Doniwen Pietersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6794880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doniwen Pietersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doniwen |
| FAMILY NAME | Pietersen |
| SIGNATURE | PIETERSEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3050-589X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Transformational Approach to Assessment Practices
This study aims to explore decolonised strategies for challenging hegemonic assessment practices in teacher education, which often equate academic quality with dominant English-language writing conventions. It confronts the perception that effective assessment inherently privileges specific linguistic norms, arguing instead for a social justice approach that reconceptualises evaluation to empower all students. The purpose is to propose how Artifi…
Data-Driven Strategies for Addressing Challenges in Teacher Placement
Teacher placement is a major challenge in South Africa, with limited school placements available for student teachers. This conceptual research studied how data-driven strategies may be used to tackle this problem, with a focus on legal and pedagogical problems to promote inclusive education. The article proposed that the use of data analytics may improve evidence-based decision-making in teacher placement. It focussed on providing equal access t…
A Critical Analysis of Affirmative Action in South Africa
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in social justice action that is deliberate and affirmative to marginalised groups in South Africa. The background to this is framed against a ‘Missionary-political justice’ or 'missional-political justice' approach, the clear distinctive that characterises missional imperatives that is very clearly related to postmodern South African culture... [and] emerging churches in postmodern contexts'…
Mis)Treatment of Women Intersecting in the Codes of Hammurabi and Deuteronomy (Ancient Near East and South Africa)
This article describes the point of intersection at which the text of the Code of Hammurabi, the Deuteronomic code (ANE), and the context of South Africa meet. These relationships can be summarised as women being treated badly, so badly that one can almost describe this treatment as the “Wild West.” This depiction of the bloody violence in which women are subjugated and disempowered by men is appalling and is an indictment against men. Throughout…
Leadership Re-appropriated for 21st - century Women
This article explores the Ancient Near East and Deuteronomy 17:15–20 from a feminist perspective in order to reappropriate the patriarchal recollections of failed male leadership and attempts to invertedly stifle female leadership. If one considers the aforementioned text by reflecting on its context, there is also an obligation to bear in mind gender sensitivities, feminism and complexity of the 21st century, but more importantly one needs to mo…
A dangerous and powerful woman?’ – A feminist reading of an old story with new cultural eyes
This article explores the text of Judges 14, which describes the life of a so-called ‘hyper-masculine’ Israelite hero, Samson. However, a careful feminist and socio-historical interpretation of Samson’s character reflects a rather bleak version of an anti-hero. This is based on his behaviour, which was the antithesis to the Israelite ideal of masculinity. When the text is firmly interrogated from a post-modernist (hermeneutic of suspicion) and fe…
Confronting xenophobia in South Africa and the concept of foreigner in Deuteronomy as an act of ‘othering’
This article explored the theme of xenophobia and ‘othering’ (violently targeting African immigrants in particular) as a complex and highly relevant theme in South Africa in order to move towards addressing it for the sake of unity in Africa. This research article has adopted a sociological lens that critically examines the issue of xenophobia within a 21st-century South African context. It then considers Deuteronomy and its context from a litera…
YHWH’s mouthpiece to the exiles
This article seeks to make a contribution to the discourse on how the difference between the two versions of the book of Jeremiah as it pertains to two bracketed texts, e.g. Jer. 25:11–12 – Jer. 46:27–28 illustrate a regard of hope on the end of the Exile. Does the Masoretic Text (MT) have a different perspective on the idea of hope, or do both the MT and Septuagint (LXX) share a similar position on this? Moreover, this article attempts to charac…
Jeremia, Profeet Van Oordeel en Hoop
Peels, H.G.L & De Waard, H. (eds), (Apeldoorn, Nederland: Drukkerij Holland, 2020), 119 pp. ISBN: 978-90-75847-54-3
Yahwistic incongruency and enigma
This article deals with the incongruency and enigma of violence on the part of Yahweh, in order to locate action or inaction against violence on a human level. The debate whether people should be actively involved in serving their countries in the military, if political leaders can wage war and take up arms against a corrupt, grossly oppressive and unjust regime, and if people should vote for and endorse parties with such policies, is contested. …
Reading a few exemplary books or texts in the Pentateuch and comparing how these books or texts portray the theme of violence and disempowerment
This research article focuses on selected Old Testament (OT) texts that deal with the theme of violence and disempowerment. The selected texts are studied and viewed from a feminist interpretation perspective, and laid bare the violent and mistreatment of women in these texts. This research study builds on the work of Phyllis Trible (1978), and she uses the term ‘texts of terror’ to refer to passages where women suffer especially at the hands of …
Women Treated as Property
Gender discrimination is not a new phenomenon. It has been prevalent in many civilisations through the ages, including those in the ancient Near East. Prejudice against women thus found its way into legal codes, such as the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which introduced the idea of “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,” according to which the killer of a woman was only obliged to pay half a gold mina as punishment to her father or husband,…
Reading the “power of clothes” in the Deuteronomic Code
This article explores the ancient Israelite law, namely the Deuteronomic Code (Deut. 12–26), in terms of how men and women were treated differently when it came to cultural adornment practices. In other words, the Deuteronomic Code was used culturally to hold women back and treated them differently in ancient Israel. It enforced the degradation of women. The legal terminology used when dealing with women and their cultural adornment practices is …
Haggai’s concern for South Africa
The book of Haggai presents a community where no poverty exists. If העם הזה [his people] obeyed (Ez 6:14), the Lord promised that שלום [prosperity] would follow (Hg 2:19). This command underscores the benefits of living in a covenant relationship with the Hebrew God who bestows provision and blessings on his followers. Such a concept in the ancient Israelite society is a radical one, given the huge disparities that have existed between the rich a…
