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‘For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel’ (Is 12:6b): Trauma and resilience in the Isaianic Psalm

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
This article focuses on Isaiah 12 – an important text that concludes the first main section of the Book of Isaiah (BI). The analysis focuses on the structure and redaction of this text.
Alphonso Groenewald
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Figurative Language in the Book of Isaiah: A Study of the Isindebele Bible (Ibhayibheli Elicwengileko)

Journal of Languages and Language Teaching
The translation of biblical texts into South African indigenous languages was historically undertaken by missionaries who rendered scriptures from Greek and Hebrew into English and subsequently into local languages to facilitate evangelisation.
Nomsa J. Skosana, R. Mlambo
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Is There A Narrative Substructure Underlying the Book of Isaiah?

Tyndale Bulletin, 2004
The recent narrative turn has brought new and helpful insights to biblical studies. This article investigates whether it is legitimate and helpful to look for a possible narrative structure underlying the (generally non-narrative) Book of Isaiah ...
Robin Routledge
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Toward a Better 'Hezekiah'

Old Testament Essays, 2023
This study proposes a new structure for Isa 1–39 in its received form that brings together the observations of numerous studies concerning individual units and themes within this larger section of the book.
Benjamin D. Giffone
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Towards a Responsible Liberalism

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
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On the issue of rendering the Four-Letter Name of God in Russian translations of the Old Testament texts

Религия, церковь, общество, 2017
The article discusses the issue of rendering the four-letter name of God (YHWH) when translating the Old Testament texts into Russian. The work includes a short overview of the existing translations of the Old Testament or its particular books.
Cyrill Andreevich von Buettner
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Some notes on writing a commentary: Isaiah 1-12

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2009
I was requested by the editors of the Historical Commentary on the Old Testament (HCOT) to contribute two volumes on Isaiah in this series. This present article, however, focuses only on volume I: Isaiah 1-12.
A. Groenewald
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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