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  • 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, ...
  • Jewish and Christian approaches to suffering in the reception of Psalm 137 
    Gillingham, Susan (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)
    This paper illustrates how Psalm 137 is used to address the question of suffering by Jews and Christians during various crises of faith. In Jewish tradition, the psalm has a “meta-narrative” which meant reading it as a ...
  • The Jewish community in the post-apartheid era : same narrative, different meaning 
    Herman, Chaya (Transformation, 2007)
    The article explores the transformation of the Jewish community in South Africa and the strategies that have been pursued by the community to forge a new identity whereby secular Zionism has been shifted towards religious ...
  • Jewish police informers in the Atlantic world, 1880-1914 
    Van Onselen, Charles (Cambridge University Press, 2007-03)
    The great migration from the tsarist empire, sparked by the assassination of Alexander II, in 1881, saw two to three million east European Jews re-settling in the great cities of the Atlantic world before the First World ...
  • Jews and Christians 
    Venter, P.M. (Pieter Michiel), 1947- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    This review article of the collection of essays edited by M Van Campen and G C den Hertog deals with the question of the relationship between Jews and Christians. The publication, Israël, volk, land en staat, by the Centre ...
  • "JHWH, Gott der Rettung" und das Schreien aus "finsterem Ort" Klangmuster und andere Stilmittel in Psalm 88 
    Weber, Beat, 1955- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2007)
    A structural analysis of Ps 88 serves as a point of departure for a study of the poetics and especially the sound patterns and other stylistic figures that characterize the psalm. The ways in which sonic figures can serve ...
  • Jingmen tick virus in ticks from Kenya 
    Ogola, Edwin O.; Kopp, Anne; Bastos, Armanda; Slothouwer, Inga; Marklewitz, Marco; Omoga, Dorcus Caroline Achieng; Rotich, Gilbert; Getugi, Caroline; Sang, Rosemary; Torto, Baldwyn; Junglen, Sandra; Tchouassi, David P. (MDPI, 2022-05-13)
    Jingmen tick virus (JMTV) is an arbovirus with a multisegmented genome related to those of unsegmented flaviviruses. The virus first described in Rhipicephalus microplus ticks collected in Jingmen city (Hubei Province, ...
  • Joan Acker's influence on management and organization studies : review, analysis and directions for the future 
    Nkomo, Stella M., 1947-; Rodriguez, Jenny K. (Wiley, 2019-12)
    This paper pays tribute to Joan Acker by discussing how her ideas have been utilized in Management and Organization Studies (MOS). Through a systematic review of journal articles citing Acker's scholarship from 2000 to ...
  • Job and Ecclesiastes as (postmodern?) wisdom in revolt 
    Roper, Leon A.; Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969- (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-09-13)
    This article will be concerned with the question whether the books of Job and Ecclesiastes can be viewed as (postmodern) wisdom in revolt or not. Three questions underlie this title: firstly, are the books of Job and ...
  • Job applicants' attitudes towards cognitive ability and personality testing 
    Visser, Rachelle; Schaap, Pieter (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017-10)
    ORIENTATION : Growing research has shown that not only test validity considerations but also the test-taking attitudes of job applicants are important in the choice of selection instruments as these can contribute to ...
  • Job satisfaction among South African aircraft pilots 
    Hoole, Crystal; Vermeulen, Leopold Petrus (OpenJournals, 2003)
    The importance of job satisfaction to human beings is a widely studied phenomenon, due to the assumption that job satisfaction is a major contributor to the well-being of employees and to several organisational outcomes. ...
  • Job-related attitudes and expatriate managers' intention to quit a foreign assignment 
    Swarts, I.; Du Plessis, Yvonne (Journal of Contemporary Management, 2007)
    A prominent issue in international staffing literature is the premature return of an expatriate to his/her home country or resignation during or shortly after the international assignment. This paper is based on an empirical ...