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  • Jesus - prophetic emissary of God 
    Dannhauser, Estelle Henrietta; Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-06)
    The present study examines three models of research, all reaching the same conclusion, namely that Jesus was a prophet. The aim is to determine what their point of origin in research was, to determine on what basis they ...
  • Jesus : divine relationality and suffering creation 
    Rabie-Boshoff, Annelien; Buitendag, Johan (AOSIS, 2020-10)
    The basic challenge that readers of the New Testament face is not only about what Jesus Christ teaches but who he is. Functional Christology has developed at the expense of ontological Christology. This challenge centres ...
  • Jesus : the infected healer and infectious community - liminality and creative rituals in the Jesus community in view of COVID-19 
    Dube, Zorodzai (AOSIS, 2020-11)
    Using theories in medical anthropology, especially the ideas inspired by Hector Avalos and George Foster, the study explains three activities associated with the early Christian healthcare system: (1) touching infectious ...
  • Jesus and Afro-Pentecostal prophets : dynamics within the liminal space in Galilee and in Zimbabwe 
    Dube, Zorodzai (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-07-23)
    What happens when religious and spiritual interventions are used to explain concrete social economic reality? This study suggests that Afro-Pentecostal prophets in Zimbabwe exist within the liminal context; the prophets ...
  • Jesus and Isaiah 
    Moyise, Steve (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2009)
    The Jesus Seminar assigns the OT quotations attributed to Jesus in the Gospels as the work of the early church (Funk, 1993). More recently, Geza Vermes ends his study on The Authentic Gospel of Jesus (2003) by concluding ...
  • Jesus and Mehr recognition according to oriental sources 
    Rokhzadi, Amir A.; Shafei, Kaivan (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-03-22)
    Early oriental historians have used two series of sources about ancient history of Iran, including Iranian and non-Iranian sources. As these sources are independent of each other, two different chronologies about these ...
  • Jesus and spirituality : reading the fourth gospel in the light of the Indian culture 
    Thomaskutty, Johnson (MDPI, 2021-09)
    The Gospel of John is considered as one of the significant literary masterpieces that appeals to Indian spirituality and ideals in multifarious ways. The Gospel has unique features as a universalistic rhetoric that ...
  • 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 ...