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Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa: Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi,October 1999(2 Bible and Theology in Africa)

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This book is a collection of papers read at the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999. Thirty biblical scholars and theologians - mainly from Eastern Africa, but some also from South Africa and Europe - came together to discuss what it means to interpret the Old Testament in Africa today. Their contributions fall in five parts: (i) a mapping of the social, historical, and academic context of Old Testament studies in Africa; (ii) exegetical studies of how Africa is portrayed by the Old Testament; (iii) examples of how the African socio-religious experience can serve as comparative material for interpretation of the Old Testament; (iv) examples of how Old Testament texts are experienced as relevant to contemporary African readers; and (v) various aspects of the efforts of translating the Old Testament in Africa today.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Mary Getui/Knut Holter/Victor Zinkuratire: Introduction - Jesse Mugambi: Africa and the Old Testament - Knut Holter: The Current State of Old Testament Scholarship in Africa: Where Are We at the Turn of the Century? - Marta Hoyland Lavik: The African Texts of the Old Testament and Their African Interpretations - Tewoldemedhin Habtu: The Images of Egypt in the Old Testament: Reflections on African Hermeneutics - David Tuesday Adamo: The Images of Cush in the Old Testament: Reflections on African Hermeneutics - Louis Jonker: Towards a Communal Approach for Reading the Bible in Africa - Aloo Osotsi Mojola: The Social Sciences and the Study of the Old Testament in Africa: Some Methodological Considerations - Hendrik Bosman: All Past and Present But Little Future? African and Old Testament Concepts of Time and History - Sammy Githuku: Taboos on Counting - Jonathan Gichaara: What's in a Name? African Versus Old Testament Nomenclature - Joseph Muutuki: Using the Kamba Culture to Interpret Old Testament Covenants - Madipoane Masenya (ngwana' Mphahlele): Wisdom and Wisdom Converge: Selected Old Testament and Northern Sotho Proverbs - Constance Shisanya: A Reflection on the Hagar Narratives in Genesis Through the Eyes of a Kenyan Woman - Bungishabaku Katho: Jeremiah 22: Implications for the Exercise of Power in Africa - Pauline Otieno: Interpreting the Book of Psalms in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Kenya - Philomena Mwaura: The Old Testament in the Nabii Christian Church of Kenya - Margaret Aringo: Work in the Old Testament and in African Tradition: Implications for Today - Anne Nasimiyu Wasike: Genesis 1-2 and Some Elements of Diversion From the Original Meaning of the Creation of Man and Woman - Mary Getui: The Bible in African Theology - Serapio Kabazzi Kisirinya: Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa: Last Will, Contract or Covenant? - Peter Renju: United Bible Societies' Strategies for Old Testament Translation in Africa - Leonidas Kalugila: Central Issues of Old Testament Translation in Africa - Victor Zinkuratire: Morphological and Syntactical Correspondences Between Hebrew and Bantu Languages.

About the Author :
The Editors: The three editors of the book - who were also organizers of the symposium - come from different theological and scholarly traditions, but all three have for several years been engaged in research and networking within African theology and biblical scholarship. Mary Getui earned her Ph.D. from Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya (1994), where she now works as Senior Lecturer. Knut Holter earned his Th.D. from the University of Oslo, Norway (1993), and is now Associate Professor at the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway. Victor Zinkuratire earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (1987), and is now Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781453910108
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi,October 1999
  • ISBN-10: 1453910107
  • Publisher Date: 29 Aug 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: 2 Bible and Theology in Africa


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