The Functionalist Approach to Translation and its Application to Translation Management by Isaac Boaheng

“…Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology…”
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Decoding the Enigmatic Synoptic Problem: An In-Depth Academic Analysis of Pentecostal Hermeneutics Applied to the Genealogy of Jesus Christ in Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38 by Kwasi Atta Agyapong

“…Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology…”
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The Translation of Ὑποκριτης in the Gospels as Osatotsε in Dangme Bible Translations by Ebenezer Quaye, Jonathan Edward Tetteh Kuwornu-Adjaottor

“…Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology…”
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CHAOSKAMPF IN THE ORTHODOX BAPTISM RITUAL by Constantin Oancea

“…In the baptismal interpretation of the biblical motif, sea, depths and dragons are figurative names for demons. …”
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“If I forget you Jerusalem” (Ps. 137:4). The Transmission of Sacred Discourse in the Bible and in African Indigenous Sacred Texts by M.K. Mensah

“… African biblical scholars have long advocated a shift in existing exegetical and hermeneutical approaches. …”
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Katechizm biblijny Kościoła kartagińskiego by Tomasz Kaczmarek

“…The main focus is on the issues of presented by biblical testimonia, secondly on the biblical basis of Christological catechesis as to consider three aspects of sacramentum Christi, i.e. …”
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“TRAUMA IS SUFFERING THAT REMAINS”. THE CONTRIBUTION OF TRAUMA STUDIES TO PROPHETIC STUDIES by A Groenewald

“… Although the study of trauma has been common practice in several fields, biblical scholars have, since only a few years ago, used the concept of trauma as an important tool to interpret biblical texts. …”
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“Sacherklärungen” in biblischen texten - vorkommen und bedeutung für die Bibelübersetzung by C. Stenschke

“…These notes also indicate that that the biblical authors did not universalise their message for the sake of easier communication. …”
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Lesbianism: Deconstructing the Christian church and social hierarchies in South Africa by L. Joubert

“…The paper focuses on the biblical discourses that underlie lesbian identity. …”
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Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the postcolonial academy by J. Punt

“…However, efforts to decolonise the Bible, biblical studies and their roles in colonising theology, that start with accounting for interpreters’ social locations, remain few and limited in scope. …”
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Silent no more: sexual violence in conflict as a challenge to the worldwide church by D. Tombs

“…This article argues that a church response should have pastoral, biblical and theological dimensions. Starting with the Silent No More report it examines the prevalence of sexual violence in conflict and the silence of the churches on this subject. …”
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FACILITATING INTERPRETIVE RESILIENCE: by G O West

“… This article argues that the notion of the Bible as a site of struggle offers resources that may facilitate interpretive resilience for communities/sectors that have been marginalised by dominant biblical theologies. While the notion of the Bible as a site of struggle had its conceptualisation within historical-critical redaction criticism, literary-narrative and literary-rhetorical criticisms provide similar kinds of “critical” recognition of ideo-theological contestation within the biblical text, whether the final form or a socio-historically reconstructed redactional edition. …”
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Eunug in die antieke Nabye Ooste by M. Nel

“…The question arises as to the meaning  of this term. In this article Biblical and extra-Biblical data are considered. It is argued that the Hebrew word, syrs, refers to a castrated man, and that, in biblical usage, it refers to a castrated man in terms of Israel’s religion (Deut. 23:1; Is. 56:3). …”
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A Christian ethical perspective on the moral status of the human embryo by J. M. Vorster

“…The article examines three biblical concepts from the perspective of a biblical-theological hermeneutical model in order to unfold this argument. …”
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Narrative temporality and Johannine symbolism by H. Ito

“…The notion of narrative temporality is not new in the study of Biblical texts. However, there have not been many studies which make this notion their main thrust. …”
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Confronting the cataracts of whiteness to see the invisible: reflections on the transmission and reception of the Bible in post-apartheid South Africa by J. Kok

“… The goal of this article is to draw on some of the latest insights in biblical studies on the challenges posed to the reflection, transmission, and reception of the Bible with relevance to a post-apartheid South African context. …”
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Verlossing as socio-politieke bevryding? by P. Robinson

“… During the past two decades the theological debate on Biblical meaning of salvation has increased and intensified. …”
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Omri van Israel: 'n Poging tot historiese rekonstruksie by J A Burger

“…Precedence, as is common practice in modern historical versions, should not be given to Old Testament information, at the expense of extra-Biblical evidence. …”
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Respek vir die liturgiese teks: J. Calvyn en J.S. Bach by L. F. Schulze

“… Despite obvious differences in terms of historical and theological aspects between Calvin and Bach, both share a respect for the priority of the Biblical text in worship.The anomaly between Calvin’s engagement in the versification of the Psalter and Bach’s preference for the literal (rather than a versified) use of the Biblical text (for example in his St. …”
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