Gera De Villiers

Biographic Data

ID453549
NAMEGera De Villiers
GIVEN NAMESGera
FAMILY NAMEDe Villiers
SIGNATUREDE VILLIERS G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pretoria
ORCID0000-0002-4391-8722
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Engaging with “Mr Rugby”

    Open AccessGera De Villiers, Leslie van RooiARTICLEde arte2025References: 11

  • The conceptualisation of morality in ancient religions at the hand of the Gilgamesh Epic

    Open AccessGera De VilliersARTICLEVerbum et Ecclesia2024

    Verbum et Ecclesia is a theological research journal that challenges traditional discourses within and between the fields of biblical, religious, social and human sciences as well as the constructive engagement with the natural sciences. It is an instrument of engagement between theological disciplines, on the one hand, and theology and other disciplines, on the other

  • Visual Redress in Africa from Indigenous and New Materialist Perspectives

    Elmarie Costandius, Gera De VilliersBOOKVisual Redress in Africa from…2023

  • Redress at a higher education institution

    Open AccessElmarie Costandius, Amelda Brand et al.ARTICLECritical Studies in Teaching and…2020References: 2

    A visual redress project was launched with various artworks installed on campus, but it became clear that the erecting of these sculptures does not, on its own, provide a means to address structural injustices. A more embodied way of engagement was needed and workshops using art and performance were introduced where lecturers, students and community members worked through social, political and personal issues in a rhizomatic manner. The entanglem…

  • Interpreting texts and the matter of context

    Open AccessGera De VilliersARTICLEVerbum et Ecclesia2019Cited by: 1References: 4

    This article aims to explore the matter of context in biblical exegesis and interpretation. Several exegetical approaches are discussed, namely, text-immanent, intertextual comparison, reader-response criticism, which is subdivided into feminist and postcolonial studies, and historical criticism. The pros and cons of each approach will also be indicated. The Book of Ruth (RB) is subjected under all of these forms of exegesis in order to illustrat…

  • The Pentateuch and its reception in the Book of Ruth

    Gera De VilliersARTICLEJournal for Semitics2018

    This article deals with the Pentateuch and its reception in the book of Ruth. It is argued that the author/s of the book of Ruth knew most of the legislative and narrative texts in the Pentateuch and employed these in a most constructive manner to address identity issues in the Israelite community of the Second Temple Period. The main concern was the “true Israel†: should Israel be an exclusive community, consisting only of the descendants of the…

  • Ecodomy

    Open AccessGera De VilliersARTICLEVerbum et Ecclesia2017References: 15

    This chapter examined the concept of ‘Ecodomy’ – life in its fullness – as it unfolds in the Book of Ruth. The book is dated to the post-exilic period in the history of Israel, and is read as narrative critique against the Moabite paragraph in Deuteronomy 23:3–5, and against the way that this text is interpreted and implemented in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Naomi, Ruth and Boaz, the protagonists in the narrative, become paradigmatic of the s…

  • The Book of Ruth in the time of the Judges and Ruth, the Moabitess

    Open AccessGera De Villiers, Jurie Le RouxARTICLEVerbum et Ecclesia2016Cited by: 8

    This article addresses two issues in the Book of Ruth that have not yet received much scholarly attention: why is the narrative plotted in the time of the judges, whilst the time of narration dates to the postexilic period, and why is one of the protagonists Ruth, the Moabitess, whilst the law in Deuteronomy 23:3 4 (HB 4 5) clearly forbids the presence of Moabitess and Ammonites in the community of YHWH? A suggestion is made that a possible expla…

  • Rut 4

    Open AccessGera De VilliersARTICLEVerbum et Ecclesia2013

    Ruth 4:18 22: A window to Israel s past. The genealogy at the end of the Book of Ruth starts with Perez and ends with David, thereby covering Israel s history since the time of the sojourn in Egypt to the Davidic monarchy. This article focuses on Ruth 4:18 22 and what its genealogy may reveal. After a brief review of different types of genealogies in the Hebrew Bible, the problematic dating of the Book of Ruth becomes secondary; however, a partic…

  • Die huwelik as ‘instelling van God’ (met implikasies vir gay huwelike)

    Open AccessGera De VilliersARTICLEVerbum et Ecclesia2007

    This article focuses on marriage. It appears that marriage is in the first place a social cultural institution with legal implications, and not religious by nature. Concepts and practices regarding marriage change along with social and cultural movements. Regarding the twenty first century, a marked shift from patriarchy towards equality has been observed. Marriage practices have changed: the man is no longer sole breadwinner and head of the hous…

  • Telematiese onderrig en teologiese opleiding

    Open AccessGera De Villiers, Christo LombaardARTICLEVerbum et Ecclesia2004

    The new medium of the internet offers possibilities for teaching Theology unforeseen by previous generations of theological scholars. In this paper, the authors explore some difficulties inherent in such theological “education”. Seven issues are identified and briefly discussed, relating each to the matter of theological training by means of the internet: critical, insightful reading of information on the internet; breadth rather than depth of co…