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050 0 0 _aBS 447.5 .A35
_bB53 2001
245 0 4 _aThe Bible in Africa :
_btransactions, trajectories, and trends /
_cedited by Gerald O. West & Musa W. Dube.
260 _aBoston :
_bBrill Academic Publishers,
_c2001, c2000.
300 _axviii, 828 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 1 _aIntroduction / Gerald O. West and Musa W. Dube -- pt. 1. Historical and hermeneutical perspectives. Developments in biblical interpretation in Africa : historical and hermeneutical directions / Justin S. Ukpong -- Mapping African biblical interpretation : a tentative sketch / Gerald O. West -- Old Testament scholarship in Sub-Saharan Africa North of the Limpopo River / Knut Holter -- New Testament exegesis in (modern) Africa / Grant Le Marquand -- How Al-Mokattam Mountain was moved : the Coptic imagination and the Christian Bible / J.A. (Bobby) Loubser -- The Bible in the Black Diaspora : links with African Christianity / Gosnell L.O.R. Yorke -- Batswakwa : which traveller are you (John 1:1-18)? / Musa W. Dube -- The limits of difference : Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's redeployment of biblical signifiers in A game of what and I will marry when I want / Peter Wamulungwe Mwikisa -- (South) Africa, Bible, criticism : rhetorics of a visit / Robert P. Carroll -- pt. 2. Particular encounters with particular texts. Early encounters. A late seventeenth century translation of the Psalms at the Cape / Philippe Denis -- Earliest Southern African biblical interpretation : the case of the Bakwena, Bakololo and Bangwato / Fidelis Nkomazana -- The role of the Bible in the rise of African Instituted Churches : the case of the Akurinu Churches in Kenya / Nahashon W. Ndung'u --
505 1 _aNorth East Africa. Cain and Abel in Africa : an Ethiopian case study in competing hermeneutics / Mark McEntire -- West Africa. The mother of the Ewe and firstborn daughter as the "good shepherd" in the cultural context of the Ewe peoples : a liberating approach / Dorothy B.E.A. Akoto -- Pouring libation to spirit powers among the Ewe-dome of Ghana : an indigenous religious and biblical perspective / Rebecca Yawa Ganusah -- Contextual balancing of scripture with scripture : scripture union in Nigeria and Ghana / Andrew Olu Igenoza -- The vernacularization of scripture and African beliefs : the story of the Gerasene demoniac among the Ewe of West Africa / Solomon K. Avotri -- The role of the Bible in the Igbo Christianity of Nigeria / Anthony O. Nkwoka -- The use of the Psalms in African Indigenous Churches in Nigeria / David Tuesday Adamo -- East and Central Africa. Cursed be everyone who hangs on a tree : pastoral implications of Deuteronomy 21:22-23 and Galatians 3:13 in an African context / Eliud Wabukala and Grant LeMarquand -- Nyimbo Za Vijana : biblical interpretation in contemporary hymns from Tanzania / Fergus J. King -- The Bible in Malawi : a brief survey of its impact on society / Hilary B.P. Mijoga --
505 1 _aSouthern Africa. A Setswana perspective on Genesis 1:1-10 / Moiseraele Prince Dibeela -- The impact of the Bible on traditional rain-making institutions in Western Zimbabwe / Hezekiel Mafu -- The Bishop and the bricoleur : Bishop John William Colenso's Commentary on Romans and Magema kaMagwaza Fuze's The black people and whence they came / Jonathan A. Draper -- pt. 3. Comparison and translation as transaction. Comparative studies. Comparative readings of the Bible in Africa : some concerns / Eric Anum -- Corporate personality in Botswana and Ancient Israel : a religio-cultural comparison / Bernice Letlhare -- The biblical God of the fathers and the African ancestors / Temba L.J. Mafico -- African perspectives on poverty in the Hebrew law codes / Robert Wafawanaka --
630 0 0 _aBible
_xHistory.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xChurch history.
700 1 _aWest, Gerald O.
700 1 _aDube Shomanah, Musa W.,
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