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Culture in Biblical Interpretation: The Use of Yoruba Cultural Elements in Adamo's African Cultural Hermeneutics [PDF]
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 interpretative grid.
Adekunle O Dada
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Religions, 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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Biblical Exegesis and Hermeneutics of Biblical Texts: African Approaches. [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2018 This article argues the importance of exegesis and hermeneutics in the African context. There is a need for bible translation to be exercised within the African context as opposed to the Western context.
Dr Kelebogile Thomas Resane
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Reading Isaiah 58 in conversation with I.J. Mosala: an African liberationist approach
Acta Theologica, 2016 This paper sets out to draw on, and simultaneously depart from Mosala’s Black biblical hermeneutic of liberation in order to navigate liberating possibilities that Isaiah 58 could offer to the oppressed Black people in Southern Africa.
N. Mtshiselwa
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African Christian Theology and Christology: A Study of the Contributions of Kwame Bediako, John S. Mbiti, Justin Ukpong and Charles Nyamiti [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023 The article discusses the scholarship of Kwame Bediako, John Mbiti, Justin Ukpong and Charles Nyamiti to decipher their contributed to the development of a framework for theology, Christology and biblical scholarship in Africa and the development of the ...
Edward Agboada
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ConspectusAfrican Biblical Hermeneutics (ABH) is proliferating in and outside of Africa. ABH is concerned with making Bible interpretation Afrocentric rather than Eurocentric. ABH is not a monolith, however.
Abeneazer G. Urga
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Debriefing hermeneutics for a balanced reading of the biblical text
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 In this study, it is argued that the trust of previous (and existing) hermeneutical approaches of promoting ancient biblical texts as applicable to the everyday life of contemporary readers is not only imaginable but also too ambitious.
Mogomme A. Masoga
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Acta Theologica, 2023 African biblical scholars have long advocated a shift in existing exegetical and hermeneutical approaches. The reasons include not simply the inadequacy of these approaches in dealing with the existential questions of contemporary African societies, but
M.K. Mensah
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Old Testament Essays, 2020 One of the prolific writers in the discipline of African Biblical Hermeneutics is the Nigerian Old Testament (OT) scholar, Professor Tuesday David Adamo.
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele)
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The promise of attending to literary context for contextual biblical hermeneutics in Africa
Acta Theologica, 2021 For important reasons, African contextual hermeneutics raises the main question: “What does the Scripture mean to us and our community?”. This article asserts that the reader-centred approach tends to allow the voice of the community to ring louder than
D.W. Ellington
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