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The Bible in Africa : transactions, trajectories, and trends

Author: Gerald O West; Musa W Dube Shomanah
Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa and the relationship between  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gerald O West; Musa W Dube Shomanah
ISBN: 9004106278 9789004106277
OCLC Number: 44267852
Description: xviii, 828 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Developments in biblical interpretation in Africa : historical and hermeneutical directions / Justin S. Ukpong --
Mapping African biblical interpretation : a tentative sketch / Gerald O. West --
Old Testament scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa north of the Limpopo River / Knut Holter --
New Testament exegesis in (modern) Africa / Grant LeMarquand --
How Al-Mokattam Mountain was moved : the Coptic imagination and the Christian Bible / J. A. (Bobby) Loubser --
The Bible in the Black Diaspora : links with African Christianity / Gosnell L. O. R. Yorke --
Batswakwa : which traveller are you (John 1:1-18)? / Musa W. Dube --
The limits of difference : Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's redeployment of biblical signifiers in A grain of wheat and I will marry when I want / Peter Wamulungwe Mwikisa --
(South) Africa, Bible, criticism : rhetorics of a visit / Robert P. Carroll --
A late seventeenth century translation of the Psalms at the Cape / Philippe Denis --
Earliest southern African biblical interpretation : the case of the Bakwena, Bakololo and Bangwato / Fidelis Nkomazana --
The role of the Bible in the rise of African instituted churches : the case of the Akurinu churches in Kenya / Nahashon W. Ndung'u --
Cain and Abel in Africa : an Ethiopian case study in competing hermeneutics / Mark McEntire --
The mother of the Ewe and the firstborn daughter as the "good shepherd" in the cultural context of the Ewe peoples : a liberating approach / Dorothy B. E. A. Akoto --
Pouring libation to spirit powers among the Ewe-Dome of Ghana : an indigenous religious and biblical perspective / Rebecca Yawa Ganusah --
Contextual balancing of Scripture with Scripture : Scripture union in Nigeria and Ghana / Andrew Olu Igenoza --
The vernacularization of Scripture and African beliefs : the story of the Gerasene demoniac among the Ewe of West Africa / Solomon K. Avotri --
The role of the Bible in the Igbo Christianity of Nigeria / Anthony O. Nkwoka --
The use of Psalms in African indigenous churches in Nigeria / David Tuesday Adamo --
Cursed be everyone who hangs on a tree : pastoral implications of Deuteronomy 21:22-23 and Galatians 3:13 in an African context / Eliud Wabukala and Grant LeMarquand --
Nyimbo za vijana : biblical interpretation in contemporary hymns from Tanzania / Fergus J. King --
The Bible in Malawi : a brief survey of its impact on society / Hilary B. P. Mijoga --
A Setswana perspective on Genesis 1:1-10 / Moiseraele Prince Dibeela --
The impact of the Bible on traditional rain-making institutions in western Zimbabwe / Hezekiel Mafu --
The bishop and the bricoleur : Bishop John William Colenso's Commentary on Romans and Magema kaMagwaza Fuze's The black people and whence they came / Jonathan A. Draper --
Comparative readings of the Bible in Africa : some concerns / Eric Anum --
Corporate personality in Botswana and ancient Israel : a religio-cultural comparison / Bernice Letlhare --
The biblical God of the fathers and the African ancestors / Temba L. J. Mafico --
African perspectives on poverty in the Hebrew law codes / Robert Wafawanaka --
Ngaka and Jesus as liberators : a comparative reading / Gomang Seratwa Ntloedibe --
The Swahili Bible in East Africa from 1844 to 1996 : a brief survey with special reference to Tanzania / Aloo Osotsi Mojola --
100 years of the Luganda Bible (1896 to 1996) : a general survey / Aloo Osotsi Mojola --
"Do you understand what you are reading (hearing)?" (Acts 8:30) : the translation and contextualization of Isaiah 52:13-53:12 in Chitonga / Ernst Wendland and Salimo hachibamba --
The Kiswahili Mwana ma mtu and the Greek Ho huios tou anthropou / Jean Claude Loba Mkole --
Africa in the Old Testament /Knut Holter --
Popular readings of the Bible in Africa and implications for academic readings : report on the field research carried out on oral interpretation of the Bible in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Nigeria under the auspices of the Bible in Africa Project, 1991-94 / Justin S. Upkong --
Contextual Bible study in South Africa : a resource for reclaiming and regaining land, dignity and identity / Gerald O. West --
To pray the Lord's Prayer in the global economic era (Matt. 6:9-13) / Musa W. Dube.
Responsibility: edited by Gerald O. West & Musa W. Dube.

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'"...this volume is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in past, present and future trends in African biblical scholarship." Sarojini Nadar, "Journal of Theology for Southern Africa", 2002. Read more...

 
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