Sampson S Ndoga
Biographic Data
| ID | 6794768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sampson S Ndoga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sampson S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ndoga |
| SIGNATURE | NDOGA S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7448-3437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An Afrocentric Treatise of Psalm 105 as an Instructional Song on Historical Divine Exclusivity
The use of songs for instructional purposes is a shared tradition in both African folk culture and the Hebrew scriptures. This article examines Psalm 105 as a song which emphasises divine exclusivity, drawing connections to African song traditions that serve to preserve essential beliefs for future generations. While all psalms were originally sung, their melodies have been lost over time, though they continue to be used in liturgical contexts. H…
Psalm 106 and Chaos Theory
Book IV of the Psalter ends on an anticipative note despite Israel’s chaotic history of serial failures. The psalmist foregrounds Yahweh’s acts of covenantal faithfulness as expressions of perennial divine faithfulness, favour, and forgiveness against Israel’s perpetual disloyalty. By reading Israel’s history through the mathematical conception of chaos as predictable patterns of behaviour managed under the outworking of divine purposes, what see…
ʿbd and šmr in Genesis 2
This paper contributes to the ongoing conversation on ecology by contributing an African perspective derived from the theanthropocosmic perspective. African indigenous knowledge and practices have been successfully passed on from one generation to the next without documentation. This is because of the inherent nature of responsibility within the African worldview where God, mankind, and nature exist in a (un)conscious community. The homogenous en…
Biblical pragmatism in the pandemic outbreak of Numbers 25
Numbers 25 presents a human crisis requiring swift leadership interventions to curb the plague. Leadership failure plays out on a number of levels before decisive and resolute interventions are taken. This passage shows a human-created crisis that somewhat parallels the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak and offers reflective pragmatic approaches taken to ensure immediate arresting of the pandemic and perhaps future curbing of a similar…
Personal uprightness as the just cause in Psalm 17
This essay situates study of the psalter within an African interpretational modality. Given the fact that western scholarship has dominated if not prescribed approaches to biblical texts demonstrable from the absence of African motifs in research by African students until recent times, this new opportunity for other perspectives invites contributions. As such the analysis of Psalm 17 here is such a contribution utilising a real-life African situa…
The Plausibility of Proverbs 31 as Final Parental (Motherly) Instruction
Proverbs 31 has been viewed as two separate poems: 31:1-9, the words of Lemuel's mother, and 31:10-31, an acrostic poem on the capable wife. Careful analysis of the two poems shows that these were juxtaposed by the redactor as a single composition through lexical and thematic links. It is equally observable that there is no title between the two compositions. Other than the shift in style where the first nine verses are prescriptive and the final…
Old Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria
In a short historical overview of the academic and social contributions of the Department of OTS at the UP over the past century (1917–2017), this chapter provides a limited picture of how the department has contributed to academia, church and society. In this year of the Faculty of Theology’s centenary celebrations, this chapter contemplates selected highlights of the past and intends to discover the avenues of future vistas through current acad…
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The Plausibility of Proverbs 31 as Final Parental (Motherly) Instruction
Proverbs 31 has been viewed as two separate poems: 31:1-9, the words of Lemuel's mother, and 31:10-31, an acrostic poem on the capable wife. Careful analysis of the two poems shows that these were juxtaposed by the redactor as a single composition through lexical and thematic links. It is equally observable that there is no title between the two compositions. Other than the shift in style where the first nine verses are prescriptive and the final…
Old Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria
In a short historical overview of the academic and social contributions of the Department of OTS at the UP over the past century (1917–2017), this chapter provides a limited picture of how the department has contributed to academia, church and society. In this year of the Faculty of Theology’s centenary celebrations, this chapter contemplates selected highlights of the past and intends to discover the avenues of future vistas through current acad…
Personal uprightness as the just cause in Psalm 17
This essay situates study of the psalter within an African interpretational modality. Given the fact that western scholarship has dominated if not prescribed approaches to biblical texts demonstrable from the absence of African motifs in research by African students until recent times, this new opportunity for other perspectives invites contributions. As such the analysis of Psalm 17 here is such a contribution utilising a real-life African situa…
Biblical pragmatism in the pandemic outbreak of Numbers 25
Numbers 25 presents a human crisis requiring swift leadership interventions to curb the plague. Leadership failure plays out on a number of levels before decisive and resolute interventions are taken. This passage shows a human-created crisis that somewhat parallels the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak and offers reflective pragmatic approaches taken to ensure immediate arresting of the pandemic and perhaps future curbing of a similar…
ʿbd and šmr in Genesis 2
This paper contributes to the ongoing conversation on ecology by contributing an African perspective derived from the theanthropocosmic perspective. African indigenous knowledge and practices have been successfully passed on from one generation to the next without documentation. This is because of the inherent nature of responsibility within the African worldview where God, mankind, and nature exist in a (un)conscious community. The homogenous en…
Psalm 106 and Chaos Theory
Book IV of the Psalter ends on an anticipative note despite Israel’s chaotic history of serial failures. The psalmist foregrounds Yahweh’s acts of covenantal faithfulness as expressions of perennial divine faithfulness, favour, and forgiveness against Israel’s perpetual disloyalty. By reading Israel’s history through the mathematical conception of chaos as predictable patterns of behaviour managed under the outworking of divine purposes, what see…
An Afrocentric Treatise of Psalm 105 as an Instructional Song on Historical Divine Exclusivity
The use of songs for instructional purposes is a shared tradition in both African folk culture and the Hebrew scriptures. This article examines Psalm 105 as a song which emphasises divine exclusivity, drawing connections to African song traditions that serve to preserve essential beliefs for future generations. While all psalms were originally sung, their melodies have been lost over time, though they continue to be used in liturgical contexts. H…
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