Other ways of reading : African women and the Bible
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- Publication Date
- 2001
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BS 521.4 O84 2001
- Place of Publication
- Atlanta and Geneva
- Publisher
- Society of Biblical Literature; WCC Publications
- Publication Date
- 2001
- Physical Description
- x, 106 p. : ill. ; 23 x 15.2 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "Musa W. Dube, editor".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "This volume of [13] essays [by 11 contributors], the first of its kind, highlights some of the unique ways in which African women read and interpret the Bible in their diverse historical and cultural contexts. Early Bible translation and interpretation in Africa was carried out primarily by foreign missionaries and so was deeply influenced by patriarchal and colonial ideologies. .... This book provides important new tools and resources for the study of the Bible in Africa, complements the work of Western feminist and womanist theologians and biblical scholars, and embodies postcolonial scholarly concern to take seriously 'other' ways of reading. The result is a significant contribution to global biblical scholarship and hermeneutical reflection". -- back cover.
- Contents: Acknowledgement dated Geneva, January 29, 2001 / Musimbi R.A. Kanyoro, Circle Coordinator -- Introduction / Musa W. Dube -- Storytelling Methods and Interpretations -- 1. I Am the Woman / Rose Teteki Abbey -- 2. Esther and Northern Sotho Stories: An African-South African Woman's Commentary / Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele) Masenya -- 3. Fifty Years of Bleeding: A Storytelling Feminist Reading of Mark 5: 24-43 / Musa W. Dube -- Patriarchal and Colonizing Translations -- 4. How Local Divine Powers Were Suppressed: A Case of Mwari of the Shona / Dora R. Mbuwayesango -- 5. Translating the Divine: The Case of Modimo in the Setswana Bible / Gomang Seratwa Ntloedibe-Kuswani -- Reading with and from Non-Academic Readers -- 6. Cultural Hermeneutics: An African Contribution / Musimbi R.A. Kanyoro -- 7. Toward a Post-apartheid Black Feminist Reading of the Bible: A Case of Luke 2: 36-38 / Gloria Kehilwe Plaatjie -- Womanhood and Womanist Methods -- 8. A Bosadi (Womanhood) Reading of Proverbs 31: 10-31 / Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele) Masenya -- 9. A South African Indian Womanist Reading of the Character of Ruth / Sarojini Nadar -- The Divination Method of Interpretation -- 10. Divining Ruth for International Relations / Musa W. Dube -- In Response -- 11. A North American Feminist Response / Phyllis A. Bird -- 12. The Bible and African Christianity: A Curse or a Blessing ? / Nyambura J. Njoroge -- 13. African "Ruths", Ruthless Africas: Reflections on an African Mordecai / Tinyiko S. Maluleke -- List of Contributors.
- Added Entry
- World Council of Churches
- Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians
- Dube Shomanah, Musa W., 1964-
- Abbey, Rose Teteki
- Bird, Phyllis A.
- Kanyoro, Musimbi R.A. (Musimbi Rachel Angogo), 1953-
- Maluleke, Tinyiko S.
- Masenya, Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele)
- Mbuwayesango, Dora R.
- Nadar, Sarojini
- Njoroge, Nyambura J.
- Ntloedibe-Kuswani, Gomang Seratwa
- Plaatjie, Gloria Kehilwe
- Subjects
- Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc. - Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Bible - Feminist criticism - Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Womanist theology - Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Women - Religious life
- Bible studies, Feminist
- ISBN
- 2-8254-1340-2 (WCC)
- 1-58983-009-1 (SBL)
- Call Number
- BS 521.4 O84 2001
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)