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  • 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 ...
  • Proverbs : prose or poetry? 
    Viljoen, Anneke (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-08-31)
    Should Proverbs be read as prose or poetry? Considering the language craft is of essential significance for a hermeneutical enquiry into the biblical book of Proverbs. Five suppositions to support the presupposition that ...
  • Provisions against wealth and poverty in Plato’s Cretan city and in ancient Israel : a comparison of the Book of Deuteronomy with Plato’s Nomoi 
    Otto, Eckart (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-08-26)
    The way in which a nation’s economy is structured is of great importance for the material welfare of its people as well as the people’s relationship with the state and the operation of the state itself. It is also important ...
  • Psalm 104 in the early Monarchy? Revisiting author and date 
    Pistorius, Hendrik Gerhardus (Unisa Press, 2019)
    Akhenaten used a centralised cult and monolatrism to achieve political stability in Egypt. Hammurabi used Marduk as chief deity in Babylonia to centralise power and create political and religious stability in his kingdom. ...
  • Psalm 132 and its compositional context(s) 
    Human, Dirk J. (University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2017)
    Psalm 132 can be interpreted from various compositional contexts. In every new compositional context different nuances add value to the significance of the text. Psalm 132 can be interpreted as a single psalm, and as part ...
  • Psalm 133 as a response to xenophobic attitudes in South Africa today 
    Ndoga, Sampson S. (Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Limpopo, 2009)
    Psalm 133 celebrates brotherly unity as an ideal that commands divine blessing. Similarly, the African philosophical outlook of “ubuntu” upholds that ideal. With that common ideological perspective within the biblical and ...
  • Psalm 150 according to the Septuagint : integrating translation and tradition criticism into modern Septuagint exegesis 
    Dafni, Evangelia G. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    The attempt to detect Theology in the linguistic deviations and divergencies of the Septuagint (LXX) with the Massoretic Text (MT), presupposes the use of certain exegetical methods. Of course, this implies methods to be ...
  • Psalm 16 (LXX Ps 15) and Acts of the Apostles - Part I 
    Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2008)
    Psalm 16 is one of the most well-known Psalm texts of the Psalter. This can be attributed, among other reasons, to the fact that the NT, specifically the Acts of the Apostles, applied this text to the life of Jesus of ...
  • Psalm 16 (LXX Ps 15) and Acts of the Apostles part II 
    Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2008)
    Psalm 16 is one of the most well-known texts of the Psalter. This can be attributed to, amongst other things, the fact that the NT, specifically Acts of the Apostles, applied this text to the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The ...
  • Psalm 39 and its place in the development of a doctrine of retribution in the Hebrew Bible 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2017)
    Psalm 39 is a peculiar, late post-exilic wisdom composition which reflects the style of a supplication of a sick person, but actually rather constitutes a meditation on the transitoriness of human life. It has been ...
  • Psalm 51 and the criticism of the cult : does this reflect a divided religious leadership? 
    Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2009)
    The aim of this publication will be twofold : Firstly, to view Psalm 51, especially those verses which can be designated as cult-critical. Secondly, to indicate that the prophetic critique is part of a larger prophetic ...
  • Psalm 69:23a-30b and divine retribution - a question of Ma'at? 
    Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2002)
    The strophe comprising the cola 23a-30b is characterised by a remarkable series of imprecations which the supplicant directs against all those enemies who act against him in villainy (23a-29b). The supplicant appeals to ...
  • Psalm 69:36 in the light of the Zion-tradition 
    Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2008)
    Zion is explicitly mentioned in Psalm 69:36a. This article will endeavour to outline its significance for the interpretation of the text of Psalm 69. The text of Psalm 69 functioned as an individual lament in the pre-exilic ...
  • Psalm 74 : myth as the source of hope in times of devastation 
    Baumann, Gerlinde, 1962- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    The reference to mythical traditions in Psalm 74 is not just an allusion to a common set of motifs. It is an essential strategy to gain hope in desperate times, when the country is completely destroyed. The article shows ...
  • Psalms 69:33-34 in the light of the poor in the Psalter as a whole 
    Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    The Psalter has very often been regarded as the prayer book of the poor. In the Psalms God is portrayed as the saviour of the poor, their hope, their stronghold and liberator - whether these are prayers of an individual ...
  • Psychological approaches to the Song of Songs 
    Van der Zwan, Pieter (Unisa Press, 2016-12)
    Within the broader psychological biblical criticism this study intends to motivate why psychological approaches to the text of the Song of Songs make sense for a meaningful reception, which kinds of psychological approaches ...
  • 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 ...
  • Quarantäne, einsamkeit und Psalmen 
    Steiner, Till Magnus (AOSIS, 2020-10)
    Quarantine, loneliness and psalms: In times of a pandemic, quarantine and physical distance are acts of charity. Leviticus 13–14 show that even in biblical times such measures served to protect the community. But they ...
  • The quest for a philosophical YHWH (part 2) : philosophical criticism as exegetical methodology 
    Gericke, Jacobus Wilhelm (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2006)
    This is the second article in the series designated 'The quest for a philosophical YHWH'. In the first article, the main focus was on pioneering the possibility of philosophical-critical analysis by justifying the plea for ...
  • The quest for a philosophical YHWH (part 3) : towards a philosophy of Old Testament religion 
    Gericke, Jacobus Wilhelm (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2007)
    This is the third and final article in the series designated 'The Quest for a Philosophical YHWH'. Whereas the first paper introduced the proposal of utilising philosophy of religion in Old Testament studies and the second ...