A cultural turn in New Testament studies?

Punt, Jeremy

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“…While the call to account for one’s social location in the reconstruction of Revelation’s political situation has carved a space for autobiographical hermeneutics (Mier 2002: 30), which many scholars in this paradigm see as the “writing in the wall” for the Scientific Postivist paradigm, the unchecked use of one’s “existential credentials” calls for caution. As Jeremy Punt observes, “autobiographical criticism becomes inauthentic when in an extreme postmodernist framework, it becomes individualistic and self-referring” (2016: 7).…”

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From Imperial Persecution to Colonial Situation: Alternatives to Persecution Theories in Revelation Studies

Mata

2023

Currents in Biblical Research

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For centuries the idea that John wrote the Book of Revelation to comfort Christians suffering Roman imperial persecution dominated the interpretation of the text's social setting. Due to the lack of archaeological and literary evidence, scholars have abandoned such a view and offered alternatives ranging from prophetic rivalries to Christian complacency to account for the Revelation's crisis rhetoric. However, these depoliticizing views assume that an absence of persecution amounts to a lack of systemic oppression and reflect the limitations and strengths of competing interpretation paradigms in biblical studies as well as the guild's Eurocentric ethos. Framing Revelation's rhetorical situation as a colonial situation, new approaches explore how John and his interlocutors turned idol food into a site for negotiating power, identity, and wealth.

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From Imperial Persecution to Colonial Situation: Alternatives to Persecution Theories in Revelation Studies

Mata

2023

Currents in Biblical Research

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“…As classic, it bears a surplus and longevity of meaning, but it nevertheless resists definitive interpretation. In fact, as in the past, the Bible can also function as a means of 'interruption' in cultural processes, depending on its interpreters' (or consuming audiences') openness to engage its notions of truth (Punt 2016). As a NT department firmly ensconced within the context of an everevolving SA (specifically) and Africa (broadly), the importance of the principle of semper reformanda (ongoing reformation) is always at the forefront of its work.…”

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Celebratory nostalgia: Reflecting on the work and impact of the Department of New Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria

Rensburg

2017

Verbum Eccles.

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In lieu of the centenary celebrations of the FT at the UP, this chapter takes a closer look at the Department of NTS. It does not only want to serve as a reflection on people and events that have led to the department’s present. Making use of introspective examination focused on the Department’s current position, task and impact, the chapter aspires to allow for the generation and evaluation of mental representations of possible futures. It thus anticipates exploring the history, work and impact of the Department of NTS at the UP, briefly by focusing on the variety of methods used by current members of the Department in their various research projects as well as the impact that these projects have and can continue to have. In doing so, the chapter demonstrates that the Department embraces a methodology which holds the diachronic and synchronous approaches in dialogue, thus pursuing a holistic approach. Through this continual pursuit of a holistic approach, the Department of NTS ensures a focus on the distinctive contribution that the NT offers – a better understanding of the dialectic between theological conceptualisations and historical reality.

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A cultural turn in New Testament studies?

Cited by 2 publications

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From Imperial Persecution to Colonial Situation: Alternatives to Persecution Theories in Revelation Studies

From Imperial Persecution to Colonial Situation: Alternatives to Persecution Theories in Revelation Studies

Celebratory nostalgia: Reflecting on the work and impact of the Department of New Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria

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