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Research Articles (Old Testament Studies): Recent submissions
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-11-05)This article demonstrates the vindictive tone of Malachi’s final sermon by highlighting the amazing reversal of fortunes of the righteous and shocking end of the wicked. Such a reversal or antithesis this article proposes, ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-08-26)The purpose of this article is to discuss some basic problems and methodological steps concerning the encounter between Hebrews and Greeks in the Classical period and its impact on the Hellenistic era. The relationship ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-10-15)The awareness of the historical nature of our human existence had a profound influence on Old Testament scholarship. The historical nature of the Hebrew Bible was also realised and historical criticism was the result, ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-10-14)Any conversation on ‘heaven and hell’ is nothing else but a conversation about ‘life after death’. To understand the concept of heaven, earth and hell as described in the biblical context and surrounding cultures, it is ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2015)This article presents some perspectives about Yahweh and ethics from Malachi’s criticism of the rituals of the temple. Malachi’s theological and ethical uniqueness is observed somehow most clearly in the preponderance of ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-08-31)Should Proverbs be read as prose or poetry? Considering the language craft is of essential significance for a hermeneutical enquiry into the biblical book of Proverbs. Five suppositions to support the presupposition that ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-10-09)This article focuses on Malachi’s distinctive claims that guarantee a well-ordered community, namely the validity and feasibility of a Torah-compliant community. Since Torah compliance is a fundamental core of Israel’s ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-09-29)Perceived disruptions between the poetic and prose genres in the book of Job often lead to deconstruction or deconstructive readings of the text. In this article the broad outlines of a possible reconstructive reading ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-08-31)The Song of Songs is usually appreciated for its celebration of love in the foreground, erotic or divine, if these are not regarded as different aspects of the same experience. This has perhaps led to the neglect of the ...
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(Unisa Press, 2014)The oral, narcissistic and perhaps depressed woman lover introduced in the first article of the same title by the present author in this issue of the Journal for Semitics is nothing but a shadow cast by her bright background. ...
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(Unisa Press, 2014)Contrary to the common reception of Song of Songs as ecstatic love poetry, perhaps even exuding some divine atmosphere, is the mostly unrecognised voice of a very human and fragile female protagonist who is either fixated ...
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South African Old Testament criticism : squeezed between an ancient text and contemporary contexts (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-07-23)The article focuses on a debate initiated by Masenya and Ramantswana in 2012 about the lack of engagement with contemporary issues by South African Old Testament scholars. The article shows, with reference to the book ...
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(Unisa Press, 2015)Die Gebärmutter kann in der Hebräischen Bibel durch vier verschiedene Wörter ausgedrückt werden: ] ,ןֶטֶב ,םֶחֶר מעה ] und בֶםֶק . Dass diese Wörter auch manchmal metaphorisch oder mit anderen Bedeutungen gebraucht werden, ...
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(Unisa Press, 2014)The request for love and initiating love exchanges by the woman in the Song of Songs deviates from the norms of the day. Reading such audacity as promoting a feminine agenda perhaps says more about the reader’s world than ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-06-17)In some cases discussed below, the present form of the Septuagint is not representative of how Ancient Greek Tragedies were received by the LXX translators, but of how Old Testament traditions in Greek form were received ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-06-18)A Ricoeurian hermeneutic affords readers of the Old Testament an opportunity to access the biblical text anew as a source and norm for faith. Reese gave a convenient summarising description of Ricoeur’s hermeneutical ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-05-29)A confluence of sapiential and apocalyptic thought is found in 4QInstruction. This article investigates this phenomenon in 4QInstruction by studying the two main genres used in the book, indicating the central role of ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2015)The article is interested in how land ( ) is personified in the Holiness Code. It starts by describing the different “countries” portrayed in the Holiness Code and then discusses all the instances where land functions ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2015)The category of covenant is considered to be the dominant and cohesive idea in the theology of the OT. It is the means through which Israel conceptualise its relation with Yahweh. Although the term “covenant” is variously ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2015)This article argues that possible connections between Ps 23 and Proverbs have been overlooked to a large extent. It is well-known that the author of the psalm has appropriated the image of Yahweh as a shepherd of his ...
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