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Contextualising biblical exegesis: What is the African biblical hermeneutic approach?
This article responded to the question about the right methodology needed for the reconstruction of a viable African Christian theology. It equally contributed an answer to earlier concerns by Appiah-Kubi, Stinton and Nyiawung, who had grappled with an ...
Mbengu D. Nyiawung
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A silent unheard voice in the Old Testament: The Cushite woman whom Moses married in Numbers 12:1–10
Most of the time, women’s names are not mentioned, words are not put in their mouths or they are not allowed to say a word, and their achievements are behind the scene in the narratives.
David T. Adamo
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The task and future of New Testament Studies
In the light of various new tendencies in New Testament Studies, this article charts out the task for future students and researchers in the field. Within the frame of newer socio-cognitive discourse studies, it builds on the semiotic foundation that ...
Cilliers Breytenbach
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The portrayal of Africa and Africans in the book of Jeremiah
Since the 1980s, many Jeremianic scholars have spent much time on the study of the various contentious issues in order to resolve them. However, there has been no unanimous agreement yet. One of these contentious issues is the relationship of the prophet
David T. Adamo
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Festivals, cultural intertextuality, and the Gospel of John’s rhetoric of distance
Imperial and civic-religious festivals pervaded the late first-century city of Ephesus where John’s Gospel was, if not written, at least read or heard. How did Jesus-believers as likely members of somewhat participationist synagogue communities negotiate
Warren Carter
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This study concerns an investigation of the evolution of the Jesus tradition. Christological titles are studied in terms of the social theory of the institutionalization of charismatic authority.
Yolanda Dreyer, Andries van Aarde
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In a world where economies have no moral conscience, biblical theologians can challenge local cultures with ancient wisdom about generosity and equity.
Scot McKnight
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Reading Hebrews through Akan ethnicity and social identity
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.
Seth Kissi, Ernest Van Eck
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Ethnic reasoning in social identity of Hebrews: A social-scientific study
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 becomes an important issue for the ...
Seth Kissi, Ernest van Eck
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The revival of secular spirituality in Europe and its implication for the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. This article critically reflected on the insights of David Tacey in which he notes that there is currently a revival in post-secular ...
Jacobus Kok
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