D. H. Johnson

The intention of this thesis is to provide a case study of how one Southern Sudanese society faced the challenges of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and to make an original contribution to the history of African religions. The prophets of the Nuer were chosen because of …

Commentaries recognized that two pericopae in the Gospel of John, viz. John 1:43-51 and 4:1-42, allude to stories about the Hebrew patriarch Jacob. This dissertation probes the theme of Jacob in these two pericopae and compares it with the theme as it occurs in the Jewish Bible …