CENTRE FOR BIBLE INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION IN AFRICA

Publications
 

PUBLICATIONS

2010

"Iparras - two diachronies in a single morphology."
A Andrason, Journal for Semitics/Tydskrif vir Semitistiek 19(1), 160-192.

"Expressions of futurity in the Vilamovicean language."
A Andrason, Spil Plus 40, 1-10.

"The 'guessing' QATAL. The Biblical Hebrew suffix conjugation as a manifestation of the evidential trajectory."
A Andrason, Journal for Semitics/Tydskrif vir Semitistiek 19(2), 612-636.

"The Akkadian Iprus from the unidirectional perspective."
A Andrason, Journal of Semitic Studies 55(2), 325-345.

"Human Kind as being created in the 'image of God' in the Old Testament: Possible implications for the theological debates on human dignity."
HL Bosman, Scriptura 104.

"The Study of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament in Africa."
HL Bosman, in: M Saebo (ed.), Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Volume III. Tübingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht.

Global Hermeneutics? Reflections and Consequences. (IVBS Proceedings 1).
LC Jonker & K Holter (eds.), Atlanta: SBL. (electronic publication: http://ivbs.sbl-site.org/uploads/JONKER~1.PDF).

"Historiography and Identity (Re)formation in Second Temple Historiographical Literature." (LHBOTS 534)
LC Jonker (ed.), London: T&T Clark.

"Revisiting the Saul Narrative in Chronicles: Interacting with the Persian Imperial Context?"
LC Jonker, Old Testament Essays (OTE) 23(2), 283-305.

"Human Dignity and the Construction of Identity in the Old Testament"
LC Jonker, Scriptura 104.

"The Global Context and its Consequences for Old Testament Interpretation"
LC Jonker, in: LC Jonker & K Holter (eds.), Global Hermeneutics? Reflections and Consequences. (IVBS Proceedings 1.) Atlanta: SBL. (electronic publication: http://ivbs.sbl-site.org/uploads/JONKER~1.PDF), 47-56.

"David's Officials According to the Chronicler (1 Chronicles 23-27): A Reflection of Second Temple Self-Categorization?"
LC Jonker, in: LC Jonker (ed.), Historiography and Identity (Re)formation in Second Temple Historiographical Literature. (LHBOTS 534.) London: T&T Clark, 65-91.

"Pauline bodies and South African bodies. Body, power and biblical hermeneutics."
J Punt, JTSA 136, 76-91.

"Empire as Material Setting and Heuristic Grid for New Testament Interpretation: Comments on the Value of Postcolonial Criticism."
J Punt, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 66(1), 1-7. (Art #330. DOI:10.4102/hts.v66i1.330).

"Power and liminality, sex and gender, and Gal 3:28. A postcolonial, queer reading of an influential text."
J Punt, Neotestamentica 44(1), 140-166.

"Mapping human dignity in the New Testament: Concerns, considerations and concepts."
J Punt, Scriptura 105, 621-635.

"Hermeneutics in identity formation: Paul's use of Genesis in Galatians 4."
J Punt, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 67(1), 1-9. (Art #846. DOI:10.4102/hts.v67i1.846).

"Countervailing missionary forces: Empire and Church in Acts."
J Punt, Scriptura 10, 45-59.

"Paul, Power and Philemon. 'Knowing Your Place': A Postcolonial Reading."
J Punt, in: F Tolmie (ed.), Philemon in Perspective. Interpreting a Pauline Letter, 223-50. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, vol. 169. Berlin & New York: Walter De Gruyter.

"Eschatology in Colossians: 'At home in the world'."
J Punt, in: J Frey and JG vd Watt (eds.), NT and Eschatology. WUNT series. (forthcoming).

"Eschatology in Philemon: 'Biding the time'."
J Punt, in: J Frey and JG vd Watt (eds.), NT and Eschatology. WUNT series. (forthcoming).

 
 

"Violence in the New Testament, and the Roman Empire. Ambivalence, Othering, Agency."
J Punt, (Dietse Boek; Leiden: STAR/Brill; eds. PGR de Villiers and JW van Henten) (forthcoming).

"Unethical language? Stereotyping and vilification, and Pauline ethics."
J Punt, in: Moral Language in the New Testament, eds. R Zimmermann and J van der Watt, in cooperation with S Luther, 212-231. WUNT, 2 Reihe, vol 296. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. (ISBN 978 3 16 150354 2).

"The Other in SA children's Bibles."
J Punt, Ed C vander Stichele (Semeia Studies) (forthcoming).

"Pauline agency in postcolonial perspective: Agent for or subverter of Empire?"
J Punt, in: CD Stanley (ed.), Paul and Postcolonialism. (forthcoming).

"Dealing (with) the future of Biblical Studies. A South African perspective".
J Punt, in: FF Segovia (ed.), The Future of the Biblical Past. Semeia Studies. (forthcoming).

"Dress in the New Testament."
J Punt & H Stander, in: Spieckermann et al (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter. (forthcoming).

"Marked word order in the Book of Joel."
CHJ van der Merwe & ER Wendland, Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 36(2), 109-130.

