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Divining the woman of Endor : African culture, postcolonial hermeneutics, and the politics of Biblical translation

Title

Divining the woman of Endor : African culture, postcolonial hermeneutics, and the politics of Biblical translation / J. Kabamba Kiboko.

Author

Kiboko, J. Kabamba

Publication

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
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Description

xxxi, 278 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"An examination of the language of divination in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in 1 Samuel 28:3-25-the oft-called "Witch of Endor" passage. Kiboko contends that much of the vocabulary of divination in this passage and beyond has been mistranslated in authorized English and other translations used in Africa and in scholarly writings. Kiboko argues that the woman of Endor is not a witch. The woman of Endor is, rather, a diviner, much like other ancient Near Eastern and modern African diviners. She resists an inner-biblical conquest theology and a monologic authoritarian view of divination to assist King Saul by various means, including invoking the spirit of a departed person, Samuel. Kiboko carries out a Hebrew word-study shaped by the theories of Mikhail M. Bakhtin regarding the utterance, heteroglossia, and dialogism in order to understand the designative, connotative, emotive, and associative meanings of the many divinatory terms in the Hebrew Bible. She then examines 1 Samuel 28 and a number of prior translations thereof, using the ideological framework of African-feminist-postcolonial biblical interpreters and translation theories to uncover the hidden ideology or transcript of these translations. Finally, using African contextual/cultural hermeneutics and cross-cultural translation theory, Kiboko offers new English, French, and Kisanga translations of this passage that are both faithful to the original text and more appropriate to an inculturated-liberation African Christian hermeneutic, theology, and praxis." --

Series Statement

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 644
T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Uniform Title

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 644.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Prologue: A man-woman of the Disanga reads the Bible from a postcolonial place -- Introduction: translating divination and crossing the Disanga of life and the beyond -- Cross-dressing method: translation at the Disanga of theory -- Locating a path through the jungle of divination: divination, witchcraft, and ideology in the ancient Near East, Europe, and Africa -- Crossing the Disanga of life and the beyond in the Hebrew Bible: a Bakhtinian word study of the language of divination -- The literary context: reading 1 Samuel 28 through a feminist Musanga contextual/cultural lens -- 1 Samuel 28 at the Disanga: three inculturated translations for the African church -- Meeting at the Disanga of divination: Conclusions and implications -- Epilogue: Lessons learned at the Disanga.

Call Number

Sc E 18-269

ISBN

9780567673671
0567673677

LCCN

2016049807
40026918236

OCLC

958797797

Author

Kiboko, J. Kabamba, author.

Title

Divining the woman of Endor : African culture, postcolonial hermeneutics, and the politics of Biblical translation / J. Kabamba Kiboko.

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 644

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 644.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Subject

Black author.

Other Standard Identifier

40026918236

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-269

JFE 17-3832

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