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Culture in Biblical Interpretation

Old Testament Essays, 2021
African Cultural Hermeneutics is an approach in biblical interpretation that makes African socio-cultural context a subject of interpretation. This article shows how Adamo has deployed effectively Yoruba cultural elements in the development of this ...
Kunle Dada
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Hermeneutical Approaches to Biblical Studies in African Context

African biblical hermeneutics is the re-reading of the Christian scripture from a premeditatedly Afrocentric perspective. Biblical Studies in African context is an amalgamation of multiple interpretive methods, approaches and foci that reflect a creative engagement of the African cosmological reality and the bible.
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‘You flood them with sleep’ (Ps 90:5): Human transience in the Hebrew Bible and in African indigenous sacred texts

In die Skriflig
Death, disturbing as it can be, is an inevitable phenomenon. All cultures must find the right language to explain this reality or at least provide the linguistic tools to navigate it.
Michael K. Mensah
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Between Colonial Mission and the Racialised State: Black Womanhood in Apartheid South Africa and Its Enduring Legacies

Genealogy
This article addresses the underrepresentation of religion in historical accounts of apartheid’s gendered political economy. It asks how colonial missionary discourse and apartheid law interacted in constructing and regulating Black womanhood, and how ...
Linda Naicker
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Interpreting paired phenomena in the Hebrew Psalter and in African indigenous sacred texts

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The Hebrew Psalter is a repertoire of paired phenomena. From parallelisms to twin Psalms, biblical scholars have paid attention to these structural and poetical features as keys to unlocking and interpreting the meaning and theology of these psalms ...
Michael K. Mensah
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Masenya’s Scholarship Legacy

Old Testament Essays
This essay examines Masenya’s hermeneutic approach to the biblical text. Influenced by her postcolonial, apartheid, and patriarchal context, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan’a Mphahlele) developed the bosadi (womanhood) approach to reading the Bible in a South ...
Maleke M Kondemo
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Contextualized biblical hermeneutics in Korea and South Africa and decontextualized biblical hermeneutics in Jehovah's witnesses : in search of voices from the margin

, 2003
Bibliography: leaves 100-108.This thesis is in search of voices from the margin in biblical hermeneutics. Firstly, biblical hermeneutics in the third world (Korea and South Africa) is marginalized by European biblical hermeneutics.
Kim, Hyangmo
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HemaSphere, Volume 10, Issue S1, June 2026.
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Hearing the text, seeing the text: Mazamisa on orality and textuality

In die Skriflig
Mazamisa, a dialectical thinker, argued in his article Reading from this Place (1991), that orality and textuality are complementary hermeneutical modes.
Mphumezi Hombana
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Esther and African Biblical Hermeneutics: a decolonial inquiry

, 2014
In this essay the author looks at the decolonial critique on Western epistemology as presented within Western biblical hermeneutics in order to appreciate the focus on the geopolitical and the body political nature of knowledge. To this end, the author revisits an aspect of the book of Esther, namely the issue of Haman as perpetrator, not only to ...
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