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Research Articles (Old Testament Studies): Recent submissions
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-05)The Babylonian Exile was a historical catalyst compelling Jewish authors of the Second Temple period to deal with their respective situations in the course of history according to – or against – various predicaments from ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-03)This article aims to explore the matter of context in biblical exegesis and interpretation. Several exegetical approaches are discussed, namely, text-immanent, intertextual comparison, reader-response criticism, which is ...
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(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2019-12-06)This article aims to show that Yahweh acts as a comforter of the traumatised: the exiles in Babilon. Some of them are eager to return to Jerusalem although they know that the city was destroyed. The prologue of Isaiah 40 ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11-14)Eben Scheffler wrote much on poverty and social injustice, and this article focusses on his understanding of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts in order to comprehend the different dimensions of suffering and the ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2019-11-29)The article examines the perception of atheism in Plato’s Apology of Socrates (4th century BC) in comparison to the book of Sapientia Salomonis (about 1st century BC or 1st century AD) from a cultural critical perspective. ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2019-12-06)The following exposition goes back to my lecture, ‘The Ways of YHWH and the Ways of the supplicant in the fifth and last Psalter of David’, at the convention, ‘The Torah in the psalms and the prophecy’, held at Munich ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2019)The language of prostitution is used in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in both literal and metaphorical senses. Although harlots (prostitutes) and prostitution are mentioned in the HB/OT (Lev 18; 21:1–15 and Deut 23), these ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)The phenomenon of ritual criticism in prophetic writings of the HB/OT is one that highlights the discrepancy between ritual and lifestyle on the one hand and emphasizes the significance of rituals for the improvement of ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11-21)Eben Scheffler’s understanding of Luke 24:13–33 enabled us to understand the exegesis of the Old Testament of the past two millennia as a play with words, expressions and interpretations. According to Luke, the suffering ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11-19)The focus of this article is on the cult-critical statement(s) in Amos (5:21–24) and Isaiah (1.10–20). The title of this article inevitably leads us to the question of the relationship between the practice of the cult ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2019)The so-called “forced labour” or “corvée labour” (מַס ) is a common and widespread institution of the ancient Near East. The Old Testament narratives of the early kingdom extensively refer to the same institution and ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2019-12-07)The relationship between the Torah and the Prophets has been a matter of dispute. This article discusses the links of the Book of Jeremiah especially with the warnings in Leviticus 26 and the curses in Deuteronomy 28, ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2019-12-12)In order to highlight and appreciate Eckart Otto’s contributions to a better scientific understanding of the Pentateuch, I will not enumerate and comment on all the books and papers that he has written in this regard ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2019-12-12)Eckart Otto’s four-volume commentary on Deuteronomy will remain for many decades a benchmark for the study of Deuteronomy and the Pentateuch. One important aspect of Otto’s work is his focus on research history, and in ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2019-12-12)The composition of the Sinai pericope presents the reader with several literary problems, with specific reference to the incoherence of the text caused by textual irregularities in the sense of time, genre and theological ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)This essay focuses on land conceptions in the Psalter, dealing with Psalms reflecting on Israel’s history regard land as an integral part of remembrance and YHWH as a powerful and mighty saviour. As he was able to fulfil ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)Ausgehend von der virulenten Fragestellung nach der Intertextualität, ihren Möglichkeiten, Methoden und Herausforderungen, werden die Belege des (Kriegs-)Bogens (קשׁת ) in den Asaph-Psalmen (Ps 76; 78) und in der Hosea-Schrift ...
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(Unisa Press, 2019)Amongst the approximately 250 body parts which are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the foreskin is mentioned infrequently, even when it is closely linked to circumcision, an essential religious, national, and identity marker. ...
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(Unisa Press, 2019)The struggle over land and its socio-economic relatedness, power, loss, and restoration ignites prophetic oracles represented in different clusters of prophetic activities in the Prophetic Books. While prophetic indictments ...
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