7 articles in this issue
Bernard C Lategan
The contributions to this issue deal with aspects of biblical interpretation and more specifically, the interpretation of Mark. These aspects include the importance of rhetoric for the interpretation of biblical material, the role of theology in trying to... see more
James Hester
When one considers the growing number of ‘rhetorical’ readings of biblical texts published recently, both as monographs and articles, it is evident that a forceful new movement has entered into the biblical-critical world. As Wuellner (1987) has discussed... see more
Robert G Hamerton-Kelly
Aristotle might have been optimistic when he said that human beings by nature desire to understand, nevertheless, understanding is the professional obligation of the intellectual, and since there can be no understanding without theory, we intellectuals, c... see more
Johannes A Smit
Capitalising on the analytic semiology of Roland Barthes, a semiological theory is developed which may account for the peculiarities of a gospel narrative as a system of second order signification is enriched with the Bakhtinian conception that significat... see more
This article is devoted to a semiological reading of the gospel narrative of Mark. It comprises an experimental reading of Mark as myth in terms of the theory developed in the article preceding this one. The identification of the implied reader with the n... see more
Ezra SB Shim
The aim of this essay is to reformulate the identity of the genre of the Gospel of Mark as n proper interpretive model in the light of recent developments in literary theory and hermeneutics. In order to do so, a brief reception history of the gospel genr... see more
James D Hester
Dr Antoinette Wire, Professor of the New Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary and Graduate Theology Union, provides a unique exploration into the social setting and self-understanding of the Corinthian women prophets. In this important contribu... see more