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    Herinnering & verlange : gesprekke oor mag, geskiedenis en die Bybel
    (AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2019) Jonker, Louis C.
    ‘n Nostalgiese reis styg uit die pen van prof. Louis C. Jonker oor sy eie herinnering aan en verlange na die leermeesters wat hom help vorm het, sy eie ontwaking as bybelwetenskaplike, en sy bediening in die NG kerk. Hy verken ook sy innerlike stryd in hierdie verskillende tydperke. Die uitvloeisel hiervan is ‘n mengsel van historiese novelle, biografie, persoonlike memoires en die akademiese skryfsels van prof. Ferdinand Deist, Biskop John Colenso, prof. Johannes du Plessis en ook dié van Jonker. Die vertellings – wat soms aan speelse fantasie grens – word in die boek afgewissel met toegeligte uittreksels uit vakliteratuur deur, en oor, die vier gespreksgenote. Uiteindelik lewer Jonker hiermee belangrike kommentaar oor die huidige stand van Bybelinterpretasie in Suid-Afrika.
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    Teaching for change : essays on pedagogy, gender and theology in Africa
    (AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2019) Claassens, L. Juliana; Van der Walt, Charlene; Olojede, Funlola O.
    Contributors from various theological higher education institutions in South Africa and beyond come together to reflect on the best pedagogical practices to teach on often complex issues of gender, sexual orientation, race, and class, and on how they impact on health in our classrooms, in our churches, and in the communities where we live and work.
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    Reading writing right : essays presented in honour of Prof Elna Mouton
    (AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018) Punt, Jeremy; Nel, Marius Johannes
    In a collection of essays, former students, colleagues and friends of Prof Elna Mouton honour her life, career and scholarly contributions upon her retirement from Stellenbosch University. The various essays interact with Prof Mouton's concern for biblical hermeneutics, ethics and the interactions and connections between the two, ultimately illustrating the width and variety of interest that her work stimulated and which it interacted with.
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    Semantics, world view and Bible translation : an integrated analysis of a selection of Hebrew lexical items referring to negative moral behaviour in the book of Isaiah
    (SUN PReSS, 2006) Van Steenbergen, Gerrit J.
    This study draws a number of disciplines together from a Bible translation perspective. It offers a thorough semantic analysis of selected Hebrew lexical items referring to negative moral behaviour in the book of Isaiah, and discusses the implications of the analysis for Hebrew lexicography.
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    Methodology, speech, society : the Hebrew Bible
    (SUN MeDIA, 2011) Gitay, Yehoshua
    INTRODUCTION: I became interested in rhetoric as the art of argumentation, first, because of my love for oratory and, second, because rhetoric is the essence of human activity, given its communicative skills, and the Biblical authors sought to communicate with their audience. Rhetoric, the art of argumentation and persuasion, is a method which is applied in almost every chapter in this volume. Indeed, I have adapted rhetoric, the art of persuasion and argumentation as a major instrument of introducing the Hebrew Bible because we are confronted with a lively Book that reflects disputes among people as well as ideologies that argue one against the other. Thus, the method that fits the study of the Hebrew Bible as a lively Book rather than a dry document is rhetoric, the art of argumentation and persuasion. Rhetoric enables us to penetrate the feelings of biblical characters and their ways of thinking. Rhetoric enables us to discover the debates and arguments that shape the culture of the Book and the conflicts that shaped ancient Israelite life through the writers and editors that formed this dynamic Book. The book of Job is instrumental to our understanding of the process of argumentation which ignores the human feelings on the account of the schematic paradigm on the one hand, and which longs for support for the misery of the suffering individual, on the other hand. The Hebrew Bible deals with the issue in matters that seem to question God’s justice when a human being feels that God acts against the principles of righteousness. The study addresses the problem by examining certain Biblical figures that question God such as Abraham and Job who present their integrity and belief in justice before God, believing that the matter of justice is absolute even for God. How should human beings behave under such circumstances? Should they follow the conventional wisdom of God’s justice or listen to their own heart? This Biblical attitude that regards justice as the absolute leading force of truth is the essence of human integrity as well as the core of true democracy – the right and justification to question even God’s authority, given the human self-conviction of their own integrity.