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Browsing Research Articles (Ancient Languages) by Author "Botha, Philippus Jacobus"
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2003)Ephrem the Syrian’s twelfth hymn in the cycle De Virginitate is translated and analysed. This hymn describes the temptation of Christ by Satan as a contest in which Satan tried to humiliate Christ, but was defeated and ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testamanet Sociaty of South Africa, 2008)In a late phase of redaction, some of the psalms in the first and second Davidic Psalter were supplied with headings that contain biographical references to David. One of these psalms is Psalm 34. The shared traits between ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2009)Psalm 24 seems to consist mainly of a hymnic introduction (vv. 1-2), a so-called “entrance torah” (vv. 3-5), and a liturgical piece once used at the temple gates (vv. 7-10), to which a post-exilic identification of the ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Unisa Press, 2020)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 ...
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Smit, Gerrit Daniel Stephanus; Stander, Hennie (Hendrik Frederik), 1953-; Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2007-03)Biblical scholars have become increasingly aware of the importance of looking at texts not only in their historical or literary contexts, but also in their socio-cultural context. Many studies have shown that honour and ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2007)This short article investigates the possibility of connections between the Syriac Commentary on Daniel, ascribed to Ephrem, and the Syriac Commentary on the Diatessaron, also thought to consist of exegetical notes made by ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 1998)The so-called Enthronement Psalms, that is Psalms 47, 93, 96, 97, 98 and 99, are described in this investigation as a distinctive group of psalms which constitute a similar illocutionary act. This act is defined against ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-09-18)This article offers a translation of the hymn De Crucifixione 4 by Ephrem, the Syrian theologian, which forms part of his cycle of hymns for the celebration of Easter. The symbolic interpretation of particularly the ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2014)The interpretation and polemical use of Ps 110 by Ephrem the Syrian (c.306–373 C.E.) are investigated. It seems that Ephrem was hesitant to speculate about the relationship between God the Father and Jesus on the basis ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2002)Psalm 75 is often assumed to be a psalm of thanksgiving. Others regard it as part of a cultic liturgy celebrating God's judgement on evildoers. But few researchers have recognised the important role played by the social ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (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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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (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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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (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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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (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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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (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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Botha, Philippus Jacobus; Weber, Beat, 1955- (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2008)In this article, the second in a series of two on Ps 3, the contribution which its immediate literary context and its heading makes to the interpretation of Ps 3 is discussed. It seems that Ps 3 is connected to its immediate ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus; Weber, Beat, 1955- (Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2019)Psalm 27 has some unique interpretational difficulties. The article briefly refers to the various ways in which its arrangement of elements has been explained. It then attempts to understand the psalm within its literary ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Unisa Press, 2023-02)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 ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2013)One important objection against accepting the authenticity of the Syriac Sermon on Palm Sunday as being from the hand of Ephrem the Syrian, is the use of explicit Trinitarian language in lines 426-431 of the sermon. This ...
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Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2002)The presence and literary function of certain polarities in this particular hymn are investigated. It concerns polarities formed by the contrast between what was visible during the trial and crucifixion of Christ and ...
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