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African biblical hermeneutics on the threshold? Appraisal and wayforward [PDF]
Acta Theologica, 2016 What appears to be African Biblical Hermeneutics often refers to the geographical location of the authors rather than the content. There always appears to be something new on the horizon, but the colonial umbilical cord prevents a crossing of the ...
M. Speckman
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Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics within the Context of African Biblical Hermeneutics: It’s Origin, Trends and Challenges [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and TheologyThis study delves into the intricate landscape of Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics within the context of African Biblical Hermeneutics, aiming to unravel its origins, discern trends, and confront challenges.
Richard Osei Akoto
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Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics in African Biblical Scholarship: Contributions of J.E.T. Kuwornu-Adjaottor [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and TheologyThe pattern of biblical hermeneutics in Africa was built on Euro-American philosophies, cultures and methodologies until the early 1960s. This necessitated a scholarly call for re-interpretation of the inherited interpretations and translations, as some ...
Ernest Jnr Frimpong +5 more
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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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Accused of a Sodomy Act': Bible, Queer Poetry and African Narrative Hermeneutics [PDF]
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2021 This article explores the role of poetry and narrative methods in African-centred queer biblical studies and theology. As a case in point, it presents a poem, titled “Accused of a Sodomy Act,” by Tom Muyunga-Mukasa, that was written as part of a queer ...
Adriaan van Klinken, Tom Muyunga-Mukasa
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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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The Bible and/as the Lynching Tree: A South African Tribute to James H. Cone [PDF]
Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2019 In this tribute to James H. Cone I reflect on his biblical-theological hermeneutics, drawing on work that spans nearly fifty years, but concentrating on his most recent book, The Cross and the Lynching Tree. I identify in Cone’s work radical hermeneutics
West, Gerald
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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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The search for an African Biblical Hermeneutic (ABH) has come a long way and has grown into an established discipline. In the enterprise, several methodologies and African resources have been employed and deployed to develop an ABH that is adequately ...
Manomi, Dogara I.
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What happened to the fig tree? : an empirical study in psychological type and biblical hermeneutics [PDF]
, 2012 The SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching has its roots in Jungian psychological type theory and maintains that the reading and interpretation of text is shaped by individual preferences within the perceiving process (sensing and ...
Francis, Leslie J.
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