DNA in antiquity : revisiting Jesus’s birth

dc.contributor.authorVan Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.)
dc.contributor.emailandries.vanaarde@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-19T07:32:44Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionThis article was initially presented at the NTSSA section Gender and Human Sexuality & Jesus and the Gospels subgroups, at the Joint Conference of South African scholarly societies, University of Pretoria, 11–15 July 2016.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn order to be born fully human (Latin: vere homo) X and Y chromosomes are needed. Without the involvement of chromosomes, Jesus of Nazareth would have had no ties to humanity. Aristotelian (“On the generation of animals” / “Peri zōōn geneseōs”) and ancient Hellenistic (Galen on the Hippocratic Corpus) views on how the vere homo came into being differ much from today’s knowledge of biology. In the Hebrew Scriptures, rabbinic traditions and Graeco- Roman literature, vere homo was the result not only of a male and female contribution; the third component was divine involvement. This article revisits the textual evidence of the conception of Jesus in the New Testament. The results are compared to propositions in the Athanasian Creed (Quicunque Vult) and the exegetical and/or dogmatic/socio-cultural views of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann. The article explores the ethical and cultural relevance of the Christian belief that Jesus was both vere homo and vere Deus, and enters into critical discussion with British New Testament scholar Andrew Lincoln and his idea of “DNA in antiquity.”en_ZA
dc.description.departmentNew Testament Studiesen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2018-11-30
dc.description.librarianam2017en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://ntwsa.co.za/neotestamentica.htmlen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVan Aarde, AG 2016, 'DNA in antiquity : revisiting Jesus’s birth', Neotestamentica, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 29-58.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0254-8356
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/60564
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherNew Testament Society of South Africaen_ZA
dc.rights© New Testament Society of Southern Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectJesus’s birthen_ZA
dc.subjectDeoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)en_ZA
dc.subjectHippocratic corpusen_ZA
dc.subjectDivinity of Jesusen_ZA
dc.subjectJesus’s humannessen_ZA
dc.subjectNT Evidenceen_ZA
dc.subjectIgnatiusen_ZA
dc.subjectAthanasiusen_ZA
dc.subjectF. Schleiermacheren_ZA
dc.subjectK. Barthen_ZA
dc.subjectR. Bultmannen_ZA
dc.subjectA. Lincolnen_ZA
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dc.titleDNA in antiquity : revisiting Jesus’s birthen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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