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Browsing by UP Author "Cromhout, Markus"
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Cromhout, Markus
(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-09)
This article investigates how Judeans responded to Hellenism in order to maintain the integrity of their ethnic identity. Judeanism and Hellenism are regarded as alternative "symbolic universes". It is shown that Judeans ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(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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Cromhout, Markus
(Department of Old and New Testament, University of Stellenbosch, 2007)
It is explored how Sanders' notion of covenantal nomism can be adapted to explain the Judean "symbolic universe". This article throughout approaches Judeanism as an ethnic identity. At first covenantal nomism is adapted ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
The study of the so-called “intermediate state” of the dead is conducted under the technical designation necrology. The evidence suggests that Paul’s necrology did not remain constant and its development was influenced by ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
This article is a review of the book entitled Identity Formation in the New Testament (edited by Bengt Holmberg and Mikael Winninge, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2008). It is a collection of various articles using intertextuality, ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(Faculty of Theology of the University of the Orange Free State, 2007-06)
This article aims to indicate the importance of the concept "land" with regard to the nature of Judean ethnic identity. It shows from evidence in the Bible and contemporary literature how Yahweh, the people, and the land ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2006)
The article focuses on J D Crossan's reconstruction of the historical Jesus and the content he assigns to Jesus' "Jewishness". Guided by Crossan's own work and the insights of ethnicity theory, the continuities and ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
This investigation deals with a very important topic, namely, the question of the divinity of the messiah.
The authors argue that the divinity of Jesus was not some later development and something unique to
Christianity, ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
Various arguments are made about Paul's 'Jewishness/ Judeanness' as a follower of Jesus Messiah, for example, that Paul essentially remained to be 'Jewish/Judean' and that he still fully operated in the world of 'Judaism'. ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-03)
This article indicates how the two cultural features of religion and covenantal
praxis helped foster or shape Judean ethnic identity in the first century CE. It focuses on
socialization into the three social domains ...
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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, ...
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Cromhout, Markus; Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.)
(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-03)
This article focuses on the matter of Judean ("Jewish") ethnic identity during the first century CE. New Testament scholarship lacks an overall interpretive framework by which Judean identity can be understood. Appreciation ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06)
The dream of a ‘rainbow nation’ in South Africa appears to be on the wane as ethnic tension and
conflict seem to simmer just beneath the surface. This article investigates Paul’s approach to
the issue of ethnic identity ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)
This article is focussed on Q's treatment of the Law and what it can tell us about the Q community's Judean ethnic identity. It is argued that part of the reason for the incorporation of the main redaction in Q (here ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-09)
This article focuses on an investigation into the ethnic identity of first-century Galileans. Its aim is to argue that the Galileans were not descendents of northern Israelites but were mostly descendents of "Jews" who ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
Reconstructions of the historical Jesus are analyzed in terms of a proposed socio-cultural model of Judean ethnicity. At first an overview is given of the work of Meier and Crossan to establish the content they assigned ...
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Cromhout, Markus
(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
Reconstructions of the historical Jesus are analyzed in terms of a
proposed socio-cultural model of Judean ethnicity. At first an
overview is given of the work of Meier and Crossan to establish the
content they assigned ...