CV
Title Prof
Surname Van Aarde
Initials AG
First Name Andries
Birth 25 April 1951
Primary Email Address
Contact Details
Organisation where based University of Pretoria
Department/School/Institute Unit for Advanced Studies
Faculty Theology
Qualifications
Name of Degree: D Litt
Field of Study Greek literature - Relations to the New Testament
Institution University of Pretoria
Distinction Yes
Date Obtained December 2004
Name of Degree: PhD
Field of Study Cultural studies
Institution University of Pretoria
Distinction Yes
Date Obtained December 2000
Name of Degree: DD
Field of Study Bible. New Testament
Institution University of Pretoria
Distinction Yes
Date Obtained December 1982
Name of Degree: MA
Field of Study Semitic languages
Institution University of Pretoria
Distinction Yes
Date Obtained December 1978
Name of Degree: BA Honours
Field of Study Biblical literature (Greek and Semitic Languages combined)
Institution University of Pretoria
Distinction Yes
Date Obtained December 1977
Name of Degree: BD
Field of Study Christian theology
Institution University of Pretoria
Distinction Yes
Date Obtained December 1974
Name of Degree: BA
Field of Study: Major -Classical languages; Minors –German, Latin, French, Philosophyl
Institution University of Pretoria
Distinction Yes
Date Obtained December 1971
Career Profile
Position: Honorary Professor in the Department of New Testament Studies and Senior Research Fellow in Advanced Studies of the Deputy Vice-Chancelor (UP)
Organisation University of Pretoria
Appointed From January 2010
Current Yes
Position: Full Professor and Research Manager of the Faculty of Theology
Organisation University of Pretoria
Sector Higher Education Sector
Appointed From January 2000 To September 2005
Position: Full Professor and Head of the Department of New Testament Studies (Section A)
Organisation University of Pretoria
Appointed From June 1989 To December 1999
Position: Associate Professor, Department of New Testament Studies (Section A)
Organisation University of Pretoria
Appointed From January 1985 To May 1989
Position: Senior Lector, Department of Old Testament Studies
Organisation University of Pretoria
Appointed From August 1980 To December 1984
Position: Lecturer in Ancient Greek
Organisation University of Pretoria
Appointed From January 1979 To December 1980
Position: Ordained Minister of Religion (Roodepoort, Gauteng and Campus Minister, Pretoria)
Organisation The Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa
Appointed From January 1975 To July 1980
Position: Research Assistant for Prof. W.S. Vorster
Organisation Institute for Theological Research (UNISA)
Appointed From January 1972 To December 1974
Position: Research Assistant for Prof. A.B. du Toit
Organisation Department of New Testament (UP)
Appointed From January 1972 To December 1974
Personal Profile
I matriculated at the High School Wonderboom in Pretoria in 1968 and enrolled as full-time student at the University of Pretoria from 1969 until 1974, was appointed as part-time lecturer in Hellenistic Greek at the University of Pretoria in 1979, and lectured in part-time capacity Greek and Biblical Studies at the Africa Institute for Missiology at Hammanskraal (an over bridging tuition for students from disadvantaged communities) from 1985 until 1999. I was ordained as minister of religion in the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa in 1975 and served from 1975 until 1979 as full-time pastor and campus minister. In 1980, I was appointed as full-time lecturer in Old Testament Studies, associate professor in New Testament in 1985, and full professor and chair of the Department of New Testament (Theology, Section A) in 1989. From 2000 until 2005 I served as the research manager of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Pretoria, became honorary professor in 2008
and was appointed as senior research fellow in the Unit for Advanced Studies, directed by the Deputy Vice-chancellor for Research in 2010 until to date. From 2009 I have served as Chairperson of the Executive of the Board of Directors of the To Care Foundation for vulnerable people (a NGO and NPO Article 21 company which focuses on fund raising for poverty alleviation, social services, and "base communities" skills development). From 1985 until to date, I am the Editor of HTS Theological Studies (SA oldest theological journal) ( fully online and accredited by ISI, Elsevier Scopus, and SciELO SA. I obtained three doctoral degrees from the University of Pretoria: D Litt (Ancient Languages: Greek); PhD (History of Ancient Culture); DD (New Testament studies). I also obtained a MA in Semitic Languages) in 1978, a BA Honours (Greek and Semitic Languages Combined) in 1977, BD (Theology) in 1974 and a BA (Major: Greek and Semitic Languages; Minors: Philosophy, German, French, Latin) in 1977. I have been actively a member of the following professional scholarly societies: New Testament Society of SA; Society of Biblical Literature, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (selected as Co-Chair of the Matthew Seminar from 1999 until 2005); The Jesus Seminar of the Westar Institute; The Context Group: A Project on the Bible's Cultural Environment; and the Catholic Biblical