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‘Forget your people and your father’s house’ (Ps 45:11): The Hebrew Bible, marriage rites and spousal abuse in contemporary Ghana

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia
Spousal abuse is one of the foremost threats to peaceful coexistence in families the world over. In Ghana, stakeholders, particularly Christian leaders, have raised concerns about the increasing violence associated with spousal abuse, which sometimes ...
Michael K. Mensah   +2 more
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Critical confessions now. [PDF]

open access: yesPostmedieval, 2020
Arvas A, McCannon A, Trujillo K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Another Look at Israel's War with Benjamin in Judges 20 from the Perspectives of African Biblical Hermeneutics

open access: yesOld Testament Essays
The Book of Judges is a continuation of Israel's history in the promised land, beginning from the death of Joshua to the time or before the birth of Samuel, the last judge of Israel (1 Sam 7:15). In Judges, we find a cycle of disobedience, infidelity, punishment, repentance and deliverance (3:7-16:31).
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Afro-Biblical Hermeneutics and Joachim Kügler’s Contribution : A Comparative-historical Engagement

open access: yes
The chapter seeks to understand Joachim Kügler, a German Roman Catholic professor of theology, by drawing from history and compares him with some earlier European “friends” of Africa who contributed heavily to promoting Afro-biblical hermeneutics.
Gathogo, Julius
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Considering theories and methods in African biblical scholarship

open access: yes
Various intersecting theories and methods underlie biblical scholarship in Africa, which constitutes a dynamic, wide and diverse body of work. With the realisation that theory and method are more than framing or organising measures but are reflective and
Jeremy Punt
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The struggle for language: John’s gospel as a witness to the development of the early Christian language of faith [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
This thesis attempts to develop an approach to the New Testament which does justice to the New Testament as both sacred scripture of Christianity and historical human document.
Jensen, Alexander Soenderup   +1 more
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African Biblical Hermeneutics and Environmental Ethics: Toward a Contextual Theology of Sustainability

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The universal ecological crisis has showed the inadequacy of leading Western paradigms of sustainable development that often neglect native knowledge systems and contextual theologies. Within African Christianity, biblical interpretation has frequently remained anthropocentric, thereby weakening ethical responses to environmental degradation.
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