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

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

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  • 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 ...