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  • The significance of the second cave episode in Jerome’s Vita Malchi 
    Kritzinger, J.P.K. (Jacobus); Botha, Philippus Jacobus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-05-16)
    The authors argue that the second cave episode in Jerome’s Vita Malchi Monachi Captivi should, in view of the similarities with the first cave episode and the high incidence of literary devices employed in it, be recognised ...
  • The social setting and strategy of Psalm 34 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 1997)
    This paper endeavours to use the social setting of Psalm 34 as a key to its interpretation. The literary, social, and ideological dimensions of the text are analysed in order to determine its textual strategy, intent and ...
  • Social values and the interpretation of Psalm 123 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2001)
    It is contended in this article that Biblical texts can no longer be interpreted without taking cognisance of the contribution that the social sciences can make to the process of interpretation. Psalm 123 is analysed ...
  • Social values in the book of Obadiah 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2003)
    This paper presents a poetic and social-scientific analysis of the book of Obadiah. It suggests that the social and theological problems to which the book forms a response is the attempt of the people of Judah to come ...
  • A social-scientific analysis of the representation of Jonah and the self perception of the Yehudite literati during the late Persian period 
    Schader, Jo-Mari (Unisa Press, 2020)
    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 ...
  • A social-scientific reading of Psalm 129 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    Psalm 129 is analysed as a poetic composition, as well as an ideological document. It was found that the social codes of honour and shame play an important role in what and how the psalm was supposed to communicate. It is ...
  • Sola Scriptura versus Sola fide versus Solum Imperium? Albert S. Geyser en ʼn kontemporêre verstaan van μορφή θεοῦ in die Christus-himne 
    Slabbert, M.J. (Martin Johannes) (AOSIS, 2018-09-20)
    This article explores Albert Stephanus Geyser’s understanding and application of the Christhymn (Phlp 2:6–11), focusing especially on the use of the words μορφή θεοῦ. The tension between a literary-critical approach to the ...
  • The sparrow's fall (Mt 10:29) 
    Stander, Hennie (Hendrik Frederik), 1953- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    According to Matthew 10:29, not one sparrow will fall to the ground “apart from the Father”. The latter phrase is elliptical, and it is not clear what type of involvement from the Father is meant. This article examines how ...
  • A spatial reading of Obadiah on the vertical axis of the ancient near Eastern cosmic geography 
    Schader, Jo-Mari (Unisa Press, 2023-07)
    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 ...
  • The structure and homogeneity of Psalm 32 
    Potgieter, J.H. (Johan Hendrik), 1952- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)
    Psalm 32 is widely regarded as a psalm of thanksgiving with elements of wisdom poetry intermingled into it. The wisdom elements are variously explained as having been present from the beginning, or as having been added ...
  • Suffering as separation : towards a spatial reading of Psalm 11 
    Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2015)
    Every human being inevitably experiences illness, loss, failure, and disappointment. When it happens to a perceived-to-be “righteous” person, the problem of theodicy arises, the question whether it is just when deities ...
  • Suffering bodies - divine absence : towards a spatial reading of ancient near eastern laments with reference to Psalm 13 and an Assyrian Elegy (K 890) 
    Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2013)
    Suffering is a universal human experience. It causes an existential crisis and a struggle to construct meaning. When suffering is expressed through the medium of language, it is often done in terms of bodily experience in ...
  • The symbolic meaning of the number of days mentioned in the book of Jonah 
    Schader, Jo-Mari (AOSIS, 2020-10)
    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; ...
  • Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Mary - the bold women in Ephrem the Syrian's Hymn De Nativitate 9 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    Ephrem the Syrian's hymn De Nativitate 9 is translated and its structure and the presence and function of various literary tropes in it are discussed. It is concluded that the most important polarities in the hymn are those ...
  • Teaching and illustrating the exegetical method of St Jerome : letter 21 as a case study 
    Kritzinger, J.P.K. (Jacobus) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-08-29)
    This article is intended as a case study to introduce students to the life and work of St Jerome, and more specifically to his exegetical method. Letter 21 to Pope Damasus contains Jerome’s interpretation of the parable ...
  • A textual comparison of Hebrews 10:5b-7 and LXX Psalm 39:7-9 
    Van der Bergh, Ronald Henry (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2008)
    Many a theological statement has been deduced from alleged changes to the text of the Septuagint by the author of Hebrews. These deductions do not always keep in mind the different textual traditions of the Septuagint text. ...
  • Textual pluriformity and allusion in the book of Revelation : the text of Zechariah 4 in the Apocalypse 
    Allen, Garrick V. (Walter de Gruyter, 2015-01)
    The book of Revelation relentlessly alludes to Jewish scripture. Linguistic and thematic material from these works is enmeshed throughout the entirety of the Apocalypse. The gravid biblicism of this work and its manifest ...
  • The textual strategy and ideology of Psalm 36 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2004)
    Psalm 36 is a beautiful and masterfully crafted poem that once served to enhance the unity and conviction of a group of Yahweh worshippers. The strategy of the author seems to have been an attempt to create dissociation ...
  • The textual strategy of Ephrem the Syrian’s Hymn Contra Haereses I 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2004)
    The first hymn in Ephrem the Syrian’s cycle Contra Haereses is translated and analysed in terms of its rhetorical and argumentative features. It seems that Ephrem used various rhetorical strategies to construct a polarity ...
  • Theft and robbery in Chrysostom's time 
    Stander, Hennie (Hendrik Frederik), 1953- (Faculty of Theology of the University of the Orange Free State, 2009-12)
    The aim of this article is to study what Chrysostom said about theft and robbery in his community. His homilies on the New Testament will be scrutinized for information on this negative feature of the ancient world, since ...