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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...