"Ten (possibly) mistaken notions about producing a study Bible: Some things I have learned along the way."
ER Wendland, Bible Translator 61(4), 176-190.

"The cultural factor in Bible translation forty years later: A personal perspective from Zambia."
ER Wendland, Journal of Translation 5(1), 63-84.

"You will do even more than I say: On the rhetorical function of stylistic form in the Letter to Philemon."
ER Wendland, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 169(1), 79-111.

2009

"Larger Ears and Smaller Horns: Towards distinguishing Conservative from Fundamentalist Theology."
HL Bosman, Scriptura 99, 422 - 432.

"A Nama Exodus? Hybridity and mimicry according to a postcolonial reading of the diaries of Hendrik Witbooi."
HL Bosman, Old Testament Essays 22(3).

"Contextual readings of the Exodus in Southern Africa: Bible interpretation amongst the Griqua and the 'Jerusalemgangers'."
HL Bosman, Scriptura 102.

"The impact of death on human dignity in Job."
HL Bosman, Scriptura 101.

 
 

"Animal Symbolism. ANE and HB / OT."
HL Bosman, in: CL Seow et al (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception Volume A. Berlyn: De Gruyter.

"Erlebnis. Alttestamentlich."
HL Bosman, in: O Wischmayer et al (eds.), Lexicon der Bibelhermeneutik. Berlyn: De Gruyter, 150 - 151.

"Geheimnis. Alttestamentlich."
HL Bosman, in: O Wischmayer et al (eds). Lexicon der Bibelhermeneutik. Berlyn: De Gruyter, 194 - 195.

"Hören/Hörer/-in. Alttestamentlich."
HL Bosman, in: O Wischmayer et al (eds.), Lexicon der Bibelhermeneutik. Berlyn: De Gruyter, 263 - 264.

"Tradition. Alttestamentlich."
HL Bosman, in: O Wischmayer et al (eds.), Lexicon der Bibelhermeneutik. Berlyn: De Gruyter, 593 - 594.

"Myth, metaphor or memory? The allusions to creation and exodus in Isaiah 51: 9-11 as a theological response to suffering during the Exile."
HL Bosman, in: B Becking & D Human (eds.), Suffering during the Exile; a Selection of Papers read at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa August 2007. Leiden: Brill, 71- 82.

"The Exile as Sabbath Rest: The Chronicler's Interpretation of the Exile."
LC Jonker, in: B Becking & D Human (eds.), Suffering during the Exile; a Selection of Papers read at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa August 2007. Leiden: Brill, 213 - 229.

"Textual identities in the Books of Chronicles: The case of Jehoram's history."
LC Jonker, in: GN Knoppers & K Ristau (eds.), Community Identity in Judean Historiography: Biblical and Comparative Perspectives. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 197 - 217.

"Reconciled in Christ's Body for service and witness: Missionary perspectives in Ephesians."
AEJ Mouton & JG Botha, in Du Plessis, J et al (eds.), Missionary Perspectives in the New Testament. Wellington: Bible Media, 205 - 216.

"A biblical death-wish: Paul celebrating dying in Phil 1:21."
J Punt, Verbum et Ecclesia 30(1), 202 - 220.

"Come to terms with the radical spiritual, social and even cosmic dimensions of peace: Missionary perspectives in Paul's Letter to the Galatians."
J Punt, in: Du Plessis, J et al (eds.), Missionary Perspectives in the New Testament. Wellington: Bible Media, 185 - 204.

"Paul and the Others: Insiders, outsiders and animosity."
J Punt, in: F Janse van Rensburg & H van Rooy (eds.), The Bible, animosity and us: Some European, North American and South African perspectives (Global perspectives on Biblical Scholarship vol 12). Atlanta: SBL, 137 - 152.

"Subverting Sarah in the New Testament: Galatians 4 and 1 Peter 3."
J Punt, in: S Porter (ed.), Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality", New York: T&T Clark (Continuum).

"Postcolonial theory as academic double agent? Power, ideology and postcolonial biblical hermeneutics."
J Punt, in: TB Liew (ed.), Postcolonial Interventions. Essays in honor of RS Sugirtharajah. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix.

"Justice in the Sermon on the Mount: An Aristotelian Reading."
JC Thom, Novum Testamentum 51, 314-338.

 
 

"Wisdom in the Wisdom of Solomon and Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus."
JC Thom, Vetus Testamentum 127, 195-207.

"Another look at the Biblical Hebrew focus particle gam."
CHJ van der Merwe, Journal of Semitic Studies 54(2), 313-332.

"The Biblical Hebrew particle 'aph'."
CHJ van der Merwe, Vetus Testamentum 59, 266-283.

"Dramatic rhetoric, metaphoric imagery, and discourse structure in Joel."
ER Wendland, Journal for Semitics/tydskrif Vir Semitistiek 18(1), 205-239.

"Prompting the poetic muse: The computer-assisted translation of biblical poetry, with special reference to song of songs 8:5B-7 in Chewa."
ER Wendland, Scriptura 101, 352-371.

"The social sciences and "foreignizing" functional equivalence Bible Translation."
ER Wendland, Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 35(1), 107-129.

