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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
- Title
- Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa : papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999 / edited by Mary Getui, Knut Holter & Victor Zinkuratire.
- Author
- International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament (1999 : Nairobi, Kenya)
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, [2001], ©2001.
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- Description
- vii, 246 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Bible and theology in Africa ; vol. 2
- Uniform Title
- Bible and theology in Africa ; v. 2.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction / Mary Getui, Knut Holter and Victor Zinkuratire -- Africa and the Old Testament / Jesse Mugambi -- The Current State of Old Testament Scholarship in Africa: Where Are We at the Turn of the Century? / Knut Holter -- The "African" Texts of the Old Testament and Their African Interpretations / Marta Hoyland Lavik -- The Images of Egypt in the Old Testament: Reflections on African Hermeneutics / Tewoldemedhin Habtu -- The Images of Cush in the Old Testament: Reflections on African Hermeneutics / 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: Some Methodological Considerations / 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.
- ISBN
- 0820449784 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00059987
- OCLC
- ocm44669756
- SCSB-4069873
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries