The role of women in the church is amazing and laudable. Since the inception of the church, women have been active protagonists in the narrative of the church. Their roles cover several aspects of church growth. They have ...
The purpose of this study is to understand how the Holiness Legislation in Leviticus attempts to shape the response of the People of God to Yhwh’s holy presence amongst them using the rhetoric of honor. While commentators ...
Considering the large number of mob killings, especially the case of two suspected thieves who
were burnt alive in the Enugu metropolis, a more exegetical approach to the issue of jungle justice
becomes imperative to ...
This article engages with the issue of the אָשָׁם sacrifice in Leviticus 14. Firstly, the paper provides
an overview of the extensive cleansing ritual in Leviticus 14. Then the issue of the relation
between צָרַ֫עַת and ...
In human history, there has always been one form of war or the other, including resource wars,
leading to the wanton destruction of lives and property. Nigeria is not an exception to this ugly
global phenomenon. For ...
This study used Ruth 1:1–5 as a lens in the study of the increasing challenges Nigerian
migrants face. Famine was ravaging the land, and hence Elimelech moved his family away
from Israel to the country of Moab so they ...
Osuagwu, Tochukwu(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-30)
The study re-reads Joshua 1 and 2 from a postcolonial point of view and argues that the writers of the book of Joshua were motivated by their life experiences. It seems clear that the writers were influenced by the imperialist ...
Kato, Szabolcs-Ferencz(New Testament Society of South Africa, 2022-06)
In 1 Corinthians 15:20 and 23, Paul calls Jesus “the first fruits of those who are asleep.” According to John, Jesus died on the Eve of Passover and was resurrected on the third day, which was the day of the Omer ritual, ...
This paper argues that one should not speak of an “original aniconism” in the cult of Yhwh, the god of Israel. In the Northern kingdom and in the first temple of Jerusalem, this god was represented in a theriomorphic and ...
The Ark of the Covenant, or Ark of Yhwh, has stimulated the imagination of many people from biblical times up to today: it has served as the inspiration for many stories, as the subject of paintings, and even the fodder ...
The Akan culture does not treat women the same way it treats its men; there are gender related roles among the Akan cultural practices. Matrilineal inheritance notwithstanding, the Akan woman always plays the second option ...
The »foe from the north« is a well-known trope in the book of Jeremiah.
In 1989 David Reimer argued that this enemy should be understood as a nonspe-
cific earthly enemy, with mythical overtones deriving from the location ...
Many countries around the world, including Australia, have secularism expressed in their
identity. However, as these secular nations (as they understand themselves) shift into postsecular societies, it raises questions ...
In this contribution we focus firstly on the “unity movement” which has changed
the face of Isaianic studies over the last 30 or more years, having been
characterised by the Duhmian interpretation of three separate books ...
Times of crisis call for sustainable leadership. Often in Christian circles, (especially among
Evangelicals), the biblical figure of Nehemiah is presented as a model of leadership from
which one can learn directly how ...
This article reflected a comparison of 1 and 2 Chronicles with its source documents. It transpires that the history of Israel and Judah is selectively retold by the authors of Chronicles with deliberate omissions and ...
The book of Ezekiel may be effectively understood in terms of Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of
cultural trauma, in which catastrophic events take on a wider cultural significance because they are
perceived as having ...
Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)
The Hebrew text of Gen 2:7, 19 describes both humans and animals as nephesh hayya’ (living being). However, a large number of contemporary influential Bible translations render this expression differently for humans and ...
Michal, Gavin(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)
Today, the Jewish world has adopted a popularist - if not theurgical - approach to the Book of Psalms, where the Psalms take on a mystical and almost magical function.1 However widespread, this is only one facet of a ...
Bockle, Jakob(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2022)
Since the hapax legomenon מִשְׁטָר* of Job 38:33b is understood as a “scripture of heaven,” its meaning can be deduced only from the en-vironment of the Old Near East but in particular from its context, Job 38:31–33 ...