Gideon Ibn Tambiyi

DID JESUS REALLY SAY EÑ×ÏÌÁÉ ÔÁ×U 'I AM COMING SOON'? INTERROGATING THE USAGE OF ÔÁ×U 'SOON' IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

This work challenges the motive behind the usage of ôá÷? 'soon' in the New Testament amidst the various interpretive thoughts associated with the word as ipsissima vox rather than the ipsissima verba of Jesus. Such an ipsissima verba quest has made some people consider Jesus as a deceiver, who has kept his followers in deceit for centuries about th...

‘The Jesus I Didn't Know': The Historical Jesus in an Unappreciated African Basket

The emergence of the Age of the Enlightenment ushered in critical thinking about the Gospels and Jesus. This makes the hypostatic perspective of Jesus as being God and human to be subjected to academic scrutiny. Modern critical scholars predominantly in North America and Germany have attempted to place Jesus on the scientific scale which seems to v...