Jonathan A Draper

Biographic Data

ID3988273
NAMEJonathan A Draper
GIVEN NAMESJonathan A
FAMILY NAMEDraper
SIGNATUREDRAPER J A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
ORCID0000-0001-8458-7563
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • Didache

    Open AccessJonathan A DraperCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2020

    The Didache is an early Jewish Christian manual for community life dating no later than the end of the first century ce or the beginning of the second, which was rediscovered in 1873. Beginning with catechesis drawn from Jewish Two Ways tradition it provides rules for initiation, community meal, leadership, hospitality, tithing, and a concluding apocalypse which are markedly different from what became the norm in Western Christianity. It remains …

  • Theology After Brexit

    Jonathan Draper, Jonathan A DraperARTICLEModern Believing2020

    The process of Brexit has exposed deep and damaging divisions in civil society and shown the dysfunctional nature of our politics and political institutions. These divisions have further exposed underlying issues of racism and xenophobia, and a failure of the churches to offer a theological critique or to come to terms with their own imperialist, colonialist, and ‘exceptionalist’ past. The incarnation of God in Christ and the dynamics of the Chri…

  • Pierre Bourdieu and the Role of the Spirit in Some Zulu/Swathi aics

    Jonathan A DraperCHAPTERBourdieu in Africa2016

  • African Contextual Hermeneutics

    Jonathan A DraperARTICLEReligion and Theology2015

    The role of the missionaries and their widespread dissemination of the Bible in the process of colonisation of Africa problematized the interpretation of its text, particularly in South Africa, where it was used both to legitimate apartheid and in the struggle for liberation. This paper documents the emergence of the “Tri-polar Model” (Grenholm and Patte, as modified by Draper) in African Contextual Hermeneutics, and problematises it in terms of …

  • Didache

    Open AccessJonathan A DraperCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The Didache or “Teaching of the Twelve Apostles” is an early Jewish Christian manual for the instruction and initiation of Gentile converts and the ordering of community life, probably originating before the end of the first century ce .

  • The Bishop and the Bricoleur

    Jonathan A DraperCHAPTERThe Bible in Africa2000

  • Ritual Process and Ritual Symbol in Didache 7-10

    Jonathan A DraperARTICLEVigiliae Christianae2000

    RITUAL PROCESS AND RITUAL SYMBOL IN DIDACHE 7-10 BY JONATHAN A. DRAPER ABSTRACT: Didache 7-10 provides an integrated block of ritual material intended for the aggregation phase of the initiation of Gentiles into a Jewish Christian community. The text is examined in terms of Victor Turner's the- ory of ritual process and ritual symbol. The dominant ritual symbol, which connects this aggregation rite with the whole initiation process is that of lif…

  • Ritual Process and Ritual Symbol in "Didache" 7-10

    Jonathan A DraperARTICLEVigiliae Christianae2000

  • The Didache in Modern Research

    Jonathan A DraperARTICLEVigiliae Christianae1997

    This collection of modern articles on the Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles documents an increasing scholarly interest in its importance for the understanding of Christian origins. Leading Jewish and Christian scholars in the field are represented among the contributors

  • The Development of ‘the Sign of the Son of Man’ in the Jesus Tradition

    Open AccessJonathan A DraperARTICLENew Testament Studies1993

    In a recent article, J. Gibson has re-opened the question of Jesus' refusal to give a sign. 1 His conclusion that such a sign would be an apocalyptic and triumphalist embodiment of the mighty act of God on behalf of Israel raises the question as to whether a general or specific sign was expected