Note: Prof. Pierre J. Jordaan is an associate professor of Greek at the School of Biblical Studies and Bible Languages in the Faculty of Theology at the Potchefstroom campus of North-West University. Dr S. Philip Nolte is a postdoctoral research fellow of Prof. Jordaan, conducting research into how embodied cognition theory affects and enriches the interpretation of apocryphal texts in the Sept...

Over the past 30 years, methods of hermeneutics in the context of biblical studies have diversified impressively. Even for the specialist it is often challenging to stay up-to-date in the labyrinth of new methodologies and proposals for biblical interpretation. Over the past decade, cultural criticism has become an important critical tool and has gained significant recognition. In the present s...

An Anglican theologian contends that the claim to absolute protection for the human embryo from the moment of conception is a recent one in the Roman Catholic moral tradition. Citing pre-classical, classical, biblical, and post-biblical Roman Catholic sources, Dunstan argues that these traditions attempted to grade the protection provided to the nascent human being according to the stages of i...

The purpose of this article is to examine major interrelated issues that are present in current discussions about the biblical Flood narrative of Gen 6-9. These include such questions as: the unity and literary genre of these chapters, the nature and extent of the biblical Flood, the relationship between history and theology in the Flood narrative, and the relationship of the biblical Flood nar...

The critical narrative, which was part of the unified canon Marxist biblical studies, took shape under impact both external (USSR anti-religious policy) and internal (scholarly research, discussions, polemics) factors. In 1920s, propagandists determined its development. Subsequently, in late 1930s, it legitimized academic field by program articles scholars. Thus, a core cited criticized authors...

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