Habilitationsschrift--Freiburg im Breisgau, 1968. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-18).

This study examines the metaphor of the shepherd in Zechariah 11:4-17, which is a prominent and significant one in the Hebrew Bible. It defines Yahweh‟s relationship with the nation of Israel and those who have faith in him. But Zechariah 11:4-17 presents a shepherd image which contradicts to the basic metaphor in the Hebrew Bible. The thesis of this study argues that the differing shepherd image in Zechariah 11:4-17 is the result of the rejection by the people of the responsible shepherd, which caused Yahweh to surrender his shepherd responsibility. It is a metaphor designed to punish an unrepentant Israel. Zechariah 11:4-17 furnishes an example of a situation where Yahweh surrendered his shepherding responsibilities to those irresponsible shepherds. This example should be incorporated into the said metaphor, so as an objective and comprehensive meaning may be achieved, and one should consider this metaphorical meaning in the study of the subject. / Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies / M. Th. (Old Testament)

This thesis is about the organisation, character and change of labour relations in expanding capitalist wool farming in the Cape between 1860 and 1950. It is an attempt to analyse labour in wool farming within a transnational framework, based on an expansion of capital from core to periphery of the capitalist world-economy. Wool farming in peripheries like the Cape was part of capitalist production through the link to primarily the British textile industry. This relationship enabled wool farmers to invest in their farms in sheep, fences and windmills. They thereby became agents of capital expansion in the world-economy, which was a prerequisite for a capitalist expansion. Although wool production in the Cape was initially an imperial division of labour, that relation changed during the twentieth century as Britain’s leading role as textile producer was challenged by other capitalist core countries. Capitalism as a transnational production system, based on commodity chains from periphery to core, became the most crucial structure for wool farmers in the Cape, who could increase their exports. The thesis also shows that the pre-capitalist generational division of labour among black peasants, through which farmers acquired labour, especially shepherds, was both discarded and intensified. Shepherding was intensified along with fencing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century due to threat from jackals and lack of sufficient water supplies. Those farmers who invested in technology in the form of jackal-proof fences and windmills managed to change production from herding to rotational grazing in camps, which meant that shepherds were replaced by camp walkers, who controlled fences instead of sheep. Those farmers who did not invest were forced to exploit the pre-capitalist relations more intensively and hire shepherds in order to be able to produce and sell wool to textile manufacturers in capitalist core areas. As the young adult males disappeared from farms to the mines, the role of children and youths as shepherds became increasingly important. By the 1940s almost all the shepherds were children or youths, but they were about to be made redundant, as the number of shepherds decreased during the 1930s and 1940s.

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This study examines the metaphor of the shepherd in Zechariah 11:4-17, which is a prominent and significant one in the Hebrew Bible. It defines Yahweh‟s relationship with the nation of Israel and those who have faith in him. But Zechariah 11:4-17 presents a shepherd image which contradicts to the basic metaphor in the Hebrew Bible. The thesis of this study argues that the differing shepherd image in Zechariah 11:4-17 is the result of the rejection by the people of the responsible shepherd, which caused Yahweh to surrender his shepherd responsibility. It is a metaphor designed to punish an unrepentant Israel. Zechariah 11:4-17 furnishes an example of a situation where Yahweh surrendered his shepherding responsibilities to those irresponsible shepherds. This example should be incorporated into the said metaphor, so as an objective and comprehensive meaning may be achieved, and one should consider this metaphorical meaning in the study of the subject. / Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies / M. Th. (Old Testament)

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The covenant relationship describes the unique relationship entered into between the church and ministers within the Methodist tradition. The study examines the polity, ecclesiology and doctrine of ministry, influences within the Methodist movement and the factors within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) which influenced the adoption of the covenantal relationship, as it is termed, in the MCSA. The experiences of ministers are researched to understand the impact of the covenantal relationship on their ministry and their wellbeing. Ezekiel, chapter 34, is analysed to discern a model of the expected roles of a shepherd to lead, feed and protect his covenant flock, roles which would be expected of the MCSA in the shepherding of their covenant ministers. By applying the Wesleyan Quadrilateral to the covenantal relationship using Scripture, tradition, reason and experience, the study concludes that the MCSA should move from a covenantal to a covenant relationship. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Systematic Theology)

The covenant relationship describes the unique relationship entered into between the church and ministers within the Methodist tradition. The study examines the polity, ecclesiology and doctrine of ministry, influences within the Methodist movement and the factors within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) which influenced the adoption of the covenantal relationship, as it is termed, in the MCSA. The experiences of ministers are researched to understand the impact of the covenantal relationship on their ministry and their wellbeing. Ezekiel, chapter 34, is analysed to discern a model of the expected roles of a shepherd to lead, feed and protect his covenant flock, roles which would be expected of the MCSA in the shepherding of their covenant ministers. By applying the Wesleyan Quadrilateral to the covenantal relationship using Scripture, tradition, reason and experience, the study concludes that the MCSA should move from a covenantal to a covenant relationship. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Systematic Theology)

