 has been understood as Jesus’ prayer for church unity, be it confessional or structural. This article questioned such readings and conclusions from historical, literary and ...
  • Jesus and the law revisited 
    Loader, William R.G. (Bill), 1944- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    This article revisited the issue of Jesus’ attitude towards the Torah on the basis of a critical discussion of the most recent extensive treatment of the theme by Meier in his A marginal Jew: Rethinking the historical ...
  • Translating Romans : some persistent headaches 
    Du Toit, Andrie B. (Andreas B.) (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2010)
    This article concentrates on some of the linguistic phenomena in Romans which continuously cause exegetes and translators alike headaches. Various translations are discussed and possible solutions are offered. It all ...
  • ‘On Earth as it is in Heaven …’ The heavenly sanctuary motif in Hebrews 8:5 and its textual connection with the ‘shadowy copy’ of LXX Exodus 25:40 
    Steyn, Gert Jacobus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    This study investigates the explicit quotation from Exodus 25:40 in Hebrews 8:5 where the motif of the earthly sanctuary, understood to be modelled on that of the heavenly sanctuary in some circles of early Judaism and ...
  • When neighbours are not neighbours : a social-scientific reading of the parable of the friend at midnight (Lk 11:5–8) 
    Van Eck, Ernest (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06)
    This article presents a social-scientific interpretation of the parable of the friend at midnight. As starting point, attention is given to the history of the interpretation of the parable, as well as to its integrity ...
  • The Pope’s Jesus book and the Christologies of the gospels 
    Weren, Wim J.C. (Wilhelmus Johannes Cornelis) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06)
    This article maps out recent developments in the exegetical investigation of Jesus. It starts with a discussion of the Jesus book by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, in which ‘canonical exegesis’ is used to argue that ...
  • Editorial to the Van Aarde Festschrift 
    Van Eck, Ernest; Dreyer, Yolanda (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011)
    This Festschrift in celebration of Andries van Aarde’s sixtieth birthday, honours his contribution to New Testament Studies and related disciplines. The editorial board of HTS wishes him the very best and especially ...