Biblical Studies
Recent Deposits
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Grace Redefined in 2 Corinthians 12:9a
I argue in this thesis that charis, in 2 Corinthians 12:9a was not unmerited favour, nor a form of power that God infused into the believer. Dunamis was not some form of energy or divine gifting. Astheneia was not a ... -
The Old Testament as Christian scripture: three Catholic perspectives
In talking about the relation between the OT and the NT, Catholic interpreters have in this century seen the OT in three basic ways: a) as preparation for the NT b) as a mine of evidence to prove the veracity of ... -
Manufacturing Judean Myth: The Spy Narrative in Numbers 13–14 as Rewritten Tradition
Modern scholarship has almost unanimously viewed the composition of the spy narrative in Num. 13–14 as a process involving multiple sources or redactional layers which were combined over the period of many centuries. By ... -
Grammar as Theology: A Linguistic Rereading of Philippians 2:6-7a
This thesis offers an alternative answer to a purported enigma, the meaning of ἁρπαγμόν in Philippians 2:6. Solutions which are based on the supposed synonymity of that word with ἅρπαγμα (such as those of Lightfoot 1868 ... -
Encountering Moses and Miriam of Exodus 2: An Empathic Reading with a Postcolonial Optic
This thesis presents a reading of the characters of Moses and his sister in Exodus 2 through a “hermeneutic of empathy’’ with a postcolonial consciousness. This approach emerged out of reflection about the reading process ... -
Violence in the Book of Job
Violence is a significant dimension of the rhetoric of the book of Job. The opening chapters narrate events of extreme violence, and the poetic dialogues are full of language of hostility and cruelty, much of it attributed ... -
The son enthroned in conflict : a socio-rhetorical interpretation of John 5.17-23
In John 5.17-23 speech concerning the relationship between the father and son is presented as a response to a threat to kill Jesus. By virtue of the father/son relationship, godlike powers are attributed to the son. ... -
The Davidic Shepherd King in the Lukan Narrative
The Davidic motif is well recognised in the Lukan narrative but David's identity as God's shepherd king has not seemed to influence how scholars have understood the Lukan Jesus and his mission to seek and save the lost. ... -
"Perhaps there is Hope": Reading Lamentations as a Polyphony of Pain, Penitence, and Protest
Lamentations consists of multiple speaking voices, expressing a variety of theological perspectives on the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BCE, and interacting dialogically. In seeking to clarify “the” theology of Lamentations, ... -
Wilderness Tabernacle and Eschatological Temple: A Study in Temple Symbolism in Hebrews in the Light of Attitudes to the Temple in the Literature of Middle Judaism
The literature of middle Judaism, including the Epistle to the Hebrews, contains considerable temple symbolism. Through a careful examination of such symbolism, this study demonstrates that the wilderness tabernacle is not ... -
"Let Us Go to Him": The Story of Faith and the Faithfulness of Jesus in Hebrews
This thesis investigates faith and the faithfulness of Jesus in Hebrews. Preceding studies have understated the christological dimension of faith or have made Jesus the object of faith. Furthermore, while Käsemann ... -
The Straight Mind in Corinth: Queer Readings Across 1 Cor 11.2-16
Despite the lack of both historical and exegetical clarity that has emerged from scholarly study of 1 Cor 11.2-16, this passage has often been fundamental to understandings of gender and sexuality in many Christian traditions. ... -
The politics of inheritance? : the language of inheritance in Romans within its first-century Greco-Roman Imperial context
This thesis is an exploration of the extent to which Paul's terminology of Inheritance (κληρονόμος) in Romans, and its associated imagery, logic and arguments, functioned to evoke socio-political expectations that were ... -
The Righteousness of God in Romans
To understand the righteousness of God in Romans is to understand how the gospel is the power of God for the salvation of those who believe.