Verstedeliking: Riglyne vir 'n kerklike bediening by B. du T. Jackson

“…Churches should focus its ministry on the squatter communities. According to the Bible God in Christ never turned his back on the city, in spite of the concentration of sin within it, he is present with his children in the city. …”
Get full text

“Grim old London welcomed me back”: Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Second Foray into Europe by Leslie PETTY

“…In the final years of her life, Stanton wrote feminist masterpieces such as the speech, “The Solitude of Self” and The Woman’s Bible, but she also wrote xenophobic diatribes, such as her defense of Educated Suffrage, all of which enraged or at least irritated many of her closest personal political allies. …”
Get full text

An educational beit midrash as a bridge between religious and secular identity by Galia Semo, Doly Eliyahu-Levi

“…The research tool was an in-depth interview, conducted with 17 Bible teachers. Content analysis revealed three innovative realms of the educational beit midrash – pedagogical space, instruction, and learners. …”
Get full text

'Gelukkig hij die uw kinderen zal grijpen' by H. G. L. Peels

“…This imprecatory prayer, which still forms one of the most troublesome dimensions of Scripture for modern Bible-readers, is usually explained very negatively as a human but intolerable expression of personal or national rancour/hostility, and as such put in sharp contrast with the New Testament message of love for the enemy. …”
Get full text

Twee weergawes van die gebed van Salomo (1 Kon. 8 en 2 Kron. 6): 'n vergelykende studie by D. F. O'Kennedy

“…We find this prayer in two different theological and literary traditions of the Bible: 1 Kings 8:22-53 and 2 Chronicles 6:12-42. …”
Get full text

Die sinodale verband van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in die Vrystaat: enkele tendense by die ontstaan daarvan in 1864-1865 by P. J. Strauss

“… In the Reformed tradition the basic documents of a church, apart from the Bible on which it should be based, are its confessions of faith and its church order. …”
Get full text

Practicing a Christian Environmental Ethic through Stewardship. by Rugyendo, Medard

“…Then the article proposes the Christian’s practical implications as caretakers or managers of nature that will lead to the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The bible will be at the centre but other relevant sources that are extra- biblical will also be consulted as well.…”
Get full text

Practicing a Christian Environmental Ethic through Stewardship by Medard, Rugyendo

“…Then the article proposes the Christian’s practical implications as caretakers or managers of nature that will lead to the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The bible will be at the centre but other relevant sources that are extra- biblical will also be consulted as well.…”
Get full text

Wanderings with Lady M.: A happy threesome by Adelheid L. J. Thieme

“…I wanted my husband to be Catholic, so I decided to join a bible study group, where I thought I would find many suitable “candidates.” …”
Get full text

Transports of Translation: Creativity and Healing by Sara GREAVES

“…Along with the numerous cultural, religious or political functions of translation (establishing religious authority or nation-building, for instance, as with the King James Version of the Bible), along with its didactic use in language-learning and its intercultural one in aesthetic transmission and appropriation, translation can also play a healing role. …”
Get full text

Terminology of didactic wisdom in the ancient Israelite scribal schools as presented in Proverbs 1:1–7 by Jenry E.C. Mandey, Pujiastuti E. Sindoro

“…Proverbs 1 verses 1–7 encompasses an important section of the Hebrew bible related to ancient didactic wisdom terminology. …”
Get full text

The Pastoral Model of Educating Seniors at Universities of the Third Age at UPJPII in Krakow by Jan Dziedzic

“…The university has a religious profile and implements a pastoral and educational program, that includes lectures and workshops in the field of the Bible and anthropology, ethics, theology, philosophy and history of the Church, as well as an educational and cultural program (religious tourism, theatre arts), that is meant as a form of creative support for seniors. …”
Get full text

Motyw nadziei w najnowszej poezji Dmitrija Strocewa by Bartosz Osiewicz

“…In Strotsev’s latest poetry, the theme of hope is combined with the heroic peaceful struggle for freedom undertaken by Belarusian society and is inscribed in an intertextual dialogue with the Bible. The poet presents a collective portrait of people filled with hope, which is an impulse for them to act. …”
Get full text

Figures mythiques et histoire. Réinterprétations et contrastes entre Orient et Occident by Denise Aigle

“…Some of them are of Islamic origin, others have been inherited from Antiquity or the Bible. These characters have undergone a certain number of changes from the 10th century onward, basically because of the influence of the Shäh-nâma at a time when independent dynasties were proliferating and later with the breakthrough of the Turks, the Crusaders and the Mongols. …”
Get full text

La Revelatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis et son auteur by Pierre Bouet

“…This document reveals the culture of a canon during the Carolingian Renaissance, who was stronglyinfluenced by constant readings of the Bible, the sermons of the Holy Fathers and the works of Gregory the Great. …”
Get full text

Britten et l’art de la parabole by Gilles Couderc

“…Through the adoption of the model of tragedy and oratorio with Britten’s own tragic heroes and tragic imagery, through the rhetoric of musical devices and forms and through social criticism and his indictment of Bible-thumping and dogmatic intellectuals, Britten the educator strives at raising the consciousness of his audience so as to better spread his humanistic message.…”
Get full text

Die oudheid van die letter en die nuutheid van die Gees. Enkele opmerkings oor die Skrif as lewende Woord by P. F. Theron

“…The contrast between gramma and pneuma, old and new, permeates the entire Bible (i.e. Old and New Testament). This tension is the work of the Spirit as the auctor primarius of Scripture, through which the “dead letter” is transformed into the living Word. …”
Get full text

Intertexte et réécriture du Drame de l’Homme, de la Femme et de Dieu dans 'Partage de midi' de Paul Claudel by Samuel Bidaud

“…The second intertext is with the Bible, in particular with two books of the Old Testament, the Song of Songs and the Book of Hosea, but also more broadly with the beginning of Genesis and the end of the Gospels, which allows Claudel to lead Mesa and Ysé to the repentance in the last act of the play and to affirm the reconciliation of Man and Woman in God. …”
Get full text

Understanding the USA’s Support for Israel within the Context of Christian Zionism by Fatih Tuna

“…The study emphasizes the need for further research to understand the broader network of pro-Israeli actors and concludes that the Bible's influence on Anglo-American culture will likely continue to support Israel, despite its human rights violations.…”
Get full text

Biblical Turns of Phrase, Repetition and Circularity in Oscar Wilde’s Salome by Sébastien Salbayre

“…It also rests upon his linguistic use of the Authorized Version of the Bible the style, rhythm and cadence of which are resorted to in the play. …”
Get full text