{"id":10467,"date":"2025-04-08T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/?p=10467"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:14:03","slug":"semanatorul-the-sower-an-open-access-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/semanatorul-the-sower-an-open-access-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Semanatorul (The Sower) &#8211; An Open Access Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul<\/em><\/strong> (<em>The Sower<\/em>) is an open access journal of ministry and biblical research published by the Emanuel University of Oradea, Romania. Contributors include the faculty at Oradea&#8217;s theology department and an impressive range of international scholars. The journal is available in print and online via its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/semanatorul.emanuel.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a><\/strong>. A full table of contents is now available via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/articles_semanatorul-the-sower_01.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BiblicalStudies.org.uk<\/a><\/strong> by permission of the editorial team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Subject Listing of the Majority of the Available Articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anthroplogy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_02-02_138.pdf\">Ovidiu Hanc, &#8220;The human sinful nature: a mental by-product or a metaphysical anthropological dimension?&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a02.2 (March. 2022): 138-155.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Baptist Studies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-02_116.pdf\">Michael AG. Haykin, &#8220;&#8216;Live Coals Separated, Soon Die&#8217;: The Early Baptist Vision of the Church and Associations,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.2 (March 2021): 116-124.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_02-01_006.pdf\">Michael A.G. Haykin, &#8221; &#8216;EMBLEM OF THE THRONG THAT PRAISE THE LAMB&#8217;: THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ASSOCIATION IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a02.1 (Sept. 2021): 6-16.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_02-01_017.pdf\">Philip McCormack, &#8220;A Vision to Emulate: Spurgeon&#8217;s College and its Recognition of the Importance of Principles from Charles Spurgeon to His Students,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a02.1 (Sept. 2021): 17-30.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_02-02_075.pdf\">Dinu Moda, &#8220;The Baptist Movement in its Historical; and Religious Context,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a02.2 (March. 2022): 75-99.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Bible<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_03-02_029.pdf\">Ovidiu Hanc, &#8220;The Unchanging Word of God and Today&#8217;s Fast-Changing Generations,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a03.2 (April 2022): 29-39.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_03-02_007.pdf\">Corin Mih\u00e3il\u00e3, &#8220;Word Studies: A Combination of Immediate Context, Current Usage, and Authorial Intention,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a03.2 (April 2022): 7-28.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-01_091.pdf\">C\u00e3lin-Ioan Talo\u0219, &#8220;Inerrancy and Love: a Theological Exercise of Interpreting the Resistance of the Bible to Interpretation in Modern Thinking,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.1 (March 2020): 91-116.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Church History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_03-01_096.pdf\">Michael A.G. Haykin, &#8220;&#8216;Spiritum sanctum adoramus&#8217;: The ontology of the Spirit in Theodore of Mopsuestia,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a03.1 (Oct. 2022): 96-110.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_03-02_040.pdf\">Michael A.G. Azad Haykin, &#8221; &#8216;Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down&#8217;: An essay on some aspects of the history of revival,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a03.2 (April 2022): 40-62.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_02-02_100.pdf\">Corin Mih\u00e3il\u00e3, &#8220;Augustine on Nature and Sin,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a02.2 (March. 2022): 100-114<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-02_127.pdf\">Dinu Moga, &#8220;The Fruits of True Conversion in Jonathan Edwards&#8217;\u00a0<em>Religious Affections<\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.2 (Oct. 2024): 127-146.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-02-supplement_120.pdf\">C\u0103lin-Ioan Talo\u0219, &#8220;The Ascension and Decline of the Church in the Work of Quintus Septimius Florens Tertulianus (Tertulian of Carthage); An abductive exploration with relevance to the Decline of the Contemporary Church,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04 supplement (2024): 120-146.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Doctrine of God<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_03-01_007.pdf\">Dinu Moga, &#8220;The Importance of the Doctrine of the Trinity in Reformed Theology,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a03.1 (Oct. 2022): 7-31.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Evangelism &amp; Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-02_125.pdf\">Paul Coulter, &#8220;Apprenticed to Christ: Reshaping Disciple-Making around Christ&#8217;s Commission,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.2 (March 2021): 125-147.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-01_030.pdf\">Ovidiu Hanc, &#8220;The Centrifugal and Centripetal Force of Mission: Exegetical Insights on the Gospels,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.1 (Oct. 2023): 30-46.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-01_079.pdf\">Hamilton Moore, &#8220;Missional Witness in Modern Society: Principles from the Epistle to Titus 2:1-15,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.1 (March 2020): 79-90.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ethics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-01_022.pdf\">Paul Coulter, &#8220;Roots, Shoots and Fruits: character, commands and consequences in biblical ethics,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.1 (March 2020): 22-32.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_02-01_097.pdf\">Ovidiu Hanc, &#8220;Good without God? Paul&#8217;s view of the Law as a response to Moral relativism,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a02.1 (Sept. 2021): 97-109.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-01_007.pdf\">Philip McCormack, &#8220;Creating an Organisation Ethic from the Ground Up,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.1 (Oct. 2023): 7-29.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Linguistics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-02_084.pdf\">Aurelian Botic\u00e3, Who invented what? Exploring the Role of the North Western Semitic Alphabet Upon the Formation of Modern European Languages,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.2 (Oct. 2024): 84-110.