Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Publication Title
HTS: Theological Studies
Keywords
New Testament, Zimbabwe, agrarian lifestyle, Christianity, Africa
Abstract
This article aims to critique western understanding of New Testament times. Most of the historical reconstructions done in the West are based on what biblical scholars have learned through primary and secondary written sources, occasionally from archaeological findings. The article recounts the author’s experiences at Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Students who themselves live in agrarian, technologically undeveloped rural areas, convinced her to return to Africa in order to travel with them and learn for herself how they relate to an economically poor lifestyle of two thousand years ago. As a result, the article argues that the ordinary in Africa should be seen as extraordinary from a western worldview and completes a full circle by being in the context of New Testament times.
First Page
239
Last Page
247
Volume
60
Issue
1-2
Repository Citation
Jackson, Glenna S., "Rebel Soldiers as Good Samaritans: New Testament Parables in an African Context" (2004). Religion & Philosophy Faculty Scholarship. 8.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/religion_fac/8
Original Citation
Jackson, Glenna S. "Rebel Soldiers as Good Samaritans: New Testament Parables in an African Content." HTS: Theological Studies 60: 1-2 (Mar/Jun 2004), 239-247.
Version
Publisher's Version
Peer Reviewed
1
Creative Commons License
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