Beyond the Shade of the Oak Tree: The Recent Growth of Johannine Studies

The recent growth within Johannine studies has developed as a result of several factors. First, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls led to an appreciation of the Jewishness of John’s origin. Second, new approaches to John’s composition have emerged, followed by a larger set of inquiries as to the Johannine tradition’s relation to parallel traditions. This has been accompanied by a fourth interest: the history of the Johannine situation. Fifth, new literary studies have posed new horizons for interpretation, and sixth, theories continue to abound on the identity of the Beloved Disciple. A seventh development involves new ways of conceiving John’s theological features, leading to an eighth: reconsidering John’s historical features and re-envisioning its historical contributions in new perspective

Biological Monitoring of Cadmium Exposed Workers in a Nickel-Cadmium Battery Factory in China

Abstract: Biological Monitoring of Cadmium Exposed Workers in a Nickel-Cadmium Battery Factory in China: Guicheng ZHANG, et al. School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology-A cross-sectional study of renal damage in workers from a Chinese Ni-Cd battery factory is reported in this paper. The present exposure of surveyed workers to Cd may be likened to that of factories in developed countries prior to the 1950s. The results show urinary cadmium did not increase significantly with the years of exposure in aged workers exposed to cadmium. In these occupationally exposed workers urinary cadmium levels of 3 to 60 µg/g creatinine relate to between 15% and 20% of the workers having B 2 -MG proteinura, and blood cadmium levels less than 5 µg/l relate to more than 10% of the workers having B 2 -MG proteinura. The results suggest that a urinary cadmium concentration of 5 µg/g cr or a blood cadmium concentration of 5 µg/ l would not be a safe level. (J Occup Health 2002; 44: 15-21

Echoes without resonance:Critiquing certain aspects of recent scholarly trends in the study of the Jewish scriptures in the New Testament

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Theology disrupted : doing theology with children in African contexts

The thrust of this article is an attempt to respond to the question whether we can read and interpret the bible in Africa from the child theology vantage point. The author’s answer is in the affirmative in two ways: Firstly, it is that the majority of children in Africa are facing abuses of unprecedented proportions. Historically and traditionally, African scholars always read and interpreted the bible with African lenses. The African bible critic and exegete should be part of the church, the body of Christ which ought to be a lotus of healing. Theologising in the context of the crisis of the ‘child’ in Africa is fairly a new development and needs to be aggressively pursued. The second aspect of this author’s response is that when Christianity entered the Graeco-Roman as well the Jewish milieu, it used the family symbolism such as father, brothers, love, house of God, children of God, and so on. The New Testament authors therefore used family as reality and metaphor to proclaim the gospel. The African theologian, critic and exegete, is therefore in this article challenged to make a significant contribution using the African context in that, ‘… the African concept of child, family and community appears to be closer to ecclesiology than the Western concepts’.This article emanates from a consultation on ‘Child Theology’ in August 2015, co-hosted by the Centre of Contextual Ministry, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.http://www.hts.org.zaam2017Centre for Contextual Ministr

New Century Bible Commentary : V.4 : The Gospel of John

London642 p.; 22 c

The Theology of the Letter to the Hebrews : New Testament Theology

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