6 articles in this issue
B C Lategan
The focus in this issue is on aspects of the New Testament interpretation.Andries van Aarde discusses the relationship between ‘resonance’ and ‘context’ in order to move beyond the confines of a structural approach. Johannes Louw looks again at the differ... see more
Andries G Van Aarde
This paper comprises two sections.The first is a literary-theoretical discussion of the concept of resonance in terms of the narratological notion ‘frequency’, and the reception-ethical concept ’vacancy’.In the second part it is shown how the discourse ab... see more
J P Louw
The discrepancy between the hour of the day when Jesus was crucified, as reported in Mk 15:25 and Jn 19:14, led to many suggested solutions – one of which argued for a Roman (Mark) and Greek (John) system of counting the hours of the day. Though very attr... see more
Sam Fourie,Jacques Rousseau
In the light of the present vigorous and mostly one-sided debate concerning the unity of believers, this study endeavours to accomplish a justified and demythologized perspective of this issue. On the basis of this research then, the question of Johannine... see more
Pieter F Craffert
The question of Paul’s call or conversion is still an unresolved problem, because of, among other things, the lack of conceptual clarity in the debate. By using the conversion model of Berger and Luckmann, it is argued that Paul’s Damascus experience can ... see more
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