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  • Jesaja net een boek? : die pendulum swaai terug (Afrikaans) 
    Cronje, Stephanus Ignatius (University of Pretoria, 2006-10-26)
    Afrikaans: Daar is nou reeds vir so om en by drie dekades 'n groeiende belangstelling in die boek Jesaja, maar dan in besonder die eenheid van die boek. In die Verenigde State van Amerika het dit onder meer gelei het tot ...
  • Jesters, tricksters, taggers and haints : hipping the church to the Afro-hop, pop-‘n-lock mock-up currently rocking apocalyptic Detroit 
    Perkinson, James W. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-24)
    The following essay investigates the animating force of jester-humour and trickster-critique as necessary components of prophetic consciousness and social movement. Climate change devastation coupled with racialised ...
  • Jesus - a Kerygma to live by - A postmodern understanding of myth, resurrection and canon 
    Schutte, Philippus Jacobus Wilhelmus (University of Pretoria, 2006-05-26)
    This study is done from an autobiographical perspective. It focuses on three issues: myths, the resurrection of Jesus from death, and the canon. It approaches the traditional ecclesiastical and confessional teachings from ...
  • Jesus - Kind van God, vaderloos in Galilea 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2001)
    This article consists of four sections. Firstly, it reflects on the public debate regarding Jesus' alleged illegitimacy. The article argues that illegitimacy here refers to fatherlessness. Secondly, Joseph is focused on. ...
  • 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 cultural values : family life as an example 
    Osiek, Carolyn (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    'Family values' is a set of traditional images that most cultures collect, images drawn mostly from an idealized picture of family life in the recent past. For Christians, the popular image of Jesus gets included: the Holy ...
  • 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 Legion: A socio-political perspective on demon possession and exorcism in Mark 5:1-20 and in African Pentecostal Churches 
    Mwani, Joshua Tepillah (University of Pretoria, 2020)
    No abstract available
  • 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 politics in contemporary scholarship 
    Borg, Marcus J. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1995)
    Until recently, and for a variety of reasons, most historical Jesus scholarship has typically seen Jesus as essentially non-political. Recently, this has begun to change, to a large extent because of the fuller description ...
  • 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 die buitestaanders in Johannes 4 
    Marais, Bennie (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    Summary This study 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 ...