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Browsing Research Articles (Old Testament Studies) by Subject "Ecological hermeneutics"
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(AOSIS, 2022-09-16)Song 4:12–15 depicts the body of the bride as a ‘locked garden’ filled with fruits, exotic and medicinal plants and abundant freshwater. These luxuries are said to be plentiful and appealing but carry with them the threat ...
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(Unisa Press, 2021)This article is based on Willie van Heerden’s insight into the ecological retrieval of the dominion mandate of Genesis 1:26–27. According to Van Heerden, human dominion has a meaning only when it is read in relationship ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2017)Proverbs 5:15-20 is not about ecological issues such as water management. However, the biblical author employed water-related metaphors as a way of speaking about faithfulness in marriage. The young man is instructed ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)This article critically explores various approaches in which interpreters operate in recent attempts to apply ecological hermeneutics to biblical texts. It engages with the strengths and weaknesses of the works of the ...
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(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 ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2015)The article is interested in how land ( ) is personified in the Holiness Code. It starts by describing the different “countries” portrayed in the Holiness Code and then discusses all the instances where land functions ...
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The Torah likened with nurturing water of rivers in Sirach 24:23-34 : eco-theological significance (Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, 2018)Sirach 24:23-34 is not about water, but uses water-related metaphors to depict the Torah and its wisdom. Previous studies do acknowledge the relevance of Ben Sira’s use of water images, but none has devoted thoroughly its ...
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