A law of meaning by Bernhard Wälchli, Anna Sjöberg

“…We implement the law in an algorithm using Dunning’s log-likelihood and illustrate it by extracting markers for ‘know’, negation, first person subject and complementizers from translations of the New Testament in a variety sample of 83 languages with manual evaluation of all extracted markers. …”
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UNHEARD VOICES OF WOMEN IN THE BIBLE, WITH IMPLICATIONS OF EMPOWERMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF TODAY’S CHURCH by L.M. Mudimeli, J.D.N. Van der Westhuizen

“…This article journeys with a narrative from the New Testament that encourages deconstruction of discourses that are harmful to women and reconstruction of healthy discourses that are inclusive and do not discriminate against women on the basis of gender. …”
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Ancient Christian care for prisoners: first and second centuries by T. Nicklas

“…The study explores material not only from the New Testament Gospels (Matt. 25; Luke 4) and Acts, but also from the Pauline Corpus and extra-canonical literature such as Ignatius of Antioch’s Epistles, later Acts of the Apostles, Martyrdom literature and even a passage from Lucian of Samosata’s Life of Peregrinus. …”
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Style and Influence: Computing Hebrews and the Early Christian Stylistic Fingerprint by Erich Benjamin Pracht, Thomas McCauley

“…We find that the author of Hebrews shares stylistic micro-patterns particularly with his co-religionists, which indicates that, already in New Testament times, the literature of emerging Christianity was developing a distinctive stylistic fingerprint, the features of which were transferred from one author to another.…”
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The Third Book of Ezra in the Religious Thought of Muscovy by Dmitrii Mikhailovich Bulanin

“…By combining the new texts with the already existing translations, the archbishop compiled the first complete collection of Old and New Testament books in Slavia Orthodoxa. The Council of Trent excluded the 3rd(4th) book of Ezra from the biblical canon, but in Old Russia its reliability was not in doubt. …”
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Die oudheid van die letter en die nuutheid van die Gees. Enkele opmerkings oor die Skrif as lewende Woord by P. F. Theron

“…The contrast between gramma and pneuma, old and new, permeates the entire Bible (i.e. Old and New Testament). This tension is the work of the Spirit as the auctor primarius of Scripture, through which the “dead letter” is transformed into the living Word. …”
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“Sacherklärungen” in biblischen texten - vorkommen und bedeutung für die Bibelübersetzung by C. Stenschke

“… In several places in the Old and New Testament narratives we find different explanatory notes. …”
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Paul’s Style and the Problem of the Pastoral Letters: Assessing Statistical Models of Description and Inference by Pracht Erich Benjamin, McCauley Thomas

“…In this study, we combine the core competencies of a New Testament scholar and a mathematician to conduct a stylometric analysis of the Pauline and Pastoral Letters based on 18 epistolary modes of discourse, which we argue are at least as stylistically relevant as traditional features such as term frequencies. …”
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Paul’s Jewish Prophetic Critique of Jews in Romans by Lionel J. Windsor

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Nü Jidu in Matthew 24:27: An exegetical evaluation of Dongfang Shandian in China by Harman Z. Laia, Jimmy Sutrisno

“…Contribution: This study contributes to the discourse on Christology and eschatology by critically examining a modern theological movement in light of traditional interpretations of Scripture, providing clarity and insight into the nature of Christ’s return as articulated in the New Testament.…”
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Decoding the Enigmatic Synoptic Problem: An In-Depth Academic Analysis of Pentecostal Hermeneutics Applied to the Genealogy of Jesus Christ in Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38 by Kwasi Atta Agyapong

“…This study serves as a valuable resource for academia, providing insights into a longstanding enigma in New Testament studies and helping to answer the synoptic problem.…”
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How to understand the parables of Jesus. A paradigm shift in parable exegesis by R. Zimmermann

“…From the perspective of the literary form of the parables, all internal differentiation must be made invalid by the New Testament text record itself. Instead, the discussion of a comprehensive genre of “parable” utilises the genre consciousness of the early Christian authors; a genre that can be precisely defined by means of a literary-critical description in terms of the criteria of narrativity, fictionality, relation to reality, metaphor, appeal structure and co-/contextuality. …”
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Geen ander naam by J. du Preez

“… The increasing awareness that the church of Christ has to communicate its message of salvation in a religiously plural society, has contributed to the fact that in ecumenical circles the New Testament confessions about Christ as only Saviour of the world (e.g. in Acts 4:12) are being interpreted in a way that leaves room for other saviours as well. …”
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CHURCH SLAVONIC VERSION OF CAESAR BARONIUS ANNALES ECCLESIASTICI AND CHUDOV TRANSLATIONS FROM THE 17TH CENTURY: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY by Maria O. Novak

“…By comparing the language of the manuscript at the lexical level with the translations reliably attributed earlier, the author discovers several parameters common to this version of Annales and Chudov translations, particularly, the translation of Piotr Skarga The Word for Mercy sermon and the New Testament translation accomplished by Epiphaniy Slavinetskiy. …”
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Foreword by Kammila Naidoo

“… I was delighted to open the conference on ‘Violence Against Children’ organized by the Department of Religion Studies, at the University of Johannesburg, in partnership with the New Testament Society of Southern Africa (NTSSA). I am extremely pleased that a special issue on the topic has been produced so briskly. …”
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War crimes and spirituality: to prosecute or to forgive and reconcile by Goran Šimić

“…In addition, there is a need to find a way to forgiveness and reconciliation, without which societies can always return to the “dark past”. The New Testament says that only the truth will set us free, but is that immanent to the human being? …”
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Gavrilo Stefanović Venclović’s Mač duhovni: The use of Turkish loanwords in translations of biblical quotations by Manojlović Sonja Đ.

“…In addition, a comparison was made with Vuk’s translation of the New Testament and Daničić’s translation of the Old Testament, to detect possible overlaps, since Turkish loanwords were used in both translations. …”
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Eunugs in die Bybel by F. P. Retief, S. J. P. K. Riekert, J. F. G. Cilliers

“… In Original Bible texts “eunuch” is described as saris (Old Testament, Hebrew) or eunouchos (New Testament, Greek). However, both words could also mean “official” or “commander”. …”
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La Représentation de la montagne dans la littérature anglaise d’inspiration religieuse au XVIIe siècle by Jean-Louis Breteau

“…This is notoriously the case throughout the Bible in both the Ancient and the New Testaments, although some ambivalence can be identified in the symbolic value of the mountain which proves to be either a place of divine revelation or of spiritual contest. …”
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Embracing the Psalter’s imprecatory words in the 21st century by N.L. deClaissé-Walford

“…The first section of the article examines the vitriolic words and sentiments found in the Psalter and in other places in the Old and New Testaments. It then suggests that we, as readers of these texts, in the words of Phyllis Trible, wrestle with such words and demand a blessing from them, much as Jacob did at the Jabbok with his mysterious wrestler. …”
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