• The possible impact of animals on Job’s body image : a psychoanalytical perspective 

  Van der Zwan, Pieter (AOSIS, 2021-09-30)

  The body plays an important role in the book of Job – as do animals. According to psychoanalytical specifically object-relations theory, a subjective body image was partly constructed through the internalisation of ...
• Tradition critical study of 1 Chronicles 21 

  Geyser-Fouche, Ananda B.; Chukwuka, Ebele C. (AOSIS, 2021-05-28)

  The purpose of this article was to highlight the importance of tradition criticism as a significant aspect of the exegetical study of any Old Testament text. Different traditions existed in ancient Israel, and the ...
• Qohelet as liminal intellectualism 

  Geyser-Fouche, Ananda B.; Mokoena, Lerato Likopo Dinah (AOSIS, 2021-02-05)

  Qohelet is one of the most fascinating books in the Hebrew Bible because it falls outside of the confides of what it is deemed as orthodox in terms of genre, literary components and theology. Considered in both antiquity ...
• Proverbs 4:10–19 and the growing spate of Internet fraud amongst Nigerian youths 

  Uroko, Favour Chukwuemeka (AOSIS, 2021-11-03)

  This research article examines the increasing spate of youths who engage in fraudulent Internet activities in Nigeria in the light of Proverbs 4:10–19. Nigerian youths are fast becoming impatient with their quest for ...
• Rain, dew, flourishing plants as images of monolatry and righteousness : the weather imagery and its meaning in Hosea 

  Kato, Szabolcs-Ferencz (AOSIS, 2021-08-25)

  Weather imagery plays a major role in Hosea. Hosea 2 recalls the image of an unfaithful wife; Hosea 4:2–3 describes the withering of the land; in 6:3; 10:12; 14:6, the several types of precipitation draw attention to the ...
• Covid, crown and crosier : a lockdown reflection on monarchy and episcopacy 

  Firth, Walter B. (AOSIS, 2021-05-11)

  This study was conducted during 111 days of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown and reviewed current media articles that revealed government bodies and institutions have come to view people not as priceless ...
• Biblical pragmatism in the pandemic outbreak of Numbers 25:1–18 : towards an African paradigm 

  Ndoga, Sampson S. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-07-12)

  Numbers 25 presents a human crisis requiring swift leadership interventions to curb the plague. Leadership failure plays out on a number of levels before decisive and resolute interventions are taken. This passage shows ...
• ‘And it shall come to pass on that day, the Lord will whistle for the fly which is at the end of the water channels of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria’ (Is 7:18) : traumatic impact of the Covid-19 virus as a lens to read Isaiah 7:18–25 

  Esterhuizen, Liza; Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-03-18)

  In this article the impact of the Covid-19 virus will be used as a lens to read this Isaianic text. The collective threat of the corona-virus causes trauma on societies and communities on different levels: psychological, ...
• When and from where did YHWH emerge? Some reflections on early Yahwism in Israel and Judah 

  Frevel, Christian (Center for Religious Studies, 2021)

  The paper addresses two crucial questions of the history of Israelite religion. Did YHWH emerge in the southern steppe and when did YHWH become the God of Judah? After discussing the available evidence for YHWH’s origin ...
• Reading Psalm 13 as a strategy for the cathartic release of negative emotion 

  Ndonga, Sampson S. (Old Testament Society of South Africa (OTSSA), 2021)

  Psalm 13 moves from debilitating circumstances registered therein into resolution in six short verses. This article explores the strategies that the psalmist employs in achieving such a release to engage with the reality ...
• Human suffering in need of God’s ‘face’ and ‘eyes’ : perspectives on Psalm 13 

  Human, Dirk J. (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2021)

  The COVID-19 global pandemic and its consequent outcomes have caused immense suffering and distress in every community and at all levels of life worldwide. Theological and religious communities raise the question about ...
• Exploring religious power : a re-reading of Micah’s metaphor of food (Mi 3:5) in the context of African religious space 

  Boloje, Blessing Onoriode (AOSIS, 2021-10)

  Power and exploitation of power constitute an essential aspect of Micah’s oracles in the literary prophetic book, and surprisingly, exploitation of religious power was both highlighted and criticised by Micah. This article ...
• ‘The godly person has perished from the land’ (Mi 7:1–6) : Micah’s lamentation of Judah’s corruption and its ethical imperatives for a healthy community living 

  Boloje, Blessing Onoriode (AOSIS, 2021-08)

  Micah 7:1–6 represents the prophet’s lamentation of the deficiency of moral value in a beloved nation. The oracle is a watershed in the Book of Micah that is aptly characterised by certain degrees of socio-economic and ...
• Rethinking violence through the narrative of Genesis 4:1–16 

  Boloje, Blessing Onoriode (AOSIS, 2021-05)

  Genesis 4:1–16 is a well-known narrative following the ejection of Adam and Eve from the garden. It is an essential aspect of Genesis’ theological unity that consists of a combination of stories that show separation ...
• The suffering Moses in the Pentateuch and Psalms 

  Otto, Eckart (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2021)

  The article shows the prophetic profile of Moses from the perspective of the “final text” of Deuteronomy especially in Deut 4 and Deut 29– 30. In Deut 30:1–10, Moses announces the circumcision of hearts. Moses’ song in ...
• Traditionsverdichtung - eine Tora im Werden: Einblicke in die gegenwärtige Numeriforschung 

  Frevel, Christian (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020)

  The current paper takes the literary and theological devaluation of the book of Numbers in classical Pentateuch studies as its starting point and, in contrast to this, develops a higher estimation of the book by relating ...
• The Babylonian exile as the birth trauma of monotheism 

  Markl, Dominik (Peeters, 2020)

  The reasons that led to the transition from the promotion of the exclusive worship of YHWH in pre-exilic Judah to the post-exilic formulation of ‘theoretical monotheism’, i.e., the denial of the existence of any god other ...
• The historical and archaeological background behind the old Israel ark narrative 

  Finkelstein, I.; Romer, Thomas Christian (Peeters, 2020)

  In this article we deal with the historical realities behind what we consider to belong to the old part of the Ark Narrative (1 Sam 4,1-7,1). Based on the finds of excavations at Kiriath-jearim, Shiloh and other places ...
• Tsonga widow’s mourning rituals practices in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in South Africa : a ritual-liturgical exploration 

  Khosa-Nkatini, Hundzukani Portia; Wepener, Cas; Meyer, Esias E. (University of LIMPOPO, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, 2020-06)

  This article studies the rituals and ceremonies that are practised by Tsonga widows at a village in Giyani in Limpopo. The research is based on the observation of the exclusion of widows from church attendance and ...
• Suffering in the epic of Gilgamesh 

  De Villiers, Gerda (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2020)

  This article examines moments of suffering in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Initially Gilgamesh himself causes much suffering by abusing his power as king and tormenting his subjects day and night. Enkidu is created to curb the ...

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