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“I Shavha i Sia Muinga i Ya Fhi?”: Decolonial Reflection on African Biblical Hermeneutics

Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2016
“I shavha i sia muinga i yafhi?” (Running away from your own path, where are you heading?). This Tshivenda proverb highlights the need for people to affirm their own roots. On the basis of the wisdom of the preceding proverb, I will argue from a decolonial perspective that African biblical scholars have to take seriously their own African heritage, the
Hulisani Ramantswana
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The contextuality of African methods of biblical interpretation with particular reference to post-colonial interpretation and African feminist hermeneutics: Issues and challenges

Integrity Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2022
Today the Christian churches and Christianity are thriving in Africa as almost cannot be found elsewhere. There are at least 685 million Christians on the continent. While Christianity is traversing the multi-coloured cultures of Africa, points of departure from the old western classical interpretation of the Bible exist.
Clement Usen Eton, Vincent Etim Eyo
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Reading Rahab with Larsen: towards a New Direction in African American Biblical Hermeneutics

Horizons in Biblical Theology, 2020
Abstract This article explores what it might look like to read the biblical story of Rahab alongside literature from the African American literary canon. Specifically, the article examines the biblical account of Rahab found in Joshua 2 through the lens of identity and argues that, like characters in Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen’s novels ...
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African Biblical Hermeneutics: A Methodology for Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics

2015
This paper makes a case for a methodology for doing African Biblical Hermeneutics. It builds on the ideas of earlier scholars of Biblical Hermeneutics in Africa who focused on continuity between the Old and New Testaments with reference to their hermeneutical and personal uses in Africa as follows: during social interactions, expressions of courtesies,
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Divining the Woman of Endor African Culture, Postcolonial Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Biblical Translation

2017
An examination of the language of divination in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in 1 Samuel 28:3-25-the oft-called “Witch of Endor” passage. Kiboko contends that much of the vocabulary of divination in this passage and beyond has been mistranslated in authorized English and other translations used in Africa and in scholarly writings.
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Biblical Hermeneutics as a Site of Struggle: South African Sites of Contestation in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s

Scriptura
‘Hermeneutics’, or the theory of the interpretation of texts, was a substantive component of much biblical scholarship in the 1980 and 1990s. Many articles or essays would begin with a definition of ‘hermeneutics’. Few, however, would be explicit about their own ‘theory of the interpretation of texts’, preferring to define ‘hermeneutics’ and then ...
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Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Rebecca L. Siegel, Robert Winn, Katherine Tossas-Milligan   +2 more
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From Resource to Subject: A Critical Analysis of the African Context in Biblical Hermeneutics (1990s-Present)

African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research
This article provides a comprehensive critical analytical evaluation of the pivotal epistemological shift in African biblical hermeneutics from using the African context as a resource for interpretation to treating it as the very subject of interpretation.
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African American Biblical Hermeneutics:

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Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2013
Ahmedin Jemal, Carol E DeSantis
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