Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa
Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999
©2001
Monographs
IX,
246 Pages
Series:
Bible and Theology in Africa, Volume 2
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- IX, 246
- Year
- 2001
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453910108
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-1010-8
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2012 (August)
- Keywords
- Christentum Altes Testament Religion und Glaube
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2001. IX, 246 pp.
