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The Pendulum is never static: Jesus Sira to Jesus Christ on women in the light of Judith, Susanna and LXX Esther
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
When the New Testament is interpreted, directly preceding literature is largely neglected. The dialectical terms, discourse and contra-discourse do not often surface in research on this period. This is especially the case ...
Selling religious progress to a nostalgic nation: Jewish doctrinal revolution in 2 Maccabees 7
(Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2009)
2 Maccabees 7 forms part of a corpus of Septuagintal texts that seemingly challenge the traditional way in which God works. These conceptual revolutions are normally induced within times of hardship and persecution. This ...
Writing and Reading War: Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Judith
(Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2009)
A Book entitled Writing and reading war: Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts, was published in 2008 by the Society of Biblical Literature. This book opened new insights for understanding ancient ...
The significance of secondary characters in Susanna, Judith, and the additions to Esther in the Septuagint
(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2009)
Recently, the Apocryphal narratives in the Septuagint (LXX) have been studied in various ways: a feminist approach (Brenner 2004); a Greimassian approach, focusing on the dynamics within the plot (Mwambe 2009); a literary ...