Navigating African Biblical Hermeneutics: Trends and Themes from our Pots and our Calabashes
Madipoane Masenya Ngwan’a Mphahlele · Kenneth N. Ngwa
Jan 2019 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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This collection interrogates and engages the biblical text, colonial and postcolonial subjectivities and cultural assumptions, as well as lived experiences that encompass varying Africana contexts and Diasporas. In order to do this, it deploys methodologies, exegetical analyses and critical and constructive communal epistemologies. Framed by historical, literary, cultural and theological engagements of issues around wealth and power, gender, sexualities and masculinities, HIV and AIDS, as well as the crises of war and mass violence, the book will be very useful for students, academics, clergy and laity committed to Africana-conscious epistemologies and methodologies, and the impact on biblical studies.
About the author
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan’a Mphahlele) is Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. She has published numerous scientific articles and chapters in specialist books in the area of the Hebrew Bible and gender, especially in African contexts. She served as one of the associate editors of The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora (2010) and she has written her own book, How Worthy is the Woman of Worth? Rereading Proverbs 31:10-31 (2004).
Kenneth Ngwa is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Drew Theological School, USA. He is the author of The Hermeneutics of the ‘Happy’ Ending in Job 42:7-17 (2005), and is currently working on a book-long project on Exodus: Postwar Hermeneutics: Exodus and its Fragmented and Reclaimed Identities.
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