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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020 Christianity, from its inception, has always demonstrated a conscious effort to communicate the gospel in ways that engender transformation. Yet the undying presence of African indigenous religious practices amongst evangelised African communities ...
Cephas T.A. Tushima
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The Old Gods Are Fighting Back: Mono- and Polytheistic Tensions in Battlestar Galactica and Jewish Biblical Interpretation [PDF]
, 2021 The representations of religious tension between the polytheistic humans and the monotheistic Cylons in the Sci Fi (now Syfy) channel’s hit series Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009) is nowhere more evident than in the human “convert” to monotheism, Gaius ...
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016 In the 104 years of the existence of the African National Congress, many a black person in Sout Africa has been exclusively led by men. Also, 24 years into a democracy, patriarchy continues to raise its ugly head in our parliament, among other ...
V. Ndikhokele N. Mtshiselwa +1 more
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Hezekiah and the Assyrian tribute
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2013 The immensity of Hezekiah s tribute payment to the Assyrian monarch, Sennacherib (2 Ki 18:14) has elicited limited reflection by scholars. Agriculture, generally believed to have formed the basis of the Judaean economy, could not alone have financed ...
Gail A. R�thlin, Magdel le Roux
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There’s Nothing about Mary: The Insignificance of Mary in the Gospel of Thomas 114 [PDF]
, 2019 Feminist approaches to early Christian texts have consistently evaluated female characters as the primary focus of analysis. Yet in doing so, placing the spotlight on the female figure inevitably pushes male figures, and by extension, the broader context
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
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Moses Married a Black Woman: Modern American Receptions of the Cushite Wife of Moses [PDF]
, 2022 Americans overwhelmingly assume that Moses married a Black woman. Using sources from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article highlights interpretations of Moses’s marriage to the Cushite woman in Numbers 12.
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies +1 more
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Gender and sexualities in African contexts and Circle theologies
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016 No abstract available.
V. Ndikhokele N. Mtshiselwa +1 more
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Building the Language Resource for a Cebuano-Filipino Neural Machine Translation System [PDF]
, 2021 Parallel corpus is a critical resource in machine learning-based translation. The task of collecting, extracting, and aligning texts in order to build an acceptable corpus for doing the translation is very tedious most especially for low-resource languages.
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Who is “Worthy of Honour”? Women as Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature [PDF]
, 2022 Groups and individuals known as “elders” (Greek: presbyteros, gerousia; Hebrew: zaqan) are often found in ancient Jewish texts and inscriptions. Their ubiquity in such texts and inscriptions is accompanied by very little information about their actual ...
Joseph Scales +1 more
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The trauma of Nineveh’s demise and downfall: Nahum 2:2–11
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 Trauma is left, right and centre in the whole book of Nahum. The book reflects the oppression and hardship that Judah had experienced at the hands of the imperial power Assyria.
Wilhelm J. Wessels +1 more
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