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Research Articles (Old Testament Studies): Recent submissions
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(AOSIS, 2020-10)Quarantine, loneliness and psalms: In times of a pandemic, quarantine and physical distance are acts of charity. Leviticus 13–14 show that even in biblical times such measures served to protect the community. But they ...
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(Società Editrice il Mulino, 2020-05)The Book of Deuteronomy employs a variety of literary techniques to promote its reception, which makes it a paradigmatic case of proto-canonical literature. Deuteronomy’s claim to authority is derived in two ways. It reacts ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-10)Traces of thoughts. The place of a theology of the Septuagint in biblical scholarship: In the past decades, research has raised the idea of a theology of the Septuagint (LXX) on various occasions. Important works were ...
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(LitNet, 2019)Die artikel lewer ’n bydrae tot die debat oor twee soorte onreinheid in Levitikus. Die eerste helfte van die artikel volg ’n sinkroniese benadering en gee ’n oorsig oor waar die terme vir rein en onrein voorkom en watter ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)This paper illustrates how Psalm 137 is used to address the question of suffering by Jews and Christians during various crises of faith. In Jewish tradition, the psalm has a “meta-narrative” which meant reading it as a ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-09)This article expands upon the range of options and methods of some of my earlier studies on Euripides and the Old Testament. These studies have sought to discover similar linguistic features and concepts in the texts of ...
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(Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History, 2018)In the winter of 2017, a site survey was undertaken of Tell Asur, ancient Baal Hazor in the West Bank, for which this article is the full publication. Although it failed to discover a cultic site of Baal, its Byzantine ...
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Micah’s shepherd-king (Mi 2:12–13) : an ethical model for reversing oppression in leadership praxis (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-09)The exposition attempts to use Micah’s metaphor of shepherd-king (Mi 2:12–13) as a heuristic ethical model for reversing oppression and violence in leadership praxis. Given the reality of widespread oppression and violence ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2020)This article examines aspects of שׁוּב in the book of Malachi against the background of an obvious complementary and inadequate pattern of Israel/Judah's repentance and incomplete restoration. As people whose history is ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-07)The Hebrew Bible and/or the Old Testament is replete with narratives of families that are devastated and separated by the unfaithfulness of injustice. Such situations are mostly seen to be theologically reprehensible and ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019-10)Book V of the Psalter (Pss 107-150) is an interesting collection of psalms. After the opening Ps 107, celebrating God’s rescue of humanity from various dangerous situations, psalms attributed to David appear again after ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019-05)Ancient Israelite thought – represented by biblical Hebrew terminology – is aware of the difference between a non-assimilated stranger (רָכֵנ / legal Theּ). תֹושָׁ ב ;גֵּר) stranger assimilated-semi a of that and) זָר ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2019)Various theories have been advanced on the identity of the people who built the Great Zimbabwe National Monument (GZNM). On the one hand, some ancient Mediterranean communities (Lebanese and Phoenicians) are associated ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-03-19)On account of xenophobia, which seems to be a worldwide phenomenon, this article examines the issue of the ‘foreigner in our midst’ and approaches the problem from an Old Testament perspective. Firstly an overview is ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10-22)In pre-democratic – also pre-modern – times, religion had been at the centre of much of human life, filling the private as well as the public realm of people’s daily existence. However, with the change to democratic rule ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-02-06)This study explores humans’ ecological responsibility, firstly from an evolutionary perspective and then by emphasising especially the order and creation theology in the Old Testament wisdom literature. Ultimately, these ...
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(Sage, 2019-03)A recurrent myth in the Bible about God “slaying a dragon,” primarily in the Old Testament, provides a test case for using the “study of Scripture as the soul of theology” without depending on historical accuracy or indeed ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2019)It is commonly accepted that God is loving, honest, and would not purposefully deceive us to secure a harmful result or any result for that matter. 1 Kings 22:20, 22 and Jeremiah 20:7, 10 seem to represent texts that ...
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(Universität Salzburg; Bibelwissenschaft und Kirchengeschichte, 2019)Please read abstract in article.
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A literary development of the cloud and fire pillar motif in the Pentateuchal wilderness tradition (Universität Salzburg; Bibelwissenschaft und Kirchengeschichte, 2019)The pillar of cloud and fire, the most popular motif symbolizing the divine guidance in the wilderness, represents the last stage in the gradual development of the guidance motif. The development of the various “guiding ...
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