SCRIPTURA  

Bernard Lategan

This issue of "Scriptura" is dedicated to the memory of Ferdinand Deist, scholar, colleague and friend.  Ferdinand, among his many activities, was an active contributor fo the annual workshop on Contextual Hermeneutics in Stellenbosch.  His arti... see more

Ferdinand Deist

Human beings spontaneously form ethnic, economic, religious, political, sexual, occupational, and other groups.  For people belonging to one group to have certain prejudgements about people from another group, is normal.  Such prejudgements may,... see more

Denise M Ackerman

This article centres on the highly contentious concept of boundaries as viewed from a feminist theological perspective.  The point is made that the concept both hinders and helps women in their struggles.  This is briefly touched upon with refer... see more

Roger A Arendse

There is a sharp interest in the historical Jesus in recent decades among (mainly) North American New Testament scholars.  Many of them claim that a veritable ‘renaissance’ or ‘third quest’ is underway in Jesus studies that shifts beyond the boundari... see more

James R Cochrane

This paper aims to develop a hermeneutic strategy able to direct a useful participation by the Church in the formation of public policy.  It does so by drawing on the work of feminist theorists, among them Kathleen Kirby.  The political implicat... see more

Bernard Lategan

Continuing a previous discussion on different styles of dialogue and different audiences involved in this dialogue, the present article is concerned with some characteristics of the ‘third public’.  The boundaries that exist not only between the diff... see more

Elna Mouton

The essay briefly explores the nature and influence of three formative stories within the biography of Afrikaans Christian women: their relation of family/friends, society, and the Bible/church.  These stories collectively determine and reflect the i... see more

Rensia Robinson

The significance and the possibilities of defining borders as a means to create perspective of what lies beyond limitation can be introduced through poetic strategies.  In a volume of poetry names ‘Driepas’ (1989), the poet T.T. Cloete explores the s... see more

Dirkie Smit

Can theological difference be solved?  Wesley Kort, in his recent study Bound to differ, argues that they cannot – and should not.  He rejects four well-known attempts to deal with theological differences, namely praxis theology, hermeneutical t... see more

Gerald West

Contextual Bible Study is a process during which socially engaged biblical scholars read with ordinary readers of the Bible.  This article presents – and draws its conclusions from – communal reading of 2 Samuel 21:1-14 with Rizpah, with readers from... see more