Research Articles (Ancient Studies)
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The Septuagint as a holy text – the first ‘bible’ of the early church
(AOSIS, 2020)This article acknowledges the fact that historically there are two phases in the emergence of the Septuagint – a Jewish phase and a Christian one. The article deals first with methodological issues. It then offers a ... -
Phylogeography, genetic diversity, and population structure of Nile crocodile populations at the fringes of the southern African distribution
(Public Library of Science, 2018)Nile crocodiles are apex predators widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa that have been viewed and managed as a single species. A complex picture of broad and fine-scale phylogeographic patterns that includes the ... -
Virtue, masculinity, and hierarchies of domination in Plutarch’s Antony and De Iside
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2019)Plutarch’s Antony and De Iside et Osiride together tackle the manly woman and the effeminate man. I suggest that De Iside is the theoretical exposition of the metaphysics underlying this problem of gender, resolved by ... -
'Like a bird with the gift of reason’ : Maximus of Tyre on the freedom of Diogenes the Cynic
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2019)In his thirty-sixth oration, Maximus of Tyre draws on Greek philosophical and literary traditions, including the myth of the Golden Age, to encourage his audience to emulate Diogenes the Cynic. While some consider Maximus ... -
Recent developments in Septuagint research
(AOSIS, 2018)The time and opportunity have finally arrived for the next phase of Septuagint research. Even though not all the books of the LXX have been completed by the Septuaginta-Unternehmen in Göttingen, by far the largest number ... -
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Towards a complex analysis of Wayihî + T constructions in Biblical Hebrew
(Slovak Academic Press Ltd., 2018)This study analyses the complex behavioral profile of Biblical Hebrew constructions that are formally characterized by the schematic sequence: wayhî + temporal expression (T) + a wayyiqtol or qatal clause within the ... -
The heart of the poet at the heart of his poem : the manner and purpose of Catullus’ identification with Ariadne in poem 64
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2018)In recent times, the longer poems of Catullus have been receiving renewed attention. Previously regarded as highly technical, impersonal works written to earn the poet the epithet of doctus in neoteric circles, there is ... -
An ancient example of literary blackmail
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Towards the end of his life and especially after his exile in 58-57 BC, Cicero’s publication program accelerated. While he aimed to promote his own glory, he had to do so in an environment where writing ... -
'n Klassikus se ontleding van N.P. Van Wyk Louw se Germanicus as 'n beeld van mag en onmag
(LitNet Akademies, 2017)Hierdie artikel ondersoek die mate waarin N.P. Van Wyk Louw se Germanicus (1956) sy hoofbron, ’n werk van die Romeinse geskiedskrywer Tacitus, vernuwend aanwend, met klem op sy uitbeelding van mag en onmag. Die vraag of ... -
Metaphorical explorations of the heart in the Old Testament : a few remarks
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2007)Ancient Israelite anthropology considered the heart to be the seat of emotions, personality, rationality and volition. Multiple allusions to the heart in the Old Testament support such a notion. This paper investigates ... -
Translations of ברית and διαθήκη covenant into African languages : a survey
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2008)Twentieth century translations of the biblical Hebrew term ברית , ‘covenant’, (and its New Testament Greek equivalent, διαθήκη) into thirty-five African languages with about 68 million speakers tend to be quite weak, ... -
A few metaphorical source domains for emotions in the Old Testament
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2009)Emotions are an essential part of human existence and the communication (verbal as well as non-verbal) thereof is fundamental to everyday interaction. Furthermore, the way in which emotions are expressed and interpreted ... -
Ancient Egypt and the other
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2010)Texts and images are used to look at the way the ancient Egyptians perceived and treated ‘the other’ (their neighbours and foreigners such as the Asians, Kushites and Libyans). Were they treated with dignity? According to ... -
Grammatical polysemy and grammaticalization in cognitive and generative perspectives : finding common ground in inter-generational corpora of ancient languages
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)Cognitive and generative approaches to linguistics have taken a different perspective on grammatical polysemy and grammaticalization. While the former see polysemy as a core characteristic of language and a necessary result ... -
Fronting and exhaustive exclusion in Biblical Hebrew
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)Biblical Hebrew scholars struggle to account for about one third of instances of fronting in the Hebrew Bible in terms of a coherent semantic-pragmatic model. I hypothesize that considering fronting as a construction (i.e. ... -
Mothers and their children as victims in war : Amos 1:13 against the background of the Ancient Near East
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2016)This article investigates a war atrocity mentioned in Amos 1:13, viz. "ripping open pregnant women. " Twice the combination "ripping open pregnant women " appears in close proximity with "dashing in pieces the little ones" ... -
Populere filosofie en die Nuwe Testament
(LitNet, 2014-03)Onlangse navorsing het bevestig dat Paulus en ander Nuwe-Testamentiese skrywers van idees en praktyke gebruik gemaak het soortgelyk aan dié wat in tydgenootlike filosofiese tradisies aanwesig was. Dit is egter problematies ... -
Protreptiek en paranese : perspektiewe op die wending in boek 10 van Augustinus se Confessiones
(LitNet, 2015-12)Die artikel vorm deel van ’n groter projek om die eienskappe van aansporende tekste te bestudeer en spesifiek ook om die aansporende eienskappe van Augustinus se Confessiones op ’n meer genuanseerde wyse te beskryf. Die ... -
Cylinder seals in the collections of Iziko Museums of South Africa in Cape Town and the Department of Ancient Studies of Stellenbosch University
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2016)This paper studies the cylinder seals in the collections of Iziko Museums of South Africa in Cape Town and the Department of Ancient Studies of Stellenbosch University. The individual seals are described and there is an ...
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