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  • 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 ...
  • Jesus and the tyche of Jerusalem : a reflection on the mission of Jesus in Luke 19:41-44 with special reference to the mission of Kairos in Greek mythology 
    Speckman, McGlory (Unisa Press, 2014-11)
    The paper argues that Luke 19:41-44 has, since the publication of the Kairos Document in South Africa in 1985, been understood in eschatological terms by biblical scholars and missiologists. However, when read as an ...
  • Jesus as brugbouer : Jesus en die buitestanders in Johannes 4:1-42 
    Marais, Bennie; Van Eck, Ernest; Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2018)
    This article deals with Jesus and the outsiders in John 4, with particular focus on John 4:1-42. Methodologically, the study focuses on social identity theory, and asks the question of how Jesus gets the Samaritan woman, ...
  • Jesus Christ as ancestor : an African Christian understanding 
    Beyers, Jaco; Mphahlele, Dora N. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2009)
    Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Son of Man, Son of David, Lord (Kyrios), Rabbi and Messiah. These are some of the names used by Christians today and even by the people from the era of Jesus Christ to address Him or to ...
  • Jesus deur die oë van 'n marxis : in gesprek met Milan Macovec 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.); Denton, Rudy A. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)
    Milan Machovec makes a contribution to our knowledge of Jesus by looking at the evidence about him through a Marxist lens. In his book 'A Marxist looks at Jesus', he attemps to understand, from a positive, yet still ...
  • Jesus en geweld : Markus 12:1-12 (en par) en Thomas 65 
    Van Eck, Ernest (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-11)
    Jesus and violence: Mark 12:1-12 (and par) and Thomas 65. As an advanced agrarian (aristocratic) society, first-century Palestine's social fabric was built on systemic tensions and conflicts between the elite (rulers) and ...
  • Jesus en sy dissipels se reaksie op geweld in die Johannesevangelie 
    Van der Watt, J.G. (Jan Gabriel), 1952-; Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-11)
    The reaction of Jesus and his disciples to violence in the Gospel of John. This article is the second of two articles in which violence in the Gospel of John is discussed. It is argued that Jesus' disciples used techniques ...
  • Jesus en vroue 
    Dreyer, Yolanda (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1999)
    The patriarchal view of reality in first-century Mediterranean culture was based on a disparity between man and woman. It was a hierarchical system in which man was considered to be above woman, as God is above human ...
  • Jesus in the dumping sites : doing theology in the overlaps of human and material waste 
    De Beer, Stephan F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)
    Jesus’ option for the poor should be reclaimed in a clear theological and ecclesial option for the dumping sites of our cities and towns. That is the basic proposal of this article. Reflecting upon three different dumping ...
  • The Jesus of Paul : a contribution from the social sciences 
    Guijarro, Santiago (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    The letters of Paul speak more frequently of the resurrected and exalted Jesus than they do of the earthly Jesus. Nonetheless, this does not mean that the apostle and his addressees did not know the teachings and main ...
  • Jesus the village psychiatrist : a summary 
    Capps, D.E. (Donald Eric) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-08)
    This paper was a response to a panel discussion on the author’s book, Jesus the village psychiatrist, published by Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KY, 2008 which formed part of the Society of Biblical Literature’s ...
  • Jesus the ‘teacher-saviour’ or ‘saviour-teacher’ : reading the Gospel of Matthew in Chinese contexts 
    Yieh, John Y.H. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    While every interpretation is culturally particular and context-specific, the critical assessment of the hermeneutical principles and social consequences of real examples from different cultures may facilitate fresh readings ...
  • Jesus – the immigrant Egyptian Jews in Matthew’s Sondergut : a migration perspective 
    Dube, Zorodzai (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-08-15)
    Using pull and push factors inspired by the migration theory, this study explains Matthew’s Sondergut concerning Jesus’ flight to Egypt from the perspective of possible pull–push factors associated with Egypt and Palestine ...
  • Jesus' death and resurrection in early Christian art 
    Stander, Hennie (Hendrik Frederik), 1953- (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2007)
    It is often stated in theology books that there is not one explicit depiction of Jesus' crucifixion or of the empty tomb in the pre-Constantine period of time. Some scholars want then to conclude that the death and ...
  • Jesus' father: The quest for the historical Joseph 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1998)
    This article aims at demonstrating the historical probability that Joseph, the father of Jesus, should be regarded as a legendary figure. It seems that the Joseph figure is modelled after the patriarch in the First ...
  • Jesus' mission to all of Israel emplotted in Matthew's story 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2007)
    The aim of this article is to argue that, although the "crowd" and the "gentiles" do not fulfill the same character roles in the plot of the Gospel of Matthew as narrative, both groups function together as the object of ...
  • Jesus, Josephus, and the fall of Jerusalem : on doing history with Scripture 
    Den Hollander, William (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-08-14)
    The destruction of the temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in AD 70 was an unquestionably traumatic event in the history of the Jewish people. By all accounts it was a social, political, and theological disaster. As such, ...
  • Jesus, psychological type and conflict : a study in biblical hermeneutics applying the reader perspective and SIFT approach to Mark 11:11–21 
    Francis, Leslie John; Ap Sion, Tania (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-17)
    The Marcan account of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, cursing the fig tree and overturning the tables of the money changers in the temple provides a classic scriptural reference point for a Christian discussion ...
  • Jesus’ death and resurrection as cultural trauma 
    Dube, Zorodzai (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2013)
    In her recent book, The Case for Mark Composed in Performance (2012), Antoinette Wire proposes that Mark's gospel was composed of accounts from people who retold Jesus' story over the decades, and not from scattered fragments ...
  • Jettisoning ballast or fuel? Caudal autotomy and locomotory energetics of the Cape dwarf gecko Lygodactylus capensis (Gekkonidae) 
    Fleming, Patricia A.; Verburgt, Luke; Scantlebury, Michael; Medger, Katarina; Bateman, Philip W. (University of Chicago Press, 2009-09)
    Many lizard species will shed their tail as a defensive response (e.g., to escape a putative predator or aggressive conspecific). This caudal autotomy incurs a number of costs as a result of loss of the tail itself, ...