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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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Black Religious Crip Wisdom: Mining Critical Voices and Perspectives of Disabled Black People in Religious, Feminist, and Literary Studies

Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 164-169, March 2026.
Jonathan Chism
wiley   +1 more source

Locating ‘Contextual Bible Study’ within biblical liberation hermeneutics and intercultural biblical hermeneutics [PDF]

, 2014
This article uses the occasion of the 70th anniversary of HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies to reflect on a particular form of liberation hermeneutics that emerged in the 1980s in South Africa.
Gerald O. West
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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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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 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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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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“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
doaj  

Job in dialogue with Edward Said : contrapuntal hermeneutics, pedagogical development, and a new approach to Biblical interpretation

, 2009
Biblical interpretation in the contemporary context of globalisation faces a variety of challenges. This thesis addresses the challenges presented to the discipline by the incorporation of poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and liberation theologies ...
Jones Nelson, Alissa
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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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