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Wisdom’s rebellion: Kingdom politics as a guerrilla drama
(AOSIS, 2015)This article aims at exploring kingdom politics in South Africa as a guerrilla drama, not only of a contemporary play of wisdom as human virtue, but specifically in the form of the personified Wisdom’s play (cf. Christ’s ... -
‘Wo soll ich hinfliehen vor diesem Mensch?’: een luisteroefening in Ludwig Hofacker (1797−1828)
(OASIS, 2013)OPSOMING: De aanwezigheid van de levende God in preken kunnen wij niet terzijde stellen of verontachtzamen. Waar dit wel gebeurt, daar wordt verkondiging een voordracht, zonder de volmacht. Orthodoxie komt in ademnood ... -
Word die partikel asjer as inleidingspartikel in voorwaardelike sinne in bybelse Hebreeus gebruik?
(Taylor & Francis, 1996)In different studies of the syntax of Biblical Hebrew it is accepted that the particle asjer can be used to introduce the protases of conditional sentences. Only a few examples are usually given. In the study of Friedrich ... -
Worship and the Lord’s Supper in Assemblies of God, and other selected Pentecostal churches in Nigeria
(AOSIS, 2015)Pentecostals’ dominant liturgical principle has traditionally taken the pattern of unlimited expression of emotion and charismata, often formless and emphasising the subjective. The manifestations of the Spirit’s direct ... -
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 ... -
Yahweh’s ‘lord’ and unrestrained evil: an Exegesis of Psalm 110
(AOSIS, 2015)This article consists of an exegetical investigation of Psalm 110 and assumes that the psalms function in one sense as prayers, which can be prayed authentically by modern worshippers. Consequently, the specific images of ... -
The year of jubilee: a hermeneutic for social and moral transformation in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2011)This article aims to show that the Old Testament concept of the year of jubilee is neither an anachronistic, nor a peripheral de- tail of Scripture. It is an integral part of it and indeed one her- meneutical tool for ... -
‘You Were the (Divine) Cherub’: a potential challenge to Yhwh's Sole Divinity in Ezekiel 28.14
(Sage, 2016)According to the Masoretic vocalizations, Ezek. 28.14 directly identifies the king of Tyre as 'the anointed covering cherub'. Hector Patmore has recently suggested that the Masoretic vocalizations and accentuation produce ... -
Young Christians in Norway, national socialism, and the German occupation of 1940-1945
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2011)The German occupation of Norway during the Second World War caused unprecedented problems for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway and other Christian denominations. The subordination of the church to the de facto ... -
Youth intervention through training and equipping in the midst of challenges and crisis: the LIFEPLAN® programme as a possible solution
(Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS), 2016)The youth in contemporary South Africa seems to face massive challenges and experience problems such as substance use and drug abuse, violence, rape, child trafficking, prostitution, etc., lead to the lives of many young ... -
שמם or שבד: revisiting the text-critical note in Ezek 6:4a in the light of current views on the text of Ezekiel
(University of Stellenbosch, 2015)Ezek 6:4a contains a clause with two verbs in the MT but only one verb in the LXX. Textual commentators are not in complete agreement as to the manner in which the LXX treated the Hebrew sentence in translation. Elliger ...
