SPEAKING OF JESUS

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Table of Contents

Preface

Curriculum Vitae of Willem S. Vorster

Select Bibliography of Willem S. Vorster

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

SECTION A BIBLICAL LANGUAGE

I. The Function of Metaphorical and Apocalyptic Language about the Unobservable in the Teaching of Jesus

II. Bilingualism and the Greek of the New Testament: Semitic Interference in the Gospel of Mark

III. In What Sense is the Louw/Nida Dictionary Authoritative?

SECTION B NEW TESTAMENT INTERPRETATION

Section B.1: Historical Perspectives

IV. So Many Men, So Many Minds: Reading the New Testament in a Postmodern Situation

V. Through the Eyes of a Historian

VI. The Religio-Historical Context of the Resurrection of Jesus and Resurrection Faith in the New Testament

VII. Stoics and Early Christians on Blessedness

Section B.2: Gospels

VIII. Kerygma/History and the Gospel Genre

IX. The Structure of Matthew 13

X. The Function of the Use of the Old Testament in Mark

XI. Meaning and Reference: The Parables of Jesus in Mark 4

XII. The Growth and Making of John 21

Section B.3: Apocalypse

XIII. 'Genre' and the Revelation of John: A Study in Text, Context and Intertext

Section B.4: Extra-Canonical Material

XIV. The Annunciation of the Birth of Jesus in the Protevangelium of James

XV. 1 Enoch and the Jewish Literary Setting of the New Testament: A Study in Text Types

SECTION C HISTORICAL JESUS

XVI. Jesus the Galilean

XVII. Jesus: Eschatological Prophet and/or Wisdom Teacher?

XVIII. The Relevance of Jesus Research for the 'New' South Africa

XIX. Redaction, Contextualization and the Sayings of Jesus

SECTION D LITERARY ANALYSIS

XX. A Reader-Response Approach to Matthew 24:3-28

XXI. The Reader in the Text: Narrative Material

XXII. Reader-Response, Redescription, and Reference: 'You Are the Man' (2 Sam. 12:7)

XXIII. Literary Reflections on Mark 13:5-37: A Narrated Speech of Jesus

XXIV. Characterization of Peter in the Gospel of Mark

XXV. The New Testament and Narratology

SECTION E INTERTEXTUALITY

XXVI. The Protevangelium of James and Intertextuality

XXVII. The Production of the Gospel of Mark: An Essay on Intertextuality

XXVIII. Intertextuality and Redaktionsgeschichte

Bibliography

Index of Modern Authors