"Prophetic rhetoric: Case studies in text analysis and translation."
ER Wendland, Xulon Press, USA 435 pp.

"Revision and edit of: Students' Notes for Sociolinguistics."
ER Wendland, in Kobus van Aswegen and Regine Koroma, (Bangalore & London: Word for the Word).

"When LiFE confronts the cultural factor: Preparing an oratorical translation in a predominantly oral-aural sociocultural setting-with special reference to Qoheleth's concluding lyric lament."
ER Wendland, in Conference CD for BT 2009: Bible Translation in Context. Dallas: SIL International, 1-19.

2008

"A Nama Exodus: hybridity and mimicry according to a postcolonial reading of the diaries of Hendrik Witbooi."
HL Bosman, Old Testament Essays 21(3).

"Contextual readings of Exodus in Africa: negotiating identities amidst contending narratives of origin and migration in Africa."
HL Bosman, Scriptura 99.

"Myth, metaphor or memory? The allusions to creation and exodus in Isaiah 51: 9-11 as a theological response to suffering during the Exile."
HL Bosman, in: B Becking & D Human (eds.), Suffering during the Exile. Leiden: Brill, 2008, 71- 82.

"Larger Ears and Smaller Horns: Towards distinguishing Conservative from Fundamentalist Theology."
HL Bosman, Scriptura 99, 422 - 432.

"Translations of berit and diatheke 'covenant' into African Languages: a survey."
S Foster, Scriptura 99, 268-274.

 
 

"Who constitutes society? Yehud's self-understanding in the Late Persian Era as reflected in the Books of Chronicles."
LC Jonker, Journal of Biblical Literature 127(4), 707-728.

"The disappearing Nehushtan: The Chronicler's reinterpretation of Hezekiah's reformation measures."
LC Jonker, Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina Vereins (ZDPV – Abhandlungen) 37, 116-140.

"The Chronicler's Portrayal of Solomon as the King of Peace within the Context of the International Peace Discourses of the Persian era."
LC Jonker, Old Testament Essays 21(3), 653-669.

"The Chronicler and the prophets. Who were his authoritative sources?"
LC Jonker, Scandinavian Journal of Old Testament 22(2), 271-292.

"Living in different worlds simultaneously. Or: A plea for contextual integrity."
LC Jonker, Journal of Religion in Africa (Supplements) 32, 107-119.

"From Ebla to Stellenbosch: Syro-Palistinian Religions and the Hebrew Bible."
LC Jonker & I Cornelius (eds.), ADPV 37. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.

"Christian Theology at the University: on the threshold or in the margin?"
E Mouton, HTS 64(1), 430-445.

"Moed om mens te wees: 10 Bybelstudies oor ’n ongewone gesin – Marta, Maria en Lasarus."
E Mouton et al. Wellington: Bybel – Media.

"Shared stories for the future? Theological reflections on truth and reconciliation in South Africa."
E Mouton & DJ Smit, Journal of Reformed Theology 2(1), 40-62.

"On articulating marginalisation and marginality. Reviewing Postcolonial biblical criticism: Interdisciplinary intersections."
J Punt, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 30(4), 455-472.

"Intersections in queer theory and postcolonial theory, and hermeneutical spin-offs."
J Punt, Critical Theory and Biblical Interpretation (e-Journal) 4(2), 24.1-24.16. DOI: 10.2104/bc080024.

"Sin as sex or sex as sin? Rom 1:18-32 as first century CE theological argument."
J Punt, Neotestamentica 42(1) 73-92.

"Geweld in die Nuwe Testament en die Romeinse Ryk. Ambivalensie, Andersheid, Agentskap."
J Punt, HTS 64(4), 1633-1651.

"Jude and the Others. Hermeneutics, Identity, Conflict."
J Punt, SABJT 17, 149-162.

"Biblical hermeneutics, actualisation, and marginality in the new South Africa."
J Punt, in: African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue. In Quest of a shared Meaning, 387-405. Studies or Religion in Africa: Supplements to the Journal of Religion in Africa, vol 32. Leiden, Boston: Brill. (ISBN 9789004166561).

 
 

"Paul and postcolonial hermeneutics: Marginality and/in early biblical interpretation."
J Punt, in: S Porter & CD Stanley (eds.), As it is written: Studying Paul's use of Scripture, 261-290. Symposium Series, vol 50. Atlanta: SBL Publications. (ISBN 1589833593).

"Nuwe vroulike rolle ondergrawe 'n macho-teologie: 'n gender-lees van die brief aan die Hebreërs."
J Punt, in: L Nortje-Meyer (ed.), KykWeer! Gender-kritiese kommentaar op geselekteerde bybelse verse, 210-225. Singapore: Tien Wah Press. (ISBN 9780869706626).

"The Passions in Neopythagorean Writings."
JC Thom, in: JT Fitzgerald (ed.), Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought, London: Routledge, 67-78.

"The Passions in Neopythagorean Writings."
JC Thom, in: JT Fitzgerald (ed.), Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought, London: Routledge, 67-78.

