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Respecting the Ancestors

Old Testament Essays
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

Old Testament Essays
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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Teaching Western-oriented Old Testament studies to African students : an exercise in wisdom or in Folly? [PDF]

, 2004
Since the colonial era, Africa, with South Africa included, has suffered alienation. With strangers imposing their cultures, languages, ideologies et cetera on the continent, Africa became a stranger, ironically on its own territory.
Masenya, Madipoane
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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

Old 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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Masenya’s Scholarship Legacy

Old Testament Essays
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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Worlds coming together : what a white male Germane evangelical learned from a black female South-African Bosadi scholar

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 under-stands her theological position, highlighting the ways ...
Wünch, Hans-Georg
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Gender Parity in Patriarchy? Heterarchy and Reclaiming Women’s Rights in Judges 4:4 and an African Context

Old Testament Essays
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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A Bosadi (Womanhood) reading of Genesis 16

, 2012
The received interpretations of the Bible in African context in South Africa have always been foreign. The colonisers not only colonised the land, even the interpretation of the Bible was colonised. The received interpretations of Genesis16 serves as a
Masenya, Madipoane
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BIBLICAL AUTHORITY AND THE AUTHORITY OF WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES: WHITHER WAY?

, 2016
M. Masenya
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Searching for Affirming Notions of (African) Manhood in the Paean in Praise of the 'Ēšet Ḥayil? One African Woman's Response to Joel K. T. Biwul's Article, "What is He doing at the Gate?"

, 2016
M. Masenya
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