scholarly journals Patronage and clientelism in the fourth gospel

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abiola Mbamalu
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Scientific Model ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Social Scientific

Patronage and clientelism as a social-scientific model is used in this article to read the fourth gospel. It is the contention of the article that this model affords the reader fresh vistas of meaning that otherwise would have remained unexplored. It is a reading amongst other readings and does not make pretensions to illuminate every segment of the fourth gospel. Rather, it selectively looks at areas where reading against the backdrop of a patron-client model illuminates the text. This reading sheds light on the greatest gift Jesus came to give, the gift of life as a beneficium, and affirms that the signs that Jesus performed are commendationes. Jesus brokers the blessings of the kingdom to those who believe in him on behalf of the father who is the ultimate patron. Jesus also challenges popular notions of patronage by performing acts reserved for slaves by, for example, washing the feet of his disciples.In hierdie artikel word die begrippe begunstiging en kliëntskap as ’n sosiaal-wetenskaplike model vir die verstaan van die vierde evangelie aangewend. Die doel van hierdie artikel is om aan die leser ’n nuwe begrip te bied wat andersins onontgin sou bly. Die teks van die vierde evangelie word vanuit een invalshoek onder ander invalshoeke gelees en daar word nie voorgegee dat elke segment van hierdie betrokke evangelie daardeur belig sal kan word nie. Daar word vanuit ’n selektiewe invalshoek gefokus op sekere dele waarin die teks verlig word deur perspektiewe wat deur die beskermheer-kliënt model gebied word. So ’n fokus beklemtoon juis die grootste geskenk wat Jesus Christus aan die mensdom gee, naamlik die gawe van lewe. Jesus gee namens die Vader, wie die uiteindelike beskermheer is, die seëninge van die koninkryk aan diegene wat in Hom glo. Terselfdertyd daag Jesus ook die aanvaarde model rakende die draagwydte van beskermheer-skap uit deur verskeie handelinge wat vir slawe gereserveer was, self te verrig, soos dit blyk uit die was van sy dissipels se voete.

Social-Scientific Readings of the Gospel and Letters of John

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip F. Esler
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Grid And Group ◽  
Mediterranean Culture ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Social Scientific

This chapter surveys the development of social-scientific readings of the Johannine Gospel and Letters in roughly chronological order from the introduction of the sociology of knowledge and sectarianism to Johannine scholarship by Wayne Meeks in 1972, and the application of sectarian perspectives, especially influenced by Bryan Wilson’s typology of sectarianism, in the 1980s and 1990s. Sociolinguistic insights into anti-society and anti-language to understand the Johannine Sondersprache were also introduced in the 1980s together with Mary Douglas’ notions of grid and group and notions of Mediterranean culture. Applications of sectarianism and Mediterranean culture continued into the 2000s, but were accompnaied by new interests in identity, including the tension between Judean ethnic and Christ-movement identities in the Fourth Gospel, and in collective memory studies. All of these approaches continue to have a role in understanding the Johannine corpus.

scholarly journals Die relasie tussen grondbesit en die sosiale struktuur van Palestina in die Herodiaanse tyd

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G.J. Volschenk
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Scientific Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Land Tenancy ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between land tenancy and social struc-ture of Palestine in the Herodian eraThe article describes the relationship between land tenancy and social structure of Palestine. Secondly it describes the conflicting percep-tions of land tenancy within the social structure of Palestine. The conflicting perceptions of land tenancy led to conflict between the elite and the peasants. This conflict was intensified by the hierarchical social structure of Palestine. The article concludes that the use of the social scientific model of the social structure of Palestine prevents anachronism and reductionism in the interpretation of biblical evidence regarding land tenancy.

scholarly journals Die sosiaal-wetenskaplike begrip change agent toegepas op die Efesiërbrief: ’n toepassing tot kerklike welwese

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry J. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Change Agency ◽  
Scientific Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Theological Debate ◽  
The Church

This article gives a short reflection on the background and origin of the social-scientific model change agent in relation to change agency, a relationship that causes an alternate state of consciousness for the change agent. Arguing from the seven-point explanation of Malina and Pilch of how a change agent operates, this article applies the model to the letter to the Ephesians. The conclusion is that this social-scientific model is helpful for the recent church to realise how narrow the relation is between Jesus Christ and the church, in view of the future of the church as a future in Christ. A choice is made to find alternate words in the Afrikaans language suitable for the theological debate, namely  opdraggewer [change agency],  meningsvormer [change agent] and alternatiewe staat van bewussyn [alternate state of consciousness].

scholarly journals Insults and face work in the Bible

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Pilch
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Scientific Model ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Social Scientific

Insults play a key role in social interaction in the agonistic culture of the Middle East. This article constructs a social scientific model of social interaction regarding face work and insults and then filters the Gospel of Matthew through that model to highlight the prevalence of insult in the biblical world.

