Who do we meet in the stories Jesus told? In The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of
a Social Prophet, a selection of the parables of Jesus is read using a social-scientific …

Subversive Meals examines the Lord's Supper within the sociopolitical context of first-
century Roman domination, and concludes that it was an anti-imperial praxis. Although the …

The findings from this study go beyond biblical-theological scholarship on forgiveness. Dion
Forster boldly succeeds in showing that creating conditions for deeper human connection …

This article proposes a methodology for interpreting the parables of Jesus. The methodology
put forward has as starting point two convictions. Firstly, the difference between the context …

Kids and Kingdom challenges the traditional view that Jesus was deeply concerned over
children. Instead, it is argued that despite the Synoptic authors' attempts to convince us that …

Little attention is usually given to the space or place of the kingdom. Yet Matthew employs
the distinctive phrase “kingdom of heaven” and also portrays Jesus as Immanuel (God with …

In The Gospel of Thomas and Plato, Ivan Miroshnikov offers the first systematic discussion of
the Platonist impact on the Gospel of Thomas, arguing that Platonism is indispensable to …

This article investigates the function of the metaphor" Abraham's bosom"(κόλπος Ἀβραάμ) in
Luke 16: 22-23 using tools borrowed from cognitive linguistics, specifically Cognitive …

My deepest gratitude is given to Amy-Jill Levine for her indefatigable enthusiasm and
encouragement that pushed me to strive far beyond what I thought I was capable of doing …

Some 20 years after the dawn of participative democracy, there is little noticeable or
substantial hange in the living conditions of the average South African. The country remains …