Browsing Research Articles (New Testament Studies) by Subject "Hebrews"

Browsing Research Articles (New Testament Studies) by Subject "Hebrews"

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  • An appeal to personality in Hebrews : a social-scientific study 
    Kissi, Seth; Van Eck, Ernest (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2017)
    Understanding the people we meet in the Letter to the Hebrews (hereafter: Hebrews) with Western concepts of personality is misleading. This is because people in today’s Western society are different from those who lived ...
  • The ‘cloud of witnesses’ as part of the public court of reputation in Hebrews 
    Cromhout, Markus (AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-07-19)
    By drawing parallels with the function of ancestors in African traditional religions, this article looks at the possibility that the Israelite ancestors mentioned in Hebrews played a far more dynamic role for the author ...
  • The Day of Atonement as a hermeneutical key to the understanding of Christology in Hebrews 
    Langenhoven, Hanno; Nortje, Eliska; Potgieter, Annette; Steenkamp, Yolande (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2011)
    This study contributes to the discussion of the hermeneutics of Hebrews by considering the book's bachground thought and central theme. Specifically, we attempt to show how the worldview(s) and references to the Israelite ...
  • Ethnic reasoning in social identity of Hebrews : a social-scientific study 
    Kissi, Seth; Van Eck, Ernest (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-04-21)
    Ethnicity reasoning offers one way of looking at social identity in the letter to the Hebrews. The context of socio-economic abuse and hardships of the audience creates a situation in which ethnicity in social identity ...
  • Hebrews' angelology in the light of early Jewish apocalyptic imagery 
    Steyn, Gert Jacobus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2011)
    Hebrews’ references and allusions to angels are investigated in the light of early Jewish apocalyptic imagery and against the backdrop of similarities with a number of aspects that possibly underlie the Qumran community. ...
  • The importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for the study of the explicit quotations in Ad Hebraeos 
    Steyn, Gert Jacobus (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-18)
    The important contribution that the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) hold for New Testament studies is probably most evident in Ad Hebraeos. This contribution seeks to present an overview of relevant extant DSS fragments available ...
  • A look at Hebrews in the light of an Akan perspective on personality 
    Kissi, Seth; Van Eck, Ernest (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2018-07)
    To interpret biblical texts appropriately, it is important to understand the social institutions and scripts that underlie the text. The similarities between some concepts of personality in first-century Mediterranean ...
  • The Maccabean literature and Hebrews : some intertextual observations 
    Steyn, Gert Jacobus (Unisa Press, 2015)
    Several common motifs and linguistic similarities between the books of the Maccabees and the book of Hebrews were noted in the past by scholars in random remarks and ad hoc statements. These relations and similarities ...
  • Moses as ΘΕΡΑΠΩΝ In HEB 3:5-6 : portrait of a cultic prophet-priest in Egypt? 
    Steyn, Gert Jacobus (Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2014)
    The unknown author of Hebrews uses the hapax legomenon θεράπων in his reference to Moses as a “servant” when he contrasts Moses with Jesus in Heb 3:1-6. He states that Moses was faithful as a servant (θεράπων) in God’s ...
  • Quotations from scripture and the compilation of Hebrews in an oral world 
    Steyn, Gert Jacobus (Unisa Press, 2014)
    This study interacts with the work of Pieter Botha by presenting four scenarios from my own research on the use of Septuagint quotations by Philo of Alexandria and by the unknown author of Hebrews. The first scenario ...
  • Reading Hebrews through Akan ethnicity and social identity 
    Kissi, Seth; Van Eck, Ernest (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-04-21)
    The Akan people of Ghana have concepts of ethnicity and social identity which are similar to those found in the Mediterranean world, which find expression in the issues addressed in the letter to the Hebrews. This ...