• Exegetical perspectives of Deuteronomy 19:15–21 on jungle justice in Nigeria 

  Eze, V.U. (Virginus) (AOSIS, 2023-12-20)

  Considering the large number of mob killings, especially the case of two suspected thieves who were burnt alive in the Enugu metropolis, a more exegetical approach to the issue of jungle justice becomes imperative to ...
• Why is there an sacrifice in Leviticus 14? 

  Meyer, Esias E. (AOSIS, 2023-10-21)

  This article engages with the issue of the אָשָׁם sacrifice in Leviticus 14. Firstly, the paper provides an overview of the extensive cleansing ritual in Leviticus 14. Then the issue of the relation between צָרַ֫עַת and ...
• Old Testament measures for quelling resource wars : Panacea for the Nigerian experience 

  Ugwu, Collins I.; Eze, V.U. (Virginus) (AOSIS, 2023-11-21)

  In human history, there has always been one form of war or the other, including resource wars, leading to the wanton destruction of lives and property. Nigeria is not an exception to this ugly global phenomenon. For ...
• Ruth 1:1–5 read in the context of challenges of the migration of Nigerians 

  Odo, D.O. (Damian); Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (MDPI, 2023-09-29)

  This study used Ruth 1:1–5 as a lens in the study of the increasing challenges Nigerian migrants face. Famine was ravaging the land, and hence Elimelech moved his family away from Israel to the country of Moab so they ...
• Resurrection on the Day of the Omer? Interpreting 1 Corinthians 15:20 in the light of Leviticus 23:9–15 and Menaḥot 10:2–3 

  Kato, Szabolcs-Ferencz (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2022-06)

  In 1 Corinthians 15:20 and 23, Paul calls Jesus “the first fruits of those who are asleep.” According to John, Jesus died on the Eve of Passover and was resurrected on the third day, which was the day of the Omer ritual, ...
• Biblical aniconism? Representing the gods of ancient Israel and Judah 

  Romer, Thomas Christian (Springer, 2023-01)

  This paper argues that one should not speak of an “original aniconism” in the cult of Yhwh, the god of Israel. In the Northern kingdom and in the first temple of Jerusalem, this god was represented in a theriomorphic and ...
• The mysteries of the Ark of the Covenant 

  Romer, Thomas Christian (Routledge, 2023)

  The Ark of the Covenant, or Ark of Yhwh, has stimulated the imagination of many people from biblical times up to today: it has served as the inspiration for many stories, as the subject of paintings, and even the fodder ...
• The North (ṣāpôn) in the Book of Jeremiah 

  Crouch, Carly Lorraine (De Gruyter, 2023)

  The »foe from the north« is a well-known trope in the book of Jeremiah. In 1989 David Reimer argued that this enemy should be understood as a nonspe- cific earthly enemy, with mythical overtones deriving from the location ...
• Hell : educationally in post-secular societies 

  Firth, Walter B. (AOSIS, 2023-04-04)

  Many countries around the world, including Australia, have secularism expressed in their identity. However, as these secular nations (as they understand themselves) shift into postsecular societies, it raises questions ...
• A trauma reading of Isaiah 1–12 from the “Unity Movement” perspective 

  Esterhuizen, Elizabeth; Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969- (Unisa Press, 2023-07)

  In this contribution we focus firstly on the “unity movement” which has changed the face of Isaianic studies over the last 30 or more years, having been characterised by the Duhmian interpretation of three separate books ...
• Nehemiah – leader in times of crisis 

  Wuench, Hans-Georg (AOSIS, 2023-08)

  Times of crisis call for sustainable leadership. Often in Christian circles, (especially among Evangelicals), the biblical figure of Nehemiah is presented as a model of leadership from which one can learn directly how ...
• 1 and 2 Chronicles as a discourse of power 

  Geyser-Fouche, Ananda B. (AOSIS, 2023-02)

  This article reflected a comparison of 1 and 2 Chronicles with its source documents. It transpires that the history of Israel and Judah is selectively retold by the authors of Chronicles with deliberate omissions and ...
• Ezekiel and the construction of cultural trauma 

  Crouch, Carly Lorraine (De Gruyter, 2022-12)

  The book of Ezekiel may be effectively understood in terms of Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of cultural trauma, in which catastrophic events take on a wider cultural significance because they are perceived as having ...
• Humans and non-humans as (נֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּֽה) and Ntu-beings : ecological appraisal of Gen 2:7 and 19 in dialogue with African-Bantu indigenous cosmology 

  Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)

  The Hebrew text of Gen 2:7, 19 describes both humans and animals as nephesh hayya’ (living being). However, a large number of contemporary influential Bible translations render this expression differently for humans and ...
• Exploring rabbinic approaches to the Psalms 

  Michal, Gavin (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)

  Today, the Jewish world has adopted a popularist - if not theurgical - approach to the Book of Psalms, where the Psalms take on a mystical and almost magical function.1 However widespread, this is only one facet of a ...
• „Legst du ihre Himmelsschrift auf die erde an?“ (Ijob 38,33) – was aber meint „Himmelsschrift“? 

  Bockle, Jakob (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)

  Since the hapax legomenon מִשְׁטָר* of Job 38:33b is understood as a “scripture of heaven,” its meaning can be deduced only from the en-vironment of the Old Near East but in particular from its context, Job 38:31–33 ...
• The debate on the sectarian movement in the Dead Sea Scrolls continues 

  Geyser-Fouche, Ananda B. (Unisa Press, 2023-02)

  This article reviews the debate concerning the sectarian movement in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The consensus that the movement described in the Damascus Document and Community Rule originated in a dispute over the high ...
• Keepers of the vineyard and the fence around the Torah : the vineyard metaphor in Rabbinic literature 

  Teugels, Lieve M. (Brill Academic Publisher, 2022-01)

  Rabbinic texts apply the metaphor of the vineyard to the Torah as well as to Israel. Conceptual Metaphor Theory allows us to explain the parallel use of the vineyard metaphor for the two target domains, Israel and the ...
• Mann Gottes oder Gottmann? Die Rolle Elijas in der Endzeit und die Rezeption von Maleachi 3,1 und 23-24 in der rabbinischen Auslegung 

  Teugels, Lieve M. (Universität Salzburg; Bibelwissenschaft und Kirchengeschichte, 2023)

  Typisierungen Elijas sind vielfältig: Prophet, Priester, heiliger Mann, Wundertäter, Streitschlichter, Vorläufer des Messias. In der rabbinischen Tradition findet man sie alle, oft mit legendären Zügen. Auch in der ...
• Binitariarism 

  Teugels, Lieve M. (De Gruyter, 2023-06)

  Binitarianism is the belief in two persons within one godhead. This is usually distinguished from bitheism—belief in two gods, but this distinction is not always clear in the scholarly literature. In this entry we take ...

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