Postcolonial perspectives in African biblical interpretations / edited by Musa W. Dube, Andrew M. Mbuvi, and Dora R. Mbuwayesango.

Other author Dube Shomanah, Musa W., 1964-
Other author Mbuvi, Andrew Mũtũa.
Other author Mbuwayesango, Dora R.
Format Book
Publication InfoAtlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2012.
Descriptionxv, 529 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSociety of Biblical Literature : global perspectives on biblical scholarship ;
Global perspectives on biblical scholarship ; no. 13. ^A1137484
Contents The scramble for Africa as the Biblical scramble for Africa : postcolonial perspectives / Musa W. Duba -- Talitha Cum hermeneutics of liberation : some African women's ways of reading the Bible / Musa W. Dube -- Bosadi : Madipoane (ngwana' Mphahlele) Masenya's contribution to African women's Biblical hermeneutics / Elivered Nasambu-Mulongo -- Hanging out with Rahab : an examination of Musa Dube's hermeneutical approach with a postcolonial touch / Lynne Darden -- Race, scripture, and colonialism : Olaudathequiano's narrative of Biblical origins / Sylvester A. Johnson -- Indigenous Biblical hermeneutics : voicing continuity and distinctiveness / Gerald West -- Uncelebrated readers of the Bible : the illustrative case of early Basotho Christians / Sam Tshehla -- Beyond ecclesial confines : the Bible in the African novels of Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o (Kenya) and Bessie Head (Bostwana/SA) / Andrew M. Mbuvi -- God in Africa, lost and found, lost again, and found anew: the Bible in André Brink's Praying mantis / H.J.M. (Hans) van Deventer -- Bible translation in Africa : an Afrocentric interrogation of the task / Gosnell L. Yorke -- The politics of Bible translation in Africa : the case of the Igbo Catholic Bible / Ernest M. Ezeogu -- The Shona Bible and the politics of Bible translation / Lovemore Togarasei -- Ideology, history, and translation theories : a critical analysis of the Tshivenda Bible translation of 1 Kings 21 :1-16 / Elelwani B. Farisani -- "The land is mine!" : Biblical and postcolonial reflections on land with particular reference to the land issue in Zimbabwe / Robert Wafawanaka -- Land concept and tenure in Israel and African tradition / Temba L.J. Mafico -- "I am what you are not!" : a critical postcolonial reading of the Africa Bible commentary's Abraham-Lot stories / Robert Wafula -- The African origin of Jesus : an Afrocentric reading of Matthew's infancy narrative (Matthew 1-2) / Ernest M. Ezeogu -- Her appropriation of Job's lament? : her-lament of Job 3, from an African storytelling perspective / Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele) -- Decolonizing the Psalter in Africa / David Tuesday Adamo -- Interpreting [ton arton hēmōn ton epiousion] in the context of Ghanaian mother-tongue hermeneutics / John D.K. Ekem -- The ideologically biased use of Ezra-Nehemiah in a quest for an African theology of reconstruction / Elelwani B. Farisani -- In quest of survival : the implications of the reconstruction theology of Ezra-Nehemiah / Robert Wafawanaka -- Collective memory and coloniality of being, and power as a hermeneutical framework : a partialized reading of Ezra-Nehemiah / Gerrie Snyman -- "Hermeneutics of transformation?" : a critical exploration of the model of social engagement between Biblical scholars and faith communities / Sarojini Nadar -- Embodied and embodying hermeneutics of life in the academy : Musa W. Dube's HIV/AIDS work / Emmanuel Katongole -- The liberative power of silent agency : a postcolonial Afro-feminist-womanist reading of Luke 10 :38-42 / Alice Y. Yafeh-Deigh -- A postcolonial feminist reading of Mark 14-16 / Malebogo Kgalemang -- Pauline bodies and South African bodies : body, power, and Biblical hermeneutics / Jeremy Punt -- Go tla siama, o tla fola : doing Biblical studies in an HIV and AIDS context / Musa W. Dube.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2012006437
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ISBN9781589836372 (electronic format)
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