Contemporary African Perspectives on the Bible

• Autore: Marevesa Tobias
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (411 pages)
• Disciplina: 220.6
• Altri autori: MadzokereNyasha TogaraseiLovemore MeyerBilly
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Ex Africa aliquid semper novi -- References -- Part I: Looking Back and Looking Forward. New Thoughts on Decolonial Theory in Africa -- Chapter 2: Decolonising Biblical Studies in Africa: Re-thinking the Possibilities, Opportunities and Challenges -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Subjectivity-Objectivity Dichotomy: Brief Overview of Approaches in Biblical Studies -- What Was in It for the Colonial Project? -- Early Decolonisation in Biblical Studies in Africa -- Coloniality in Decolonisation -- Decolonisation and Decoloniality in Biblical Studies in Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Biblical Hermeneutics of Liberation in the South African Context from a 'Suspicious Interpreter' to a 'Suspicious Text' -- Introduction -- The Task of Liberation Hermeneutics -- Biblical Interpretation as an Ideo-theological Task -- Ideology, Ideo-theology, and Liberation Hermeneutics -- Oppression and Marginalization in Black South African Liberation Hermeneutics -- From the Suspicious Interpreter to the Suspicious Text -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Autonomy and the Challenges of Interpreting the Decolonial African Bible -- Content and Purpose and the Decolonial Bible -- A Tripolar Approach to African Contextual Hermeneutics -- What Is Legitimation Code Theory? -- A Crucial Disclaimer -- How the Data Will Be Presented -- A Brief Eurocentric Excursion -- Jonathan A. Draper: A South African Contextual Reading of Matthew 1:1-17 -- Gerald O. West: Juxtaposing "Many Cattle" in Biblical Narrative (Jonah 4:11), Imperial Narrative, Neo-Indigenous Narrative -- Musa W Dube Talitha Cum! A Postcolonial Feminist and HIV/AIDS Reading of Mark 5:21-43. ; Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele): A Bosadi (Womanhood) Reading of Proverbs 31:10-31 -- Hulisani Ramantswana: Beware of the (Westernised) African Eyes: Rereading Psalm 82 Through the Vhufa Approach -- What Shall We Say Then About Our Ancestors? -- References -- Chapter 5: Postcolonial Paul in Africa? -- Introduction -- A Postcolonial Optic -- Decolonising as Acculturation? -- Decolonising as Demythologising? -- Decolonising as Liberating? -- Decolonising as Troubling and Obscuring? Questions Raised -- Conclusion: Towards (or Beyond) the (a?) Postcolonial Paul? -- References -- Chapter 6: Liberation Through Language: Kaaps-Speakers, Bible Translation, and Identity Creation -- Introduction -- Brief History of the Kaaps Language -- Standardization of Afrikaans -- Kaaps-Speakers' Response to the 'Standard' -- Is Kaaps a Unique Language? -- Language and Identity for the Kaaps Community Today -- Identity and Cultural Memory -- Identity and Intermediate Status -- Relationship Between Language and Identity -- Language as an Identity Marker for the Kaaps Community -- Negative Impact of Speaking Kaaps -- Positive Impact of Speaking Kaaps -- Developing a New Identity -- Activism to Rectify the Situation -- Literature and Media -- Print: Novels, Drama, Poetry -- Hip-Hop and Rap -- Public Performances -- Kaapse Klopse (Minstrels) -- District Six the Musical -- Afrikaaps -- Alive in Kaaps -- Evaluating These Initiatives -- Education -- Bible Translation -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Voices from Africa -- Chapter 7: Seeking Covenantal Justice, Reading Jonah and Malachi with African Christians -- Introduction: The Struggle to Understand Justice -- Two Examples of the Justice of God from Jonah and Malachi -- The Book of Jonah (Jon. 1:2 -- 3:1, 2, 5, 10 -- 4:1, 2) -- The Outworking of God's Justice in Mal. 3:1-5 -- 4:1-3 [3:19-21 MT]. ; Seeking Covenantal Justice, Reading the Prophets with African Christians -- Dialoguing with a Wholistic Biblical Perspective Within Our Faith Community -- An Assessment of the Paradigm of Deed-Consequence -- God Is Never at Bay on Matters of Injustice -- Religion in Service to the Realities of the African Christian -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Righteous Rage and the Politics of Subsistence Economies: A Socio-economic Reading of the Books of Amos and Micah from an African Perspective -- Introduction -- Methodological Considerations -- The Politics and Ideologies of Empire -- Historical Context of Amos and Micah -- Economic Context of Amos and Micah -- Analysis of Amos and Micah -- Amos -- Micah -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Africanizing Divine Revelation Through History-Telling: Joshua 23-24 as a Hermeneutic Template -- Introduction -- The Path of African Biblical Hermeneutics -- Dominant Foci of African Biblical Interpretation -- History-Telling: The Case of the Biblical Joshua -- Joshua 23-24: A Hermeneutic Template for History-Telling -- History-Telling Process in Josh 23 -- History-Telling Process in Josh 24 -- Africanization Through History-Telling: Adopting the Joshuarian Template -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: A Pie in the Sky or Bread on Earth?: The Lord's Prayer in Q and Africa Today -- Introduction -- The Lord's Prayer -- Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Emerging Voices from Zimbabwe -- Chapter 11: Propaganda Hermeneutics of the Bible: Emerging Trends of the Interpretation of the Bible in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- The Socio-economic and Political Context of Zimbabwe in the Period 2000-2023 -- Exegesis Versus Eisegesis -- The Text and Meaning -- Defining Propaganda and Its Tenets -- Types of Propaganda -- Tenets of Propaganda -- Laying Out a Propaganda Hermeneutics and Application. ; Defining Propaganda Hermeneutics -- Tenets of Propaganda Hermeneutics -- Application of Propaganda Hermeneutics on Selected Texts -- President Emerson Mnangagwa's Address to the Anglican Pilgrims at Bernard Mizeki Shrine -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- References -- Chapter 12: Examining Proverbs 6:6-11 and Selected Shona Proverbs from African Biblical Hermeneutics -- Introduction -- Proverbs 6:6-11: An Exegesis -- Shona Proverbs as a Fundamental Indigenous Knowledge System Reservoir -- Proverbs 6:6-11 and Selected Shona Proverbs: An African Biblical Hermeneutical Interrogation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: "Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child (Proverbs 13:24): Cultural Hermeneutical Contestations on Childhood Maltreatment in Zimbabwe" -- Introduction -- "Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child": Biblical and Indigenous Culture Hermeneutical Lenses -- Biblical Hermeneutical Lenses -- Biblical Exegesis of Proverbs 13:24 -- Indigenous Culture Hermeneutical Lenses -- The Religious Situation in Zimbabwe -- Child Maltreatment and Abuse: Points of Continuity and Discontinuity -- Theme 1: Combating Conflicting Child Upbringing Approaches -- Theme 2: Biblical and Indigenous Culture Hermeneutical Freedoms: A Professionalism Paradigm -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: Interpreting the Book of Amos: A Contemporary African Biblical Hermeneutical Perspective -- Introduction -- The Historical Spectrum of Amos -- An Expository Study of Selected Thematic Terms in Amos -- The Book of Amos: A Contemporary African Biblical Hermeneutical Reading -- The Economic Scenario of Amos Appropriated to Zimbabwe -- The Socio-political Situation of Amos Appropriated to Zimbabwe -- The Religious Spectrum of Amos Appropriated to Zimbabwe -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: Re-reading Luke 4:18-19 Through the Lenses of the Subaltern in Zimbabwe. ; Introduction -- Contextual Clarification of the Concept 'Subaltern' -- Theoretical Framework -- Luke 4:18-19 and Its Context -- Lukan Jesus' Approach to the Subaltern -- Implications of Luke 4:18-19: The Zimbabwean Context -- The Church and the Poor -- The Church and Women's Subalternity -- Women's Subaltern Status -- Ordination of Women -- Gender-Based Violence -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 16: An Evaluation of the Biblical Interpretation in an African Context in Light of 2 Peter 1:20-21 -- Introduction -- African Perspectives -- Biblical Hermeneutics -- Transposition/Appropriation -- Contextualizing African Biblical Interpretation -- Contextual Reading of the Bible -- The Contextual Reading of 2 Peter 1:20-21 -- Understanding the Author's Historical Situation -- Understanding the Recipients' Historical Situation -- Merging the Authors' and Readers' Historical Situations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17: Pauline Christianity, Forefathers, and Pure Conscience: A Postcolonial Reading of 2 Timothy 1:3 from a Zimbabwean Context -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The Caricature of Paul's Stance on Forefathers: A Zimbabwean Postcolonial Lens -- Paul's Christianity and Gentile Converts -- Traditional Ancestors and Christianity in Zimbabwe -- λατρεύω ἐν καθαρᾷ συνειδήσει ἀπὸ προγόνων (Serve from my Forefathers with a Pure Conscience): A Postcolonial Prototype for Zimbabwean Christian Converts? -- Meaning of καθαρᾷ συνειδήσει (Pure Conscience) in Paul's Religious Praxis -- The Intricacy of Christian Conversion in an African Context -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18: Blackening the Bible in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe: A Liberated and Liberating Interpretation of the Bible in Contemporary Restoration Churches -- Introduction -- Background to Interpretation in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe. ; Biblical Interpretation in the Church of Christ in Zimbabwe.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary African Perspectives on the Bible
• ISBN: 3-031-54168-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910879580603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II