Dr Ronald van der Bergh

Humanities 2014 Researcher of the Year, Language Cluster

Department of Ancient Languages

 

Ronald Henry van der Bergh began his studies at the University of Pretoria in 2002. He was awarded a BTh degree in 2005, an MDiv (New Testament Studies) in 2007, an MA (Ancient Languages) in 2008, an MTh (New Testament Studies) in 2010, and a DD (New Testament Studies) in 2014. Since 2010, he has held a permanent position as a lecturer in Biblical Greek in the Department of Ancient Languages at the University of Pretoria. He completed research at a number of institutions in the US and in Germany. Ronald regularly presents papers at conferences and is part of the organising committee of the Working with Biblical Manuscripts (Textual Criticism) Programme Unit of the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting for 2015.

Ronald’s research focuses on how scribal practices influenced the transmission of ancient Mediterranean texts, especially the (re-)use of texts from the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament (with a narrower focus on the Acts of the Apostles). The investigation of scribal practices includes analyses of manuscripts, specifically how the narratives contained in these manuscripts were interpreted and read by the ancient scribes who produced them. The way in which these narratives were read can be seen in the physical attributes of the manuscripts, for example in the paragraph divisions or notes in margins.

 

Dr van der Bergh's Researcher of the Year Award

was sponsored by Bookmark.

 

 

- Author C. Garnas

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