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Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics: A Critical Assessment of the History of an Emerging Approach in African Biblical Studies [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2023 This study investigates the history, proponents, constituting elements, challenges, methodology, and future directions of Mother-tongue Biblical Hermeneutics (MTBH) as an emerging hermeneutical approach in African biblical studies.
Michael F. Wandusim
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African biblical studies: Illusions, realities and challenges
In die Skriflig, 2016 African Biblical Studies is a biblical interpretation for the purpose of transformation in Africa. It is the biblical interpretation that makes the ‘African social cultural context a subject of interpretation’.
David T. Adamo
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 African biblical studies (ABS) focus on biblical interpretation in Africa. Although new, it has gained massive recognition among African biblical scholars as the biblical interpretation focus that best suits the peculiar challenges that face African ...
Kingsley I. Uwaegbute
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African Christian TheologyWhat a pleasure to read a book in which I as an African biblical scholar could revel so completely! Andrew Mbuvi has a written a book about us and for us, within which we are invited to participate as conversation partners.
Gerald O. WEST
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Masenya (Ngwana’ Mphahlele)’s Cultural (Re-)turn within South African Biblical Studies
Old Testament EssaysIn honouring the biblical studies work of Madipoane Masenya (Ngwana’ Mphahlele), my article situates Masenya within the debates in South African Black Theology on ‘culture’ in the 1980s. This is the period Masenya began her formal biblical studies work,
Gerald West
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Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021 Background: Even though the business of biblical interpretation in African perspectives is not as old as Western styled hermeneutics, African biblical hermeneutics is by no means inferior in orientation and context to Western methods of interpretation.
Peter. O. O. Ottuh, Moses Idemudia
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ReligionsIn establishing the Christian faith on African soil, the first missionaries to Africa came along with the Bible. They were determined to share the word of God with the indigenous Africans. This was undertaken effectively; however, it came at a cost.
Emmanuel Kojo Ennin Antwi
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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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Personal uprightness as the just cause in Psalm 17: Afrocentric reflections
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020 This essay situates study of the psalter within an African interpretational modality. Given the fact that western scholarship has dominated if not prescribed approaches to biblical texts demonstrable from the absence of African motifs in research by ...
Sampson S. Ndoga
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The end of Islamic rule in Crete, the last exodus of the Muslims of the Emirate of Crete and the re-establishment of Byzantine Christian rule (961 CE) [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020 This article is an attempt at a comprehensive insight into the reasons for the refusal of the most important Islamic states, i.e. Umayyad Spain, Ikhshīdid Egypt and Maghrebian Africa, to assist the emirate of Crete on the eve of the Byzantines ...
Professor V. Christides
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