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Prof Christo van der Merwe

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Professor
Director, Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Africa


MA, DLitt (Semitic Languages), Stellenbosch
MTh (Old Testament), Stellenbosch 
MPhil (Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching), Stellenbosch

Email: CVDM@sun.ac.za

Curriculum Vitae​


Areas of Specialisation

  • Biblical Hebrew Semantics and Pragmatics​

  • Theory of Bible Translation

  • Bible Translation as Intercultural Communication

  • Cognitive Semantics & Cognitive Linguistics

  • Teaching of Biblical Hebrew for Special Purpose


Selected Publications - Books


biblicalHebrewReferenceGrammar.jpgC. van der Merwe & J. A. Naudé

A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar

Second Edition

2017

London: Bloomsbury




Lexham Interlinear Bible.jpgC. van der Merwe (ed.)

Lexham Hebrew-English Interlinear Bible

Second thoroughly revised edition

2013

Belingham: Logos Information Systems





Selected Publications - Articles and Essays


Academic Service/ Community Engagement

  • Director of the Centre for Bible Interpretation and Translation in Africa

  • Member of the Research Committee of the Senate

  • Editor of the Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages

  • Member of the editorial board of Bible Translator