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Interpreting the Old Testament in Af[r]ica : papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999
- Title
- Interpreting the Old Testament in Af[r]ica : papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999 / edited by Mary Getui, Knut Holter & Victor Zinkuratire.
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, c2001.
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- Description
- vii, 246 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Bible and theology in Africa ; vol. 2
- Alternative Title
- Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Africa and the Old Testament / Jesse Mugambi -- The current state of Old Testament scholarship in Africa / Knut Holter -- The "African" texts of the Old Testament and their African interpretations / Marta Høyland Lavik -- The images of Egypt in the Old Testament / Tewoldemedhin Habtu -- The images of Cush in the Old Testament / David Tuesday Adamo -- Towards a "communal" approach for reading the Bible in Africa / Louis Jonker -- The social sciences and the study of the Old Testament in Africa / Aloo Osotsi Mojola -- All past and present but little future? : African and Old Testament concepts of time and history / Hendrik Bosman -- Taboos on counting / Sammy Githuku -- What's in a name? : African versus Old Testament nomenclature / Jonathan Gichaara -- Using the Kamba culture to interpret Old Testament covenants / Joseph Muutuki -- Wisdom and wisdom converge : selected Old Testament and Northern Sotho proverbs / Madipoane Masenya (ngwana' Mphahlele) -- A reflection on the Hagar narratives in Genesis through the eyes of a Kenyan woman / Constance Shisanya -- Jeremiah 22 : implications for the exercise of political power in Africa / Bungishabaku Katho -- Interpreting the Book of Psalms in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Kenya / Pauline Otieno -- The Old Testament in the Nabii Christian Church of Kenya / Philomena Mwaura -- Work in the Old Testament and in African tradition : implications for today / Margaret Aringo -- Genesis 1-2 and some elements of diversion from the original meaning of the creation of man and woman / Anne Nasimiyu Wasike -- The Bible in African theology / Mary Getui -- Interpreting the Old "Testament" in Africa : last will, contract, or covenant? / Serapio Kabazzi Kisirinya -- United Bible Societies' strategies for Old Testament translation in Africa / Peter Renju -- Central issues of Old Testament translation in Africa / Leonidas Kalugila -- Morphological and syntactical correspondences between Hebrew and Bantu languages / Victor Zinkuratire.
- Call Number
- Sc E 01-312
- ISBN
- 0820449784 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00059987
- OCLC
- 44669756
- Title
- Interpreting the Old Testament in Af[r]ica : papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999 / edited by Mary Getui, Knut Holter & Victor Zinkuratire.
- Imprint
- New York : P. Lang, c2001.
- Series
- Bible and theology in Africa ; vol. 2
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- Getui, Mary N.Holter, Knut, 1958-Zinkuratire, Victor, 1939-
- Cover Title
- Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 01-312