The Department's research focuses on the following areas:
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Influence and reception of the ancient world in contemporary South Africa
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Study of ancient languages and cultures in the digital age
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Religion, philosophy and morality in ancient texts
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Material culture and imagery, art and iconography
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Bible languages, translation and interpretation
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Museum and heritage studies
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Greek and Latin literature, individual and society
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Ancient cultures: methodology and interpretation models
- Afro-Asiatic and African languages
- Linguistics
Influence and reception of the Ancient World in contemporary South Africa
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The literary reception of Roman poetry (De Villiers)
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The ancient world and popular culture (Cornelius)
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Collections of classical antiquities in South African museums (Masters)
The study of ancient languages and cultures in the digital age
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Multimedia and ancient cultures (Cornelius, Daniels)
Religion, philosophy and morality in ancient texts
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Greek and Roman moral philosophy and religions (Thom)
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Early Christian literature (Thom, A Kotzé)
Material culture and imagery, art and iconography
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Material culture and imagery of North Africa and Western Asia (Cornelius)
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Classical art and iconography (Masters)
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Ancient childhood and material culture (Masters)
Bible languages, translation and interpretation
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Cognitive linguistics and the translation of the Bible (Van der Merwe)
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The semantics and pragmatics of Biblical Hebrew (Van der Merwe)
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The Hebrew Bible and the ancient world (Cornelius)
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Linguistics and translation of the Greek New Testament (Thom)
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The New Testament and the ancient world (Thom)
Museum and heritage studies
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A catalogue of artefacts from ancient Egypt and Western Asia in South African collections (Cornelius)
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South African Mummy Project (Cornelius)
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Collections of classical antiquities in South African Museums (Masters)
Greek and Latin literature, individual and society
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Roman lyric and elegiac poetry (De Villiers)
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Roman epic (De Villiers)
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Augustine (A Kotzé)
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Late antiquity (Thom, A Kotzé)
Ancient cultures: methodology and interpretation models
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Cognitive linguistics and interpretation (Van der Merwe)
Afro-Asiatic and African languages
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Semitic languages and their grammar: Hebrew, Arabic, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Amorite (Andrason)
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Berber and Chadic languages (Andrason)
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Comparative grammar of Semitic and Afro-Asiatic (Andrason)
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African languages: isiXhosa, Lingala, Kituba, Maasai, Tjwao (Andrason)
Linguistics
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Cognitive linguistics (Van der Merwe, Andrason)
- Language contact and language change (Andrason)
- Minority (micro) languages (Andrason)
- Linguistic categories, radial networks, and semantic maps (Andrason)
- Semantics, pragmatics, morphosyntax, syntax (Andrason)
- Typology (Andrason)
- Grammaticalisation (Andrason)
- Language documentation (Andrason)
- Decolonisation (Andrason)