Browsing HTS Volume 58, Number 2 (2002) by Title

Browsing HTS Volume 58, Number 2 (2002) by Title

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  • Paul’s ecstatic trance experience near Damascus in Acts of the Apostles 
    Pilch, John J. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    Luke reports more than twenty altered states of consciousness experiences in Acts of the Apostles. These are common and normal human experiences in approximately ninety percent of contemporary cultures. In the ancient ...
  • Reflections on Jesus’ parables as metaphorical stories past and present 
    Reinstorf, Dieter Heinrich; Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    During the past decades scholars have endeavoured to read Jesus’ parables as metaphorical stories. This article provides a theoretical overview of the ongoing debate, reflecting both on past claims and present criticism. ...
  • Semiotic behavior in Luke and John 
    Rohrbaugh, Richard L., 1936- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    As socio-linguists have demonstrated, communication is a behavior that follows socially generated and commonly understood rules for how messages are to be produced and received. Moreover, this semiotic process constitutes ...
  • A social scientific study of the significance of the jubilee in the New Testament 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.); Volschenk, G.J. (Gert Jacobus) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    This social scientific study of the Biblical jubilee focuses primarily on the jubilee as a metaphor within the framework of engaged hermeneutics. The jubilee was a symbol of transformation and emancipation. The article ...
  • Spaced out : “Territoriality” in the Fourth Gospel 
    Neyrey, Jerome H., 1940- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    The Fourth Gospel is inordinately involved with places and spaces, valuing some, but dis-valuing others. The task of interpreting all such references is greatly aided by the use of the anthropological model of “territoriality” ...
  • Sumptuous clothing and ornamentation in the Apocalypse 
    Neufeld, Dietmar (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    Using different categories of social psychology on body decoration and dress, this article examines the author’s course of shifting political, moral, religious and eschatological values as reflected in the clothing and ...
  • To know what is before one’s face : group-specific metaphors and the composition of the Gospel of Thomas 
    Liebenberg, J. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    This article uses the insights of second-generation cognitive linguistics to interpret some of the metaphoric sayings in the Gospel of Thomas. It is an attempt to show how the identification and use of conventional metaphors ...
  • 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 ...
  • When the dead are alive! The influence of the living dead in the letter of Jude 
    Joubert, Stephan Jacobus, 1958- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    This essay investigates the impact of the deceased on the audience to which the letter of Jude was originally addressed. A construct of the influence of the “living dead” in ancient Babylon, Israel, the Graeco-Roman world ...
  • Who persecuted the Thessalonian Christians? 
    Taylor, N.H. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    This article argues that the recent scholarly consensus of an essentially gentile Thessalonian church being persecuted by its gentile neighbours is founded on unsound premises. The Jewish community in Thessalonica would ...