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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-07-04)The article revisits the thesis of Walter Beyerlin from 1980 that Psalm 52 is a paraeneticdidactic Wisdom poem from the late Persian period. Beyerlin reached his conclusion from a comparison of Psalm 52 with post-exilic ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)In studies on the biblical Psalms it is customary to ask why and for what purpose these poems came into existence. The present study departs from the observation that Psalm 116 can be regarded as an anthology which ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2018)To date there have only been a few examinations of the psalms in terms of communication analysis. This article will illustrate the fruitfulness of such an approach by analysing Ps 12 according to it. First it will be ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)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. ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2005)This article is a social-scientific investigation of the ideology displayed in Psalm 1 and the ideology displayed in Psalm 2. It endeavours to describe the ideological points of contact between the two psalms, so as to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-12-16)Understanding illness and health care in the ancient world, and especially within ancient Israel, is not an easy undertaking. Most of the research done on Israelite health care focuses on the identification of disease ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-07-31)Please read the abstract in the section 03back of this document
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(Juta Law, 2014)In recent years there has been a surge of homophobia across Africa. Among the arguments of this discourse against homosexuality is that homosexuality is a pattern of behaviour, not an orientation, that such behaviour ...
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(Unisa Press, 2013)Prior to the discovery of the Ugaritic texts at Ras Shamra in 1929, the Hebrew Bible was considered the leading authority on the Canaanite religion. An abundance of tablets were uncovered at Ras Shamra, disclosing that ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2018)Inner-biblical allusions in Habakkuk’s משא (Hab 1:1-2:20) and משאות concerning Babylon in Isaiah 13-23 (Isa 13:1-14:23; 21:1-10) suggest a shared circle of tradition and the reinterpretation of prophetic messages in ...
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(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2005)This paper investigates the exegetical notes on Daniel 3 in the Syriac commentary attributed to Ephrem the Syrian. It is established that the text which the author of the commentary used is most probably that of the ...
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(Society of Biblical Literature, 2008)This article is the “side effect” of a paper read at the seminar entitled “Pericope: Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity” at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Edinburgh in 2006, ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-11-08)This article argued that Psalm 37 and Proverbs 1–4 served as sources for the composition of Psalm 1. The emphasis in both donor texts on the righteous people’s inheriting the Promised Land seems to have imprinted also ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2005)The meaning of the word ‘Torah’ in Psalm 1:2 is investigated in the light of the intratextual context of Psalm 1 itself and in the light of intertextual connections of this psalm with Joshua 1, Jeremiah 17, Psalms 52 and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011)In Book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle makes the assumption that there are five states of the soul through which we interact with truth. He continues Book VI with a discussion of his intended meaning of each of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-02)An investigation of the Beatitudes of Matthew: Between oral tradition and Greek text investigates the Beatitudes in the Gospel of Matthew. It starts with the Greek text as it is known today and works backwards to uncover ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)The objective of this study was to establish and define the theological alterations made to the Masoretic Text of the biblical book of Esther (MTE) by the translators of the Septuagint (LXX) and the Josephus (J) texts, ...
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(Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies, 2008)Much has been said about Bathsheba’s guilt in 2 Samuel 11. The text’s ambiguity has lead to quite a number of different interpretations. One of the earliest of these various voices is the Septuagint text. Being a translation, ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2014)This article addresses the issue of so-called Deuteronomistic influence on the book of Jeremiah. The article posits that in the case of Jer 26-29 it would be far more prudent to concentrate on the implicit definition ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-08-31)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 ...
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