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    Fasting, justification, and self-righteousness in Luke 18:9–14: A social-scientific interpretation as response to Friedrichson. [REVIEW]Steven H. Mathews & Ernest Van Eck - 2013 - HTS Theological Studies 69 (1):1-9.
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    In the kingdom everybody has enough – A social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the lost sheep.Ernest Van Eck - 2011 - HTS Theological Studies 67 (3).
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    Die huwelik in die eerste-eeuse Mediterreense wêreld : Huwelik, egbreuk, egskeiding en hertrou.Ernest Van Eck - 2007 - HTS Theological Studies 63 (1).
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    Inklusiwiteit as evangelie.Ernest Van Eck - 2009 - HTS Theological Studies 65 (1).
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  5. Καὶ ἄϕες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν … the Lord’s Prayer (Mt 6:12, Lk 11:4) and dispute resolution in the African church: The Ewe-Ghanaian context and perspective. [REVIEW]Daniel Sakitey & Ernest van Eck - 2021 - HTS Theological Studies 77 (1).
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    When neighbours are not neighbours: A social-scientific reading of the parable of the friend at midnight.Ernest Van Eck - 2011 - HTS Theological Studies 67 (1).
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    The harvest and the kingdom: An interpretation of the Sower as a parable of Jesus the Galilean.Ernest Van Eck - 2014 - HTS Theological Studies 70 (1).
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    A realistic reading of the parable of the Lost Coin in Q: Gaining or losing even more?Ernest Van Eck - 2019 - HTS Theological Studies 75 (3).
    This article aims to present a realistic reading of the parable of the Lost Coin in Q. A realistic reading of the parable focuses on the social realia invoked by the parables, that is, the social realities and practices embedded by any given parable. As will be indicated, available documented papyri can be used to identify the possible social realia invoked by the parables, and this can help the modern reader to identify what is ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’ in a parable (...)
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  9. ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου: Interpreting the Lord’s Prayer in the light of Ewe-Ghanaian eschatological vision.Ernest Van Eck & Daniel Sakitey - 2019 - HTS Theological Studies 75 (3).
    This article examines the phrase ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου in Matthew and Luke’s versions of the Lord’s Prayer in the light of Ewe-Ghanaian eschatological vision. Theoretically, it uses a combination of the historical–critical and indigenous Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutical approaches to explore the implication of βασιλεία for the Ewe-Ghanaian Christian. The article discusses the diversity in the interpretations of the text from the early church to the modern and postmodern periods in Christian history and argues that this diversity has occurred (...)
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    P.G.R. de Villiers Dedication – A tribute.Ernest Van Eck - 2015 - HTS Theological Studies 71 (1).
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    The parable of the Feast : Breaking down boundaries and discerning a theological–spatial justice agenda.Ernest Van Eck, Wayne Renkin & Ezekiel Ntakirutimana - 2016 - HTS Theological Studies 72 (1).
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    Mission, identity and ethics in Mark: Jesus, the patron for outsiders.Ernest Van Eck - 2013 - HTS Theological Studies 69 (1).
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    Τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον (Mt 6:11; Lk 11:3): The Lord’s Prayer and an African predicament – the Ewe-Ghanaian context in focus. [REVIEW]Daniel Sakitey & Ernest van Eck - 2020 - HTS Theological Studies 76 (4):1-7.
    This article seeks to reconstruct the phrase τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον in the light of an African predicament with the Ewe-Ghanaian context in focus. The article posits that the various interpretations of the phrase throughout the epochs of Christianity have arisen as a result of the ambiguity associated with ἐπιούσιος and the quest to make the Lord’s Prayer in general relevant to the life situation of the recipient communities. Although the Lord’s Prayer is still regarded as a prayer par (...)
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    An unexpected patron: A social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the Vineyard Labourers.Ernest Van Eck & John S. Kloppenborg - 2015 - HTS Theological Studies 71 (1).
