Speaking of Jesus : : essays on biblical language, gospel narrative, and the historical Jesus / / Willem S. Vorster ; edited by J. Eugene Botha.

• Superior document: Supplements to Novum Testamentum, v. 92
• Author: Vorster, W. S.
• TeilnehmendeR: Botha, J. Eugene.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston, MA : : Brill.; ©1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 92.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (551 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This volume presents a selection of essays by the late Willem Vorster, one of the most prominent New Testament scholars to have emerged from South Africa. An introductory essay by the editor explains Vorster's contribution to New Testament scholarship in general and to South African New Testame...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The Function of Metaphorical and Apocalyptic Language about the Unobservable in the Teaching of Jesus / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Bilingualism and the Greek of the New Testament: Semitic Interference in the Gospel of Mark / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• In what Sense is the Louw/Nida Dictionary Authoritative? / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• So Many Men, So Many Minds: Reading the New Testament in a Postmodern Situation / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Through the Eyes of a Historian / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The Religio-Historical Context of the Resurrection of Jesus and Resurrection Faith in the New Testament / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Stoics and Early Christians on Blessedness / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Kerygma/History and the Gospel Genre / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The Structure of Matthew 13 / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The Function of the Use of the Old Testament in Mark / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Meaning and Reference: The Parables of Jesus in Mark 4 / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The Growth and Making of John 21 / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• 'Genre' and the Revelation of John: A Study in Text, Context and Intertext / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The Annunciation of the Birth of Jesus in the Protevangelium of James / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• I Enoch and the Jewish Literary Setting of the New Testament: A Study in Text Types / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Jesus the Galilean / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Jesus: Eschatological Prophet and/or Wisdom Teacher? / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The Relevance of Jesus Research for the 'new' South Africa / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Redaction, Contextualization and the Sayings of Jesus / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• A Reader-Response Approach to Matthew 24:3-28 / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The Reader in the Text: Narrative Material / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Reader-Response, Redescription, and Reference: 'you are the Man' (2 Sam. 12:7) / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Literary Reflections on Mark 13:5-37: A Narrated Speech of Jesus / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Characterization of Peter in the Gospel of Mark / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The New Testament and Narratology / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The Protevangelium of James and Intertextuality / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• The Production of the Gospel of Mark: Essay on Intertextuality / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Intertextuality and Redaktionsgeschichte / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Bibliography / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha
• Index of Authors / Willem S. Vorster and J. Eugene Botha.