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"Issi my kindt nie" : an ideological study of Matthew 2:16-18. Socio-cultural perspectives of children as sanctioning of violence against them
Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/129003 "Issi my kindt nie" : an ideological study of Matthew 2:16-18. Socio-cultural perspectives of children as sanctioning of violence against them Muller, Whitney Caroline Punt, Jeremy Muller van Velden, Nina Elisabeth Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Theology. Dept. of Old and New Testament Children -- Violence against Bible. Matthew, II, 16-18 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. Matthew -- Socio-rhetorical criticism South Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976 UCTD Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2023. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a socio-rhetorical reading of Matthew 2: 16 – 18, which seeks to understand how the reality of the Roman empire and the hierarchical social structures of the Matthean context intersect to create an ideological environment in which the massacre of the babies described in the pericope could occur. Matthew 2: 16 – 18 narrates an account commonly referred to as the “Massacre of the Innocents,” a dark element in the Matthean birth narrative wherein King Herod, perceiving his position to be threatened, orders every child under the age of two, the vicinity of Bethlehem to be killed. Vernon Robbins’ socio-rhetorical analytic allows for a dynamic and multifaceted reading of the text and enables the investigation of imperial and hierarchical social interactions to construct and fill out the disastrous ideological environment behind the violent account depicted in the pericope. Robbins’ analytic furthermore allows for ideological analysis such as Postcolonial interpretation of the text. As the infants of Bethlehem were the children of subjugated people living in the context of the Roman Empire, Postcolonial analysis is appropriate to analyse domination and subjugation in its many manifestations throughout history, gaining insight into how the past informs the present. Postcolonial studies have been further advanced and made richer by such introductions as African Feminisms to the optic. From this perspective, scholars such as Musa Dube make us aware of the complexities and the intersectionality of oppression faced by colonised women under the foreign colonial systems of oppression as well as the foreign and domestic patriarchal systems of oppression. This point of contact is referred to as “double oppression,” It is the lens with which I attempt to read the pericope in question. Accordingly, I propose that the children of Bethlehem suffer under two different yet interconnected forms of oppression: the first from the imperial oppression as children of the dominated and the second from the hierarchical, patriarchal structures that dominate their cultural and social lives. Ultimately, this study asks questions about the imperial and socio-cultural influences inherent to the Gospel and how the narrative helps to paint a nuanced picture of the vastly unjust interaction between the powerful and the powerless, as depicted in Matthew 2: 16-18. It also provides insights into the underlying ideological environment of the pericope, its place in the nascency account, and the theology of the Gospel as a whole. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis is 'n sosio-retoriese lesing van Matteus 2: 16 – 18, wat poog om te verstaan hoe die werklikheid van die Romeinse ryk en die hiërargiese sosiale strukture van die Mattheaanse konteks mekaar kruis om 'n ideologiese omgewing te skep waarin die slagting beskryf word in die perikoop. Matteus 2: 16 – 18 vertel 'n verhaal wat algemeen na verwys word as die "Slagting van die Onskuldiges", 'n donker element in die Mattheaanse geboortevertelling waarin koning Herodes, wat sien dat sy posisie bedreig word, beveel dat elke kind onder die ouderdom van twee, die omgewing van Bethlehem doodgemaak te word. Vernon Robbins se sosio-retoriese analitiese maak voorsiening vir 'n dinamiese en veelvlakkige lees van die teks en stel die ondersoek van imperiale en hiërargiese sosiale interaksies in staat om die rampspoedige ideologiese omgewing agter die gewelddadige weergawe wat in die perikoop uitgebeeld word, te konstrueer en in te vul. Die kinders van Betlehem was die kinders van onderworpe mense wat in die konteks van die Romeinse Ryk geleef het. Postkoloniale studies ontleed die oorheersing en onderwerping in sy vele manifestasies deur die geskiedenis, en verkry insig in hoe die verlede die hede inlig. Postkoloniale studies is verder gevorder en ryker gemaak deur sulke inleidings soos Afrika-feminismes tot die optiese. Vanuit hierdie perspektief maak geleerdes soos Musa Dube ons bewus van die kompleksiteite en die interseksionaliteit van onderdrukking wat gekoloniseerde vroue in die gesig staar onder die buitelandse koloniale stelsels van onderdrukking sowel as die buitelandse en binnelandse patriargale stelsels van onderdrukking. Daar word na hierdie raakpunt verwys as "dubbele onderdrukking," Dit is die lens waarmee ek die betrokke perikoop probeer lees. Gevolglik stel ek voor dat die kinders van Bethlehem ly onder twee verskillende dog onderling gekoppelde vorme van onderdrukking: die eerste van die imperiale onderdrukking as kinders van die gedomineerde en die tweede van die hiërargiese, patriargale strukture wat hul kulturele en sosiale lewens oorheers. Laastens, vra hierdie studie vrae oor die imperiale en sosio-kulturele invloede inherent aan die Evangelie en hoe die narratief help om 'n genuanseerde prentjie te skets van die grootliks onregverdige interaksie tussen die magtiges en die magteloses, soos uitgebeeld in Matteus 2:16-18. Dit verskaf ook insigte in die onderliggende ideologiese omgewing van die perikoop, die plek daarvan in die nakomelingverslag en die teologie van die Evangelie as geheel. Masters 2023-11-16T13:12:37Z 2024-01-08T18:52:31Z 2023-11-16T13:12:37Z 2024-01-08T18:52:31Z 2023-11-16 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/129003 en Stellenbosch University 90 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Children -- Violence against Bible. Matthew, II, 16-18 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. Matthew -- Socio-rhetorical criticism South Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976 UCTD Muller, Whitney Caroline "Issi my kindt nie" : an ideological study of Matthew 2:16-18. Socio-cultural perspectives of children as sanctioning of violence against them |
| title | "Issi my kindt nie" : an ideological study of Matthew 2:16-18. Socio-cultural perspectives of children as sanctioning of violence against them |
| title_full | "Issi my kindt nie" : an ideological study of Matthew 2:16-18. Socio-cultural perspectives of children as sanctioning of violence against them |
| title_fullStr | "Issi my kindt nie" : an ideological study of Matthew 2:16-18. Socio-cultural perspectives of children as sanctioning of violence against them |
| title_full_unstemmed | "Issi my kindt nie" : an ideological study of Matthew 2:16-18. Socio-cultural perspectives of children as sanctioning of violence against them |
| title_short | "Issi my kindt nie" : an ideological study of Matthew 2:16-18. Socio-cultural perspectives of children as sanctioning of violence against them |
| title_sort | issi my kindt nie an ideological study of matthew 2 16 18 socio cultural perspectives of children as sanctioning of violence against them |
| topic | Children -- Violence against Bible. Matthew, II, 16-18 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. Matthew -- Socio-rhetorical criticism South Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976 UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/129003 |
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