• Re-examining the representation of the land in Hosea 4–11 in light of sacred space 

  Rembold, Stefanie (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2024-03-15)

  This article reconsiders the role of land in the YHWH-Israel relationship in Hos 4–11, a text which reworks positive notions of land—gift, inheritance, homeland—as the land becomes associated with Israel’s iniquitous actions ...
• Tertullian, apostolicity, and the apostles 

  Dunn, Geoffrey D. (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 2024-09)

  How did Tertullian regard the apostles? This article investigates the references to them scattered through his writings both as individuals and as a collective. It reveals that individually the apostles were remote figures ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• “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 ...
• From desperation to adoration : reading Psalm 107 as a transforming spatial journey 

  Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus (University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2021-12-10)

  Critical spatiality opens avenues to investigate the transforming power of the authors/redactors of the Hebrew Bible’s spatial imagination. I read Psalm 107 as a spatial journey bridging the divide between the desperation ...
• Two ancient theologians’ interpretations of the withered fig tree (Mt 21:18–22) 

  Stander, Hennie (Hendrik Frederik), 1953- (AOSIS, 2021-07-06)

  This article is an investigation on how two theologians from the Early Church interpreted the withered fig tree, as narrated by the evangelist Matthew (Mt 21:18–22). The two theologians referred to are Origen of Alexandria, ...
• Psalm 27:4 – to reflect in his temple : communion with YHWH as the culmination of the journey of life 

  Botha, Philippus Jacobus (AOSIS, 2021-05-13)

  Since the time of Mowinckel, the verb בקר (pi) in Psalm 27:4 was often interpreted as referring to a priest’s function of examining an offering. The parallel part of the verse and other intratextual and intertextual ...

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