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Mother of Black Old Testament Scholarship in South Africa—Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)

open access: yesOld Testament Essays
This article asserts that Professor Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele) deserves to be recognised as the “Mother of black Old Testament scholarship in South Africa.” She ought to be celebrated for pioneering the bosadi approach, an African and black ...
Hulisani Ramantswana
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Masenya (Ngwana’ Mphahlele)’s Cultural (Re-)turn within South African Biblical Studies

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In 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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Hearing Jeremiah's Confessions in the Light of the Metaphor of the ‘Silent’ Sheep: Reflections through the African Lore

open access: yesOld Testament Essays, 2019
In varying African cultures, and dare one say, even in global cultures, normative masculinity is defined among others, by men’s capacity not to cry. Expressing feelings such as helplessness, weakness, being overwhelmed, pain and trauma overtly, is not ...
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
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Respecting the Ancestors

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Madipoane Masenya’s search for an interpretive approach that would enable her to read Proverbs and eventually other parts of the Hebrew Bible from an African-South African woman’s perspective led her to develop what she calls a bosadi approach to ...
Louis Cloete Jonker
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Sub-Saharan Reception of Masenya's Bosadi Approach

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Madipoane Masenya’s search for an interpretive approach that would enable her to read Proverbs and eventually other parts of the Hebrew Bible from an African-South African woman’s perspective led her to develop what she calls a bosadi approach to ...
Jorunn Bjerga, Knut Holter
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Masenya’s Scholarship Legacy

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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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Facing the Fate of the Proverbial Eagle? Re-envisioning African Biblical Hermeneutics within the MIT’s in Present Day South Africa

open access: yesOld Testament Essays, 2017
Professor I.J.J. Spangenberg has invested much of his teaching time at universities in the subject of Biblical Studies among others. He is thus aware of the “glorious” days of the subject as well as of the events which led to its downfall.
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
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Gender Parity in Patriarchy? Heterarchy and Reclaiming Women’s Rights in Judges 4:4 and an African Context

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This article is inspired by Madipoane (Ngwan’a Mphahlele) Masenya’s essay titled, The Dissolution of the Monarchy, the Collapse of the Temple and the “Elevation” of Women in the Post-Exilic Period: Any Relevance for African Women’s Theologies?
Ntozakhe Simon Cezula
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Special Issue in Honor of Director Jonathan Bonk on the Occasion of his Retirement

open access: yes, 2020
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This special issue is in honor of and focuses on Project Director Jonathan Bonk.
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