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

Contributor(s): Dube Shomanah, Musa W, 1964- | Mbuvi, Andrew Mũtũa | Mbuwayesango, Dora R
Material type: TextTextSeries: Global perspectives on biblical scholarship: no. 13.Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xv, 529 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781589836365 (paper binding : alk. paper); 1589836367 (paper binding : alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible -- Postcolonial criticism -- Africa | Postcolonial theology -- Africa | Theology -- AfricaDDC classification: 220.6096 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
The scramble for Africa as the biblical scramble for Africa : postcolonial perspectives / Musa W. Duba -- Evaluations : African feminist/gender-based biblical interpretations -- 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 -- Biblical interpretation in and through creative writing -- Race, scripture, and colonialism : Olaudah Equiano'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 Ngũgĩ wa 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 --
Colonized Bibles : re-reading the colonial translated Bibles -- 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 -- Scrambling for the land : reading the BIble and land -- "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 -- Afrocentric biblical interpretations : unthinking eurocentrism -- 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 -- Social engagement and biblical interpretations -- "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 -- Embodiment and biblical interpretation in the HIV/AIDS context -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The scramble for Africa as the biblical scramble for Africa : postcolonial perspectives / Musa W. Duba -- Part 1: Evaluations : African feminist/gender-based biblical interpretations -- 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 -- Part 2: Biblical interpretation in and through creative writing -- Race, scripture, and colonialism : Olaudah Equiano'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 Ngũgĩ wa 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 --

Part 3: Colonized Bibles : re-reading the colonial translated Bibles -- 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 -- Part 4: Scrambling for the land : reading the BIble and land -- "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 -- Part 5: Afrocentric biblical interpretations : unthinking eurocentrism -- 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 --

Part 6: Biblical interpretations for reconstruction -- 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 -- Part 7: Social engagement and biblical interpretations -- "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 -- Part 8: Embodiment and biblical interpretation in the HIV/AIDS context -- 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.

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