- UPSpace Home
- →
- Humanities
- →
- Ancient Languages
- →
- Research Articles (Ancient Languages)
- →
- Browsing Research Articles (Ancient Languages) by Type
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing Research Articles (Ancient Languages) by Type "Article"
Now showing items 1-20 of 186
-
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2001)In this article the author argues that there is a need for a new "official" translation of the Bible. He discusses modern trends in Bible translation. He also evaluates Afrikaans translations of the Bible on the basis ...
-
(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2003)Ephrem the Syrian’s twelfth hymn in the cycle De Virginitate is translated and analysed. This hymn describes the temptation of Christ by Satan as a contest in which Satan tried to humiliate Christ, but was defeated and ...
-
(Unisa Press, 2013)Inanna/Ishtar is regarded as the most important goddess of the Sumerian pantheon, yet she disrupted the social order and distorted the normative boundaries of Mesopotamian society. The classification of Inanna/Ishtar has ...
-
(Unisa Press, 2013)Important Aramaic papyri documents have been discovered at the fortified city on the island of Elephantine in the Nile River. These documents describe, inter alia, the lives of a group of Jewish mercenaries and their ...
-
(Old Testamanet Sociaty of South Africa, 2008)In a late phase of redaction, some of the psalms in the first and second Davidic Psalter were supplied with headings that contain biographical references to David. One of these psalms is Psalm 34. The shared traits between ...
-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2009)Psalm 24 seems to consist mainly of a hymnic introduction (vv. 1-2), a so-called “entrance torah” (vv. 3-5), and a liturgical piece once used at the temple gates (vv. 7-10), to which a post-exilic identification of the ...
-
(Unisa Press, 2009)Taken at face value, the healing of the lame man at Bethesda (John 5:1-18) seems to have offended the Jewish authorities mainly because of the healed man’s violation of the sabbath. In verse 18, however, the reader learns ...
-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2009)Recently, a few scholars questioned the thesis of a prophetic persona responsible for Isaiah 40-55/66. It has been argued (by Prof. Ulrich Berges and others) that temple singers / musicians (as we hear of them in postexilic ...
-
(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 ...
-
(Classical Association of South Africa, 2019)The language of the Ancient Greek novelist, Achilles Tatius, is often described as ‘Atticist’ (that is, imitating or recalling the Attic dialect). To date, however, no precise analysis on the Atticist nature of his language ...
-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)A new psalm had to be composed for new circumstances. It made use of a well-known oracle of God, but in a new political, social, religious, and/or historical context, that oracle had a new message. In a context of praise, ...
-
(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2007)Purity was one of the most fundamental social values in ancient Mediterranean society. In ancient literature, we frequently read about someone or something being pure or impure. However, the available research on purity ...
-
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)The Church Fathers did not have a common theory or system of atonement. Therefore, if one wants to appreciate what they had to say about atonement, one needs to study the rich images that pervade their literature. Their ...
-
(SAKOV, 2014)At a time when the emphasis in liturgical practice is shifting increasingly away from intellectualisation towards experiential understanding and connectedness, or embodiment, the church music leader is presented with new ...
-
(Classical Association of South Africa, 2014)The bestiality episode in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (10.19.3-22.5) is unique in extant Latin literature and has generated interest among scholars as to why Apuleius included it. These studies have centred on the main character, ...
-
(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2006)First Peter addresses the Christians in the five Roman provinces in Asia Minor, and can in general terms be described as a letter of consolation and encouragement. Although they are suffering discrimination and injustice ...
-
(Unisa Press, 2020)This paper offers a social-scientific analysis of Psalm 37, aiming to define its ideological purpose and textual strategy. The psalm is also read as part of the sequence of Pss 35–37 as it was arranged by the editors of ...
-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2013)It is shown that the wisdom of the sages represented in the Book of Proverbs pushes at the limits of wisdom’s rational basis in such a way as to question its own possibilities. The assumption that the Book of Proverbs ...
-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2010)With the help of reception-aesthetic considerations and with regard to the hermeneutics of the book and canonical theology, the beginning of the book of Psalms is interpreted as an introduction to the message of the whole ...
-
(Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2007-03)Biblical scholars have become increasingly aware of the importance of looking at texts not only in their historical or literary contexts, but also in their socio-cultural context. Many studies have shown that honour and ...
Now showing items 1-20 of 186