Biblical Interpretation in African Perspective

Biblical Interpretation in African Perspective examines the history of biblical interpretation in Africa- specifically with interpretation of the passages using African cultural hermeneutics. This work maintains that all these various interpretations of the Bible have their origin in Africa.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Historical Perspective

Introduction

3

(4)

Historical Development of Old Testament Interpretation in Africa

7

(24)

David Tuesday Adamo

The Bible in South African Black Theology: The Bible as Bola and other Forms of African Biblical Interpretation.

31

(30)

Gerald West

Siblings or Antagonists? The Ethos of Biblical Scholarship from the North Atlantic and African Worlds.

61

(26)

Grant LeMarquand

'A small herb increases itself (makes impact) by a strong odour': Re-imagining Vashti in an African South African Context.

87

(12)

Madipoane Masenya (ngwana Mphahlele)

Sub-Saharn African Doctoral Dissertations in Old Testament Studies, 1967-2000: Some Remarks to their Chronology and Geography.

99

(18)

Knut Holter

Africa and Africans in the Acts of the Apostles

117

(22)

Joseph Enuwosa and Friday Udoisang

Contextual Interpretation of Texts

The Imprecatory Psalms in African Context.

139

(16)

David Tuesday Adamo

Africentric Biblical Hermeneutics Enroute: Chieftancy Inslitution in Post-Colonial Nigeria.

155

(20)

Dapo Asaju

Unity in Ephesians 4: 1-6 in African Context.

175

(16)

Joseph Enuwosa

Re-Reading Romans 12: 3-21 with African Cultural Eyes.

191

(20)

Ukachukwu Chris Manus

Celibacy and the Bible in Africa.

211

(12)

Oyeronke Olajubu,

Poverty in the Old Testament in African Perspective.

223

(36)

Robert Wafawanaka

Contributors.

259

(2)

Index

261

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Biblical Interpretation in African Perspective

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