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Research Articles (Old Testament Studies): Recent submissions
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(Peeters, 2020)In this article we deal with the historical realities behind what we consider to belong to the old part of the Ark Narrative (1 Sam 4,1-7,1). Based on the finds of excavations at Kiriath-jearim, Shiloh and other places ...
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(University of LIMPOPO, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, 2020-06)This article studies the rituals and ceremonies that are practised by Tsonga widows at a village in Giyani in Limpopo. The research is based on the observation of the exclusion of widows from church attendance and ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2020)This article examines moments of suffering in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Initially Gilgamesh himself causes much suffering by abusing his power as king and tormenting his subjects day and night. Enkidu is created to curb the ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2020)In exploring the constituent elements of our modern-day nation state, this contribution wishes to highlight those areas in which anachronism might arise in Old Testament interpretations of ‘state’. This might happen due ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2020)Although Ps 23 can be called a psalm of trust, its purpose is to impart comfort in concrete life. In times of sorrow and crisis, this psalm has struck home. The article starts by reading Ps 23 as composition, then turns ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2020)Ezekiel’s underworld is characterised by hierarchy and gradation. Insofar as that is also true of sacred spaces in the Bible, Ezekiel’s underworld can also be imagined, heuristically, as a kind of unholy temple. Each of ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2020)The Song of Moses blames Israel for the idolatry that caused divine wrath and led to the people’s near annihilation by their enemies. This article analyses the Song’s structure and dynamics, its rhetoric of blaming and ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2020)This article examines the theological problem of a righteous sufferer in four psalms (Pss 22; 27; 69; 109), and what emerges is a coherent image. The psalmist(s) who refers to God feels himself like a righteous servant; ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2020)In this contribution, the condition of the Spirit of sexuality, which can also be read as a proxy for Spirit found in all spheres of life, is discussed. This Spirit has a specific definition arrived at by merging the most ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2020)This research investigates the enfolding of InnerCHANGE into Novo. These are two organisations with distinct identities that joined forces in 1985, and InnerCHANGE became one of the collectives under Novo. When they came ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-03-18)A contextual reading of Proverbs 31:10–31 indicates that the periscope was and is still being used to judge women and their conduct, not only personally but also professionally. The placing of Proverbs within the wisdom ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2020)Various laws were practised in ancient Israel. Although the present study will introduce briefly the concept of law as practised in Ancient Near East (ANE) in general, the project focuses particularly on ancient Israel as ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-11-11)This essay situates study of the psalter within an African interpretational modality. Given the fact that western scholarship has dominated if not prescribed approaches to biblical texts demonstrable from the absence of ...
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(AOSIS, 2020)In 2021, the ProPent (Project for the Study of the Pentateuch [Projek vir die studie van die Pentateug]) seminar is going to celabrate its 20th jubilee. This event of the Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures ...
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(Society of Biblical Literature, 2020)This essay endeavors to provide the possible sociohistorical contexts of the nonpriestly layers of the scout narrative in Num 13-14. I suggest that the scout motif in these chapters is a literary invention that belongs to ...
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(Sage, 2020-09)Ezekiel’s sign-act of the two sticks is an interpretive quagmire. Interpretive issues include the association of ‘Israel’ with both sticks, the use of the name ‘Joseph’ to identify the entity associated with the second ...
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(Sage, 2020-06)The depiction of Yhwh’s marriage to Rebellious Israel and Treacherous Judah in Jeremiah 3 has resisted interpretation in terms that cohere with the text’s surroundings or our wider historical and theological understanding ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-06)Today there are a number of ecological hermeneutics, such as the Exeter project (UK), the Earth Bible project (Australia), the anti-ecological readings and the eco-feminist readings. Whilst these trends provide Christianity ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2020)The overwhelming number of violent texts within the Old Testament raises serious theological and ethical problems for those who read the Bible in search of spiritual devotion and ethical direction. This article aims to ...
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(LitNet, 2020)Die begrip kanon word in die Christendom gebruik om die gesag van die Bybel aan te dui. Hierdie artikel betoog dat hierdie begrip verruim moet word. Die verruiming word gemotiveer deur na verskillende verwikkelings te ...
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