    Many readings of the Parable of the Labourers in the vineyard want to treat the owner as representing God. Knowledge of actual agricultural practices relating to the management of vineyards suggest, on the contrary, that the details of the parable obstruct an easy identification of the owner with God, and that he displays unusual behaviour not only by paying all the labourers the same wage, but by his very intervention in the hiring process. The conclusion reached is that the parable (...)
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    The tenants in the vineyard : A realistic and social-scientific reading.Ernest Van Eck - 2007 - HTS Theological Studies 63 (3).
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    Die gelykenisse van Jesus: Allegorieë of simbole van sosiale transformasie?Ernest van Eck - 2015 - HTS Theological Studies 71 (3):10.
    The parables of Jesus: Allegories or symbols of social transformation? This article reflects on a possible methodology that can be used to interpret the parables of Jesus preserved in the Synoptics (and the Gospel of Thomas). It is argued that the available versions of the parables of Jesus have already been allegorised, and that this should be taken into consideration when the extant versions of parables are interpreted as parables of the historical Jesus. The parables should also, as far as (...)
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    Interpreting the parables of the Galilean Jesus: A social-scientific approach.Ernest Van Eck - 2009 - HTS Theological Studies 65 (1).
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    Reading Hebrews through Akan ethnicity and social identity.Seth Kissi & Ernest Van Eck - 2017 - HTS Theological Studies 73 (3):10.
    The Akan people of Ghana have concepts of ethnicity and social identity which are similar to those found in the Mediterranean world, which find expression in the issues addressed in the letter to the Hebrews. This similarity makes the reading of Hebrews in light of Akan ethnicity and social identity possible, giving one the expected meaning from the perspective of those concepts as within the original context of the audience. This article therefore discusses some theories on ethnicity and social identity (...)
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    The Word is life: African theology as biblical and contextual theology.Ernest Van Eck - 2006 - HTS Theological Studies 62 (2).
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    Ethnic reasoning in social identity of Hebrews: A social-scientific study.Seth Kissi & Ernest Van Eck - 2017 - HTS Theological Studies 73 (3):1-9.
    Ethnicity reasoning offers one way of looking at social identity in the letter to the Hebrews. The context of socio-economic abuse and hardships of the audience creates a situation in which ethnicity in social identity becomes an important issue for the author of Hebrews to address. This article is a social-scientific study which explores how the author establishes the ethnic identity of the audience as people of God. While this ethnic identity indicates the more privileged position the readers occupy in (...)
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    Die opstanding in die Jodedom, die Grieks-Romeinse wêreld en die Nuwe Testament.Ernest Van Eck - 2004 - HTS Theological Studies 60 (1/2).
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    Die vorming van ‘n eietydse ampsbegrip: Jesus se oproep tot dissipelskap.Robert Jones & Ernest Van Eck - 2010 - HTS Theological Studies 66 (1).
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    When patrons are not patrons: A social-scientific reading of the rich man and Lazarus.Ernest Van Eck - 2009 - HTS Theological Studies 65 (1).
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    Een teks - meerdere betekenisse: Hoe lees ons die Bybel?Ernest Van Eck - 2008 - HTS Theological Studies 64 (3).
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    Jesus en geweld: Markus 12:1-12 en Thomas 65.Ernest Van Eck - 2008 - HTS Theological Studies 64 (4).
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    Characters and ambivalence in Luke: An emic reading of Luke’s gospel, focusing on the Jewish peasantry.Mbengu D. Nyiawung & Ernest Van Eck - 2012 - HTS Theological Studies 68 (1).
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  27. Building a united community: Reading the Johannine concept of unity through the eyes of an Akan.Godibert K. Gharbin & Ernest van Eck - 2023 - HTS Theological Studies 79 (4):7.
    From the 1960s, African theologians sought to decolonise biblical scholarship, calling for a hermeneutical approach that pays attention to the African sociocultural context – inculturation. One of the undergirding principles of inculturation is that there are African sociocultural questions that the Bible can address through the appropriate interpretative methodology. Thus, this culminated in the application of inculturation on different levels. Similarly, an analysis of Akan aphorisms – the anthology of valuable data on Akan anthropology and communitarian egalitarianism – and the (...)
