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African biblical studies and the question of methodology: A focus on New Testament scholarship in Nigeria

open access: yesHTS 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 Theology and Christology: A Study of the Contributions of Kwame Bediako, John S. Mbiti, Justin Ukpong and Charles Nyamiti [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023
The article discusses the scholarship of Kwame Bediako, John Mbiti, Justin Ukpong and Charles Nyamiti to decipher their contributed to the development of a framework for theology, Christology and biblical scholarship in Africa and the development of the ...
Edward Agboada
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Western biblical studies in Soviet historiography: Formation and evolution of the critical narrative

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2022
The critical narrative, which was part of the unified canon of Marxist biblical studies, took shape under the impact of both external (USSR anti-religious policy) and internal (scholarly research, discussions, and polemics) factors.
A.A. Popova
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“Aware-Settler” Biblical Studies: Breaking Claims of Textual Ownership [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2019
“Aware-Settler” is a term coined here to describe the various hermeneutics that arise as increasingly, non-Indigenous biblical scholars take seriously that their research is done on colonized Land.
Matthew R. Anderson
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The Hebrew Bible in contemporary philosophy of religion

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2010
Some dialogue among these specialists, especially between biblical scholars and philosophers of religion, is unquestionably long overdue.(Stump 1985:1) Over the last few decades, there has been an increased concern for the establishment of more sustained
Jacobus W. Gericke
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Biblical Criticism, the Westcott and Hort’s Resonance: Challenges to Post Modernism in New Testament Studies

open access: yesNsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies, 2022
Mirages of contours had characterised biblical scholarship on the texts of the New Testament in modern time across the globe. This had led assailant in form of cynics who, out of sheer ignorance, question the inerrancy as well as the authority of the ...
Omaka Kalu Ngele
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The legacy of Circle women�s engagement with the Bible: Reflections from an African male biblical scholar

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2016
The entry of women into religious and theological studies has revolutionised the modus operandi of these disciplines. Especially with the formation of the Circle of Concerned Women Theologians, the study of these disciplines has never been the same.
Lovemore Togarasei
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Social-scientific criticism in Nigerian New Testament scholarship

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
The use of the social sciences in the interpretation of the New Testament emerged from the 1970s and has become a standard methodology for interpreting the New Testament.
Kingsley I. Uwaegbute   +2 more
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Navigating trajectories in African biblical studies: D.T. Adamo and the future of African cultural hermeneutics

open access: yesIanna 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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Reading the Bible in post-apartheid South Africa

open access: yesOld Testament Essays, 2023
Modern historical criticism came to South Africa in the third decade of the twentieth century. However, analysing biblical books like human documents was not acceptable to church authorities.
Izak Jacobus Spangenberg
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