“Utux Tmninun U, ini sruwa muway pusu dnui rudan sunan ka hiya”: Reading Naboth’s Refusal (1 Kings 21:3) from the Sediq Mother Tongue [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2021 Since the advent of the vernacular Bibles for the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples (TIP), the TIP Christians are privileged to read and hear the Word of God in their ‘ancestral tones’ with familiarity and attachment.
Risaw Walis
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African Reading of Psalm 24:3-6: The Implications for the Enforcement of Morality among Christians in Africa. [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2021 This paper deals with the African reading of Psalm 24:3-6: The implications for the enforcement of morality among Christians in Africa. The book of Psalms is subdivided into five books comparable to the Pentateuch.
Joseph Gyanvi-Blay +1 more
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Jesus on Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage: A Reflection on Matthew 19:3-12 and Mark 10:2-12 from an Akan Perspective [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2023 Marriage, as depicted in both the Old and New Testaments, is considered a sacred institution created by God. However, this sacred institution has been under attack over the centuries and has resulted in a high divorce rate, particularly among Christians.
Ernest Nyarko
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Examining the Translation and the Interpretation of ᾱμπɛλος (ampelos) and κλῆμᾱ (klema) as bobe and ban/mman in the Asante-Twi Bible. [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2021 Jesus used the vine in the last of his “I AM” predictions in the gospel of John. In this discourse, Jesus used the vine which was familiar to his audience for better understanding and appreciation of God’s word. Great work has been done on the analogy
Anthony Yaw Badu
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Untying the Mother Tongue [PDF]
, 2023 Untying the Mother Tongue explores what it might mean today to speak of someone's attachment to a particular, primary language. Traditional conceptions of mother tongue are often seen as an expression of the ideology of a European nation-state.
Federico Dal Bo, Antonio Castore
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 This article interprets the logos Christology in the fourth gospel within Ewe-Ghanaian cosmic setting. The article employs a combination of the exegetical and mother tongue biblical hermeneutics as its methodologies.
Daniel Sakitey, Ernest van Eck
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Christian Faith and Akan Culture in Ghana: A Review of Major Works of Sidney George Williamson [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2021 Christian growth must not only be considered in terms of the growth of numbers. The growth in the church must also be considered in the level of depth and the quality of Christian conversion within a cultural milieu.
Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong
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The Rhetoric of “Bragoro”: The Philosophy Behind Akan Traditional Concept of Marriage [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2021 This paper discusses the intertextual relationship between the world of Akan Bragoro (puberty rites) song texts and the real world of Akans. The Akan Bragoro song texts are performed during Bragoro celebrations and the song texts define the Akan ...
Peter Arthur, Angelina Mensah
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, 2011 My intention with this study was to examine the concepts “mother tongue” and “mother tongue education” and how these concepts are understood by some parents.
Suner, Guler
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Footwashing in the Context of 1 Corinthians 11:23-25: Some Theological Reflections
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology, 2022 There is the tendency to cite Paul’s obvious silence on the rite of foot washing in 1 Corinthians 11:23-25 as evidence of not perpetuating the practice in the Christian Church.
Peter Obeng Manu , Kenneth Oppong
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