Association of America. I also served during 1996-2000 as a member of the Board of International Advisors of the the Journal of Higher Criticism (published by the Institute for Higher Critical Studies at Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA) and as associate-editor of the Fourth R. An Advocate for Religious Literacy, the journal of the Westar Institute, during 2000-2004, and as a member of the University of Pretoria's Senate Research Committee during 2002-2005. My previous professional activities consist of being the chairperson of the Research Committee of the Faculty of Theology (Section A) at the University of Pretoria from 1990 until 1999, resident scholar at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Studies at the St John's University in Collegeville, MN, during the academic year 1992-1993, visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA) during a semester in 1997-1998, visiting scholar at the Tantur Institute for Theological Studies in Jerusalem for the semester October 1999-January 2000, and resident scholar at the St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden (Wales) in February 2000. I was internationally a guest professor in Egypt, Israel, Europe, Australia, the UK, and USA. I presented papers at the following international conferences: at the SBL International Meeting: Sheffield, Vienna, Münster, Dublin, Cambridge, Edinburgh; at the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniensis in Leuven (Belgium) in 1988, 1996, and 2011; at the SBL Annual Meeting in San Francisco (Philadelphia, Boston, San Diego, New
Orleans and Chicago; at the SNTS in Birmingham, Pretoria, Montreal, Halle and New York; at the Westar Institute Jesus Seminar Santa Rosa, CA in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2012; the Context Group in Portland in 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1996; at the Context Group International Meeting in St Andrews (Scotland), Tützing (Germany) and in Pretoria (SA); at the Tantur Institute for Ecumenical and Theological Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Givat Haviva Jewish Arab Center of Peace in Jerusalem during 2003. I attended the Catholic Biblical Association at Georgetown University (Washington DC) and at Seton Hall University (NJ). During the last 5 years I presented papers at the following national conferences in South Africa: the NTSSA in Pietermaritzburg and Potchefstroom; the NRF Conference on the Shifting the Boundaries in the Social Sciences at the Tshwane University of Technology (Pretoria), the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (Port Elizabeth) on research methodology; and at the University of Johannesburg on gender and queer theory. I have received the following awards and grants: the St. Deiniol's Library Research Award (Wales) (2000); the SA Academy for Science, Culture and Arts (in 2009 and 2012); the Mellon Foundation Mentor Award (2009-2010); the Netherdutch Reformed Church (HCM Fourie Award) in 2007; and the University of Pretoria’s Excellent Academic Achievement Award (five times during 1993-2004). In 2010, a Festschrift was dedicated to me by 67 peers of whom 29 were from outside South Africa, and who reflected on my theological, hermeneutical, and exegetical contribution. I am currently a research fellow of Prof Dr William Loader of the Murdoch University, Perth (Australia), participating in a project of the Australian Research Council on “Power discourses in the New Testament”; and a research fellow of Prof Dr Daniel Smith of the Huron University, Ontario (Canada), participating in the project “A critical edition of the Sayings Source Q”, and a research fellow in the SBL Section Psyhcological-Biblical hermeneutics, working on the project “Forschungsbericht Thirty years of psychological-biblical exegesis of the New Testament”.
Articles in Refereed/Peer-reviewed Journals
Title of Article: The Righteousness of God, Begging for the Poor and Paul’s
Apostolic Mission According to his Letter to the Romans, Title of Journal HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Volume 68(1), 2012
Title of Article: Jesus. the "Inside Agitator": Reading the Parables from a
Diaphoric Perspective Title of Journal HTS Teologiese Studies/Theolgocial Studies
Volume 68(1), 2012, Page From Art. #1032, 11
Title of Article: Regeneration and Resurrection in Matthew – Peasants "in campo" Hearing Time Signals from Scribes Title of Journal HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies Volume 67(3), 2012, Page From Art. #1012, 7 p
Title of Article: Texts, Co-texts, and Con-texts of the Empty Tomb in the
Jesus Tradition Title of Journal In Luce Verbi Volume 45(2&3), 2011, Page From 329 To 360
Title of Article: Matthew Studies today – A Willingness to Suspect and a Willingness to Listen Title of Journal HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Volume 66(1), 2010 First Author Van Aarde AG & CO-Author Dreyer Y Page From Art. #820, 10 p2
Title of Article: Postsecular Spirituality, Engaged Hermeneutics, and Charles Taylor’s Notion of Hypergoods Title of Journal HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Volume 65(1), 2009, Page From Article 166 p 6
