Resepsie van 2 Makkabeërs 6:18-7:42 in 'n multi-kulturele Suid-Afrikaanse Protestantse gemeenskap

A sample investigation into how a multi-cultural Protestant South African community received the martyr texts in 2 Maccabees 6:31-7:42 provided interesting results. Various threats to their Christian faith were identified. A deep spiritual need emerged to make sense of troubling circumstances. In an...

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Authors: Jordaan, Pierre J. 1959- (Author) ; De Bruyn, Jacobus (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Afrikaans
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Published: 2013
In: Journal for semitics
Year: 2013, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 289-301
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:A sample investigation into how a multi-cultural Protestant South African community received the martyr texts in 2 Maccabees 6:31-7:42 provided interesting results. Various threats to their Christian faith were identified. A deep spiritual need emerged to make sense of troubling circumstances. In an attempt to address these problems the martyr texts of 2 Maccabees 6:31-7:42 were seen to be suitable. The research in this paper was undertaken without any expectation that we would reach any specific results. The spiritual need among this specific sample of a Protestant community in South Africa shows that it may be the right time for a fresh approach to the corpus of apocryphal books.
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
Persistent identifiers:HDL: 10520/EJC147429