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Music &amp; Hymnology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_05-01_096.pdf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_05-01_121.pdf\">Gary M. Mathena, &#8220;The Romanian Church Musician: Biblical-Ecclesiological Foundations for Training Church Musicians,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a05.1 (2024): 121-137.<\/a><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_05-01_138.pdf\">Michael Haykin, &#8220;&#8216;Come, Thou Fount of every blessing&#8217;: Robert Robinson and his hymnic celebration of sovereign grace,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a05.1 (2024): 138-155.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Testament<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-02_036.pdf\">Peter Firth, &#8220;The book of Acts: foundational issues,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.2 (Oct. 2024): 36-55<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-02_042.pdf\">Ovidiu Hanc, &#8220;The Concept of Rest in Hebrews 4: eschatological and soteriological aspects,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.2 (March 2021): 42-52.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-02_111.pdf\">Ovidiu Hanc, &#8220;The Parable of the Great Banquet: Ministry Challenges\u00a0 in Luke 14,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.2 (Oct. 2024): 111-126.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-02-supplement_103.pdf\">Ovidiu Hanc, &#8220;Apostasy: Structural and Thematic Elements in the Letter of Jude,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04 supplement (2024): 103-119.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_05-01_079.pdf\">Ovidiu Hanc, &#8220;Metanoia in Hebrews: Exegetical Insights,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a05.1 (2024): 79-95.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_03-01_075.pdf\">Kenneth R. Lewis, &#8220;A Social Status Change: An Examination of 1 Corinthians 7:17-24,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a03.1 (Oct. 2022): 75-95.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_02-01_031.pdf\">Corin Mih\u00e3il\u00e3, &#8220;John and the Synoptic Gospels. What John Knew and What John Used,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a02.1 (Sept. 2021): 31-56.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-01_077.pdf\">Corin Mih\u00e3il\u00e3, &#8220;The ABA&#8217; Structure of Paul&#8217;s Argumentation in 1 Corinthians. Love as a Unifying Theme,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.1 (Oct. 2023): 77-113.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-02_027.pdf\">Hamilton Moore, &#8220;John 2:13-22. Jesus&#8217; Public Revelation of Himself in the Temple,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.2 (March 2021): 27-41.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-01_047.pdf\">Hamilton Moore, &#8220;The Concept, Basis and Call to Godliness in the Pastoral Epistles,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.1 (Oct. 2023): 47-76.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-02_056.pdf\">Robert Murdock, &#8220;The Love Chapter, 1 Corinthian 13, and its setting\u00a0 within the Epistle,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.2 (Oct. 2024): 56-65.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Old Testament<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_02-02_007.pdf\">T. Desmond Alexander, &#8220;The book of Exodus and New Testament Soteriology,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a02.2 (March. 2022): 7-22.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-02_097.pdf\">Istv\u00e1n Borz\u00e1si, &#8220;The Wise Women in the Books of Samuel: a critical and theological analysis of 1 Samuel 25 and 2 Samuel,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.2 (March 2021): 97-115.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-02_006.pdf\">Aurelian Botica, &#8220;&#8216;Does God Ever Feel Sorry?&#8217; Understanding Verbs of Divine Emotion in the Pentateuch and the Targumic Versions of Onkelos, Neofiti and PseudoJonathan,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.2 (March 2021): 6-26<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-02-supplement_007.pdf\">Kyle C. Dunham, &#8220;Old Age, Death, or Something Else? Another Look at Qohelet&#8217;s Climactic Poem,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04 supplement (2024): 7-44.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-02_083.pdf\">S.D. Ellison, &#8220;&#8216;Man of Sorrows&#8217;: A Christian Reading of Isaiah&#8217;s Servant Songs,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.2 (March 2021): 83-96.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-01_114.pdf\">S.D. Ellison, &#8220;The Distinctive Shape of Kingship in Ancient Israel: A Consideration of Kingship in the Pentateuch,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.1 (Oct. 2023): 114-136.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-02_007.pdf\">David M. Howard, Jr., &#8220;Destruction and Dispossession of the Canaanites in the Book\u00a0 of Joshua,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.2 (Oct. 2024): 7-35.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_01-02_053.pdf\">Corin Mih\u00e3il\u00e3, &#8220;Was Amos among the prophets? Amos 7:14: A prophet in spite of himself,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a01.2 (March 2021): 53-82.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_02-02_023.pdf\">Paul R. Williamson, &#8220;Deborah and Barak: An Example of complementarian leadership?&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a02.2 (March. 2022): 23-36.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_03-02_111.pdf\">Justin M. Young, &#8221; &#8216;In the Sanctuary&#8217; in the Psalms,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a03.2 (April 2022): 111-137.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_04-01_137.pdf\">C\u00e3lin-Ioan Talo\u0219, &#8220;The Rhetoric of Suffering in the Book of Job; A Brief Commentary on the Book of Job Elaborated in Relation to Some Classical and Modern interpretations,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a04.1 (Oct. 2023): 137-163.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pastoral Theology &amp; Homiletics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_02-01_081.pdf\">Kenneth R. Lewis, &#8220;A Contrast of the Pastoral Leadership and Secular Leadership Models,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a02.1 (Sept. 2021): 81-96.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_03-02_089.pdf\">Kenneth R. Lewis, &#8220;Social Ministry and Its Effects on Evangelistic Preaching,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sem\u00e3n\u00e3torul (The Sower)<\/em>\u00a03.2 (April 2022): 89-110.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/semanatorul\/semanatorul_05-01_051.pdf\">Kenneth R. 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