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YHWH’s mouthpiece to the exiles
This article seeks to make a contribution to the discourse on how the difference between the two versions of the book of Jeremiah as it pertains to two bracketed texts, e.g. Jer. 25:11–12 – Jer. 46:27–28 illustrate a regard of hope on the end of the Exile. Does the Masoretic Text (MT) have a different perspective on the idea of hope, or do both the MT and Septuagint (LXX) share a similar position on this? Moreover, this article attempts to charac…
Jeremia, Profeet Van Oordeel en Hoop
Peels, H.G.L & De Waard, H. (eds), (Apeldoorn, Nederland: Drukkerij Holland, 2020), 119 pp. ISBN: 978-90-75847-54-3
Yahwistic incongruency and enigma
This article deals with the incongruency and enigma of violence on the part of Yahweh, in order to locate action or inaction against violence on a human level. The debate whether people should be actively involved in serving their countries in the military, if political leaders can wage war and take up arms against a corrupt, grossly oppressive and unjust regime, and if people should vote for and endorse parties with such policies, is contested. …
Reading a few exemplary books or texts in the Pentateuch and comparing how these books or texts portray the theme of violence and disempowerment
This research article focuses on selected Old Testament (OT) texts that deal with the theme of violence and disempowerment. The selected texts are studied and viewed from a feminist interpretation perspective, and laid bare the violent and mistreatment of women in these texts. This research study builds on the work of Phyllis Trible (1978), and she uses the term ‘texts of terror’ to refer to passages where women suffer especially at the hands of …
Women Treated as Property
Gender discrimination is not a new phenomenon. It has been prevalent in many civilisations through the ages, including those in the ancient Near East. Prejudice against women thus found its way into legal codes, such as the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which introduced the idea of “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,” according to which the killer of a woman was only obliged to pay half a gold mina as punishment to her father or husband,…
Reading the “power of clothes” in the Deuteronomic Code
This article explores the ancient Israelite law, namely the Deuteronomic Code (Deut. 12–26), in terms of how men and women were treated differently when it came to cultural adornment practices. In other words, the Deuteronomic Code was used culturally to hold women back and treated them differently in ancient Israel. It enforced the degradation of women. The legal terminology used when dealing with women and their cultural adornment practices is …
Haggai’s concern for South Africa
The book of Haggai presents a community where no poverty exists. If העם הזה [his people] obeyed (Ez 6:14), the Lord promised that שלום [prosperity] would follow (Hg 2:19). This command underscores the benefits of living in a covenant relationship with the Hebrew God who bestows provision and blessings on his followers. Such a concept in the ancient Israelite society is a radical one, given the huge disparities that have existed between the rich a…
Mis)Treatment of Women Intersecting in the Codes of Hammurabi and Deuteronomy (Ancient Near East and South Africa)
This article describes the point of intersection at which the text of the Code of Hammurabi, the Deuteronomic code (ANE), and the context of South Africa meet. These relationships can be summarised as women being treated badly, so badly that one can almost describe this treatment as the “Wild West.” This depiction of the bloody violence in which women are subjugated and disempowered by men is appalling and is an indictment against men. Throughout…
Leadership Re-appropriated for 21st - century Women
This article explores the Ancient Near East and Deuteronomy 17:15–20 from a feminist perspective in order to reappropriate the patriarchal recollections of failed male leadership and attempts to invertedly stifle female leadership. If one considers the aforementioned text by reflecting on its context, there is also an obligation to bear in mind gender sensitivities, feminism and complexity of the 21st century, but more importantly one needs to mo…
A dangerous and powerful woman?’ – A feminist reading of an old story with new cultural eyes
This article explores the text of Judges 14, which describes the life of a so-called ‘hyper-masculine’ Israelite hero, Samson. However, a careful feminist and socio-historical interpretation of Samson’s character reflects a rather bleak version of an anti-hero. This is based on his behaviour, which was the antithesis to the Israelite ideal of masculinity. When the text is firmly interrogated from a post-modernist (hermeneutic of suspicion) and fe…
Confronting xenophobia in South Africa and the concept of foreigner in Deuteronomy as an act of ‘othering’
This article explored the theme of xenophobia and ‘othering’ (violently targeting African immigrants in particular) as a complex and highly relevant theme in South Africa in order to move towards addressing it for the sake of unity in Africa. This research article has adopted a sociological lens that critically examines the issue of xenophobia within a 21st-century South African context. It then considers Deuteronomy and its context from a litera…
A Critical Analysis of Affirmative Action in South Africa
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in social justice action that is deliberate and affirmative to marginalised groups in South Africa. The background to this is framed against a ‘Missionary-political justice’ or 'missional-political justice' approach, the clear distinctive that characterises missional imperatives that is very clearly related to postmodern South African culture... [and] emerging churches in postmodern contexts'…
Data-Driven Strategies for Addressing Challenges in Teacher Placement
Teacher placement is a major challenge in South Africa, with limited school placements available for student teachers. This conceptual research studied how data-driven strategies may be used to tackle this problem, with a focus on legal and pedagogical problems to promote inclusive education. The article proposed that the use of data analytics may improve evidence-based decision-making in teacher placement. It focussed on providing equal access t…
Transformational Approach to Assessment Practices
This study aims to explore decolonised strategies for challenging hegemonic assessment practices in teacher education, which often equate academic quality with dominant English-language writing conventions. It confronts the perception that effective assessment inherently privileges specific linguistic norms, arguing instead for a social justice approach that reconceptualises evaluation to empower all students. The purpose is to propose how Artifi…
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