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Identiteit:'n vlietende entiteit Die politieke invloed op die Israelitiese stamme gedurende die tyd van die Rigters

Le Roux, Magdel (Brill, 1994)

Present discussions about the history of Israel pay a great deal of attention to the question of Israel as an ethnic group with a prominent, distinguishable and unique identity. By means of empirical facts, this article ...
African "Jews" for Jesus: A preliminary investigation into the Semitic origins and missionary initiatives of some Lemba communities in southern Africa

Le Roux, Magdel (1997)

The Lemba live among other ethnic groups in southern Africa, but consider themselves to be Israelites who, after the Babylonian exile, migrated to Africa, The possibility that the Lemba might have a' Semitic ancestry ...
'Lost Tribes of Israel' in Africa? Some Observations On Judaising Movements in Africa, With Specific Reference To the Lemba in Southern Africa.

Le Roux, Magdel (Brill, 1999)

Judaism' is often adapted by groups who embrace it, then these groups are not accepted by Judaism proper. It is embraced for identity and identification (such as by the Falashas of Ethiopia). This embrace was encouraged ...
Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba—the “Black Jews of Southern Africa”

Le Roux, Magdel; Mark, Thomas; Parfitt, T.; Skorecki, K.; Bradman, N.; Goldstein, D.B. (Elsevier, 2000)

The Lemba are a traditionally endogamous group speaking a variety of Bantu languages who live in a number of locations in southern Africa. They claim descent from Jews who came to Africa from “Sena.” “Sena” is variously ...
An Eco (bosadi) reading of Psalm 127:3-7

Masenya, Madipoane (Sheffield, 2001)
Polluting your ground? woman as pollutant in Yehud : a reading from a globalised Africa

Masenya, Madipoane (Cluster, 2001)
Hoe dink vandag se mense oor die Bybel?

Spangenberg, Izak J.J. (2002)

Not all members of the Dutch Reformed Church cherish the same view about Scripture. The letters in the Afrikaans newspapers on religious issues clearly reflect this. There are two groups of scholars in the church whose ...
Sacrificing female bodies at the altar of male priviledge : a bosadi reading of Judges 19

Masenya, Madipoane (2003)

The present South African landscape is typified, amongst other evils, by violent acts committed on women and children. This violence is entrenched in some church and family contexts, not only by the women-unfriendly Bible ...
Trapped between two canons : African- South African Christian women in the HIV/AIDS era

Masenya, Madipoane (2003)
In search of the Origin of the Merchants of Sena

Le Roux, Magdel (Brill, 2003)

The oldest, recorded oral tradition ofthe Lemba of southern Africa, individually also known as mušavi (buyer/trader), nyakuwana (the man who finds the things which are bought), or mulungu ('white man' or 'the man from the ...
Teaching Western-oriented Old Testament studies to African students : an exercise in wisdom or in Folly?

Masenya, Madipoane (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2004)

Since the colonial era, Africa, with South Africa included, has suffered alienation. With strangers imposing their cultures, languages, ideologies et cetera on the continent, Africa became a stranger, ironically on its ...
Kohenim travelling south. The Queen of Sheba in Ethiopian and Lemba tradition

Le Roux, Magdel (SASNES (Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies), 2004)

Similar to oral traditions, written histories may exist in more than one version. The biblical story of the Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon has undergone an extensive elaboration in different literary traditions. ...
Lemba Religion. Ancient Judaism or Evolving Lemba Tradition?

Le Roux, Magdel (2004)

Various traditions exist as to when the Lemba came to Africa. A possible early departure from Israel (according to the Lemba) can imply that their religion could contain remnants of a very ancient type of religion, which ...
How worthy is the woman of worth? : a feminist reading of Proverbs 31: 10-31

Masenya, Madipoane (Peter Lang, 2004)

The life of an African-South African woman is shaped by a variety of factors. The phrase ‘African-South African women’ is used in this work to refer to those women who belong to the indigenous peoples of South Africa: the ...
A close shave with God

Gous, Ignatius G.P. (Old Testament Essays, 2004)

This article theorises about the need for rituals in primitive as well as modern societies. From the ongoing resurgence of interest in rituals, the author concludes that the human race is and always will be homo ritualensis. ...
African light on the New Moon ceremony

Le Roux, Magdel (Old Testament Society of South Africa (OTSSA), 2005)

The endeavour to juxtapose the manners and customs of these two communities (African and early Israel), illuminates the understanding of the practices and rituals of both sides, and it stimulates new questions to be asked ...
The Optimism of the wise in Africa and in Israel : how helpful in the time of HIV/AIDS?

Masenya, Madipoane (Journal of the Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2005)

South African church leaders, theologians and biblical scholars who take comfort in succumbing to the status quo should be compelled by the high incidences of AIDS-related deaths on the African continent, to rethink their ...
South African Baptists and the land discourse, 1806-1913

Mogashoa, Humphrey M. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

The possession and dispossession of land, access and denial of access to it, has been a critical factor in South African Baptist history. This critical aspect was expressed as follows: the whites had access to the land ...
Social identity and South African biblical hermeneutics : a struggle against prejudice?

Snyman, Gerrie (Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 2005)

In a recent debate in the Bulletin for Old Testament Studies in Africa (vol. 12-14), the issue of social identity and South African (Biblical) hermeneutics was put on the table. This essay responds to the debate from the ...
Lamentations 4 in the light of Poetry Therapy

Gous, Ignatius G.P. (Old Testament Essays, 2005)

Why do we study the Old Testament? Why do we read and analyse Old Testament poems? Does our work make a difference? Does it need to make a difference, and if so, what kind of difference? A recent trend in Psychology ...

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