"The theory and practice of 'performance criticism': Its implications for Bible translators and their target audiences - with special reference to the wisdom discourse of James 3:13-18"
ER Wendland, BT2008 CD. Horsleys Green (UK): European Training Programme, 1-47.

"Contextual frames of reference in translation: A coursebook for translators and teachers."
ER Wendland. Manchester: St Jerome Press (publication date – 2007).

"Scripture frames & framing: A workbook for Bible translators." (Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Africa 4).
ER Wendland (with Timothy L. Wilt). Stellenbosch: SUN Press.

"Performance criticism: Assumptions, applications, and assessment."
ER Wendland, TIC Talk 65, 1-11.

"Modeling the message: The Christological core of Philippians (2:5-11) and its communicative implications."
ER Wendland, Acta Patristica et Byzantina 19, 350-378.

"Finding and translating the oral-aural elements in written language: The case of the New Testament Epistles."
ER Wendland. Lewiston, US/Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen Press. (Johan kindly wrote the Foreword for this monograph).

2007

"Old Testament Studies from African perspectives: a research survey and some suggestions about future trends."
HL Bosman, in: WMJ Alston & M Welker (eds.), Reformed theology: Identity and ecumenicity II: Biblical Interpretation in the Reformed Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 58 - 65.

"Remembering Moses as a model of Israelite and early Jewish identity."
HL Bosman, Scriptura 95.

"Behutsamens Lesen. Alttestamentliche Exegese im inderdisziplinären Methodendiskurs. (FS Hardmeier)."
LC Jonker, S Lubs, A Ruwe & U Weise (eds.), Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.

"Reforming history: The hermeneutical significance of the books of Chronicles."
LC Jonker, Vetus Testamentum 57(1), 21-44.

 
 

"Refocusing the battle accounts of the kings: Identity formation in the Books of Chronicles."
LC Jonker, in: S Lubs et al (eds.), Behutsamens Lesen. Alttestamentliche Exegese im inderdisziplinären Methodendiskurs. (FS Hardmeier). Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 245-274.

"On becoming a family: Multiculturality and interculturality in South Africa."
LC Jonker, Expository Times 118(10), 480-487.

"The Exile as Sabbath Rest: The Chronicler's Interpretation of the Exile."
LC Jonker, Old Testament Essays 20(3).

"The reorienting potential of Biblical narrative for Christian ethos, with special reference to Luke 7: 36-50."
AEJ Mouton, in R Brawley (ed.), Character ethics and the New Testament. Louisville: Westminster / John Knox, 35 - 55.

"Surprised by new contexts? Challenges of Reformed Exegesis from within Liminal Spaces."
AEJ Mouton, in WMJ Alston & M Welker (eds.), Reformed theology: Identity and ecumenicity II: Biblical Interpretation in the Reformed Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 230 -241.

"'What is a woman that You are mindful of her?' Aspects of irony and honour in Luke 7:36-50."
AEJ Mouton, New Testament Studies, forthcoming.

"The Prodigal Son and Blade Runner. Fathers and sons, and animosity."
J Punt, JTSA 128, 86-103.

"Queer theory, Postcolonial theory, and biblical interpretation. A preliminary exploration of some intersections."
J Punt, Biblical Interpretation (accepted for publication, forthcoming).

"On articulating marginalisation and marginality. Reviewing Postcolonial biblical criticism: Interdisciplinary intersections."
J Punt, JSNT (accepted for publication, forthcoming).

"The dignity of human sexuality: Compromised sexual selves and violated orientations."
J Punt, Scriptura vol 95, forthcoming.

"Subverting Sarah in the New Testament: Galatians 4 and 1 Peter 3."
J Punt, Scriptura vol 96, forthcoming.

"Intersections in queer theory and postcolonial theory, and hermeneutical spin-offs."
J Punt, Critical Theory and Biblical Interpretation (accepted for publication, forthcoming).

"Rom 1:18-32 amidst the gay-debate: Interpretative options."
J Punt, Hervormde Teologiese Studies 63(3) (accepted for publication, forthcoming).

"The exhortation to the Hebrews. Faith as diasporic living."
J Punt, Postcolonial Commentary on the NT, edited by FF Segovia and RS Sugirtharajah (forthcoming) Orbis.

"Paul and the Others: Insiders, outsiders and animosity."
J Punt, in: F Janse van Rensburg & H van Rooy (eds.), The Bible, animosity and us (forthcoming), SBL/Brill.

 
 

"Review of Bazylinski, Stanislaw. 2006. A Guide to Biblical Research. Introductory notes."
J Punt, Subsidia Biblica, vol. 28, Rome: Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico. Review of Biblical Literature (forthcoming).

"'To Show the Difference by Comparison': The New Wettstein and Cleanthes' Hymn."
JC Thom, in: DE Aune & RD Young (eds.), Reading Religions in the Ancient World, Novum Testamentum Supplements 125. Leiden: Brill, 81-100.

"A cognitive linguistic perspective on hinneh in the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges and Ruth."
CHJ van der Merwe, Hebrew Studies 48, 237-277.

