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  • 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 ...
  • Three love stories; three caves; three suicides : Aeneas and Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe, Malchus and his ‘wife' 
    Kritzinger, J.P.K. (Jacobus) (Brill Open, 2017)
    In her commentary on Jerome’s Vita Malchi, in the section called ‘Literary form and texture’ Gray discusses the existing literature on which Jerome drew in composing Vita Malchi. She provides a detailed account of the ...
  • A translation of the Linnaean dissertation The Invisible World 
    Antonovics, Janis; Kritzinger, J.P.K. (Jacobus) (Cambridge University Press, 2016-09)
    This study presents the first translation from Latin to English of the Linnaean dissertation Mundus invisibilis or The Invisible World, submitted by Johannes Roos in 1769. The dissertation highlights Linnaeus's conviction ...
  • Two ancient theologians’ interpretations of the withered fig tree (Mt 21:18–22) 
    Stander, Hennie (Hendrik Frederik), 1953- (AOSIS, 2021-07-06)
    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, ...
  • Understanding (the lack of) space in Psalm 47:6 in light of its neighbouring Psalms : a spatial reading of Psalms 46-48 
    Schader, Jo-Mari (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2010)
    Psalm 47 is investigated intertextually with Psalms 46 and 48 in terms of their representation of space to determine to where Yahweh ascends in Psalm 47:6. An overview is also given of the theory of Critical Spatiality as ...
  • „Unser Gott kommt …!“ (Ps 50,3) : Psalm 50 und sein Setting im Lichte aufgenommener Überlieferungen 
    Kilchör, Benjamin; Weber, Beat, 1955- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2014)
    This study combines a description of the communication structures in Ps 50 with an investigation of the underlying (Pentateuchal) traditions and their use in the psalm. This psalm, predominantly composed of prophetic ...
  • The use of imagery as structural element in Amphilochius of Iconium, in mulierem peccatricem [Homily IV] 
    Barkhuizen, J.H., 1940- (Insitute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2010)
    Although the use of imagery in Early Christian and Byzantine homiletics can be defined as common device, one does often find examples (i.e. homilies) which are marked by an almost excessive use thereof, such as Amphilochius‘ ...
  • The use of the term βάρβαρος in the acts of the Apostles : a Problemanzeige 
    Van der Bergh, Ronald Henry (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2013)
    This article seeks to highlight the problematic use of the term βάρβαρος in the Acts of the Apostles (28:2, 4). In the ancient world this term could function as an ethnic and linguistic marker to designate another people ...
  • 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 ...