2018 Annual SASNES and OTSSA Meeting North-West University, Sports Village, Potchefstroom August

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1 2018 Annual SASNES and OTSSA Meeting North-West University, Sports Village, Potchefstroom August

2 Table of Contents Tuesday (14 August): SASNES Papers (Sessions 1-4) 3-4 Pages Wednesday (15 August): SASNES (Session 1) and OTSSA Papers (Sessions 1-4) 5-6 Thursday (16 August): OTSSA Papers (Session 1) 7 Van Selms Memorial Lecture Information 8 Workshop on Ancient Languages and Texts and Digital Scholarship 9 2

3 Day Time Venue: NWU Sports Village G17 Venue: NWU Sports Village G12 Tuesday 14 August 08:00-09:00 Registration Chair: Hans van Deventer 09:00-09:10 Welcoming Address: Prof. Fika Janse van Rensburg 09:10-10:00 SASNES 30 th Anniversary Lecture: SASNES: A 30 Year Overview Session 1: 10:00-11:00 Chair: At Lamprecht 10:00-10:30 Sacred Writings and Their Translations as a Complex Phenomenon: The Book of Ben Sira in the Septuagint as a Case in Point Jacobus A. Naudé and Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé 10:30-11:00 Righteousness in 4Q : An Exploration of the Source of Its Translation as Almsgiving Annette Evans 11:00-11:30 Coffee / Tea Break Chair: Liza Lemmer 11:30-12:00 Towards a Conceptual Translation of Job Adriaan Lamprecht 12:00-12:30 The Challenge of Interpreting and Translating Instances of Fronting More Adequately in the Hebrew Bible Christo H. J. van der Merwe 12:30-13:00 Sunshine on My Shoulders: A Cognitive Model of Light in Biblical Hebrew Joel Ruark 13:00-14:30 Lunch (not provided) Session 3: 14:30-16:00 Chair: At Lamprecht Chair: Annette Evans 14:30-15:00 The Translation of ברך in Job 2:9 through the Lens of a Functionalist Approach Gudrun E. Lier 3 Chair: Jaco Gericke Decolonizing the Translation and Interpretation of Psalm 8 in African (Yoruba) Context David T. Adamo The Problem of Translating the Title of the Book of Deuteronomy into the Yoruba Language of Nigeria Olusanya A. Akinola Session 2: 11:30-13:00 Chair: Gideon R. Kotzé Examining the Evidence of the Aramaic and Syriac of Leviticus against LXX Leviticus Dirk Büchner The Biblical Hebrew Idiom Lift the Face in the Septuagint of Job Douglas T. Mangum Between Death, Life and the Depths of the Underworld! An Anthropological Comparison between the Hebrew Masoretic Text and Greek Septuagint Text of Psalms 88 and 139 on the Themes of Death and Life Lodewyk Sutton Medea of Euripides and the Old Testament Evangelia Dafni

4 15:00-15:30 Towards Intercultural Translations of Christian Canonical Scriptures Jean-Claude Loba Mkole 15:30-16:00 Interpreting and Rendering of Qur anic Verses in Conformity with Convention and Tradition Ashraf Dockrat 16:00-16:30 Coffee / Tea Break Chair: Lekgetho Moretsi 16:30-17:00 The Role of Bible Translation in the Development of Xitsonga: Orthography Development and Dialect Unification MJ Maluleke 17:00-17:30 Promoting Social Cohesion through the Adaption of Medieval Morality Plays for Contemporary African Audiences: A Case Study of the Morality Play Everyman / Elkerlijk into Sesotho Tshokolo Makutoane 17:30-18:00 18:00-19:00 SASNES Annual Business Meeting NWU Sports Village G17 The Synthesis of Metaphor and Poetry in the Song of Moses Kevin Chau Is דּ ג ה really a Fish out of Water? Interpreting Jonah 2:2 in the Light of Birthing Imagery Jo-Marí Schäder Session 4: 16:30-17:30 Chair: Willem Boshoff Van Selms Memorial Lecture NWU Sports Village G17 Chair: Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé 19:00-20:00 Understanding Torah: Ancient Near Eastern Legal Texts and the Cognitive Environment of the Ancient World John H. Walton The Throne-Chariot in Neo-Assyrian Iconography Renate Marian van Dijk-Coombes An enquiry into the Reverend Solomon Caesar Malan s documented excursion through Syria, Assyria and Armenia with special reference to his watercolour sketches of the excavations at Sennacherib s Southwest Palace at Kuyunjik Ronel Kellner 4

