7 articles in this issue
Bernard Lategan
The contribution to this issue all focus on aspects of the contextual interpretation of the Bible. The first four are papers discussed by a research group on hermeneutics at its first meeting in Stellenbosch in September 1989. The last two deal with ... see more
Because of the variety of discourses in progress in the South African context and because of the plurality of hermeneutical approaches to biblical texts, there is an urgent need for systematic research on basic aspects of a contextual hermeneutics. Some o... see more
D J Smit
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, in her 1987 SBL Presidential Address, argued for a paradigm shift in the ethos and rhetorical practices of biblical scholarship. In this article, recent contributions by four important spokespeople from the USA, all of them w... see more
This article looks at the ethos and socio-political role of South African New Testament scholarship during the last four decades, in an attempt to see whether any real paradigm shifts have taken place. Three periods are distinguished: the period of biblic... see more
Willem Nicol
God in the struggle against apartheid: a theological discussion with Albert Nolan on his God in South Africa.As far as political strategy is concerned, the writer finds himself not far from Nolan: he also wants to support the freedom struggle along the li... see more
Detlev Dormeyer
The article explains some basic concepts and procedures of ‘interactional Bible interpretation’, a novel approach developed by the author. The method is illustrated by applying it to the narrative of Mk 3:20f and 31-35, in which the concept of Jesus’ fami... see more
Ferdinand Deist
The relevance of Biblical Studies is dependent upon the degree to which it can give meaning to the student’s life. Positivist education has, by narrowing people’s view of life to the tangible, stripped it of spiritual value of meaning. Therefore, while fo... see more