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Browsing Research Articles (Ancient Languages) by Author "Weber, Beat, 1955-"
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Weber, Beat, 1955-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2009)
Recently, a few scholars questioned the thesis of a prophetic persona responsible for Isaiah 40-55/66. It has been argued (by Prof. Ulrich Berges and others) that temple singers / musicians (as we hear of them in postexilic ...
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Weber, Beat, 1955-
(Routledge, 2018)
This article draws upon a reader-response and canonical-hermeneutical perspective in order to analyze the manner in which 2 Sam 22 and Ps 18 are embedded in their respective literary contexts. Psalm 18’s superscription ...
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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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Weber, Beat, 1955-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2010)
With the help of reception-aesthetic considerations and with regard to the hermeneutics of the book and canonical theology, the beginning of the book of Psalms is interpreted as an introduction to the message of the whole ...
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Weber, Beat, 1955-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2010)
This article begins by making a number of general observations on the meaning of (biblical) figures of speech. The images found in Psalm 1 are subsequently investigated in more detail. This is done with the help of syntactic, ...
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Weber, Beat, 1955-
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2014-04)
Examining the arrangement of biographical notices in the titles of psalms ascribed to
David reveals that these are not placed haphazardly. Their order and correlation conveys
a message to the reader of the first two ...
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Weber, Beat, 1955-
(2006)
The focus of this article is on the function and aim of the mythopoetic passage in Psalm 77: 17-20 - a psalm which probably reflects the fall of the northern kingdom. It will be argued that these verses do not constitute ...
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Weber, Beat, 1955-
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2018)
To date there have only been a few examinations of the psalms in terms of communication analysis. This article will illustrate the fruitfulness of such an approach by analysing Ps 12 according to it. First it will be ...
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Weber, Beat, 1955-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2007)
A structural analysis of Ps 88 serves as a point of departure for a study of the poetics and especially the sound patterns and other stylistic figures that characterize the psalm. The ways in which sonic figures can serve ...
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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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Weber, Beat, 1955-
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2008)
The formulas אשרי and ברוך appear in the Psalter often in conspicuous places. All these significant places are listed in tables in the article and the incidence and function of each of these instances
are discussed. The ...
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Weber, Beat, 1955-
(De Gruyter, 2020-12)
Differences in the sequencing of Psalms 25–34 (MT ↔ 4Q83 and
4Q98) as well as an asymmetry (Ps 26/32–33 = B/B’) within its chiastic structure
(ABCDXD’C’B’A’) raise questions about the history of this small composition. ...
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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 ...