• Raised eyes and humble hearts : the body as/in space in Pss 123 and 131 

  Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2023)

  As a mobile spatial field, the human body is a space and functions in space. The body governs spatial orientation and perceptions of direction, location and distance and determines human experiences and representations of ...
• “Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies” (Ps 68:35) : the theological intent of Pss 65–68 and their connections with the prologue to the Psalter (Pss 1–2) 

  Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2023)

  Psalms 65–68 constitute an editorially arranged and adapted cluster of psalms expressing universal praise and thanksgiving near the end of Book II of the Psalms. The article describes the theological purpose of the four ...
• Into your hand, I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, YHWH, O faithful God” (Ps 31:6) : the purpose of Psalm 31 as a part of the cluster of Psalms 25-34 to exhort the in-group to faithful trust in YHWH 

  Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2023)

  Psalm 31 is characterised by a mixture of earnest supplications for help and thanksgiving for having been helped by YHWH. It also contains two of the most memorable declarations of trust in YHWH, with the psalmist entrusting ...
• Revisiting the ‘kriegerischer Gott’ of the Akkadian period 

  Van Dijk-Coombe, Renate M. (MDPI, 2023-09)

  Boehmer’s Die Entwicklung der Glyptik während der Akkad-Zeit (1965), although nearly 60 years old, is still the major work on the cylinder seals of the Akkadian Period (2334–2150 BCE). It examines different themes and ...
• The prayer of Jacob Greek magical papyrus (PGM 22b) and speech act theory 

  Khumalo, Sihe (University of Pretoria, 2024-03)

  This dissertation utilizes Speech Act Theory in examining The Prayer of Jacob as presented in the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM 22b). The application of this theory to ancient rituals provides a valuable framework for analysing ...
• An African in Rome: Victor I, the Date of Easter, and Pluralist Christianity 

  Dunn, Geoffrey D. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-03)

  At the end of the second century, Christianity in Rome existed as a federation of individual communities, despite the narrative provided in the fourth century by Eusebius. There was a multiplicity of leaders, of social ...
• Personification and depersonalisation as unconscious coping mechanisms in Ovid's exilic texts 

  Van Rooyen, Angela Lengoloi (University of Pretoria, 2024-08-20)

  In about 8-9 CE, the Roman poet Ovid was exiled. While there, he wrote several works, including the Tristia and the Epistulae ex Ponto. This dissertation examines the psychological underpinnings behind some significant ...
• Perception changes over time on the usefulness of language learning strategies 

  Perea, Luis A. Lancho (AOSIS, 2023-04)

  This longitudinal study describes and analyses the shifts in students’ perceptions on the usefulness of language learning strategies (LLS) when learning Spanish as a foreign language, and explains the roles that these ...
• Remembered space : memory and imagination in Psalms 90-92 and Psalms 105-106 

  Kok-Pretorius, Regina Cecilia (University of Pretoria, 2023-10-31)

  Reflecting upon the fall of the Davidic monarchy, with which Book III of the Psalter ends, Book IV is set during and after the exile. Book IV inspires hope to a traumatised people in crisis by providing a renewed theological ...
• A spatial reading of Obadiah on the vertical axis of the ancient near Eastern cosmic geography 

  Schader, Jo-Mari (Unisa Press, 2023-07)

  Since the 1970s, biblical studies have experienced a “spatial turn,” giving rise to an emphasis on a variety of approaches to the spatial analysis of biblical texts. Space is something that is constructed, produced, and ...
• Hannah in stages and places : an exploration of narrative space in 1 Samuel 1 

  Rembold, Stefanie (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)

  The lack of contributions toward the study of narrative space in biblical literature has been lamented for the last four decades. While handbooks on narratology and narrative art have tried to expand discussions on the ...
• “May God bless us, so that all the ends of the earth will fear Him!” (Ps 67:8) : the spatial perspective in the eschatological vision of God’s universal rule in the cluster of Psalms 65–68 

  Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Unisa Press, 2023-02)

  Psalms 65–68 form a tight collection or “cluster” of psalms close to the conclusion of Book II of the Psalter. The implied redactors’ purpose with this cluster was to offer thanksgiving and praise to God for manifesting ...
• Diplomatic or eclectic critical editions of the Hebrew Bible? Considering a third alternative 

  Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus (AOSIS, 2022-10-17)

  Ever since the publication of the third edition of Rudolph Kittel's Biblia Hebraica (BHK3) to the present gradual production of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) so-called editiones criticae minores of the Hebrew Bible are ...
• Covenantal nature : representations of land in Hosea 

  Rembold, Stefanie (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The last decades of biblical scholarship have treated the land in various ways – as a character, a theme, or even a theology – and culminate in the position that the land is inextricably part of the YHWH-Israel relationship, ...
• The differences in language use and attitude towards language between men and women in Saudi Arabia 

  Alzahrani, Fatimah (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The topic of gender differences has attracted considerable critical attention from linguists because of the importance that sociolinguistics offers to the complex relationship between language and gender. Gender separation ...
• “This wine is treacherous” (Hab 2:5a) : reading condemnations against violence in Habakkuk 2:5–20 from an ecotheological perspective 

  Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus (Unisa Press, 2021)

  This study engages in an ecotheological reading of Habakkuk 2:5–20, a text riddled with text-critical, redaction-critical, and theological problems. I argue that the central theme permeating this text is the condemnation ...
• A social-scientific analysis of the representation of Jonah and the self perception of the Yehudite literati during the late Persian period 

  Schader, Jo-Mari (Unisa Press, 2020)

  This article addresses the question of what can be gleaned from the book of Jonah regarding the self-perception of its author(ship) and intended audience through a social-scientific analysis. What does the analysis of ...
• The interpretation of the parable of the prodigal son by two Latin Patristic authors, St Jerome and St Peter Chrysologus 

  Kritzinger, J.P.K. (Jacobus) (Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, 2021)

  In this paper, a comparison is made between Jerome’s and Petrus Chrysologus’ interpretations of the parable of the prodigal son. In Letter 21, written in 383/384, Jerome responds to a request by Pope Damasus to clarify ...
• Respect for Nature! Umweltethik und -ästhetik in Brandis und Ziemeks Ruf der Tiefe und Julia Boehmes Conni rettet die Tiere 

  Tchiha, Klaus Tezokeng (Association for German Studies in Southern Africa, 2021-12)

  This article endorses Paul Taylors concepts of environmental ethics compiled in the book Respect for Nature. A theory of Environmental Ethics. (1986 / 2011) It is based on the premise that literature plays a pivotal role ...
• Morbi artificum - a post-Ramazzinian academic dissertation on occupational diseases by a pupil of Carl von Linné 

  Hannu, Timo; Kritzinger, J.P.K. (Jacobus) (Croatian Scientific Society for the History of Health, 2021)

  This study presents the first full translation from Latin to English of the Linnaean dissertation Morbi Artificum or Occupational diseases, submitted by Nicholas Skragge in 1765. It consists of an essay that places the ...

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