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Making Sense of Psalm 127:3-5 in African / South African Contexts

Old Testament Essays, 2019
African wisdom sayings have enjoyed and continue to enjoy some authoritative status in varying African contexts from time immemorial till today. As sacred texts, African proverbs have shaped and continue to shape, whether consciously or not, the ...
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
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Iho Ayo/ Mekgolokwane/Ululations/Festschrift: Dedicated to Prof David Tuesday Adamo, the Decoloniser of Old Testament Studies in Africa

Old Testament Essays, 2021
https://doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2021 ...
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
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Bosadi, Biblical Hermeneutics and Pentecostalism in the Scholarship of Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele)

Old Testament Essays
Bosadi, a theory coined by Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele), has been used in previous works as an approach to the biblical text. This current study sees bosadi as a contribution to Pentecostal hermeneutical approaches such as the hermeneutics of ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Worlds Coming Together

Old Testament Essays
This article explores the works of Prof. Madipoane Masenya, a Black South African theologian, and her theological approach known as the “Bosadi Reading.” It analyses how Masenya developed and understands her theological position, highlighting the ways ...
Hans-Georg Wuench
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Professor David Tuesday Adamo’s Biblical Scholarship on Women: Reflections from an African-South African Mosadi

Old Testament Essays, 2021
One of the prolific writers in the discipline of African Biblical Hermeneutics is the Nigerian Old Testament (OT) scholar, Professor Tuesday David Adamo.
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
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Without a voice, with a violated body: Re-reading Judges 19 to challenge gender violence in sacred texts

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2012
Although they are a majority of the South African population, African women in South Africa remain on the periphery of the margins of our communities. They are women who, although are a majority, mostly remain without a voice.
Masenya, Madipoane J. (ngwan’a Mphahlele)
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Engaging with the book of Ruth as single, African Christian women: One African woman's reflection

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2013
In their quest for knowledge, biblical scholars make the Christian Bible the object of scrutiny, analysis and critique. However, in the African South African context dealt with in this article, the Bible is accessed not only for knowledge, but mainly for
Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele)
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Being Human

Old Testament Essays
In the context of life-denying forces that have deeply scarred (South) Africa, what does it mean to be human? In the book of Psalms, we see a keen acknowledgment of humanity as precious and powerful, created “a little lower than God and crowned… with ...
Juliana Claassens
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Mosadi ke Motho

Old Testament Essays
This article engages Madipoane Masenya’s Bosadi approach as a critical framework for re-imagining gender from an indigenous African perspective.
Palesa Nqambaza
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‘Limping, Yet Made to Climb a Mountain!’ Re-Reading the Vashti Character in the Hiv And Aids South African Context

, 2018
The history of the Christian Bible’s reception in South Africa was part of a package that included among others, the importation of European patriarchy, land grabbing and its impoverishment of Africans and challenged masculinities of African men.
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’A Mphahlele)
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