Browsing by Subject "Jews -- Identity"

Browsing by Subject "Jews -- Identity"

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  • Covenantal nomism as a 'symbolic universe' 
    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 ...
  • In pursuit of the millennium : Judeans and their land 
    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 ...
  • Paulus Oecumenicus : interculturality in the shaping of Paul's theology 
    Du Toit, Andrie B. (Andreas B.) (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
    The growing recognition that Judaism and Hellenism were not mutually exclusive suggests that Paul should be studied from a point beyond the Judaism/Hellenism divide. After attending to the apostle's own multiculturality, ...
  • Paul’s 'former conduct in the Judean way of life' (Gal 1:13) … or not? 
    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'. ...
  • Religion and covenantal praxis in first century Judeanism 
    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 ...
  • The rhetorics of finding a new identity in a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society : the case of the book of Chronicles 
    Jonker, Louis C. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
    Scholars generally agree that the Books of Chronicles are the products of certain Israelite (Levitical) groups in the Persian province of Jehud who struggled with the dissonance between their older historical and theological ...
  • A study of space in Daniel 1 
    Venter, P.M. (Pieter Michiel), 1947- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2006)
    In Daniel 1 the Babylonian court presented a challenge to Daniel and his compatriots to continue serving the Lord as they did in Jerusalem. In the liminal phase of preparation for service in the court they created a strategy ...
  • A triadic construct in Jubilees 30 
    Venter, P.M. (Pieter Michiel), 1947- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-07)
    Publications on Old Testament ethics often use triadic constructs to explain the moral impact of Biblical passages. In Genesis 11:27–50:26, Ezra 9:6–15, Nehemiah 7:72b–10:40, Damascus Document (CD) V:1, 2–6 and Jubilees ...
  • We and they in Romans 
    Malina, Bruce John (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    According to cultural anthropologists ingroup/outgroup divisions are fundamental to Mediterranean views of the world. This essay considers Paul’s in-group/outgroup, or “we/they” perceptions. The ethnocentrism revealed ...
  • What kind of “Judean” was Jesus? 
    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 ...