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  28. Erratum: Editorial to the Van Aarde Festschrift.Ernest Van Eck & Yolanda Dreyer - 2021 - HTS Theological Studies 77 (1).
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    Was Paul among the contemplatives?James Panaggio & Ernest Van Eck - 2016 - HTS Theological Studies 72 (3).
    This article offers a critique of the contemporary Contemplative Tradition’s view of spiritual transformation from the lens of the universally accepted letters of Paul. The article argues that contemporary contemplatives, especially Dallas Willard and Richard Foster, differ from Paul in three principle areas. Firstly, whereas Paul’s concept of transformation is based largely on objective realities, representatives of the Contemplative Tradition tend to focus on subjective realities. Secondly, contemporary contemplatives view transformation as coming as one imitates the life of Christ, his (...)
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    An African hermeneutic reading of Luke 9:18–22 in relation to conflict and leadership in pastoral ministry: The Cameroonian context. [REVIEW]Mbengu D. Nyiawung & Ernest Van Eck - 2013 - HTS Theological Studies 69 (1).
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    The parables of Jesus as critique on food security systems for vulnerable households in urban townships.Ernest Van Eck & Meshack Mandla Mashinini - 2016 - HTS Theological Studies 72 (3).
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    Created in the image of God and sexuality in early-Jewish writings.Ernest Van Eck - 2017 - HTS Theological Studies 73 (4):1-7.
    This article pays tribute to the contribution made by Yolanda Dreyer regarding critique on the prevalence of patriarchy in society, as well as her defence of homosexuality as a normal sexual orientation. Taking as point of departure her work on the woman as created in God's image, it is argued that understanding the metaphor 'created in God's image' as referring to rule over all, and not as created as man and woman, has important implications for the relationship between man and (...)
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    Invitations and excuses that are not invitations and excuses: Gossip in Luke 14:18–20.Ernest Van Eck - 2012 - HTS Theological Studies 68 (1).
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    Luther and the Law in the Lutheran Church of Uganda.Enoch Ekyarikunda & Ernest Van Eck - 2016 - HTS Theological Studies 72 (1):01-08.
    This article investigates the role of the Law in the Lutheran Church of Uganda. It investigates how the Law is understood and lived among Lutherans in Uganda. Luther, the sixteenth-century Reformer, understood and interpreted the Law in terms of the social and cultural context of his time. Luther's background is very different and so much removed from the African context in which the Ugandan Lutherans find themselves today. Therefore, can the Lutheran Church of Uganda have the same understanding and interpretation (...)
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    Witnesses to the truth: Mark’s point of view.Deven K. MacDonald & Ernest Van Eck - 2016 - HTS Theological Studies 72 (1).
    This article presents a narratological reading of the Gospel of Mark with special attention given to the role, function and rhetorical impact of point of view. It is argued that through the use of ‘witnesses’ ranging from the omniscient narrator, to the character God, to the Old Testament Scriptures, the author of Mark presents a point of view that his implied reader would find difficult to counter. In addition to this, the article demonstrates that the motifs of allegiance, misunderstanding and (...)
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    When patrons are patrons: A social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the Feast.Ernest Van Eck - 2013 - HTS Theological Studies 69 (1).
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    The Samaritan ‘brought him to an inn’: Revisiting πανδοχεῖον in Luke 10:34.Ernest van Eck & Robert J. van Niekerk - 2018 - HTS Theological Studies 74 (4):11.
    This article traces the meaning of κατάλυμά and πανδοχεῖον in available Roman-Egypt papyri, the LXX, early-Jewish literature, and Greek writings to determine the meaning of πανδοχεῖον [inn] used in Luke 10:34. It is argued that a lexical study of κατάλυμά and πανδοχεῖον and available information on travel in the ancient world indicate that there is no evidence for the so-called non-commercial inns in the ancient world and that commercial inns and innkeepers, in principle, were all ‘bad’. In conclusion, the implications (...)
