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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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Manche Masemola and Albert Luthuli: iconic figures of South African Christianity [PDF]

, 2017
[Two important figures that have shaped Protestant Christianity in South Africa are Manche Masemola and Albert Luthuli, featured in this issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography. A martyr like Bernard Mizeki, Manche Masemola died for her faith
Masenya, Madipoane
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Context in African biblical studies: some reflections [PDF]

, 2020
[My first encounter with Professor Jonathan J. Bonk, the Honoree, happened at my very first meeting as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB).
Masenya, Madipoane
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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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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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Masenya (Ngwana’ Mphahlele)’s Cultural (Re-)turn within South African Biblical Studies

Old Testament Essays
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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In the Ant's school of wisdom : a holistic African - South African reading of Proverbs 6 : 6 - 11

, 2015
Committed to the ethic of industry, also, possibly persuaded by the precarious context of the production of the text of Prov 1-9, the wisdom teacher persuades his (male) students to watch and learn from the ways of the ant (nemalâ).
M. Masenya
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The Bible, HIV/AIDS and African-South African women: a bosadi (womanhood) perspective [PDF]

, 2005
Peer reviewedThe observation that the Christian Bible has historically played an important role, either for good or for evil, in differing African contexts, be it on the continent or in the Diaspora, cannot be disputed.
Masenya, Madipoane
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Bosadi Theology of Masenya Madipoane (Ngwana ‘Mphahlele)

The 1980s and 1990s are the formative years of gender specific frame works in biblical feminist interpretation. Scholars used this opportunity to formulate the unintelligible and the muted through interesting dialectics to fashion an archive without ...
Mokoena, Lerato
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Hearing Jeremiah's Confessions in the Light of the Metaphor of the ‘Silent’ Sheep: Reflections through the African Lore

Old 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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