5 Day Time Venue: NWU Sports Village G17 Venue: NWU Sports Village G12 Wednesday 08:00-09:00 Registration 15 August Session 1: 09:00-11:00 Chair: Chris van der Walt Chair: Gudrun Lier 09:00-09:30 Anamorphosis and anomaly in Old Testament theology s The Problem of Translating the Hebrew Title י הו ה into Yoruba philosophical translations of religious language in the Language of Nigeria in the Yoruba Bible Hebrew Bible David T. Adamo Jaco Gericke 09:30-10:00 To Live is to Obey and to Obey is to Live: Deuteronomy s Concept of Life AJ Coetsee 10:00-10:30 God s ר וּ in Jonah 1:4 and Gen 1:2: Vestiges of a deeper breath? Allan Deysel 10:30-11:00 Hannah in Stages and Places: An Exploration of Space in 1 Samuel 1 Stefanie Rembold 11:00-11:30 Coffee / Tea Break Chair: Albert Coetsee 11:30-12:00 Reading African Wise: Interpretation of Exodus 3:1-13 in the Lumpa Church of Alice Lenshina Jonathan Kangwa 12:00-12:30 What do the dead have to do with the living? A re-reading of 1 Samuel 28:3-25 in light of the Vhavenda tradition of malombo Nkhumiseni Mulaudzi and Hulisani Ramantswana The Supreme Being in Yawo Bible Translation: Managing the Choice of Adequate Terms for God Tobias Houston Towards a Complexity Approach to Alterity and Cultural Dimensions of Bible Translation: The Case of Lokạạ in Nigeria Jacobus A. Naudé, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and John Obono A Critical Assessment of the Maale Translation of the Old Testament Johannes Malherbe Session 2: 11:30-13:00 Chair: Jo-Mari-Schäder 12:30-13:00 Title Lekgetho Moretsi 13:00-14:30 Tour of the GKSA church museum and light lunch (finger snacks provided) Session 3: 14:30-16:00 Chair: Gideon R. Kotzé Chair: Hans van Deventer 14:30-15:00 Wreaking havoc. Exploring the potential of Old Testament narratives as creative reflective surfaces to address the stalemate within the Dutch Reformed Church regarding the interpretation of the Bible in the current same-sex debate Tiana Bosman and Charlene van der Walt Plato s Apology of Socrates and Sapientia Salomonis on Atheism Evangelia Dafni The Priestly Breastplate of Aaron in Song 13 of Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Annette Evans A Story Based upon a Story, How Far Can the Story Go? J Steve van der Walt Treat the Earth Well - Protecting and Restoring Forests in the Kenyan Context: A Decolonial Environmental Ethical Reading of Genesis 1:9-13, Joel Mwendwa 5

6 15:00-15:30 An analysis of the transition from boyhood to manhood as espoused in the life of King David and formulation of Old Testament Masculinities, in an attempt at understanding coming of age in the framework of queer identity Nozipho Dlodlo 15:30-16:00 Bodily movement within Psalm 139. An anthropological perspective Lodewyk Sutton 16:00-16:30 Coffee / Tea Break Chair: Tiana Bosman 16:30-17:00 Epistemological Hegemony and its Impact on an 1885 Chewa Bible Translation in Central Africa Misheck Nyirenda 17:00-17:30 The 1983 Afrikaans Bible Translation and the Formation of a New Afrikaner Identity Morné Joubert 17:30-18:00 18:00-19:00 OTSSA Annual Business Meeting NWU Sports Village G17 19:00-20:00 Music / Choir performance Venue: NWU Conservatory Eco-justice Reflexion on Water: Reading the Irony of Qoheleth 2:4-6 against Injustices Surrounding the Distribution of Water on the African Continent Jonathan Kavusa From the Earth Bible to the Green Bible and the Possibility of an Eco-conscious Translation Neels Redelinghuys Session 4: 16:30-17:30 Chair: Charlene van der Walt Naming and Blessing in the Jacob Wrestling Encounter Abitana Hachamba Jerusalem... you will be called by a new name! (Isaiah 62:2). Naming as a hermeneutic key to the Book of Isaiah Wynand C. Retief 6

7 Day Time Venue: NWU Sports Village G17 Venue: NWU Sports Village G12 Session 1: 09:00-11:00 Chair: Chris van der Walt Chair: Albert Coetsee 09:00-09:30 Managing Sin and Impurity: Priestly Strategies for Keeping Translation versus Theology: The Case of Daniel 3:17-18 YHWH in the Sanctuary Revisited Sias Meyer Hans J. M. van Deventer Thursday 16 August 09:30-10:00 Chronicles and Judges: Any Relationship? Louis C. Jonker 10:00-10:30 Oppression and Violence against Secondary Dwellers of the ancient Israelite State. The Case of Forced Labour (mas) in Biblical Narratives and Beyond Péter Jenei 10:30-11:00 Societal impact of water system development in the world of the Old Testament Elanij Swart Chair: Liza Lemmer 11:00-14:00 Workshop on Ancient Languages and Texts and Digital Scholarship New Perspectives in African Philosophy of Religion and the Future of Decolonizing Local Old Testament Translation and Transmission Jaco W. Gericke African Neo-Pentecostalist Prophecy as Transmission of the Biblical Text Marius Nel Shona Cultural Tendencies in Biblical Festivals: A Comparative Study Menard Musendekwa Workshop: 11:00-14:00 NWU Sports Village G17 14:00 19:00-22:00 Excursion: Visit to the Vredefort Dome Conference Dinner 7

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