Browsing Research Articles (New Testament Studies) by Title

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  • Vertalers kruis swaarde! Vertaalproblematiek betreffende die swaard as wapentuig in 1 en 2 Makkabeërs 
    Steyn, Gert Jacobus (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap and Kuns, 2020-12)
    The purpose of this contribution is to address the translation problems related to the term “sword” as a weapon in the Maccabean books. The translation problem becomes evident in the various occurrences of ῥομφαία, μάχαιρα ...
  • Vertellersperspektiefanalise van Nuwe-Testamentiese tekste 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-09)
    The article forms the second part of an essay that aims to introduce narratological codes applicable for the exegesis of New Testament texts. In the first article generic elements that constitute a narrative discourse were ...
  • Violence and human prayer to God in Q 11 
    Bazzana, Giovanni B. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-20)
    The present article examines the use of κρούω in Q 11:9 against the backdrop of documentary papyri and Greek literary texts that employ the verb to evoke a stock scene of aggression and threat at the door of a house. In ...
  • Vita Christiana volgens Hebreërs 10:19-25. Eksegetiese kantaantekeninge 
    Steyn, Gert Jacobus (Teologiese Fakulteit, Universiteit van Stellenbosch, 2007-09)
    Hebrews 10:19-25 is an important pericope, being a summary of the previous section and an introduction to the next section in Hebrews. It contains four exhortations of which the first three are presented in the subjunctive ...
  • Voicing God : theological injunction to economic issues 
    Dube, Zorodzai (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017)
    Taking a socio-historical approach, this chapter traces history from World War II (WWII) and illustrates the various instances in which economics and politics intersect with theological themes. After WWII the dominant ...
  • Vom griechischen Spracherbe im hermeneutischen Horizont der Septuaginta : ,,Ein Diamant inmitten meines Volkes Israel'' (LXX-Amos 7:7f.) 
    Dafni, Evangelia G. (Unisa Press, 2009)
    Die theoretische Reflexion auf mögliche allgemeine Regeln, auf denen das Verständnis und Übersetzungsverfahren der Heiligen Schriften des Antiken Israel ins Septuaginta-Griechische aufbauen, wurde bisher mit mehreren ...
  • Vom Umgang mit biblischen Texten in antisemitischen Kontexten 
    Nicklas, Tobias (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-11)
    The Bible in anti-Semitic contexts. The article focuses on the (ab-)use of New Testament texts in the time of National Socialism. After a definition of central terms, it describes how anti-Semitic authors interpreted ...
  • Vorming van ‘n eietydse ampsbegrip : Jesus se oproep tot dissipelskap 
    Jones, Robert Johannes; Van Eck, Ernest (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-10)
    This article aimes to examine the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika’s (NHKA) understanding of church office, and measures it against ‘office’ or ministries in the New Testament, and more specifically against Jesus’ ...
  • Vredemakers as kinders van God (Matt 5:9) : ’n pragmaties linguistiese lesing 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-07-24)
    The article investigates different options of the pragmatic meaning (implicature) of the beatitude in the Gospel of Matthew, ‘blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God’ (Mt 5:9). It also ...
  • Was Paul among the contemplatives? 
    Panaggio, James; Van Eck, Ernest (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-09-30)
    This article offers a critique of the contemporary Contemplative Tradition’s view of spiritual transformation from the lens of the universally accepted letters of Paul. The article argues that contemporary contemplatives, ...
  • "We are Judean"! The Sayings Gospel Q's redactional approach to the Law 
    Cromhout, Markus (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    This article is focussed on Q's treatment of the Law and what it can tell us about the Q community's Judean ethnic identity. It is argued that part of the reason for the incorporation of the main redaction in Q (here ...
  • Welcoming outsiders : the nascent Jesus community as a locus of hospitality and equality (Mk 9:33–42; 10:2–16) 
    Dube, Zorodzai (AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-05-15)
    The recent global economic crisis left millions of people destitute without formal work and further alienated the poor from the rich. As a remedy, modern Neoliberalism proposes that the poor must hope and steadily work ...
  • Were the Galileans "religious Jews" or "ethnic Judeans?" 
    Cromhout, Markus (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-09)
    This article focuses on an investigation into the ethnic identity of first-century Galileans. Its aim is to argue that the Galileans were not descendents of northern Israelites but were mostly descendents of "Jews" who ...
  • We’ll make a man out of you yet : the masculinity of Peter in the book of Acts 
    Stewart, Eric (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-17)
    According to scholars of masculinity studies, manhood is won or lost through the performance of gender-based expectations. In any given culture, masculinities exist in hierarchal relationships. The author of the book of ...
  • What is "theology" in "public theology" and what is "public" about "public theology"? 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-09)
    This article sets out to argue that institutional Christianity does not have the exclusive rights to "doing theology". Since Plato theology has assumed systematization of ideas on the transcendent divine. The practice of ...
  • What is that to us? See to it yourself’ (Mt 27:4) : making atonement and the Matthean portrait of the Jewish chief priests 
    Weaver, Dorothy Jean (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-10)
    To read the Gospel of Matthew within its 1st century religious context is to read an intensely Jewish narrative. Central to the world of this Gospel are the Jerusalem temple, its administrators, the chief priests, and ...
  • What is the place of my rest? Being migrant people(s) of the God of all the earth 
    Hays, Christopher M. (De Gruyter, 2021-05)
    This article provides a theological reading of Acts 6–7, combining biblical and social-scientific insights to support constructive Christian engagement with the phenomena of twenty-first century migration. It responds ...
  • What Isaiah has to say about the curse of the law in Galatians 3:10 
    Namgung, Young (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2018-07)
    Galatians 3:10 is a crux interpretum in Pauline studies. This article argues in favour of the traditional reading of this text, against more recent proposals by representatives of the New Perspective on Paul. It does ...
  • What kind of “Judean” was Jesus? 
    Cromhout, Markus (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    Reconstructions of the historical Jesus are analyzed in terms of a proposed socio-cultural model of Judean ethnicity. At first an overview is given of the work of Meier and Crossan to establish the content they assigned ...
  • What ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ are the στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου? 
    Roth, Dieter T. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-08-15)
    The expression τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου is one of the most discussed, and most disputed, phrases in Galatians. In the following article, insight into the meaning of this phrase is sought by first of all clarifying and ...