THE NEW TESTAMENT AS POLITICAL DOCUMENTS

  • Jeremy Punt Stellenbosch University
Keywords: Ghettoising, Depoliticising, Demilitarising, Dejudaising

Abstract

 The political nature of the NT documents is carefully hidden away in the folds of a centuries-long tradition of Christianising and spiritualising the NT (and the Bible overall). The depoliticisation and demilitarisation of the NT works hand in glove with a long history of its dejudaising and equally long ghettoising of the Bible through narrow spiritual interpretation, obscuring or blurring its socio-political nature.

Author Biography

Jeremy Punt, Stellenbosch University
Old and New Testament 
Published
2017-05-25
Section
Articles