Title of Article: Theological Trends in our Postsecular Age Title of Journal Verbum et Ecclesia Volume 30(3), 2009, Page From 1-8 (digital)
Title of Article “Foxes’ Holes and Birds’ Nests” (Mt 8:20): A Postcolonial Reading for South Africans from the Perspective of Matthew’s Anti-societal Language Title of Journal HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Volume 65(1), 2008, Page From Art. #318, 10 p, Page 10 of 32
Title of Article “Anthropological Rabbits" and "Positivistic Ducks": An Experiential Reflection on Pieter Craffert’s "Shamanic Jesus" Title of Journal HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Volume 64(2), 2008, Page From 767 To 798
Title of Article: Jesus’ Mission to All of Israel Emplotted in Matthew’s Story. Title of Journal Neotestamentica Volume 41(2), 2007, Page From 429
Title of Article The Formation of Postcolonial Theory Title of Journal HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Volume 63(3), 2007, Co-Author Rukundwa LS, Page From 1171To 1194
Title of Article Historical Consciousness and Existential Awareness in Karl Barth’s Hermeneutics Title of Journal HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Volume 63(4), 2007a, Co-Author Pelser GMM, Page From 1377 To 1411
Title of Article The Historical-hermeneutical Prelude to the Legacy of Karl Barth
Title of Journal HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Volume 63(4), 2007b, Co-Author Pelser GMM, Page From 1347 Page To 1375
Title of Article: Ebionite Tendencies in the Jesus Tradition: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas Interpreted from the Perspective of Ethnic Identity, Title of Journal Neotestamenica Volume 40(2), 2006, Page From 353 To 382
Title of Article: Faith as Response to Reconciliation – A Pauline Perspective Title of Journal Verbum et Ecclesia Volume 26(1), 2005, Page From 222 To 243
Title of Article: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas: Allegory or Myth –Gnostic or Ebionite? Title of Journal Verbum et Ecclesia Volume 36(3), 2005, text reproduced fron Tony Burke's critical Edition, Page From 826 To 850
Title of Article: The Greek Manuscript of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas Translated into Afrikaans Title of Journal HTS Theological Studies Volume 61(1&2), 2005, manuscript reproduced from Tony Burke's critical edition Page From 491 To 516
Chapters in Books
Title of book Coping with Violence in the New Testament (Studies in Theology and Religion) ISSN/ISBN Number 1566-20SX Title of chapter Paul’s Version of "Turn the Other Cheek" – Rethinking Violence and Tolerance, Editors: Van Henten J W & De Villiers PGR, Year 2012, Publisher Brill, Page of Chapter 43 End Page 68
Title of book Eschatology of the New Testament and Some Related Documents (WUNT) ISSN/ISBN Number 078-3-16-150973-5, Title of chapter "On Earth as It is in Heaven": Matthew’s Eschatology as the Kingdom of Heaven that Has Come Year 2010 Own Contribution Own Contribution Editors Van der Watt JG & Frey J Publisher Siebeck Mohr Start Page of Chapter 35 End Page 63
Title of book Focusing on the Message: New Testament Hermeneutics ISSN/ISBN Number 978-1-86919-259-4 Title of chapter Narrative Criticism, Year 2009, Editor Du Toit AB Publisher Protea Start Page of Chapter 381 End Page 418
Title of book Focusing on the Message: New Testament Hermeneutics, Exegesis and Methods ISSN/ISBN Number 978-86910-259-4 Title of chapter Social-scientific Criticism, Year 2009, Editor Du Toit AB Publisher Protea Start Page of Chapter 419 End Page 456
Title of book Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels, Volume 2: The Gospel of Matthew ISSN/ISBN Number 0-567-04194-8 Title of chapter Matthew’s Intertexts and the Presentation of Jesus as Healer-messiah Year 2008 Editor Hatina TR Publisher T&T Clark Start Page of Chapter 163 End Page 182
Title of book Salvation in the New Testament: Perspectives on Soteriology ISSN/ISBN Number 0167-9732 Title of chapter IHSOUS – The Davidic Messiah as Political Saviour in Matthew’s History Year 2005 Editor Van der Watt JG Publisher Brill Start Page of Chapter 7 End Page 31
Title of book One Text, A Thousand Methods: Studies in Memory of Sjef van Tilborg ISSN/ISBN Number 039 104 2300 Title of chapter Resolving Communication Disturbances in Luke 12:35-48 Through Narratology Year 2005 Editors Chatelion Counet & Berges U Publisher Brill Academic Press Start Page of Chapter 161 End Page 178
Refereed/Peer-reviewed Conference Outputs
Title of Contribution Bultmann’s Most Influential Contribution in the 20th Century Westar Institute Fall Meeting 2012, SBL 16-17 November 2012, Chicago IL Year 2012 For publication in Catholic Biblical Quarterly (Forthcoming)
Title of Contribution Jesus, the "Inside Agitator": Reading the Parables from a
Diaphoric Perspective Title of Proceeding SBL Psychology and the Bible (top ranked society in field) SBL Annual Meeting November 19-22, 2011, San Francisco Year 2011 For Publication by Peeters, Leuven (Forthcoming)
Title of Contribution Caught in the Snare of She'ol, but Dew Gives Life to Dust and End Time and After Life in Christianity Title of Proceeding Book Project, Praeger Publishing House (USA), edited by J H Ellens Year 2011
