Browsing by UP Author "Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945-"

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  • The beautiful infant and Israel’s salvation 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06-07)
    The motif from the Exodus story of Moses as a beautiful infant is considered on several levels. Firstly, the immediate context of Exodus 2 in the Hebrew Bible and in the Septuagint is investigated. Exodus 2 is then related ...
  • The bipolarity of sapiential theology 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (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 ...
  • Calvin’s election mix in small-scale theology 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009-11)
    This paper shows how Calvin’s ideas about the Old Testament concept of Israel’s election can be dangerous when they are applied uncritically. The main illustration material is drawn from a context the author was himself ...
  • The canon as text for a biblical theology 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The novelty of the canonical approach is questioned and its fascination at least partly traced to the Reformation, as well as to the post-Reformation’s need for a clear and authoritative canon to perform the function ...
  • Confusing redaction and corruption : a house going to hell 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-09-05)
    There are two dimensions to the argument offered in this article, both of them pertaining to methodological issues. The first is that of distinguishing textual criticism from redactional criticism, especially with recourse ...
  • Gestaltes van Philipp Melanchthon se Spreukekommentaar 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-10)
    This article argues the following thesis: The distinctive characteristics of Philipp Melanchthon’s Explicatio Proverbiorum Salomonis (1525 and following years) and the differences between the several editions or versions ...
  • Haus Elis und das Haus Davids : wie Gott sein Wort zurucknehmen kann 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2000)
    The interpretation of the rejection of Abiathar in terms of the Eli tradition offers an important indication of the intention of the Succession Narrative. The work does not only have a positive as well as a negative tendency ...
  • Hervormde tradisie as heelmiddel 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)
  • Johannes Brahms, agnosticism and some other wisdom 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1998)
    The use made of the biblical text in the cycle Vier ernste Gesange by Johannes Brahms is investigated. The German text of Qohelet. Ben Sira and 1 Corinthians and the impact of their reciprocal relationship as Opus 121 are ...
  • "Law and Gospel" in the Pentateuch organisation 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2001)
    Both the structure of the overarching literary blocks in the Pentateuch (primarily containing either narrative or legal material) and the unfolding of its story line attest to the fact that the legal sections in the ...
  • Making things from the heart : on works of beauty in the Old Testament 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2012)
    Following on a study of the perception of human beauty in the Old Testament, this article proposes to extend the topic by enquiring into the perception of what is beautiful in that which humans do. Apart from pictorial ...
  • Metaphorical and literal readings of aphorisms in the Book of Proverbs 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    Starting with a recently proposed thesis that the key to recognizing the coherence of Proverbs’ discourse of wealth and poverty should be seen in an appreciation of the text’s figurative interpretive possibilities, it is ...
  • The pleasing and the awesome : on the beauty of humans in the Old Testament 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2011)
    Profiting from the OT research programme held at the University of South Africa during August 2010, this paper further investigates different aspects of the concept of beauty in the Old Testament (OT). The use of the ...
  • The problem of money in the hand of a fool 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-10-15)
    This article focused on a single proverb, viz. Proverbs 17:16. The syntax and stylistic features were analysed to demonstrate the extreme polyvalence that can characterise terse aphorisms. Fifteen readings were examined ...
  • Prosthetic memory in the Old Testament 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2012)
    In the OT “remembering” often denotes the experience of reliving special events of the past and thereby making them virtually present. Several texts are advanced in an argument that, where remembering is aided by an ...
  • Siebente Gebot, das Hohelied und Calvin 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    Taking the Seventh Commandment (according to the numbering of the Calvinist tradition) as its focus, this article examines the hermeneutical principles of the Reformer, John Calvin, for the exposition of the Decalogue. ...
  • Strack-Billerbeck, Orthodoxy and a Jewish New Testament 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1999)
    On the basis of the evidence of publications dating from the eighteenth century, this paper argues that the orthodox doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Bible caused extreme views in the language of the Old Testament ...
  • Tenach and Old Testament – the same Bible? 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    This article questions the simplicity with which not only Old Testament specialists, but theologians in general – especially in the Protestant tradition – usually identify the Hebrew text as printed in the Biblia Hebraica ...
  • Understanding of failure and failure of understanding : aspects of failure in the Old Testament 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-08-22)
    Taking its cue from Rudolf Bultmann’s famous verdict that the Old Testament is a ‘failure’ (‘Scheitern’), the article reviews three influential negative readings of Israel’s history as told in the Former Prophets. It is ...
  • What do the heavens declare? On the Old Testament motif of God's beauty in creation 
    Loader, J.A. (James Alfred), 1945- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-11-04)
    The paradox in the famous declaration of Psalm 19 that the heavens ‘narrate’ the glory of God and that this message of nature is ‘inaudible’ prompts the question as to the sense of speaking about a striking divine ...