Kato, Szabolcs-Ferencz(New Testament Society of South Africa, 2022-06)
In 1 Corinthians 15:20 and 23, Paul calls Jesus “the first fruits of those who are asleep.” According to John, Jesus died on the Eve of Passover and was resurrected on the third day, which was the day of the Omer ritual, ...
This paper argues that one should not speak of an “original aniconism” in the cult of Yhwh, the god of Israel. In the Northern kingdom and in the first temple of Jerusalem, this god was represented in a theriomorphic and ...
The Ark of the Covenant, or Ark of Yhwh, has stimulated the imagination of many people from biblical times up to today: it has served as the inspiration for many stories, as the subject of paintings, and even the fodder ...
The »foe from the north« is a well-known trope in the book of Jeremiah.
In 1989 David Reimer argued that this enemy should be understood as a nonspe-
cific earthly enemy, with mythical overtones deriving from the location ...
Many countries around the world, including Australia, have secularism expressed in their
identity. However, as these secular nations (as they understand themselves) shift into postsecular societies, it raises questions ...
In this contribution we focus firstly on the “unity movement” which has changed
the face of Isaianic studies over the last 30 or more years, having been
characterised by the Duhmian interpretation of three separate books ...
Times of crisis call for sustainable leadership. Often in Christian circles, (especially among
Evangelicals), the biblical figure of Nehemiah is presented as a model of leadership from
which one can learn directly how ...
This article reflected a comparison of 1 and 2 Chronicles with its source documents. It transpires that the history of Israel and Judah is selectively retold by the authors of Chronicles with deliberate omissions and ...
The book of Ezekiel may be effectively understood in terms of Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of
cultural trauma, in which catastrophic events take on a wider cultural significance because they are
perceived as having ...
Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)
The Hebrew text of Gen 2:7, 19 describes both humans and animals as nephesh hayya’ (living being). However, a large number of contemporary influential Bible translations render this expression differently for humans and ...
Michal, Gavin(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)
Today, the Jewish world has adopted a popularist - if not theurgical - approach to the Book of Psalms, where the Psalms take on a mystical and almost magical function.1 However widespread, this is only one facet of a ...
Bockle, Jakob(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)
Since the hapax legomenon מִשְׁטָר* of Job 38:33b is understood as a “scripture of heaven,” its meaning can be deduced only from the en-vironment of the Old Near East but in particular from its context, Job 38:31–33 ...
This article reviews the debate concerning the sectarian movement in the Dead
Sea Scrolls. The consensus that the movement described in the Damascus
Document and Community Rule originated in a dispute over the high ...
Rabbinic texts apply the metaphor of the vineyard to the Torah as well as to Israel. Conceptual Metaphor Theory allows us to explain the parallel use of the vineyard metaphor for the two target domains, Israel and the ...
Teugels, Lieve M.(Universität Salzburg; Bibelwissenschaft und Kirchengeschichte, 2023)
Typisierungen Elijas sind vielfältig: Prophet, Priester, heiliger Mann, Wundertäter, Streitschlichter, Vorläufer des Messias. In der rabbinischen Tradition findet man sie alle, oft mit legendären Zügen. Auch in der ...
Binitarianism is the belief in two persons within one godhead. This is usually distinguished from bitheism—belief in
two gods, but this distinction is not always clear in the scholarly literature. In this entry we take ...
Haasbroek, Ursula V.(University of Pretoria, 2023)
The composition of the list of builders and its incorporation into Nehemiah's autobiography has captivated the attention of many modern-day intellectuals. Scholars concede that the list does not form part of the Nehemiah ...
In recent years an increasing scepticism has arisen concerning the Deuteronomistic character of the Book of the Four (Hos, Amos, Mic, Zeph). Many themes and motifs have been regarded as “inspired” by or “oriented” towards ...
The original profile of YHWH is a much-discussed issue of research, YHWH being defined mostly as either an El-like or a Baal-like deity. Scholars are investigating older texts of the Hebrew Bible that might reflect relevant ...
Mokoena, Lerato Likopo Dinah(Calabar School of Philosophy, 2022-12)
The essence of deities has captured our imaginations for as long as we can
remember. Does a God exist, or is the divine entity just a figment of our dreams, a
projection? Is God what Aribiah Attoe calls a “regressively ...