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Biblical Languages: Challenges for postgraduate supervision in Old and New Testament Studies
In South Africa and in many other countries in Africa and around the globe, the demand for more Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) candidates has increased. With such a demand, a number of challenges also arise.
Lodewyk Sutton
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A Woman with Multiple Identities
The word “life” appears in a variety of contexts in Old Testament (OT) scholarship. Included are the use of non-technical senses from ordinary language and the associated folk-philosophical assumptions implicit therein. This article investigates whether
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
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The paper deals with the use of the supine in the Catholic biblical translations of the Czech National Revival as a means to archaise the high biblical style. The usage of the supine in the New Testament translations by F. Novotný, F. Sušil, and N.
Inna V. Verner
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Do grapes produce blood? A problematic metaphor in biblical texts [PDF]
This article focuses on a metaphor often misunderstood and mistranslated in biblical texts. Relevant texts in the Old Testament/Jewish Bible and the Deuterocanonicals are surveyed first, and fresh translations and interpretations of these are then ...
Dr. Mark Wilson
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This article expands upon the range of options and methods of some of my earlier studies on Euripides and the Old Testament. These studies have sought to discover similar linguistic features and concepts in the texts of Euripides and the Old Testament ...
Evangelia G. Dafni
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Fornication and Other “Awful Sins” in the Bible Translations. Euphemisms and Alterations on Matt 5:32, 9:19 and Lev 20:10-21 The paper shows confusion of theologians – both catholic and protestant – in all Polish and many other translations of ...
Jerzy Brzozowski
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The Old Testament background for understanding the covenant motif in the New Testament - Part 1: Description of the question and analysis of the meaning of the word בְדִית* The concept of the covenant has once again become extremely relevant within the ...
Petrus J. Grabe
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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The author of the Book of Wisdom and the date of its origin (1)
This article is the first part of a longer essay, which is divided into two parts. The Book of Wisdom is a special book in the Bible. It is the youngest book of the Old Testament, but Canon Muratori enlists it among the New Testament books.
Bogdan Poniży
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A brief overview of Bible translation in South Africa
Christianity came to South Africa in 1652, but missionary outreach to the indigenous population only began in earnest in the 19th century. The first formal-equivalent Bible translations were done by missionaries in the latter part of the 19th and early ...
E. A. Hermanson
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