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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015 This article demonstrates the vindictive tone of Malachi s final sermon by highlighting the amazing reversal of fortunes of the righteous and shocking end of the wicked.
Blessing O. Boloje, Alphonso Groenewald
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014 The biblical concept of stewardship has been subjected to some misunderstanding. Each time the word stewardship is mentioned, the meaning that easily comes to mind is that of money.
B. Onoriodẹ Bọlọjẹ +1 more
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 The article presents a literary and theological analysis of Job 42:2 as a fitting resolution of the conflicting engagement between Yahweh and Job, which enables both parties to preserve their integrity.
Blessing O. Boloje, Alphonso Groenewald
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014 Any time humans in any culture consider primary ethical concepts, justice will be to the fore. Much seems to hinge upon it whether human society is to function with any semblance of civil order, security and harmony.
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2014 The family is the bedrock that forms the indispensable foundation for discipleship. It was instituted by the Creator as his primary setting for human development and nurture (Gn 2:18 25; Ps 68:5, 6).
Blessing O. Boloje, Alphonso Groenewald
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The nature of the conflict in Ezra-Nehemiah1
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2001 The text of Ezra-Nehemiah relects a severe conlict situaion in post-exilic Judaean society. However, the text is unclear about crucial issues such as the identity of the parties involved, the aims of the different parties, and even the roots of the ...
Wouter C. van Wyk, A. P.B. Breytenbach
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A tale of two Tamars: Domestic violence in the Hebrew Bible
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022 Jacqueline Vayntrub argues that the date-palm root helps us see the link metaphor between two Tamar figures in Genesis 38 and 2 Samuel 13. However, it is more appropriate to see its fruit as the link metaphor, although in a negative way.
Yonky Karman
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The Book of Ruth in the time of the Judges and Ruth, the Moabitess
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016 This article addresses two issues in the Book of Ruth that have not yet received much scholarly attention: why is the narrative plotted in the time of the judges, whilst the time of narration dates to the postexilic period, and why is one of the ...
Gerda de Villiers, Jurie le Roux
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Oracle against Israel’s social injustices: A rhetorical analysis of Amos 2:6−8
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010 This article applied rhetorical analysis to an analysis of Amos’ prophetic oracle against Israel’s social injustices in Amos 2:6–8. The prophet uses a major rhetorical genre, namely judicial rhetoric, and several smaller rhetorical devices including the ...
Ferry Y. Mamahit, Pieter M. Venter
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Qohelet as liminal intellectualism
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 Qohelet is one of the most fascinating books in the Hebrew Bible because it falls outside of the confides of what it is deemed as orthodox in terms of genre, literary components and theology.
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