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African Biblical Hermeneutics: A Methodology for Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 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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Revisiting the Healing Narrative of the Gospel in the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]

Theol Today, 2022
Wijaya Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Examining African Hermeneutics and How African Biblical Scholars Have Adopted Western Tools in African Context

World Journal of Education and Humanities, 2019
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Beyond Feminist and Womanist Hermeneutics

Old Testament Essays
For almost thirty years, Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele) has advocated the need for a unique African approach for women in biblical studies.
Kjersti Wee, Marta Hoeyland Lavik
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Vanity of Vanities in the Context of the Spirituality of Augustine of Hippo

Spirituality Studies, 2021
Study provides hermeneutics of the topic vanity of vanities in the work of early North African Christian writer Augustine of Hippo (354–430) based primarily on original Latin sources.
Miloš Lichner, Marianna Hamarová
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‘You flood them with sleep’ (Ps 90:5): Human transience in the Hebrew Bible and in African indigenous sacred texts

In die Skriflig
Death, disturbing as it can be, is an inevitable phenomenon. All cultures must find the right language to explain this reality or at least provide the linguistic tools to navigate it.
Michael K. Mensah
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Reading Psalm 23 In African Context

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2018
The book of Psalms is the best known, most discussed and most cited book of the Old Testament. Psalm 23 especially is the most loved book of the Psalms. That must have been the reason why it was named ‘an American icon’ and the ‘nightingale of the Psalms’
David T. Adamo
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Understanding science-in-the-making by letting scientific instruments speak: From semiotics to postphenomenology. [PDF]

Soc Stud Sci, 2021
de Boer B, Te Molder H, Verbeek PP.
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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

Verbum 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 ...
Masenya, Madipoane (Ngwan'a Mphahlele), Ramantswana, Hulisani   +1 more
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Interpreting paired phenomena in the Hebrew Psalter and in African indigenous sacred texts

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The Hebrew Psalter is a repertoire of paired phenomena. From parallelisms to twin Psalms, biblical scholars have paid attention to these structural and poetical features as keys to unlocking and interpreting the meaning and theology of these psalms ...
Michael K. Mensah
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