Masters Degrees (Old and New Testament)

Peace talks : towards an intercultural Bible study on 1 Samuel 25

Dercksen, Elmarie (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study has the goal of constructing an Intercultural Bible Study on the story of Abigail in 1 Samuel 25, with an accompanying workbook, that has its goal the flourishing of communities. The point of ...

Embodied desire : Song of Songs and body theology

Joubert, Odile (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africans are confronted on a daily basis with undeniable power structures shaped by patriarchy, demenial language, gender inequality, cultures, traditions and ideology which not only victimises the ...

The enslaved Paul in an imperial context : 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1

Spies, Lynton Clifford (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1, I attempted to address Paul’s response to his Corinthian audience concerning their eating of meat sacrificed to idols in temples. The main concern Paul addresses is the strong ...

Tamar as victim of levirate marriage? : reading Genesis 38 within a Zulu cultural context of marriage

Thabede, Slindile (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Zulu society for the most part is deeply patriarchal in nature and rooted in male dominance that is supported by androcentric cultural beliefs and practices that have led to the oppression of women. Because ...

The theological significance of light (אור) in the Old Testament : an applied cognitive linguistic study

Ruark, Joel D. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Even a casual reading of the Old Testament demonstrates that the ancient Israelite writers clearly conceived of some kind of conceptual relationship between light and YHWH. Theologians disagree concerning ...

Socio-cultural and gender perspectives in John 7:53-8:11 : exegetical reflections in the context of violence against women in Zambia

Lungu, James (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-02-18)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Considering the numerous moral dilemmas facing the world of the twenty-first century, gender-based injustice is just one such example, and can be seen in the many occurrences of male violence against ...

Rape as Torture : re-reading the rape of the Levite’s concubine in Judges 19

Van der Westhuizen, Renate (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-02-18)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Rape has become a way of life in South Africa. From narratives lived and shared, we know how pervasive violence against women is, to such a degree that some refer to it as a gender civil war in South ...

Deuteronomy 21:1-9 a programmatic anomaly? : a thematic and programmatic analysis of Deuteronomy 21:1-9 within the context of the Deuteronomist’s agenda

Robinson, A. G. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-02-18)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Deuteronomy 21:1-9 falls within the Deuteronomic legal corpus and, more broadly, within the Deuteronomistic History. Its final form, as recognized by several scholars, betrays an origin of earlier ...

A social-scientific study of the Parable of the Shrewd Steward in Luke 16:1-9

Silas, Dogara Turrang (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-02-18)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The understanding of the parable of the shrewd steward in Luke 16:1-9 has been problematic throughout its interpretive history. The main challenge is Jesus’ praise and commendation of the dishonest acts ...

The abuse of power and sexual violence: a close reading of 2 Samuel 11 against the background of Boko Haram Atrocities in Nigeria

Audu Makama, Bulus (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-02-18)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research is stimulated by the current abuse of power and sexual violence associated with Boko Haram atrocities in Nigeria during the last two decades. The concern for peaceful co-existence, gender ...

Spirituele identiteitsbewuswording deur kommunale lees : ’n gevallestudie van 1 Timoteus 5:1-16 onder vroue in Zama-Zama informele nedersetting

Botha, Jan Adriaan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study we examine the role of spiritual identity awareness in communal reading from 1Timothy 5:1-16 with the marginalized women in the Zama-Zama informal settlement. A case study of the text was ...

Contemporary implications of the first-century counter-ethos of Jesus to the scripted universe of gender and health in John 4 & 9 : a narrative-critical analysis

De Milander, Cornelia (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africans are confronted on a daily basis with the social inequality among individuals which greatly inspires violence, victimisation, discrimination and life-denying ethos. These acts of injustice ...

Playing the system, not the man: a rhetorical investigation of masculinities in its social context in 1 Peter

Visser, Jacobie M. Helena (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Men and masculinities have become so apparent and normative within the course of history and the social structuring of society, that they almost have become the invisible gender. Ubiquitous in positions ...

The abolition of intermarriage in Ezra 10 and the ethnic identity of the postexilic Judean community : a hermeneutic study

Paulo, Bonifacio (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The present study seeks to examine the abolition of intermarriage according to Ezra 10 by asking the question as to what were the compelling reasons for such a social crisis, and to demonstrate its possible ...