"'n Nuwe vertaling van die Bybel in Afrikaans: die praktiese aanvaarbaarheid van 'n nuwe vertaalmodel (A new translation of the Bible in Afrikaans: the acceptablity of a new translation model)."
A van Rensburg & CHJ van der Merwe, Nederduits Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif 48(1-2), 270-285.

"Contextual frames of reference in translation: A coursebook for translators and teachers."
ER Wendland, Manchester: St Jerome Press.

"The drama of Zephaniah: A literary-structural analysis of a proclamatory prophetic text."
ER Wendland, Journal for Semitics 16(1), 22-67.

"Galu wamkota: Missiological reflections from south-central Africa."
ER Wendland & S Hachibamba, Kachere Series Monograph, Zomba, Malawi: Kachere Series/Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

"The rhetoric of reassurance in First John: 'Dear children' versus the 'antichrists'."
ER Wendland, Neotestamentica 41(1), 173-219.

"Prompting the poetic muse: The computer-assisted translation of biblical poetry: With special reference to Song of Songs 8:5b-7 in Chewa."
ER Wendland, Scriptura ___??

"Aspects of the principle of 'parallelism' in Hebrew poetry."
ER Wendland, Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 33(1), 101-124.

"Bible translation and Christian mission in Africa."
ER Wendland, Word and Context 6, 4-20.

2006

"Die interpretasiegeskiedenis van Ou-Testamentiese tekste wat met homoseksualiteit in verband gebring word."
HL Bosman, Scriptura 93.

"A prototypical definition of bryt "covenant" in Biblical Hebrew."
S Foster, Old Testament Essays (new Series): Journal of the Old Testament of South Africa 19(1), 35-46.

"'Contextuality' in (South) African exegesis: Reflections on the communality of our exegetical methodologies."
LC Jonker, Old Testament Essays 19(1), 58-76.

 
 

"From Multiculturality to Interculturality: Can Intercultural Biblical Hermeneutics be of any assistance?"
LC Jonker, Scriptura 91, 19-28.

"Ou-Testamentiese tekste in die gesprek oor homoseksualiteit"
LC Jonker, Scriptura 93.

"The Cushites in the Chronicler's version of Asa's Reign: A Secondary Audience in Chronicles?"
LC Jonker, Old Testament Essays 19(3), 863-881.

"Interpreting the New Testament in Africa: Bernard Lategan on the threshold of diverse theological discourses"
AEJ Mouton, in: JC Breytenbach & J Thom (eds.), The New Testament Interpreted. Leiden: Brill, 177 - 198.

"The reorienting potential of Biblical narrative for Christian ethos, with special reference to Luke 7: 36-50"
AEJ Mouton, in R Brawley (ed.), Character ethics and the New Testament. Louisville: Westminster / John Knox.

"Christian theology at the university: on the threshold or in the margin?"
AEJ Mouton, Kamper Oraties 30, Kampen: Theologische Universiteit van de Protestantse Kerk in Nederland.

"The pathos of New Testament Studies"
AEJ Mouton, Theologia Viatorum: Journal of Theology and Religion in Africa, 1 - 23.

"Queer Theory intersecting with Postcolonial Theory in Biblical Interpretation."
J Punt, The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion (CSSR) Bulletin 35(2), 30-34.

"Revealing rereading. Part 1: Pauline allegory in Gal 4:21-5:1"
J Punt, Neotestamentica 40(1), 87-100.

"Revealing rereading. Part 2: Paul and the wives of the father of faith in Galatians 4:21-5:1."
J Punt, Neotestamentica 40(1), 101-118.

"Men, males and masculinity in (Southern) Africa: A response."
J Punt, Journal of Constructive Theology. Gender, religion and theology in Africa 12(1), 105-117.

"Postcolonial feminist interpretation of the Bible."
J Punt, Scriptura 92, 280ff.

"Why not postcolonial biblical criticism in Southern Africa: Stating the obvious or looking for the impossible?"
J Punt, Scriptura 91, 63 - 82.

"Queer theory, Postcolonial theory, and biblical interpretation. A preliminary exploration of some intersections."
J Punt, Biblical Interpretation.

"Using the Bible in post-Apartheid South Africa: Its influence and impact amidst the gay debate."
J Punt, Hervormde Teologiese Studies 62(3).

 
 

"On articulating marginalisation and marginality."
J Punt, Reviewing Postcolonial biblical criticism: Interdisciplinary intersections. JSNT.

"Decolonising and recolonising New Testament theology: A postcolonial perspective from Africa."
J Punt, in: T Penner & C van der Stichele (eds.), Moving beyond New Testament theology? Essays in conversation with Heikki Räsänen, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 133 - 160.

"The exhortation to the Hebrews. Faith as diasporic living."
J Punt, in: RS Sugirtharajah (ed.), Postcolonial Commentary on the NT.

"Paul and the Others: Insiders, outsiders and animosity."
J Punt, in: F Janse van Rensburg & H van Rooy (eds.), The Bible, animosity and us.

"A politics of difference in the New Testament: Identity and the Others in Paul."
J Punt, in: JC Breytenbach, JC Thom & J Punt (eds.), The New Testament Interpreted. Leiden: Brill, 199-225.

