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Teaching an old dog new tricks: Herodotus confirms Xerxes' anger in The Persian wars, and the Book of Esther provides insights on anger management
(Gereformeerde Teologiese Vereniging, 2009)
The Book of Esther describes Xerxes, king of Persia and Media, as an angry man. It highlights the king’s ups (Esther, 1:12; 7:7) and downs (Esther, 2:1; 7:10). Surprisingly, Herodotus in “The Persian wars” likewise emphasises ...
Reason's dead end in David Faure: Why the Cape's earliest liberal minister embraced spiritualism
(Gereformeerde Teologiese Vereniging, 2009)
This article deals with nineteenth century liberal thought in South-Africa and the Netherlands. It argues that both orthodox rationalism and liberal reason failed to provide a satisfactory source and standard for theological ...
Reading Judith as therapeutic narrative
(Brill, 2009)
This article analysed the different narratives implied in Philemon by utilising the narrative therapeutic approach, as developed by Epston and White (1990). A dominant narrative (the harsh treatment of slaves in the early ...
Matthew's portrait of Jesus
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
Studies in Matthean Christology often tend to focus merely on the titles given to Jesus in this Gospel. These titles are considered as key words to convey the early Christians' confession of Jesus. Such an approach holds ...
Esther's prayer in additions to Esther: Addition C to LXX Esther - an embodied cognition approach : Septuagint research article
(Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2009)
Performing Susanna: Speech acts and other performative elements in Susanna
(Brill, Hotei Publisher, 2009)
Ethical decision-making: the doctrine of sin and grace
(Gereformeerde Teologiese Vereniging, 2009)
Ethical decision-making presupposes the possession of a free will. Central to a discussion on reformed ethics is the question of the bounds of freedom of the will. The reformed tradition, along with the wider Christian ...
Paul's use of slavery imagery in the Hagar allegory
(Gereformeerde Teologiese Vereniging, 2009)
In this article it is examined how Paul used slavery imagery in Galatians 4 when dealing with the theme of God's "children". The use of words related to the semantic field of slavery in Galatians is briefly discussed. Paul ...
Psalm 137 en die beryming van wraakpsalms
(Gereformeerde Teologiese Vereniging, 2009)
This article discusses seven metrical versions of the imprecatory section of Psalm 137, two in Dutch (1773 and 1968), two in English (in the “Psalter hymnal” of the Christian Re-formed Church and in “Sing psalms” of the ...