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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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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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The impact of religious and cultural discourses on the leadership development of women in the ministry : a vhusadzi (womanhood) perspective [PDF]

, 2011
Culture and religion have both healthy and unhealthy effect on the leadership development of women in Africa. In this regard, the impact of especially African Pentecostal Christian discourses, as well as Vhavenda cultural discourses, on the lives of ...
Mudimeli, Lufuluvhi Maria
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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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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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Postcolonial biblical interpretation in the context of the Democratic Republic of the Congo : selected texts from Joshua 1-12 [PDF]

, 2010
The present research has been aimed at investigating how imperialism and colonialism are located both in the biblical text (cf. Joshua 1-12) and in present day interpretive postcolonial contexts such as that of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Bwalya, Laishi
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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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Anything new under the sun of African Biblical Hermeneutics in South African Old Testament Scholarship?: Incarnation, death and resurrection of the Word in Africa

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015
In this article, two lenses are used to engage the task of African Biblical Hermeneutics. The one lens is derived from African wisdom, i shavha i sia muinga i ya fhi?, in which there is a need for people to affirm their own roots.
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele), Hulisani Ramantswana   +1 more
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Dangling between death and hope: An HIV and AIDS gender-sensitive re-reading of Psalm 6

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016
The genre of laments (both individual and communal) can be traced historically, even up to today, to periods of crisis. The psalms of lament in the Hebrew Bible point to periods both of national crisis such as wars, exile, and individual crisis, namely ...
Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele), V. Ndikhokele N. Mtshiselwa   +1 more
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Gender and sexualities in African contexts and Circle theologies

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016
No abstract available.
V. Ndikhokele N. Mtshiselwa, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan�a Mphahlele)   +1 more
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