"Pragmatic effects of semantically redundant anchoring expressions in Biblical Hebrew narrative."
SE Runge, Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 32(2), 85-102.

"The New Testament Interpreted: Essays in Honour of Bernard C. Lategan."
JC Thom, (Co-editor with Cilliers Breytenbach and Jeremy Punt), Novum Testamentum Supplements 124. Leiden: Brill.

"Dyads, triads and other compositional beasts in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)"
JC Thom, in: JC Breytenbach, J Thom & J Punt (eds.), The New Testament Interpreted. Leiden: Brill, 291-308.

"Towards a more theoretical understanding of Biblical Hebrew vocabulary."
J Thompson, Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages; 32(1), 97-111.

"Translating metaphors into Afrikaans in a source language-orientated translation of the Hebrew Bible."
CHJ van der Merwe & E Hendriks, Spil Plus 33, 43-68.

"Lexical meaning in Biblical Hebrew and cognitive semantics: a case study."
CHJ van der Merwe, Biblica 87(1), 85-95.

"Biblical exegesis, cognitive linguistics and hypertext."
CHJ van der Merwe, 18th Congress of the International Organisation for the Study of the Old Testament, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill, 255-280.

"Biblical Hebrew lexicology: a cognitive linguistic perspective."
CHJ van der Merwe, Kleine Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt 6, 87-112.

"World view theory and Bible translation."
GJ can Steenbergen, Old Testament Essays (new Series): Journal of the Old Testament of South Africa 19(1), 216-236.

"Semantics, world view and Bible translation."
GJ van Steenbergen, Stellenbosch: SUN Press.

 
 

"Unpeeling the onion: Frames of contextual significance in Bible translation-With special reference to John's vision of the heavenly throne room (Rev. 4-5)"
ER Wendland, (paper and power-point presentation). Bible Translation Conference: Context and Translation, CD media publication, European Training Programme, SIL International Translation Department, Horsleys Green, UK.

"The structure, style, sense and significance of Haggai's prophecy concerning the 'House of the LORD' - with special reference to Bible interpretation and translation in Africa (Part II)."
ER Wendland, Old Testament Essays (new Series): Journal of the Old Testament of South Africa 19(1), 281-306.

"Translator training in Africa: Is there a better way of teaching and learning?"
ER Wendland, The Bible Translator (Practical Series) 57(2): 58-65.

"A sociolinguistic framework for intercultural communication-As applied to confessional Lutheran mission strategy, translation technique, and leadership training."
ER Wendland, Milwaukee, WI: Board for World Missions Theoled website-Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, 1-230.

"From the eyes of a girl to the eyes of a goat - Julius Chongo's visualization of dramatic narrative for an invisible radio audience."
ER Wendland, Research in African Literatures 37(2), 98-123.

"Theology and ministry in Africa through Bible translation: 'How firm a foundation'?"
ER Wendland, The Bible Translator 57(4), 206-216.

"LiFE-style translating: A workbook for Bible translators"
ER Wendland, SIL Publications in Translation and Textlinguistics 2, Dallas: SIL International.

"Communicating the Beauty of a Wise and 'Worthy Wife' (Proverbs 31:10-31): From Hebrew Acrostic Hymn to a Tonga Traditional Praise Poem."
ER Wendland, Old Testament Essays 19(3), 1239-1274.

2005

"Kan ons God manipuleer in gebed? 'n Eksegetiese studie van Psalm 13."
LC Jonker & CHJ van der Merwe, NGTT 46(1-2), 140-148.

"Doing Justice to Zeus: On Texts and Commentaries."
JC Thom, Acta Classica 48, 1-21.

"Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus: Text, Translation, and Commentary."
JC Thom, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 33. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

"Translating the literature of Scripture: A literary-rhetorical approach to Bible translation."
ER Wendland, SIL Publications in Translation and Textlinguistics 1. Dallas: SIL International.

"Aspects of quality and quality control in Bible translation." (paper and power-point presentation)
ER Wendland, International conference: Quality in Bible translation, CD media publication. Dallas: SIL International.

"A literary (artistic-rhetorical) approach to biblical text analysis and translation, with special reference to Paul's letter to Philemon."
ER Wendland, Journal of Biblical Text Research 16, 266-363 (Korean translation 364-455).

 
 

"Translating Ezekiel's vision of the dry bones-visually!"
ER Wendland, The Bible Translator 56(2), 76-87.

"Sewero: Christian drama and the drama of Christianity in Africa (Kachere Monograph 21)."
ER Wendland, Zomba: Kachere Series (University of Malawi)/Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

"Notes on a lyricized version of the Lord's Prayer in Chichewa."
ER Wendland, in Loba-Mkole & ER Wendland (eds.), 81-101.

"Expressing some extra sap from a passage of Scripture."
ER Wendland, in: Philip Noss (ed.), Current Trends in Scripture Translation: Definitions & Identity. Reading, UK: United Bible Societies. 129-144.

"The structure, style, sense, and significance of Haggai's prophecy concerning the 'house of the LORD'-with special reference to Bible interpretation and translation in Africa (Part One)."
ER Wendland, Old Testament Essays 18(3), 907-926.

