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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...