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(AOSIS, 2022-03)Gender-specific frameworks detect androcentrism in biblical texts and create a methodology and a reading practice of reading the stories of women not only as by-products of their environments or religious figures but also ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-09-13)Special Religious Education (SRE) classes are held in New South Wales public primary schools weekly. This article is built on a review of SRE classes based on Anglican past experiences to develop recommendations to ameliorate ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-05-17)A woman who engages in sex for money is referred to in Proverbs 2:16-22 as a forbidden woman or a prostitute. Anyone who engages in sex for wealth or advancement is shown as a loose and confused lady in the pericope. This ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-10-28)This research examined the increasing human rights abuses, reminiscent of jungle justice, in Nigeria in the light of John Rawls’s theory of justice and Deuteronomy 19:15–21. The legal code contained in Deuteronomy was ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-07-07)Jacqueline Vayntrub argues that the date-palm root helps us see the link metaphor between two Tamar figures in Genesis 38 and 2 Samuel 13. However, it is more appropriate to see its fruit as the link metaphor, although in ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-06-30)Few studies have examined unethical business practices in Nigeria, and no study has examined unethical business practices in Warri local government area of Delta State from the lens of Proverbs 11:1-6. A reading of Proverbs ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-04-19)Hermeneutics is the science of textual interpretation and comprises a wide range of disciplines, which helps to control subjective influences in the study of the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures. It is imperative to ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-07-12)The literary construct of Ruth 4:1-13, which borders on the marriage union of Boaz and Ruth, is underscored with the loving-kindness of God. Boaz was not obligated under any legal requirement to marry Ruth. However, following ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-09-22)Corruption has undoubtedly become a familiar concept that has almost paralysed the whole gamut of our private and cooperative lives. The rate at which it occurs is described as unprecedented. There is no gainsaying that ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2022)The article reflects on how African Christianity can attempt home-grown solutions for sustainable life in Africa. John Mbiti alleged that missionaries established a Christianity that befits European worldviews and despised ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2022)Traditionally women are valued for their ability to bear children and often regarded as mere vessels for reproduction. This patriarchal view of women is notably encountered in the portrayal of the Virgin Mary, who ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Interpreters have long noted that the book of Ezekiel has a priestly shape. From its explicit description of Ezekiel in 1:3 as יחזקאל בן־בוזי הכהן (“Ezekiel, son of Buzi, the priest”) to its widely accepted “priestly ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The narrator of the book of Ecclesiastes tells a story of his quest to find satisfaction in life and many times he looks at the fleetingness of man’s ability to grasp the full meaning of life events. The life that man lives ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)“Reception and Interpretation of Isaiah in Ephesians 6:13-17” The question of the relationship between the Old and the New Testaments is arguably one of the most complex subject areas of Christian theology. After the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study attempts to answer whether there are similarities between the perspectives on circumcision in the Old Testament, and amongst the amaXhosa. In trying to answer this question, I will be conducting a comparative ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The narrative of the golden bull in Exodus 32 depicts a threat to the existence of the Israelites. Yahweh wanted to annihilate the people because they had made and worshiped the golden. In this dissertation, I have explored ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-10-18)Although progress has been made in the study of Proverbs 21:4–7, existing literature is yet to shift focus on the relevance of the pericope in examining the different aspects of drug trafficking by Nigerians. There is no ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-09-16)Song 4:12–15 depicts the body of the bride as a ‘locked garden’ filled with fruits, exotic and medicinal plants and abundant freshwater. These luxuries are said to be plentiful and appealing but carry with them the threat ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-08-19)Old Testament dietary laws consist of the rules that God gave to the Israelites pertaining to what may be eaten and what should not be eaten. In the Old Testament, the animals that may be consumed are referred to as ‘clean’, ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-05-25)Compared with other biblical books that are named after its main protagonist, Job mentions many (at least 72) body parts. Yet hair is explicitly referred to only once, even when it plays a relatively significant role in ...
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