Focus: The research of exegetical, hermeneutical, revelation historical and related aspects of the Old and New Testament. 

Subprogramme leader: Prof Albert Coetsee

e-mail: albert.coetsee@nwu.ac.za

Objectives:

To undertake exegetical, hermeneutical, revelation historical (theological), canonical and related studies of the Old and New Testament.

A.)  Recently completed projects:

The link to Christian hermeneutics in South Africa - https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2022.BK272

The link to Biblical Theology of Life in the Old Testament - https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2021.BK281

The link to Biblical Theology of Life in the New Testament - https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2021.BK282

B.)  Current projects:

A Biblical Theology of Prayer (2021-2023)

Much is written about prayers in the Biblical text. Many of these writings attend to specific prayers, or prayers in specific books. Publications with general overviews and perspectives on prayer are numerous. However, it seems that very little in depth studies of prayers in all the corpora of the Biblical text have been done. This research project intends to fill this gap. A Biblical Theological approach is followed, by which a variety of scholars are requested to investigate prayer and worship in specific corpora of both the Old and New Testament. A concluding chapter follows in which the Biblical Theological perspectives will be formulated based on the investigations of the different corpora, to provide the ‘big picture’ from the variety of biblical texts by reading the Biblical material holistically.

The planned publication will consist of two volumes, one volume covering the Old Testament and the other the New Testament. A mini-conference at which the various writers presented their initial findings, was held at the end of January 2022. We aim to have the project published in 2023.

C.)  Ongoing projects

Reading circle

The Subprogramme meets once a month to hear a paper of one of the Old or New Testament colleagues (sometimes a paper by one of our extraordinary researchers), to discuss its content and to give some feedback. This normally takes place the last Friday of the month at 12:00-13:00. Other scholars who are interested to form part of the discussion, are welcome to contact the Subprogramme leader for more information.