ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores how the feminine Other is used by Euripides in the Hecuba to highlight certain tensions between an aristocratic ideal of manliness and a classical democratic masculinity in the fifth ...
Moodie, Meg R.(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During the fifth century BCE there were three defining periods in Athenian history that challenged its society: the Persian Wars (490 – 479 BCE); Periclean Athens (mid-fifth century); and the Peloponnesian ...
The Edict of Ammisaduqa and the Jubilee Year legislation in Leviticus 25 provide the most extensive evidence for the debt relief tradition throughout the ancient Near East. A comparative analysis of these texts points to ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study represents an investigation of a set of BH connectives (רוּבֲעַבּ, ןַעַמְל, and ןֶפּ) as well as other grammatical constructions relevant to the lexical items. This investigation seeks to ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Ancient Egyptian art and artefacts reveal a great deal about the culture and beliefs of this civilization. It was a civilization steeped in myth, symbolism and imagery. Tomb art has been extensively ...
Mena, Andrea K.(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis offers a description of the semantic potential of the Biblical Hebrew lexeme '7l! in
Genesis, Psalms, and Chronicles according to a cognitive linguistic perspective. This specific
linguistic ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the references to swords in key scenes in the Aeneid – particularly the scenes of Dido’s and Turnus’ death – in order to add new perspectives on these scenes and on the way in ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis outlines Augustine’s thought on justice as articulated in The City of God: against the Pagans. The purpose of the study was to investigate the place and role of his convictions about justice ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to investigate the possible influence of Persian religion on dualism in Jewish apocalyptic literature, with particular attention to 1 Enoch.
Many studies have been conducted on ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The definition and function of Socratic irony has been much disputed in contemporary scholarship. This thesis identifies some methodological difficulties in interpreting and defining Socratic irony and ...
Kim, Joohan(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation aims to trace a Christian letter tradition, i.e. the pastoral letter type, during the first
five centuries of this era. With this in mind I outlined the problem statements, goals, ...
Van Der Merwe, Christo H. J.Hendriks, Elisabet(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006)
How should metaphors be treated in a source language-oriented translation of the Bible with the following translation brief?
Create a source language-oriented translation of the Bible in idiomatic Afrikaans which can be ...
Van Der Merwe, Christo H. J.Wendland, Ernst R.(Department of Ancient Studies, Stellenbosch University, 2010)
The function of BH word order (or more specifically clause constituent order)
patterns has received considerable attention during the last two decades. Recently,
Lunn (2006) provided an innovative explanation of how the ...
In a recent survey of Biblical Hebrew lexica(l), it was pointed out that the
theoretical frames of reference underlying both the older classics such as
Brown-Driver-Briggs (=BDB)(2) and Koehler and Baumgartner (=KB)e), ...
Hebrew (=BH) and other Semitic languages, one seldom comes
across explicit definitions of the term “lexicography”. An
exception is O’Connor (2002). According to him,
lexicography seeks to guide and describe the ...