Framing Gifts

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
Adam B. Seligman ◽  
Robert P. Weller
Keyword(s):  
Gift Giving ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Vote Buying ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Scientific Arguments

This chapter begins by discussing the long social scientific arguments over the nature of the gift. We proceed to analyze several cases of gift-giving to show how understanding the different ways of counting as the same help clarify both the literature and the social worlds created by giving, receiving, and giving again. We argue that gift-giving is not just crucial to the constitution of society but that the ways this is achieved differ when they are grounded as memory, mimesis, or metaphor. The chapter considers different kinds of gifts, from charity to beggars, to handing down family heirlooms, to a range of Chinese practices from drinking to vote-buying.

scholarly journals Jesus and the Woman of Samaria (John 4:7b–15). From the Heritage of Tradition to the Mystery of Faith

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-636
Author(s):  
Piotr Kot
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
The Gift

The dialogue between Jesus and the woman of Samaria, which is related in detail by the author of the fourth gospel, focuses on the sign of Jacob’s well and the living water in its first part (4:7b–15). The climax of this section combines the well, the gift of God and the identity of Jesus. By way of allusion, Jesus leads the woman to the recognition of His person’s mystery. If readers wish to comprehend the meaning of this conduct, they cannot limit themselves only to the biblical story of the patriarch Jacob. They must consider the Targum traditions. Only thus is it possible to understand how a woman of Samaria could recognize the mystery of Jesus, a Jew. Setting the story in the cultural context sheds light on the author’s intentions behind the inclusion of the narrative of 4:1–42 in Corpus Johanneum. This is important in relation to the land of Samaria which was then inhabited by people who varied in terms of ethnicity and religion. The woman whom Jesus met at Jacob’s well is described in such a way as to represent all Samaritans: descendants of proto-Samaritans and immigrant heathens. All of them were invited to draw from the source of salvation opened up by Jesus Christ.

scholarly journals »We have Found the Messiah« (John 1:41) - The Formation of Disciples in the Gospel of John

2021 ◽  
Vol XIX (2) ◽  
pp. 315-329
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Nalewaj
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Disciples Of Christ ◽  
John 1 ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Child Of God

The disciple is a seminal topic for every Evangelist. The Johannine image of the followers of the Rabbi from Nazareth diverges from the Synoptic vision. In the Fourth Gospel, the disciples follow and serve the Master – like in Mark, Matthew, and Luke – yet the Johannine Jesus does not ask them to break their family ties or leave anything behind. A narrative analysis of the Fourth Gospel lets Culpepper consider the disciples of Christ from the perspective of their literary functions and determine the criteria of their discipleship. The critic divides their formation process into three stages related to seeing, believing, and continuing in the word. In the eyes of the reader, the followers of Jesus – perceived individually or as a community – perform functions as role models or representatives. To be a disciple is to accept the gift of becoming a child of God (John 1:12), which presumes a broad, universal perspective. For this reason, the author of John uses the term »disciple« as many as seventy-eight times, »Twelve« – only four times, while the word »apostle« is never spoken.

scholarly journals Ekonomie in die tyd van die Bybel as ’n huishouding-gebaseerde ekonomie

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G.J. Volschenk
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Household Economy ◽  
Scientific Model ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Family ◽  
Urban Elite ◽  
Social Scientific

Economy in the time of the Bible as a household based economyThe aim of this article is to describe the economy in the time of the Bible as a household economy. Firstly, the results of social scientific research indicated that the family institution was the primary socio-economic and political building block of the first century Mediterranean world. Secondly, the social scientific model of the pre-industrial city is used as interpretation framework for the first century Mediterranean economy. The article concludes with a reflection on the exploitation of peasants by urban elite and aristocrats. They were absent landowners who controlled the land and production on the land.

Production of New and Revised A.A.V.S.O. Charts

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 368
Author(s):  
Clinton B. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Variable Star ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Original Data ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Standard Format ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The University

A “new charts program” for the Americal Association of Variable Star Observers was instigated in 1966 via the gift to the Association of the complete variable star observing records, charts, photographs, etc. of the late Prof. Charles P. Olivier of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Adequate material covering about 60 variables, not previously charted by the AAVSO, was included in this original data, and was suitably charted in reproducible standard format.Since 1966, much additional information has been assembled from other sources, three Catalogs have been issued which list the new or revised charts produced, and which specify how copies of same may be obtained. The latest such Catalog is dated June 1978, and lists 670 different charts covering a total of 611 variables none of which was charted in reproducible standard form previous to 1966.

The Gift: Cochlear Implant Brings A Year of Change

ASHA Leader ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Susan Boswell
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
The Gift
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