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Dr KP Motuku

Senior Lecturer | College of Human Sciences
School of Humanities | Department: Biblical and Ancient Studies

Tel: 012 429 4692
Campus: Muckleneuk (Main Campus)
Building: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Office: WMM 8-85

  • PhD New Testament and Related Literature (UP)
  • MA Systematic Theology (Dogmatics & Ethics UP)
  • BA Honours Psychology (UNISA)

  • Luke-Acts Volume
  • Empire Studies
  • Graeco-Roman World
  • Post-colonial Studies
  • Political Economy

  • Wealth-Poverty reading issues in Luke.
  • Anti-imperial reading methodology
  • Post-colonial reading

Conference Papers

2022

Orality and memory in Luke 1-2: Imperial-critical womanist reading of the Lukan infant narrative highlighting Mary as the mother of the revolution (Presented at the Annual NTSSA Conference in Stellenbosch 6-10 June 2022)

2023

“The land is Ours”: Anti-imperial reading of the Benedictus in the face of landlessness in South Africa” (presented at the EABS Graduate Symposium in Jerusalem in March 27-29).

Neither(s) of Paul in Galatians 3:28 in the light of African class struggle in South Africa: Anti-Imperial reading (New Testament Society of Southern Africa annual meeting 26-29 June 2023 at the North-West University, Potchefstroom)

Luke's gospel in the light of black experiences in South Africa-Anti-Imperial reading (New Testament Society of Southern Africa annual meeting 26-29 June 2023 at the North-West University, Potchefstroom)

‘Zacchaeus moment’ as a theological paradigm for justice and reconciliation in post-Apartheid-An imperia lcritical reading (presented at the EABS Annual Conference in Syracuse 10-13 July 2023).

Marginality and Othering in Luke’s gospel: Anti-imperial reading in the light of racism and xenophobia in South Africa-SBL International Conference in Pretoria 3-7 July 2023).

 

2024

Radical reconciliation in Luke 19:1-10 as a paradigm for economic justice in post-apartheid South Africa- An anti-imperial reading (Southern African Society of Pentecostal Studies Conference-UNISA 27-28 February).

Lukan universal motif, early Afrikaner Calvinism, and the South African-Israel ICJ case: Lessons for the 21st century Israeli-American Zionism- Anti-imperial reading (EABS Annual Conference 15-18 Sofia University Bulgaria).

Submissions under editing

Verbum Article

Luke 19:1-10 as a paradigm for justice and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa: An anti-imperial reading (Due to be published mid-August in Verbum)

Book Chapter

Anti-imperial reading of Luke 4:16-32 as a paradigm for holistic mission: A South African Perspective