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Reading Trauma Narratives: Insidious Trauma in the Story of Rachel, Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah (Genesis 29-30) and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Old Testament Essays, 2020
This article investigates the notion of insidious trauma as a helpful means of interpreting the story of Rachel, Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah as told in Genesis 29-30 that has found its way into the haunting trauma narrative of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid ...
Juliana Claassens
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Theological perspectives on tithing in the Old Testament and their implications for believing communities in Africa [PDF]

, 2006
Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2006.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation addresses the topic, “Theological perspectives on Tithing in the Old Testament and their implications for believing communities in Africa.” At the height of “prosperity ...
Ajah, Miracle
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Being Human

Old Testament Essays
In the context of life-denying forces that have deeply scarred (South) Africa, what does it mean to be human? In the book of Psalms, we see a keen acknowledgment of humanity as precious and powerful, created “a little lower than God and crowned… with ...
Juliana Claassens
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The law and society in the Old Testament : formulation and implementation of the law in ancient Israel [PDF]

, 2020
Various laws were practised in ancient Israel. Although the present study will introduce briefly the concept of law as practised in Ancient Near East (ANE) in general, the project focuses particularly on ancient Israel as depicted by the Old Testament ...
Rugwiji, T.T. (Temba)
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The Deuteronomic view of history in Second Temple Judaism

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2019
The Babylonian Exile was a historical catalyst compelling Jewish authors of the Second Temple period to deal with their respective situations in the course of history according to – or against – various predicaments from which they suffered in an ...
Ananda Geyser-Fouche, Young Namgung
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Kingship and ‘state’ in Torah, history, and poetry : exploring the risk of terminological anachronism in Old Testament scholarship [PDF]

, 2020
In exploring the constituent elements of our modern-day nation state, this contribution wishes to highlight those areas in which anachronism might arise in Old Testament interpretations of ‘state’.
Friedl, Johanna
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Psalm 40 as a Torah psalm

In die Skriflig, 2005
This article investigates whether the Gattung of Torah psalm can be added to the current accepted Gattungen of Psalm 40. The characteristics and criteria for Torah-related and wisdom- related concepts and their close interrelationship are discussed.
P. Styger, Y. Steenkamp, D. J. Human
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The schematic development of Old Testament Chronography: Towards an integrated model

, 2004
The chronological figures in the Old Testament have been of considerable interest to early and modern scholars, but there has been little success in developing an overarching model to account for their historical development.
Northcote, J.
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A story of two ways : thirty years of Old Testament scholarship in South Africa

, 1993
Old Testament Essays, Supplement Series Number 2.This is a research history. It deals with the work of some South African Old Testament scholars and covers the period from 1957 to 1987. The year 1957 serves as tenninus a quo because the Old Testament

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Semantic collisions at the intertextual crossroads:: a diachronic and synchronic study of Romans 9:30-10:13 [PDF]

, 2001
This thesis examines Romans 9:30-10:13 with a concentration on Paul's citations of the Old Testament. A critical review of the theory of intertextuality, including a critique of its application by Richard Hays, begins an adaptation of the theory for a ...
Mohrmann, D.C., Mohrmann, Douglas Carl
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