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Faculty of Humanities
School of Languages
Department of Ancient Languages

Botha, PJ

BA BA Honns (Sem Tale) MA (Sem Tale) BD DD(Pret) - Professor

NRF Rating: C2

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 2685
Fax number: 012 420 4008
E-mail address: phil.botha@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Grammar of the biblical languages

Social values in antiquity

Syriac Patristic Studies

Patristic studies

Grammar of the Semitic languages

Literary conventions in the Semitic languages

History of Ancient Culture

Old Testament

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Botha PJ: 2010. Psalm 108 and the Quest for Closure to the Exile. Old Testament Essays (New Series): Journal of the Old Testament Society of South Africa, 23 (3), pp 574-596, Full Text

Botha PJ: 2010. Ephrem the Syrian’s fictitious use of the epistolary form in his "First Discourse for Hypatius". Patrologia Pacifica Secunda, In Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific early Christian Studies Society Fifth Annual Conference (SCRINIUM), 6, Gorgias Press & Axioma, pp 44-60.

Botha PJ, Potgieter JH: 2010. 'The Word of Yahweh is right' : Psalm 33 as a Torah-psalm'.. Verbum et Ecclesia, 31 (1), pp 1-8, Full Text

Chapters in books:

Botha PJ: 2010. A world firmly established on Water: The Wisdom Foundations of Psalm 24:1-2. In Weisheit und Schöpfung. Festschrift für James Alfred Loader zum 65. Geburtstag., Peter Lang, pp 43-58.

 

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