The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends

Table of contents

• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments xi
• List of Contributors xiii
• Introduction 1
• Part One - Historical and Hermeneutical Perspectives 9
• Developments in Biblical Interpretation in Africa: Historical and Hermeneutical Directions 11
• Bibliography 26
• Mapping African Biblical Interpretation: A Tentative Sketch 29
• Bibliography 50
• Old Testament Scholarship in Sub-Saharan Africa North of the Limpopo River 54
• Bibliography 66
• New Testament Exegesis in (Modern) Africa 72
• Bibliography 97
• How Al-Mokattam Mountain Was Moved: the Coptic Imagination and the Christian Bible 103
• Bibliography 125
• The Bible in the Black Diaspora: Links with African Christianity 127
• Batswakwa: Which Traveller Are You (John 1 150
• The Limits of Difference: Ngugi Wa Thiong'O's Redeployment of Biblical Signifiers in a Grain of Wheat and I Will Marry When I Want 163
• Bibliography 182
• (South) Africa, Bible, Criticism: Rhetorics of a Visit 184
• Bibliography 201
• Part Two - Particular Encounters with Particular Texts 203
• A Late Seventeenth Century Translation of the Psalms at the Cape 205
• Bibliography 220
• Earliest Southern African Biblical Interpretation: the Case of the Bakwena, Bakololo and Bangwato 223
• The Role of the Bible in the Rise of African Instituted Churches: the Case of the Akurinu Churches in Kenya 236
• Cain and Abel in Africa: An Ethiopian Case Study in Competing Hermeneutics 248
• Bibliography 258
• The Mother of the Ewe and Firstborn Daughter as the “good Shepherd” in the Cultural Context of the Ewe Peoples: A Liberating Approach 260
• Bibliography 275
• Pouring Libation to Spirit Powers Among the Ewe-Dome of Ghana: An Indigenous Religious and Biblical Perspective 278
• Contextual Balancing of Scripture with Scripture: Scripture Union in Nigeria and Ghana 292
• Bibliography 310
• The Vernacularization of Scripture and African Beliefs: the Story of the Gerasene Demoniac Among the Ewe of West Africa 311
• Bibliography 324
• The Role of the Bible in the Igbo Christianity of Nigeria 326
• The Use of Psalms in African Indigenous Churches in Nigeria 336
• Bibliography 348
• Cursed Be Everyone Who Hangs on a Tree: Pastoral Implications of Deuteronomy 21 350
• Bibliography 358
• Nyimbo Za Vijana: Biblical Interpretation in Contemporary Hymns from Tanzania 360
• Bibliography 372
• The Bible in Malawi: A Brief Survey of Its Impact on Society 374
• Bibliography 382
• A Setswana Perspective on Genesis 1:1–10 384
• Bibliography 398
• The Impact of the Bible on Traditional Rain-Making Institutions in Western Zimbabwe 400
• Bibliography 413
• The Bishop and the Bricoleur: Bishop John William Colenso's Commentary on Romans and Magema Kamagwaza Fuze's the Black People and Whence They Came 415
• Bibliography 452
• Part Three - Comparison and Translation as Transaction 455
• Comparative Readings of the Bible in Africa: Some Concerns 457
• Bibliography 471
• Corporate Personality in Botswana and Ancient Israel: A Religio-Cultural Comparison 474
• The Biblical God of the Fathers and the African Ancestors 481
• Bibliography 489
• African Perspectives on Poverty in the Hebrew Law Codes 490
• Bibliography 497
• Ngaka and Jesus as Liberators: A Comparative Reading 498
• The Swahili Bible in East Africa from 1844 to 1996: A Brief Survey with Special Reference to Tanzania 511
• Bibliography 522
• 100 Years of the Luganda Bible (1896–1996): A General Survey 524
• Bibliography 536
• “do You Understand What You Are Reading [Hearing]” (Acts 8:30) 538
• The Kiswahili Mwana Wa Mtu and the Greek Ho Huios Tou Anthrôpou 557
• Bibliography 563
• Part Four - Redrawing the Boundaries of the Bible in Africa 567
• Africa in the Old Testament 569
• Bibliography 580
• Popular Readings of the Bible in Africa and Implications for Academic Readings - Report on the Field Research Carried Out on Oral Interpretation of the Bible in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Nigeria Under the Auspices of the Bible in Africa Project, 1991–94 582
• Bibliography 594
• Contextual Bible Study in South Africa: A Resource for Reclaiming and Regaining Land, Dignity and Identity 595
• Bibliography 609
• To Pray the Lord's Prayer in the Global Economic Era (Matt. 6:9–13) 611
• Bibliography 630
• Part Five - Bibliography 631
• A Bibliography of the Bible in Africa 633
• Index of Biblical References 801
• Index of Names 809
• Index of Subjects 818