Reading Psalm 90 in the African (Yoruba) perspective by David T. Adamo

“…Intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary implications: ‘Reading Psalm 90 in the African context’ interprets Psalm 90 in the light of African culture. It deals with biblical studies, exegesis, African traditional religion, and African cultural practices using historical-critical and African biblical hermeneutical methodologies. …”
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Dialogues and disputes in biblical disguise from late antiquity to the Middle Ages

“…It also endeavours to create new methodologies for their investigation informed by and also impacting both literary and biblical studies. Analysing the interplay between content and literary form, the contributions present an overview of the development of pseudo-biblical dialogues from Syriac, Coptic and Greek patristics to not only Medieval Latin and Byzantine but also Slavonic, Arabic and English texts, providing us with the first manual about this wide-spread and popular, but unexplored literature.…”

“You are Cursed by the God YHW:” an early Hebrew inscription from Mt. Ebal by Scott Stripling, Gershon Galil, Ivana Kumpova, Jaroslav Valach, Pieter Gert van der Veen, Daniel Vavrik

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The fulfilment of God’s promises: A literary-homiletic reading of 1 Chronicles 7:20–27 by Hee-Sook Bae

“…Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Homileticians used to complain that biblical studies were more oriented towards historic-critical interest than towards preaching. …”
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The Church as God’s agent in uniting immigrants and natives: A case from Ephesians 2:11–22 by Christopher Magezi

“…In bringing the aforesaid together, the former aspect of the article falls within biblical studies, while the latter falls within practical-missional theology.…”
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The suffering womanhood in Luke 13:10–17 in the context of the post-COVID-19 pandemic in Africa by Godwin A. Etukumana, Bosede G. Ogedegbe

“…Contribution: This article adds to the ongoing discussion in biblical studies about gender equality, specifically in Africa where diseases such as COVID-19 have highlighted the need for change. …”
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The Demystification of Magic in the <i>Tafsīr al-Manār</i>: An Analysis of the Exegetical and Homiletic Devices Used in the Discussion ‘<i>Mab</i><i>ḥ</i><i>ath al-siḥr wa-Hārūt wa... by Stephen R. Burge

“…A final section will explore the modernist movement’s relationship with biblical studies and the influence that it may have had on the interpretation of myth in the <i>Tafsīr al-Manār</i>.…”
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Of seduction and male abuse: Exploring the less-talked-about using Tamar’s stratagem (Gn 37–38) by Canisius Mwandayi

“…This contribution highlighted the less-talked-about abuse of men, which is also of significance within multiple disciplines including biblical studies, social anthropology, theology, cultural studies and even history.…”
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Recent Research in Religion by Martha Adkins

“… This paper reports the results of a study of the citations accompanying research published over ten years in the fields of theology, religious studies, and biblical studies. The purpose of the citation analysis project was to determine patterns of material usage by scholars in the discipline of Religion. …”
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The ramifications of missionary proselytisation on Tiv culture: Lessons for contemporary critical biblical contextualisation by Cephas T.A. Tushima

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Prinsip Creatio Continua dan Imago Dei dalam Penerapan Kloning Terapetik: Manusia Merampas Peran Allah? by Yushak Soesilo

“…This study aims to provide answers and at the same time determine the position of the Christian faith towards therapeutics through biblical studies based on creatio continua and imago Dei concept. …”
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A Revisiting of the Dating of Hodayot Manuscripts: A Stylistic Paleographic Analysis by Philip Suciadi Chia, Frederich Oscar Lambertus Lontoh

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Cessationism and continuationism: Pentecostal trinitarianism balances the tension by Kelebogile T. Resane

“…Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The article’s intradisciplinary implication was realised through the appeal to numerous theological disciplines such as biblical studies, church history, ecclesiology and pneumatology. …”
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The bride as a ‘locked garden’: An eco-sustainability retrieval of nature metaphor in Song of Songs 4:12–15 by Kivatsi J. Kavusa

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Shifting Gears or Splitting Hairs? Performance Criticism’s Object of Study by Zechariah Preston Eberhart

“…In doing so, this inadvertently has implications not only for our thinking in this particular volume, but also perhaps more broadly for biblical studies.…”
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The prophet like Moses (Dt 18:15–22): Some trajectories in the history of interpretation by Christoph W. Stenschke

“…Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article is placed within the discipline of biblical studies and Jewish studies (for the reception history in early Judaism). …”
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Ruth 1:1–5 read in the context of challenges of the migration of Nigerians by Damian O. Odo, Favour C. Uroko

“…The study implicated Old Testament Exegesis, contextual biblical studies sociology and migration studies.…”
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Negus Ezana: Revisiting the Christianisation of Aksum by Rugare Rukuni

“…Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Whilst the article takes the main form of a historical review of Ethiopian Christianity’s origins, there are inferences to biblical studies and archaeological establishments. The main methodology takes the form of a document analysis in the form of comprehensive literature review which also includes references to epigraphy.…”
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Revisiting the practice of Bible-translation: The need to engage ordinary believers when translating the Psalms by June F. Dickie

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Contents and Forms in Conceptions, Presentations and Interpretations of Opposites and Contradictions by Jože Krašovec

“…The article deals with the complex perception of opposites in the order of the phenomenal world and different interpretations of opposites and contradictions in philosophy, in Biblical studies and in theology. The ways of perception and directions of interpretation of opposites and contradictions at the level of the material world show that most people do not perceive opposites as contradictions, but as different parts of the whole cosmic reality. …”
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