"Theology and ministry in Africa through Bible translation: How firm a foundation?"
ER Wendland, Journal of Religion in South Africa.

2004

"Jesus among the ancestors: Continuity and Discontinuity."
LC Jonker in: JH de Wit et al (eds.), Through the Eyes of Another. Intercultural Reading of the Bible. Elkhart, Indiana: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 315-333.

"Revisiting the Psalm headings: Second Temple Levitical propaganda?"
LC Jonker, in: DJ Human & CJA Vos (eds.), Psalms and Liturgy. London: T&T Clark International, 102-122.

"Jesus among the ancestors: Continuity and discontinuity."
LC Jonker, in: JH de Wit et al (eds.), Through the Eyes of Another. Intercultural Reading of the Bible. Elkhart, Indiana: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 315-333.

"Jezus en de voorouders. Continuiteit en discontinuiteit."
LC Jonker, in: JH de Wit et al (eds.), Putten uit de bron. Een bijbelverhaal intercultureel gelezen. Zoetermeer: Uitgeverij Meinema, 202-217.

"Religious Polemics in Exile: The Creator God of Genesis 1."
LC Jonker, in: TL Hettema & A van der Kooij (eds.), Religious Polemics in Context. Papers presented to the second international conference of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (LISOR) held at Leiden, 27-28 April 2000 (STAR 11). Assen: Van Gorcum, 235-254.

"Another look at the Psalm headings: Observations on the Musical Terminology."
LC Jonker, Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 30(1), 65-85.

"Winds of change? Recent developments in exegetical methodology in Germany."
LC Jonker, Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif 45(3), 599-608.

"The rhetorics of finding a new identity in a multi-cultural and multi-religious society."
LC Jonker, Verbum et Ecclesia 24(2), 396-416.

 
 

"Arm én menswaardig? Perspektiewe op God en menswees in 1 Timoteus (2:8-15)."
AEJ Mouton, NGTT. (Accepted for publication.).

"Arm én menswaardig? Perspektiewe op God en menswees in 1 Timoteus (2:8-15)."
AEJ Mouton, NGTT. (forthcoming)

"'Remembering forward and hoping backward'? Some thoughts on women and the DRC."
AEJ Mouton, in Weisse, Wolfram & Anthonissen, Carel (eds.), Maintaining apartheid or promoting change? The role of the Dutch Reformed Church in a phase of increasing conflict in South Africa, 283-292. New York; München; Berlin: Waxmann Münster. (Religion and Society in Transition, Volume 5).

"Surprised by new contexts? Challenges of Reformed exegesis from within liminal spaces."
AEJ Mouton, ed. Princeton, NJ: Center for Theological Inquiry.

"Messianic victims or victimised Messiah? Biblical allusion and violence in The Matrix."
J Punt, in: J Bekkenkamp & Y Sherwood (eds.), Sanctified aggression. Legacies of biblical and post-biblical vocabularies of violence, 139-155.

"Value of Ubuntu for reading the Bible in Africa."
J Punt, in: JNK mugambi & JA Smit, Text and context in New Testament hermeneutics, Nairobi: Acton, 83-111.

"Whose Bible, mine or yours? Contested ownership and Bible translation in Southern Africa."
J Punt, Hervormde Teologiese Studies 60(1&2), 307-328.

"The priority of readers among meanings and methods in New Testament interpretation."
J Punt, Scriptura Scriptura 86, 271-291.

"Biblical allusion in The Matrix. Messiah and violence."
J Punt, Journal of Theology in Southern Africa 119, 90-107.

"The female as weaker vessel in the household code of 1 Peter 3:7."
J Punt, South African Baptist Journal of Theology 13, 46-56.

"Remembering the poor: Pauline perspectives on poverty."
J Punt, NGTT 45(2) Supplementum, 256-265.

"Rivisiting the Psalm headings: Second Temple Levitical propaganda."
J Punt, (to appear as essay in conference proceedings in Sheffield).

"'Moenie op land seil nie': Wysheid en hermeneutiek in die akoesmata van Pitagoras ['Don't Sail on Land': Wisdom and Hermeneutics in the Akousmata of Pythagoras]."
JC Thom, Akroterion 49, 29-41.

"Encheiridion", "Paradeigmata" and "Mikron leksikon." [Summary of New Testament Greek grammar]
JC Thom, Department of Ancient Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 1994; revised 2004.

"Towards a principled model for Biblical Hebrew lexicology."
CHJ van der Merwe, Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 30(1), 119-137.

 
 

"Contextualized Readings and Translations of the New Testament."
ER Wendland, in: Gosnell Yorke & Peter Renju (eds.), Bible Translation & African Languages. Nairobi: Acton, 189-204.

"What's the difference? Similarity (and dissimilarity) from a cross-cultural perspective: Some reflections upon the notion of 'acceptability' in Bible translation."
ER Wendland, in: S Arduini & R Hodgson (eds.), Similarity and Difference in Translation: Proceedings of the International Conference on Similarity and Translation. Rimini, Italy: Guaraldi. 329-358.

