7 articles in this issue
Bernard C Lategan
The impact of both literary theory and social context on the interpretation of Biblical texts can be clearly seen in this volume. The literary character of the Bible-or at least of significant parts of these documents-has long been recognized, and its int... see more
D P Veldsman
If religious experience can be described as everyday experience in a religious conceptual framework, and if this framework consists of explanatory commitments, the question that this paper poses is to the genesis of these explanatory commitments. It... see more
Pieter J J Botha
This paper aims at locating Pauline letter writing within the context of ancient communication in order to make the constraints of an orally based culture relevant to the understanding of his letters. The limited literacy prevailing in Greco-Roman times, ... see more
Gerald West
In this essay I discussed a crucial debate in biblical hermeneutics: the debate between interesting and interested readings of the Bible. I am aware that this discussion is only one aspect of a wider discussion and that I totter on the brick of that black... see more
T M S Long
This essay notes the widespread, often perturbed, interest in Derridean deconstruction among biblical scholars, and argues for deconstruction’s appropriateness for biblical studies in the present South African context, as a style of Accusation’ rather tha... see more
Patrick J Hartin
One of the great tragedies of the South African context has been the way the Bible was used to justify the ideology of apartheid. This South African context provides the impetus for the problematic of this paper, which examines how the misuse of the Bible... see more