African Biblical Studies: An Introduction to an Emerging Discipline

African Biblical Studies (ABS) can be characterized both as innovative and reactionary: Innovative, because it refuses to be confined by the methodologies, ancient concerns, and principles that govern biblical studies in the ‘west’ (used throughout this article to refer to the majority Euro-American...

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1. VerfasserIn: Mbuvi, Andrew M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage [2017]
In: Currents in biblical research
Jahr: 2017, Band: 15, Heft: 2, Seiten: 149-178
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Afrikanische Theologie / Bibelwissenschaft / Exegese
IxTheo Notationen:HA Bibel
KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit
KBN Subsahara-Afrika
weitere Schlagwörter:B liberation hermeneutics
B Communitarianism
B hermeneutics of suspicion
B Feminist Hermeneutics
B inculturation hermeneutics
B Postcolonialism
B Bible Translation
B African Biblical Studies
B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
B AFRICAN cosmology
B Hermeneutics
B African Biblical Interpretation
B African Theology
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Zusammenfassung:African Biblical Studies (ABS) can be characterized both as innovative and reactionary: Innovative, because it refuses to be confined by the methodologies, ancient concerns, and principles that govern biblical studies in the ‘west’ (used throughout this article to refer to the majority Euro-American scholars while recognizing the presence of other groups), and instead charts a course that is more interested in making biblical interpretation relevant to present realities. Reactionary, because its driving force is partly a critique of the inadequacy of western biblical studies in providing meaningful responses to concerns that are pertinent to African communities. A genuine ABS is therefore an amalgamation of multiple interpretive methods, approaches and foci that reflect a creative engagement of the African cosmological reality and the Bible.
ISSN:1745-5200
Enthält:Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/1476993X16648813