Abstract

GERICKE, Jaco. The Concept of Philosophy in Post-Apartheid Western Historical Overviews of South African Old Testament Scholarship. Old testam. essays [online]. 2018, vol.31, n.2, pp.299-322. ISSN 2312-3621.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2018/v31n2a3.

This article seeks to clarify the concept of "philosophy" as it appeared within popular overviews of South African Old Testament scholarship published in the post-apartheid era. After providing a typology of related research, the discussion proceeds with the identification of the words "philosophy"/"philosophical" in the associated colonialist scholarly discourses. The latter part involves a brief classification, commentary and critique of the meta-philosophical assumptions supervening on the associated intra- and cross-disciplinary contexts. "The secret of theory is that truth does not exist."¹

Keywords : Old Testament; South African perspectives; histories of interpretation; post-apartheid era; meta-philosophy.

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