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Bible through African eyes: a comparative study of the epistemology in the hermeneutics of indigenous preachers in eastern Zambia with that in select intra-Biblical appropriations and re-appropriations of the Exodus event and its ramifications for African Biblical hermeneutical methods

open access: yes, 2018
The thesis addresses the imperative and identifies a basis for Africans to undertake Biblical hermeneutics from African socio-cultural realities and epistemological constitution. It presumes that the Modern Missionary Movement was profoundly shaped by the European Enlightenment and that missionaries inevitably brought this worldview to Africa along ...
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Anything New Under the Sun of African Biblical Hermeneutics in South African Old Testament Scholarship?: Incarnation, Death and Resurrection of the Word in Africa [PDF]

open access: yesVerbum Et Ecclesia, 2015
In this article, two lenses are used to engage the task of African Biblical Hermeneutics. The one lens is derived from African wisdom, i shavha i sia muinga i ya fhi?, in which there is a need for people to affirm their own roots. Drawing from the wisdom of the preceding proverb, we argue that, in their scholarship, African biblical scholars have to ...
Madipoane Masenya, Hulisani Ramantswana
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Contextualising Biblical Exegesis: What Is the African Biblical Hermeneutic Approach?

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2013
This article responded to the question about the right methodology needed for the reconstruction of a viable African Christian theology. It equally contributed an answer to earlier concerns by Appiah-Kubi, Stinton and Nyiawung, who had grappled with an African response to the question of Jesus’ identity: ‘Who do you say I am?’ (Lk 9:20).
Mbengu D Nyiawung
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African Biblical Hermeneutics in a State of Flux – Towards Refocusing Its Trajectory

open access: yesVerbum Et Ecclesia, 2022
Cette étude tente de réexaminer de manière critique certaines préoccupations herméneutiques clés d'un groupe représentatif de spécialistes africains des études bibliques et religieuses, qui fondent la réflexion théologique africaine sur les valeurs, les cultures et les réalités sociales africaines traditionnelles.
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What Is African Biblical Hermeneutics?

Black Theology, 2015
AbstractAfrican biblical hermeneutics is vital to the wellbeing of African society. African biblical bermeneutics is a methodological resource that makes African social cultural contexts the subject of interpretation. This is a methodology that reappraises ancient biblical tradition and African world-views, cultures and life experiences, with the ...
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Reading the Locust Plague in the Prophecy of Joel in the Context of African Biblical Hermeneutics and the Decolonial Turn

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Joel is one of the 12 minor prophets (dōdekaprophēton). His prophecy aims at calling the nation and people to repentance through emphasizing that the Day of the Lord (yōm ădȏnay) is at hand (3:1–5 [2:28–32]). The locust plague (ʾarbbeh) in Joel’s message—which recalls the insects that threaten to destroy crops and vegetation in Africa and beyond, but ...
Michael Ufok Udoekpo
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Sustainability Hermeneutics: The New Task of African Biblical Studies

Expository Times
As a new and emerging approach to biblical interpretation, Sustainability Hermeneutics (SH) combines aspects of the environment, economy, and society in its interpretation of biblical texts. Such an approach to biblical interpretation shows the interaction of the environment, economy and society in biblical texts in line with the understanding of ...
Kingsley Ikechukwu Uwaegbute
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