This longitudinal study describes and analyses the shifts in students’ perceptions on the usefulness of language learning strategies (LLS) when learning Spanish as a foreign language, and explains the roles that these ...
Since the 1970s, biblical studies have experienced a “spatial turn,” giving rise
to an emphasis on a variety of approaches to the spatial analysis of biblical texts.
Space is something that is constructed, produced, and ...
Rembold, Stefanie(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)
The lack of contributions toward the study of narrative space in biblical literature has been lamented for the last four decades. While handbooks on narratology and narrative art have tried to expand discussions on the ...
Psalms 65–68 form a tight collection or “cluster” of psalms close to the
conclusion of Book II of the Psalter. The implied redactors’ purpose with this
cluster was to offer thanksgiving and praise to God for manifesting ...
The last decades of biblical scholarship have treated the land in various ways – as a character,
a theme, or even a theology – and culminate in the position that the land is inextricably part of
the YHWH-Israel relationship, ...
The topic of gender differences has attracted considerable critical attention from linguists because of the importance that sociolinguistics offers to the complex relationship between language and gender. Gender separation ...
This article addresses the question of what can be gleaned from the book of Jonah regarding the self-perception of its author(ship) and intended audience through a social-scientific analysis. What does the analysis of ...
This article is an investigation on how two theologians from the Early Church interpreted
the withered fig tree, as narrated by the evangelist Matthew (Mt 21:18–22). The two
theologians referred to are Origen of Alexandria, ...
Since the time of Mowinckel, the verb בקר (pi) in Psalm 27:4 was often interpreted as referring
to a priest’s function of examining an offering. The parallel part of the verse and other
intratextual and intertextual ...
The purpose of this article was to compare Jerome’s and Augustine’s sermons on the fifth book
of the Psalms with regard to their views on the rich and the poor. After a brief consideration of
the different audiences of ...
Allen, Garrick V.; Royle, Anthony P.(MDPI Publishing, 2020-10-12)
This article explores the relationship between manuscripts of ancient religious literature and
aesthetic cognitivism, a normative theory of the value of art. Arguing that manuscripts both contain
and constitute works of ...
Differences in the sequencing of Psalms 25–34 (MT ↔ 4Q83 and
4Q98) as well as an asymmetry (Ps 26/32–33 = B/B’) within its chiastic structure
(ABCDXD’C’B’A’) raise questions about the history of this small composition. ...
Careers, and how they change, are a very popular theme nowadays and are constantly under scrutiny due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The purpose of this article is to illuminate the professions mentioned in Chrysostom’s ...
The book of Jonah uses four indications of time: (1) Jonah spends 3 days and three nights in the
fish; (2) the city of Nineveh takes 3 days to cross; (3) Jonah enters the city to the extent or
distance of one day’s travel; ...
The Ancient Egyptians have always had a strong connection with their animals. This can be seen in the depictions of their gods as well as in their way of writing in hieroglyphics, in which multiple animal figures are used. ...
Barkhuizen, Jan(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap and Kuns, 2020-12)
The translation of an ancient religious text such as the New Testament has to take into account
the following two matters: (1) it has to be a precise reflection of New Testament Greek, its
grammatical constructions, ...
Gammage, Sonja(Classical Association of South Africa, 2019)
The language of the Ancient Greek novelist, Achilles Tatius, is often described as ‘Atticist’ (that is, imitating or recalling the Attic dialect). To date, however, no precise analysis on the Atticist nature of his language ...
This paper offers a social-scientific analysis of Psalm 37, aiming to define its ideological purpose and textual strategy. The psalm is also read as part of the sequence of Pss 35–37 as it was arranged by the editors of ...
Koschorke, Albrecht(Modern Language Association, 2019-10)
In recent years, questions like these have often been posed in a more or
less polemical manner. They should be reconsidered in a more sober,
nuanced way. In academia, they are of far more than merely historical interest ...
Kilchor, Benjamin(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)
In his review essay on my dissertation, Esias E. Meyer dedicates an
important part to discussing the slave laws in the Pentateuch. A key role
in his critique is played by his understanding of the term pater familias
as ...