%0 Book
%A Mary Getui
%A Knut Holter
%A Victor Zinkuratire
%D 2001
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781453910108
%T Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa
%B Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-1010-8
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054401
%X This book is a collection of papers read at the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999. Thirty biblical scholars and theologians – mainly from Eastern Africa, but some also from South Africa and Europe – came together to discuss what it means to interpret the Old Testament in Africa today. Their contributions fall in five parts: (i) a mapping of the social, historical, and academic context of Old Testament studies in Africa; (ii) exegetical studies of how Africa is portrayed by the Old Testament; (iii) examples of how the African socio-religious experience can serve as comparative material for interpretation of the Old Testament; (iv) examples of how Old Testament texts are experienced as relevant to contemporary African readers; and (v) various aspects of the efforts of translating the Old Testament in Africa today.
%K Christentum, Altes Testament, Religion und Glaube
%G English