Lombaard, Christoffel Johannes Stephanus2025-04-252025-04-252024-01Lombaard, C. 2024, 'ProPent and its implied conversation partners'', Pharos Journal of Theology, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.46222/pharosjot.1058.2414-332410.46222/pharosjot.1058http://hdl.handle.net/2263/102239This contribution is a slightly edited invited presentation at the Society for Biblical Literature annual international conference at the University of Pretoria, 3-7 July 2023, at a panel discussion titled “The role of context in Biblical Studies / exegesis”. A broad overview-interpretation of the past half a century Pentateuch studies in South Africa is offered, indicating implied, though seldom stated, dynamics of Hebrew Bible scholarship, doing so by means of an Aesopian interpretation. These concrete webs of meaning in substantial ways steer also the guild of Pentateuch scholars in South Africa in our time, in how historical exegesis has had to be arranged.en© 2024 Open Access/Author/s. This article is open-access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence.Diachronic exegesisText-immanent exegesisGenitive-theological readingsPentateuch studiesSouth Africa (SA)Article