Browsing Research Articles (New Testament Studies) by Title

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  • Memory, collective memory, orality and the gospels 
    Duling, Dennis C. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06)
    This article first explores individual memory as understood from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to modern-day neurology and psychology. The perspective is correlated with collective memory theory in the works ...
  • Menselijke vrijheid en het Christelijk geloof 
    Doomen, Jasper (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-05-16)
    In this article, it is examined whether there is room for human freedom in a Christian perspective. Augustine’s and Luther’s views are illuminating in order to clarify this matter. The way they deal with the idea of ...
  • Messiaanse vredestichters : intertekstuele relaties tussen Zacharia 9–14 en het evangelie van Matteüs 
    Weren, Wim J.C. (Wilhelmus Johannes Cornelis) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-08-13)
    This article deals with images of war, violence and peace and with the role of messianic leaders in Deutero-Zechariah and the way in which texts from Zechariah 9–14 have been interpreted in the Gospel of Matthew. The ...
  • Metaphysical dualism and spiritual warfare : a reading of Ephesians 6:10-19 
    Harold, Godfrey (Baptist Union of Southern Africa, 2013)
    In recent years, there has been considerable attention given to the realm of “Spiritual Warfare” (Dawson 1989; Renner 1991; Jacobs 1997; Beam 2000; Wagner 2012). These books were published as a necessary corrective ...
  • Methods and models in the quest for the historical Jesus : historical criticism and/or social scientific criticism 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    In this article a distinction is made between social scientific criticism and historiography. Historiography describes what is unrepeatable, specific and particular. Social scientific criticism is to some extent a ...
  • Missing ‘particles’ in disputed Pauline letters? A question of method 
    Van Nes, Jermo (Sage, 2018-03)
    New Testament scholars continue to debate the number of missing ‘particles’ in disputed Pauline letters in order to advocate or challenge their pseudonymity. Surprisingly, however, participants in the debate do not usually ...
  • Mission and ethics in 1 Corinthians : reconciliation, corporate solidarity and other-regard as missionary strategy in Paul 
    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 ...
  • Mission and ethics in Galatians 
    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 ...
  • Mission to the Gentiles : the construction of Christian identity and its relationship with ethics according to Paul 
    Tobias, Nicklas; Schlogel, Herbert (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-06-29)
    Paul allowed pagans to become members of the newly founded communities of Christ-believers and thus members of God’s covenant people, Israel, without becoming circumcised. However, even if many of the ‘pagan Christians’ ...
  • Mission versus ethics in 1 Corinthians 9? ‘Implicit ethics’ as an aid in analysing New Testament texts 
    Zimmermann, Ruben, 1968- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-06-29)
    The central question concerning how mission and ethics are related arises within the context of the understanding of ethics itself and in this way often leads back to the familiar ‘indicative and imperative’ model. This ...
  • Mission, identity and ethics in Mark : Jesus, the patron for outsiders 
    Van Eck, Ernest (OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-06-19)
    In this contribution the relationship between mission, identity and ethics in Mark was investigated by means of a postcolonial and social-scientific reading, with a focus on patronage as a practice that constituted the ...
  • Missionary Ethics in Q 10:2−12 
    Roth, Dieter T. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-06-29)
    Elements of the mission discourse of the Synoptic Gospels are found in Mark 6:6b−13; Matthew 9:35−10:15; Luke 9:1−6 and Luke 10:1−20. Similarities and differences in these accounts have led many New Testament scholars ...
  • The missionary journey of Mark 6 and the experience of ministry in today’s world : an empirical study in biblical hermeneutics among Anglican clergy 
    Francis, Leslie John; Smith, Greg; Francis-Dehqani, Guli (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-06-21)
    This study explores the connection between dominant psychological type preferences and reader interpretations of biblical texts. Working in type-alike groups (dominant sensing, dominant intuition, dominant feeling and ...
  • Missionêre diakonaat : ’n uitdaging vir die kerk 
    Schutte, P.J.W. (Philippus Jacobus Wilhelmus) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
    This article seeks to show the importance of diakonia as a ministry of the church, not only as a service in the church, but also as a service to the community in which Christians and the church live. To establish diakonia ...
  • Models and perspectives concerning the identity of Jesus as healer 
    Dube, Zorodzai (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-06-26)
    This study reviews various perspectives into the identity of Jesus as healer. There are two main perspectives – those that approach the identity of Jesus as healer from a theological perspective focusing on his personhood ...
  • Morality and boundaries in Paul 
    Peerbolte, Bert Jan Lietaert (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-06-29)
    In the Pauline communities, ethics, ethos and identity were closely intertwined. This essay analyses the way in which Paul emphasised the mental boundaries of the Christ communities to turn them into moral boundaries. ...
  • 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 ...
  • The mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven according to Matthew 13:10-17 
    Nel, Marius Johannes (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2009)
    This article is a socio-rhetorical interpretation of Jesus' disclosure in Matt 13:10-17 that he had revealed the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven exclusively to his disciples. It utilises the methodology of socio-rhetorical ...
  • Myth as metaphor 
    Malan, Gert Jacobus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-07-08)
    Modern Christianity has failed to update its myths and has even eliminated them, thus, excluding the metaphysical experience indispensable to religion (Jung). Myths should be interpreted, not eliminated. Answering the ...
  • Mythology, Weltanschauung, symbolic universe and states of consciousness 
    Malan, Gert Jacobus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-07-15)
    This article investigates whether different religious (mythological) worldviews can be described as alternative and altered states of consciousness (ASCs). Differences between conscious and unconscious motivations for ...