13 articles in this issue
Anthony Oswald Balcomb
There has been a hot debate around Christianity’s complicity in environmental destruction for some fifty years. The reasons are mainly to do with the so-called dominion mandate in the book of Genesis and the propensity for Christianity to “disenchan... see more
Joel Kamsen Tihitshak Biwul
The visionary presentation of "Dry Bones" in Ezekiel 37 presupposes the possibility of the restoration of Yahweh’s covenant people to their ancestral land in ancient Palestine. What, therefore, is the underpinning theological significance? Using an ... see more
Blessing Onoriode Boloje
The language of prostitution is used in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in both literal and metaphorical senses. Although harlots (prostitutes) and prostitution are mentioned in the HB/OT (Lev 18; 21:1–15 and Deut 23), these harlots are not punished like p... see more
Gert Breed
The word d?á????? is used for a large variety of persons in the New Testament. The question can be asked why this specific word was also used for some of the leaders (deacons) in congregations. The first step to answer this question, is to determine the e... see more
June Frances Dickie
Biblical poems make extensive use of metaphors which related to the culture of the original writers. This study explores how Zulu youth in South Africa interpret some of these metaphors from their context. It also gave them the opportunity to translate so... see more
Annette Henrietta Evans
Gen 1:26-27 has traditionally been interpreted as implying that humankind was uniquely created in the image of God. However, cumulative scientific developments following on Darwin’s theory of evolution have conclusively proved the evolutionary and genetic... see more
Johnathan Jodamus
The First Letter to the Corinthians has provided a significant amount of material for scholars interested in studying how gender functions within Pauline writings and more generally in early Christianity. The body of work is rich and vast and draws largel... see more
John Arierhi Ottuh
This paper focuses on reading Deuteronomy 22:22 in John 8:1-11 within the cultural context of the Urhobo people of Nigeria. Using a feminist hermeneutics approach, the aim of this paper is to examine how Deuteronomy 22:22 and John 8:1-11 constitute injust... see more
Jonathan Redding
This article examines imperial and economic forces of colonisation surrounding post-exilic Israel, specifically the late Persian period (334-330 BCE) transitioning into the Hellenistic era (332-64 BCE), to do a suspicious reading of Daniel 1 as a text of ... see more
Kelebogile Thomas Resane
The issue of land is emotive and controversial. The colonisers allotted themselves land ignoring the African emotional and religious attachment to land. Churches ended up owning tracts of land from which original inhabitants had been mercilessly removed. ... see more
WJ Schoeman,Ernest Van Eck
Jesus preached the kingdom of God, with the principle of general reciprocity as a cardinal aspect. For Jesus, this kingdom was an alternative social world to the oppressive and exploitative social system of the Greco-Roman world. This article seeks to ana... see more
Zachariah Bulus Takore
Human sinfulness and divine retribution is evident in the Old Testament from patriarchal narratives to the prophets. Giving an objective verdict serves as a corrective measure upon which a wrong doer maintains dignity and fairness. Though punishing childr... see more
Mark Wayne Wilson
This article is comprised of three separate yet related explorations regarding the image of water in Revelation and the Fourth Gospel. It first explores the attempt to tabulate examples of water terminology in the New Testament and how that tabulation has... see more