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Masenya’s Scholarship Legacy

Old Testament Essays
This essay examines Masenya’s hermeneutic approach to the biblical text. Influenced by her postcolonial, apartheid, and patriarchal context, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan’a Mphahlele) developed the bosadi (womanhood) approach to reading the Bible in a South ...
Maleke M Kondemo
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The Hermeneutical Dimension of Bible Translation—A Study of Rendering Ruth 1 in Two Bantu Languages of South-Eastern Africa

Conspectus
Bible translation is an inherently hermeneutical act because meaning must be construed across two languages and cultures—the biblical source and a contemporary receptor community.
Ernst R. Wendland
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The instrumental Brahmin and the "half-caste" computer: Astronomy and colonial rule in Madras, 1791-1835. [PDF]

Hist Sci, 2023
Prashant Kumar S.
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“I Am Black and Beautiful”

Old Testament Essays, 2021
Adamo’s article on Ebed-Melech’s protest brings fresh insight into my earlier article on Song of Songs 1:5–7, prompting me to reread the text as a protest song (essay) against the racial stigmata that continue to bedevil black people in the world.
Robert Kuloba Wabyanga
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Hearing the text, seeing the text: Mazamisa on orality and textuality

In die Skriflig
Mazamisa, a dialectical thinker, argued in his article Reading from this Place (1991), that orality and textuality are complementary hermeneutical modes.
Mphumezi Hombana
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‘Forget your people and your father’s house’ (Ps 45:11): The Hebrew Bible, marriage rites and spousal abuse in contemporary Ghana

Verbum et Ecclesia
Spousal abuse is one of the foremost threats to peaceful coexistence in families the world over. In Ghana, stakeholders, particularly Christian leaders, have raised concerns about the increasing violence associated with spousal abuse, which sometimes ...
Michael K. Mensah, Comfort Max-Wirth, Alexander Salakpi   +2 more
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Making Meaning of Wisdom in Psalm 119 and in Contemporary African Contexts

Old Testament Essays, 2021
Psalm 119 has continually posed challenges to its interpreters owing to the difficulty of relating its unique acrostic structure to its thematic focus.
Michael K. Mensah
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HemaSphere, Volume 10, Issue S1, June 2026.
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Hermeneutical Approaches to Biblical Studies in African Context

African biblical hermeneutics is the re-reading of the Christian scripture from a premeditatedly Afrocentric perspective. Biblical Studies in African context is an amalgamation of multiple interpretive methods, approaches and foci that reflect a creative engagement of the African cosmological reality and the bible.
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“I shavha i sia muinga i ya fhi?”: Decolonial reflection on African biblical hermeneutics

STJ | 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
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