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Browsing Research Articles (Ancient Languages) by Author "Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus"
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Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus; Weber, Beat, 1955-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)
A new psalm had to be composed for new circumstances. It made use of a well-known oracle of God, but in a new political, social, religious, and/or historical context, that oracle had a new message. In a context of praise, ...
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Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus
(AOSIS, 2022-10-17)
Ever since the publication of the third edition of Rudolph Kittel's Biblia Hebraica (BHK3) to the present gradual production of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) so-called editiones criticae minores of the Hebrew Bible are ...
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Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2021-12-10)
Critical spatiality opens avenues to investigate the
transforming power of the authors/redactors of the Hebrew
Bible’s spatial imagination. I read Psalm 107 as a spatial
journey bridging the divide between the desperation ...
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Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-11-30)
Habakkuk 2:5 is a problematic text. The ‘correctness’ of the Masoretic text’s passage ‘moreover,
the wine is treacherous, an arrogant person – he will not come to rest’ has often been questioned.
The discovery of the ...
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Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus; Bin Nafisah, Latifah Abdulgani A.; Prinsloo, Reineth
(Unisa Press, 2019-12)
Using ecological systems theory to understand the systemic interactions in the context of Islam is not an extensively researched topic. In view of this, ecological systems theory is used in this article to argue that the ...
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Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus
(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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Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-08-05)
Habakkuk 3 is one of the most controversial texts in the Hebrew Bible. Diverging opinions
have been expressed on literally every facet of the text. Quite surprising though, interpreters
are virtually unanimous in their ...
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Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
Proverbs 3:1-12 is a masterful example of Hebrew poetry. It is quite permissible to analyse and enjoy the poem for its own sake. However, it should be taken into account that the text was written from a wisdom perspective, ...
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Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2019)
Psalms 111 and 112 are “twin” poems displaying similar characteristics such as the superscript הללו יה , an acrostic form, and shared vocabulary. Surprisingly, the shared characteristics are noted, but the poems often ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Prinsloo, Gert Thomas Marthinus
(Unisa Press, 2021)
This study engages in an ecotheological reading of Habakkuk 2:5–20, a text riddled with text-critical, redaction-critical, and theological problems. I argue that the central theme permeating this text is the condemnation ...