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  • Violence in Chrysostom's commentary on the Psalms 
    Stander, Hennie (Hendrik Frederik), 1953- (Insitute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2013)
    In this study I will critically discuss Chrysostom's treatment of power and violence in his "Commentary on Psalms". When the Jews suffer from violence, Chrysostom believes that it is justified because they have tortured ...
  • Violence in Chrysostom's commentary on the Psalms 
    Stander, Hennie (Hendrik Frederik), 1953- (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2012)
    In this study I will critically discuss Chrysostom’s treatment of power and violence in his “Commentary on Psalms”. When the Jews suffer from violence, Chrysostom believes that it is justified because they have tortured ...
  • Walking wisely : sapiential influence in Psalm 26 
    Potgieter, Annette (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-05-20)
    Psalm 26 is interpreted by the majority of scholars as a cultic psalm. This has limited research on Psalm 26. There are clear traces of sapiential influence in Psalm 26 concerning its intricately well-thought concentric ...
  • “Wat staan in die Grieks?” – Kollig op vertaalprobleme wat die Nuwe Testament oplewer 
    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, ...
  • Wetenskaplike onderbou van DieBybel@kinders.co.za 
    Stander, Hennie (Hendrik Frederik), 1953- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
    One of the latest translations of the Bible in Afrikaans is DieBybel- @kinders.co.za. The target group of this Bible is kids. Since this is a children's Bible, the scientific basis of this project is often overlooked. In ...
  • Who were the Kenites? 
    Mondriaan, Marlene Elizabeth (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2011)
    This article examines the Kenite tribe, particularly considering their importance as suggested by the Kenite hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, the Kenites, and the Midianites, were the peoples who introduced ...
  • Why did the Thebans defeat the normally militarily superior Spartans at the Battle of Leuctra (371 BC)? 
    Straeuli, Christian (Department of Ancient Studies, Stellenbosch University, 2011)
    The battle of Leuctra was fought in 371 BC and represents a turning point in Greek history. For a long time the Spartans had held military dominance on any battlefield they entered, but this battle put an end to that ...
  • "With length of days I will gratify him” : Augustine, the Psalms, and old age 
    Dunn, Geoffrey D. (Brill Open, 2019)
    The Bible has a variety of perspectives on old age. On the one hand, as exemplified in Ps 91(90):16 and 92(91):15, old age is a sign of God’s blessing and the elderly are held in high regard as valuable, while on the ...
  • 'The Word of Yahweh is right’ : Psalm 33 as a Torah-psalm 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus; Potgieter, J.H. (Johan Hendrik), 1952- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-12)
    This article investigates some of the similarities between the Torah-psalms and Psalm 33. It is suggested that the ‘Torah-psalms’ should be re-contextualised and understood as part of a postexilic endeavour to provide an ...
  • Words of wisdom, words of war : a study of terms and concepts in IV Maccabees 
    Swart, G.J. (Gerhardus Jacobus), 1955- (Unisa Press, 2015)
    In the words of Jan Willem van Henten (1997:296), the fourth book of Maccabees “presents itself to the reader, from the very beginning of the work, as a philosophical discourse about the dominance of devout reason over the ...
  • YHWH Loves Zion – Zion Loves YHWH : an exploration of the workings of ancient Near Eastern social values in Psalm 87 
    Rautenbach, Nicolene (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2008)
    Psalm 87 is widely regarded as being notoriously problematic, posing difficulties on all levels. Despite all of the uncertainties that exegetes have regarding this psalm, almost all agree that the psalm deals with Zion ...
  • Zechariah's horse visions and angelic intermediaries : translation, allusion, and transmission in Early Judaism 
    Allen, Garrick V. (Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2017-04)
    In this article, I examine the interplay of transmission and exegesis in Zechariah’s textual history, analyzing the strategies that early interpreters employed to create coherence in a difficult text. I use Zechariah's ...