Title of Contribution The Ebionite Perspective in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas Title of Proceeding The Apocryphal Gospels within the Context of Early Christian Theology, Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniensis To be published by Peeters (Leuven), J Schröter (Berlin) (Editor) Year 2011, original manuscript reproduced from Tony Burke's Canadian Award winning critical edition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas
Title of Contribution Texts, Co-Texts, and Con-texts of the Empty Tomb in the Jesus Tradition Novi Testamenti Societas and the New Testament Society of South Africa Proceeding SNTS Annual Meeting Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas City/Country New York, USA, Published in In Luce Verbi Year 2011
Other Recognised Research Outputs
Description Editor-in-chief: Van Aarde is the editor of the HTS Theological Studies which is accredited by ISI (Humanities and Arts), Elsevier Scopus, and SciELO SA. According to the November 2012 SciELO’s citation impact report, HTS Theological Studies is the only theological journal included in the top 10 list of most cited SA journals (including natural sciences). HTS Theological Studies’s traffic referrals are analysed by top online sources, namely: Directory of Open Access Journal, Spring Hill College, Liberty University, AOSIS OpenJournals, and ATLA. Between January – November 2012 48 284 unique visitors viewed 202 493 pages. South Africa represents 8.10%. Other viewers are from abroad. During this period 635 824 articles were downloaded.
Description Awarded by the South African Academy of Science, Culture and Arts: The SA Academy awarded Van Aarde twice (2009 and 2012) for outstanding scholarship. The 2012 award was for 2 of Van Aarde's articles published in HTS Theological Studies as two of the eight best scholarly articles in Afrikaans in all academic fields. Fifty independent peer-reviewers, also from outside of the field of the humanities, including the natural sciences, took part in the reviewing process for the award. Year 2012
Best Research Outputs from Student Supervision in Last 8 Years
Markus Cromhout, 2007, Jesus and Identity: Reconstructing Judean Ethnicity in Q, Cascade Books, 15 May 2007 - 390 pages (PhD thesis, University of Pretoria). This dissertation was published in Wipf & Stock's Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context Series. Professor JC Baker, from Texas Christian University, reviewed the publication in "The Bible and Critical Theory, Volume 2 (2009) and remarked the following: "Cromhout’s study on Judean identity in Q is a tremendous accomplishment. His employment, and refinement, of social scientific models continues the forward progress of Social-Scientific Criticism. He makes a valuable contribution to the social-scientific study of early Christian .... Perhaps the greatest contribution that Cromhout offers is his thorough overview of Israelite/Judean history as it relates to identity and identity (re)formation in chapter three ... Cromhout has ... provided us with a benchmark from which future work will certainly derive."
Yolanda Dreyer, 2012, Institutionalization of Authority and the Naming of Jesus, 25 Jan 2012 (Ph D thesis, University of Pretoria). professor Dreyer is appointed as full professor and head of the Department of Practical Theology at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Pretoria. She is the first woman appointed ath the Faculty of Theology. Her dissertation is published by Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon, in the Pickwick Monograph Series.
Flip Schutte, 2008, Jesus’ Resurrection in Joseph’s Garden, Protea Publishers (see Dannhasuer, E., 2010, ‘Review article: Jesus’ resurrection in Joseph’s garden’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 66(1), Art. #373, 11 pages. DOI:10.4102/hts.v66i1.373), (PhD thesis, University of Pretoria. This dissertation was published by Protea Publishers.
Llewellyn Howes, 2012, The Sayings Source Q within the Contexts of the Third and Renewed Quests for the Historical Jesus: Wisdom and Apocalypticism in the First Century, Ph D thesis, University of Pretoria. Dr Howes is appointed as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. An article from the dissertation is accepted for publication in an ISI/Elsevier Scopus accredited journal. Proffesor Patrick J Hartin (Conzaga University, Washinton, USA) commends the thesis with the following remark, among others: "As someone who was involved in the reconstruction of the Critical Edition of Q throughout the process, I was impressed by the way Howes undertook his examination and reconstruction. His methodological procedures were indeed worthy of those what were used in the reconstruction of the Critical Edition of Q. I can only compliment him on his
whole approach and the conclusions at which he arrived."
Jonanda Groenewald (Edinburgh), 2006. Baptism, Eucharist, and the Earliest Jesus Groups – from the Perspective of Alternate States of Consciousnes, DD thesis, University of Pretoria. Dr Groenewald is awarded with the Mellon Foundation Mentor Price for her dissertation, and two articles from the thesis were published in an online ISI/Elsevier Scopus accredited journal.