TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mary Getui
AU  - Knut Holter
AU  - Victor Zinkuratire
PY  - 2001
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453910108
TI  - Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa
T2  - Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1010-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054401
N2  - 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.
KW  - Christentum, Altes Testament, Religion und Glaube
LA  - English
ER  -