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    The New Perspective challenge to Luther.Bart Eriksson & Ernest van Eck - 2019 - HTS Theological Studies 75 (4):9.
    New Perspective scholars challenge Protestant interpretations of Paul. It used to be the case, they state, that Protestants assumed that Paul was to Judaism as Luther was to Medieval Catholicism. Both men supposedly reacted against legalistic religions and championed grace-based faiths. However, in 1977, E.P. Sanders wrote Paul and Palestinian Judaism, arguing that Judaism is not a legalistic but a grace-based faith. Assuming that Sanders is correct, New Perspectivists claim that Paul’s and Luther’s theologies and experiences were thus not parallel. (...)
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    Deconstructing the past: Behind the text, in the text, confronted by the text.Ernest Van Eck - 2017 - HTS Theological Studies 73 (1).
    This article, taking the Faculty’s centenary celebration slogan of ‘Gateway to’ as cue, reflects on the contributions made by lecturers in the Department of New Testament Studies, University of Pretoria, that ‘opened the gates’ for the disadvantaged, excluded and marginalised. How did these scholars envisage inclusive believing communities and an open society with equal opportunities for all? It is argued that because of a historical, critical and close reading of the texts of the New Testament, many scholars belonging to the (...)
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    Jews enemies of Christianity?Ernest Van Eck - 2011 - HTS Theological Studies 67 (3).
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    J H J A Greyvenstein en A S Geyser se teologiese denke oor die volkskerkgedagte.Ernest Van Eck - 1995 - HTS Theological Studies 51 (3).
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    Paul’s community formation in 1 Thessalonians: The creation of symbolic boundaries.Kwanghyun Cho, Ernest Van Eck & Cas Wepener - 2015 - HTS Theological Studies 71 (1).
    This article presents how Paul, in 1 Thessalonians, executes the process of the formation of the Thessalonian community. Using the sociological concept of symbolic boundaries, it is argued that the resources – the kerygmatic narrative, the local narratives, and the ethical norms – that Paul incorporates into the letter take an essential role to promote the converts to derive a cooperative identity from the community to which they belong and to strengthen the distinction between them and the larger society. By (...)
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    Die Tomasevangelie: Inleidende opmerkings.Ernest Van Eck - 1997 - HTS Theological Studies 53 (3).
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    Eskatologie en koninkryk in die Markusevangelie.Ernest Van Eck - 2008 - HTS Theological Studies 64 (1).
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    Editorial to the Van Aarde Festschrift.Ernest Van Eck & Yolanda Dreyer - 2011 - HTS Theological Studies 67 (1).
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    Hell revisited: A socio-critical enquiry into the roots and relevance of hell for the church today.Hanre Janse van Rensburg & Ernest Van Eck - 2008 - HTS Theological Studies 64 (3).
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    Redaksioneel tot die T.F.J. Dreyer Huldigingsbundel.Ernest Van Eck - 2011 - HTS Theological Studies 67 (3).
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    Globalised mission as opportunity.Pierre J. Jacobs & Ernest Van Eck - 2015 - HTS Theological Studies 71 (3).
    Globalisation develops at a staggering pace that envelopes and infiltrates local South African communities in various ways. Through technology a person can have access to anything today. Should the church try to keep up, or compete with such a reality? This article aims to encourage the church to develop a responsible missional character, which embraces the opportunities globalisation offers – to be a participative forum in a community comprising of more than religious people. Through re-evaluating the church’s missional intent, by (...)
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    A Sitz for the Gospel of Mark? A critical reaction to Bauckham's theory on the universality of the Gospels 1.Ernest Van Eck - 2000 - HTS Theological Studies 56 (4).
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    Gerhardsson, Birger 1986 - The Gospel Tradition.Ernest Van Eck - 1998 - HTS Theological Studies 54 (1/2).
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