"Mwini-chuma ('Owner-of wealth'): A dramatic radio contextualization of the Lukan 'rich-man' parable in Nyanja."
ER Wendland, Neotestamentica 37(2), 312-345.

"Zephaniah: Anatomy and Physiology of a Dramatic Prophetic Text."
ER Wendland & D Clark, Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics 16, 1-44.

"Translation Issues within the Bible Publication Process." (Part 2)
ER Wendland, The Bible Translator (Practical Papers) 55(2), 227-233.

"Contextualised Readings and Translations of the New Testament in Africa."
ER Wendland, AJET 23(1), 91-111.

"Bible Translation - A Lighthouse and a Library for the Promotion and Preservation of Language and 'Literature' in Africa: The Example of Chinyanja."
ER Wendland, Scriptura 85(1), 81-96.

"Bible translation as 'ideological text production' - with special reference to the cultural factor and Psalm 137 in Chichewa."
ER Wendland, Old Testament Essays 17(2), 315-343.

"Poceza M'Madzulo: Some Chinyanja Radio Plays of Julius Chongo (with English translations)."
ER Wendland, Lusaka: University of Zambia (UNZA) Press/Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

"LiFE-style Bible translating: Notes on a Literary Functional Equivalence approach to biblical text analysis and translation, with an application to SoS 8:5-7."
ER Wendland, in: R Brown (ed.), International Conference on Bible Translation Theory and Practice (Proceedings CD). Dallas: SIL International / Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics.

"Biblical Texts & African Audiences."
ER Wendland & Jean-Claude Loba-Mkole (eds.), (Biblical Studies in African Scholarship 7). Nairobi: Acton.

2003

"Fishing for Jonah. Various approaches to Biblical interpretation."
LC Jonker & D Lawrie (eds.), Bellville: UWK Publikasies.

"Reflections of King Josiah in Chronicles. Late stages of the Josiah reception in II Chr 34f."
LC Jonker, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag.

"Religious polemics in exile: The Creator-God of Genesis 1."
LC Jonker, in: A van der Kooij, Religious Polemics in Context. Studies in Theology and Religion. Leiderdorp: Deo Publishing (will be published in the second half of 2003).

 
 

"Completing the temple with Josiah's Passover?"
LC Jonker, Old Testament Essays 15, 381-397.

"Wordt de tempel van Salomo met de Paasfees van Josia voltooid?"
LC Jonker, Schrift 206.

"(Re)Describing Reality? The Transformative Potential of Ephesians across Times and Cultures."
AEJ Mouton, in: AJ Levine (ed.), A Feminist Companion to Paul: Deutero-Pauline Writings, (Feminist Companion to Christian Origins Series). Sheffield: Continuum, 60-88.

"Efesiërs: Om geloofwaardig en gelykwaardig voor God te leef"
AEJ Mouton, in: C Landman (ed.), Leefstyl-Bybel vir Vroue, Kaapstad: Lux Verbi BM, 1498-1516.

"'The Mind Is Its Own Place': Defining the Topos."
JC Thom, in: John T Fitzgerald, Thomas H Olbricht & L Michael White (eds.), Early Christianity and Classical Culture: Comparative Studies in Honor of Abraham J Malherbe, Novum Testamentum Supplements 110. Leiden: Brill, 555-73.

"Biblical Hebrew word order: the interface of Information structure and formal features."
CHJ van der Merwe & E Talstra, Zeitschrift für Althebräistik 15/16 (2002/2003) 68-107.

"Recent trends in Biblical Hebrew linguistics. Some inadequacies and the prospects of a more comprehensive theory of language use."
CHJ van der Merwe, Hebrew Studies 44, 225-242.

"'n Nuwe vertaling van die Bybel in Afrikaans. 'n Teoretiese en praktiese oriëntering."
CHJ van der Merwe & CS Basson, Nederduits Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif 44/3-4, 550-567.

"Biblical Hebrew word order: the interface of information structure and formal features."
CHJ van der Merwe & E Talstra, Zeitschrift für Althebräistik 15/16, 68-107.

"The contribution of Wolfgang Richer to current developments in the study of Biblical Hebrew."
CHJ van der Merwe & H Rechenmacher, Journal of Semitic Studies, 50(1), 59-82.

"'Where in the world can wisdom be found?' (Job 28:12): A textual and contextual survey of Job 28 in relation to its communicative setting, ancient (ANE) and modern (Africa)." [Part One]
ER Wendland, Journal for Semitics 12(1), 1-33.

"'Where in the world can wisdom be found?' (Job 28:12): A textual and contextual survey of Job 28 in relation to its communicative setting, ancient (ANE) and modern (Africa)." [Part Two]
ER Wendland, Journal for Semitics 12(2).

"Translation issues and the publication process." [Part 1]
ER Wendland, The Bible Translator (Practical Papers) 54(1), 434-438.

"Book review: The Bible in Africa: Transactions, trajectories, and trends."
ER Wendland, in GO West & MW Dube (eds.), Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology 22(2), 88-92.

"Mwini-chuma ('Owner-of wealth'): A dramatic radio contextualization of the Lukan 'rich-man' parable in Nyanja."
ER Wendland, Neotestamentica 37(2), 312-345.


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