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Tamed identities? Glimpsing her identity in Proverbs 10:1–22:16 and selected African proverbs

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
Notions about worthy womanhood are shaped to a large extent by the cultural contexts in which they are constructed. In the global village though, shaped as it is mainly by Eurocentric cultures, it would be presumptuous to assume that one can with ...
Madipoane Masenya
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Hearing Jeremiah’s Confessions in Light of the Metaphor of the ‘Silent’ Sheep: Reflections through the African Lore

Old Testament Essays, 2018
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
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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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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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A literary figure or patriarchal reality? Reflections on the ‘ēšet hayil in light of depictions of womanhood from selected Yorùbá and Sotho proverbs

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2018
In varying Jewish and African contexts (cf. the Yorùbá and Sotho in the present essay), the ‘ēšet hayil is regarded as a historical figure who should serve as a model for women both young and old.
Madipoane Masenya
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Development in South Africa: Bridging The Rural-Urban Gap

The Thinker, 2021
South Africa is a highly unequal society with high levels of inequality, poverty, unemployment and other injustices that continue to affect the majority of the population.
Lesego Masenya
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Reverend Mother and Tamar (Gn 38) trapped between ‘artificial’ barrenness and ‘normative’ motherhood: Any fitting biblical hermeneutic?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
Reverend Mother’s entry into ordained ministry did not quench her maternal instinct to experience the fruit of her own body. Her craving was thus not for a man as a husband but for a baby, the fruit of her own womb.
Madipoane J. Masenya
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Professor David Tuesday Adamo’s Biblical Scholarship on Women: Reflections from an African-South African Mosadi

Old Testament Essays, 2020
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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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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Mother of Black Old Testament Scholarship in South Africa—Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)

Old 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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