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Browsing Research Articles (New Testament Studies) by Author "Kok, Jacobus (Kobus)"
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-06-26)In this article, James 5:13–20 is investigated. This section deals with the confession of sins in the community of faith and the subsequent healing that will result. James will be compared to Philodemus, a philosopher ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-09-30)This paper makes an original contribution against the background of relevant postcolonial discourse by means of the methods of postcolonial and social-scientific biblical exegesis from the perspective of critical ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-04-23)The Christian concept ‘mission’ is experienced by some as a negative term in the postmodern age of relativism and sensitivity with regard to the perspective and the rights of others. In this article it is postulated that ...
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Van der Watt, J.G. (Jan Gabriel), 1952-; Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-11)Violence in a gospel of love. The perspective of the Gospel of John on violence against Jesus and his disciples. This article is the first of two articles in which violence in the Gospel of John is discussed. In these ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2012)John's healing narratives are all presented as semeia or spiritual signs in the Gospel. It therefore always has two levels of meaning: the one level narrates a biological and socio-cultural healing act, and at the same ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus); Maqoma, Phumzile Walter (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-06-13)This article reflects on the doctrine of humanity to explore that God created humankind in his image and likeness, and this means that all human beings have an inherent capacity to know the difference between good and ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010)In this article, the Colossian heresy will be discussed. This is, however, a very troublesome epistle to use in any assessment of a Pauline theme, due to the uncertainty of who the author of Colossians could have been, ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-06-29)In this article the dynamic relationship between mission and ethics in contexts of conflict and change in the Corinthian correspondence was investigated, and the role Paul played as reconciling leader, examined. The early ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)In this article, it is investigated how the concepts identity, ethics and ethos interrelate, and how the ethics of the Pauline communities in Galatians functioned against the background of the missionary context of the ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2010)In this article the New Perspectives on Paul and its implication for Pauline ethics will be discussed as well as the relationship it has to the understanding of the missionary dynamics in Paul. The article begins with the ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2009)John views the death and resurrection of Jesus as an inseparable unity (cf 10:17-18). In this article it is then argued that the resurrection of Jesus in John could be understood as a Johannine σημεία (cf 2:18-22), as well ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-07-10)In this article the plenipotentiary idea in John’s Gospel is studied in relation to Jewish institution(s) of agency. It is argued that the missionary idea in John’s Gospel is a Leitmotiv (central or dominant theme) that ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-11-30)In this article a study is made of the concept ‘oikodome’ and its derivatives in the New Testament and early Christianity. Hence, in this essay the focus is limited to the use of the term οἰκοδομέω/οἰκοδομὴ(ν) in the New ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)To the Reformers, legalism was one of the greatest dangers that threatened the heart of preaching and Christian life in general. Luther argued that where preaching solidifies and degenerates into legalism, the essence of ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-10)In this article the author gives an overview of a relatively new theory in social psychology, namely Social Identity Complexity Theory, and illustrates the heuristic value of the theory for New Testament interpretation. ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus); Swart, Ilse (OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-07)This article provides new perspectives on navigating complex social identity in the letter to Philemon by means of the heuristic use of social identity complexity theory (SICT) in combination with socio-rhetorical analysis ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus); De Winter, Bastiaan A. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-02-27)In this article the authors investigate the Ausgangstext of 1 Peter 4:16b with regard to the latest text-critical insights based on the Editio Critica Maior’s coherence based genealogical method reflected in the latest ...
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Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-09-30)In this article, it is argued that from the beginning of the Christ-following movement, the gospel message represented a challenge to a male-dominated social system. Early Christian literature shows that women, whose ...
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