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Danger Ingozi Gevaar : why reading alone can be bad for you
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2016)
A discussion of the 1974 film, ‘The Conversation’, by Francis Ford Coppola serves as an introductory illustration of the dangers of interpretation in isolation. The film, starring Gene Hackman, highlights the contextual ...
Close encounters : creating a safe space for intercultural Bible reading (part II)
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2012)
Theoretically the process of intercultural Bible reading should create a safe space
where the voice of the individual can be heard in community with others. It should
be a space where the individual is not only free to ...
Close encounters : creating a safe space for intercultural Bible reading (part I)
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2012)
Theoretically the process of intercultural Bible reading should create a safe space
where the voice of the individual can be heard in community with others. It should
be a space where the individual is not only free to ...
Preaching the Pentateuch : reading Jeremiah’s sermons through the lens of cultural trauma
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2017)
This article seeks to investigate the rhetorical function of Jeremiah’s Temple, Covenant and Sabbath Sermons against the backdrop of cultural trauma. I propose that the three sermons found in Jeremiah 7, 11:1-14 and 17:19-27 ...
Om as familie in Suid-Afrika te leef : interkulturele Bybelstudie as transformatiewe krag in die samelewing
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2014)
This contribution describes a research project in empirical hermeneutics which departed from the hypothesis that a development of hermeneutical skills among Christian communities for reading the Bible together with “the ...
Empire as material setting and heuristic grid for New Testament interpretation : comments on the value of postcolonial criticism
(AOSIS Publishing, 2010-06)
Using postcolonial analysis to account for the Roman Empire’s pervasive presence in and influence
on early Jesus-follower communities (early Christians), as depicted in New Testament texts, is
both evident (given its ...
Introducing a research project on contextual hermeneutics
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 1990)
Because of the variety of discourses in progress in the South African context and because of the plurality of hermeneutical approaches to biblical texts, there is an urgent need for systematic research on basic aspects of ...
Imagination and transformation : Ricoeur and the role of imagination
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 1996)
The article examines the facilitating role of imagination in the process of transformation. Firstly, the suspicion that imagination is merely a license for subjectivity is addressed, before the phenomenological roots of ...
The challenge of contextuality
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 1991)
Why the wide-spread interest in contextuality, also and especially in dealing with biblical material? Is this the latest fad every self-respecting exegete is supposed to master in order to impress his or her peers? Is it ...
Text in a multidimensional exegetical approach
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 1993)
The quest towards a multidimensional exegetical approach arises from the present state of the exegetical discipline. Presently, this discipline is characterized by an overwhelming variety of methodology, but also by ...