Ce mémoire porte sur le triptyque de l’Adoration des Bergers (1510-1530) de Jan de Beer (1475-1538) présent dans les collections du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (MBAM) depuis 1975. Cet ouvrage se divise principalement en deux sphères primordiales de la discipline de l’histoire de l’art. Dans un premier temps, une recherche sur l’historique de l’œuvre a été réalisée et a permis de lever le voile sur des archives majeures qui renseignent sur le parcours de l’œuvre. Nos recherches permettent maintenant d’affirmer avec certitude le passage de l’œuvre en 1934 au château Galgoz des Erdődy, une famille aristocratique influente en Hongrie, en Slovaquie et en Croatie. De plus, l’inestimable contribution d’outremer d’Orsolya Bubryák a permis de découvrir le contrat de vente signé entre Vilmos Erdődy (1887-1959) et Theodor Fischer le 5 décembre 1934 à Vienne. À ceci s’ajoute la récupération du catalogue de vente de la « Grosse Auktion in Zürich » qui s’est déroulée du 2 au 5 juin 1937. Un intérêt est de ce fait porté au contexte historique, politique et économique dans lequel évolue la famille Erdődy avant la date charnière de 1934. Une lecture approfondie des lois et des recommandations du groupe spécial SAP (SAP Panel) nous éclaire sur les conditions et les possibilités d’une vente forcée. Dans un second temps, nous nous intéressons à l’iconographie et à l’iconologie du triptyque, un cadre théorique développé par Erwin Panofsky que nous utilisons tout au long de notre analyse. Nous avons pu constater comment les Révélations de Sainte Brigitte de Suède ont foncièrement influencé l’imagerie de l’Adoration des Bergers. Toutefois, Jan de Beer imprègne son retable d’un second discours, celui de l’aveuglement de l’humanité face à la lumière divine. Le déploiement d’un discours autre que celui relatif à l’Adoration des Bergers s’est glissé dans le symbolisme caché, et en s’introduisant, il témoigne d’une part du désir intime d’une relation directe avec Dieu, telle que prônée par les protestants quelques années avant le Concile de Trente, mais aussi, d’autre part, des idées de la culture humaniste, qui est une réflexion spirituelle sur le salut des âmes. / This M.A. thesis treats the triptych of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1510-1530) by Jan de Beer (1475-1538), in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MBAM) since 1975. The project is twofold, and engages on one hand provenance studies, and secondly iconography. First the provenance of the triptych is examined, and brings to light significant documents detailing of the artwork’s journey in the tumultuous twentieth century. While this Antwerp-mannerist triptych appears on page nine on the list of objects “whose history is incomplete between 1933 and 1945,” recently published by the MBAM, our research now confirms the passage of the work, in 1934, in the Galgoz castle of the Erdődys, an aristocratic family known throughout Hungary, Slovakia, and Croatia. A new document regarding the sales contract signed by Vilmos Erdődy (1887-1959) and Theodor Fischer on December 5th, 1934 in Vienna has also come been found, as well as the 1937 auction catalogue documenting its sale. Attention is therefore paid to the historical, political and economic contexts experienced by the Erdődy family before the turning point in 1934. A thorough review of the SAP Panel’s legislation and recommendations will enlighten us regarding the conditions and possibilities of a forced sale. Secondly, the triptych’s iconography is examined in great detail, following a theoretical framework developed by Erwin Panofsky. Amidst several other popular texts of the time, the Revelations of Saint Bridget of Sweden can be shown to have fundamentally influenced the imagery of the Adoration of the Shepherds. However, Jan de Beer infuses his altarpiece with a second layer of meaning, what Panofsky would call its iconology, that of the blindness of humanity in the face of divine light. The deployment of this secondary discourse is by means of hidden symbolism, which, by introducing itself stealthily, testifies on the one hand to the intimate desire for a direct relationship with God some years before the Council of Trent, but also of the ideas central to a humanist culture: a spiritual reflection on one’s own salvation.

Bibliography: leaves 441-459 / The shepherd metaphor is a prominent and significant one in the Old Testament. However, it has shifted from an agrarian context, of shepherd and sheep in the literal sense, to a socio-political context, of rulers and people in the political sense: a king is a shepherd to the people. A careful review of the given metaphor raises the question whether the metaphor should be the basis of the pastoral and leadership models that are derived from the image of the shepherd, and whether such models can be enriched by the analysis of the said metaphor as applied to the implementation of the shepherding responsibility described in the Old Testament. This research aims to examine various pastoral and leadership models and their use of the shepherd metaphor in the light of the significance of the said metaphor in the Old Testament. It utilises rhetorical criticism in consultation with metaphorical theory to examine the given metaphor used in the models of pastoral and leadership roles and their relationship with the shepherd metaphor in the New Testament. The objective is threefold: (1) exploring the use of the shepherd metaphor in the Old Testament; (2) examining the use of the shepherd metaphor in pastoral and leadership models, which could include pointing out that some of these models rely heavily on their understanding of New Testament uses of this metaphor; and (3) comparing the Old Testament and pastoral/leadership models’ uses of the shepherd metaphor and drawing conclusions based on this comparison. To achieve that end, the discussion also includes the ancient Near Eastern literature and deuterocanonical texts. The thesis shows that a careful analysis of the uses of the shepherd metaphor in the Old Testament could enrich the literature on Christian leadership as well as pastoral models that use this metaphor as their point of departure. / Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies / D. Phil. (Old Testament)