"Reading with" : an exploration of the interface between critical and ordinary readings of the Bible : African overtures / guest editors, Gerald West and Musa W. Dube ; board editor, Phyllis A. Bird.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia ; 73.Publication details: Atlanta, GA : Scholars Press, c1996.Description: 284 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.6 Se52 v.73
LOC classification:
  • BS410 .S45 vol.73
Other classification:
  • 11.33
Contents:
An introduction : how we have come to "read with" / Gerald West and Musa W. Dube -- Reading the Bible differently : giving shape to the discourse of the dominated / Gerald West -- Race, class, and gender as hermeneutical factors in the African independent churches' appropriation of the Bible / Itumeleng J. Mosala -- Confessional western text-centered Biblical interpretation and an oral residual context / Jonathon A. Draper -- A real reader reading revelation / Tim Long -- Readings of Semoya : Batswana women's interpretations of Matt. 15:21-28 / Musa W. Dube -- Engaging popular religion : a hermeneutical investigation of Marian devotion in the township of Mphophomeni / Megan Walker.
Bible study in Africa : a passover of language / John S. Pobee -- Interpreting the Bible in African contexts : Glasgow Consultation / John Riches -- The parable of the shrewd manager (Lk 16:1-13) : an essay in the inculturation Biblical hermeneutic / Justin S. Ukpong -- Work, the Bible, workers, and theologians : elements of a workers' theology / Albert Nolan -- Old Testament theology, for whom? / Gunther H. Wittenburg.
Scholar and ordinary reader : more than a simple interface / Bernard C. Lategan -- Response to "Reading with..." / Renita J. Weems -- Biblical scholars at the interface between critical and ordinary readings : a response / Daniel Patte -- A response to "Reading with ..." : "Critical" and "Ordinary" readings / Teresia M. Hinga.
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An introduction : how we have come to "read with" / Gerald West and Musa W. Dube -- Reading the Bible differently : giving shape to the discourse of the dominated / Gerald West -- Race, class, and gender as hermeneutical factors in the African independent churches' appropriation of the Bible / Itumeleng J. Mosala -- Confessional western text-centered Biblical interpretation and an oral residual context / Jonathon A. Draper -- A real reader reading revelation / Tim Long -- Readings of Semoya : Batswana women's interpretations of Matt. 15:21-28 / Musa W. Dube -- Engaging popular religion : a hermeneutical investigation of Marian devotion in the township of Mphophomeni / Megan Walker.

Bible study in Africa : a passover of language / John S. Pobee -- Interpreting the Bible in African contexts : Glasgow Consultation / John Riches -- The parable of the shrewd manager (Lk 16:1-13) : an essay in the inculturation Biblical hermeneutic / Justin S. Ukpong -- Work, the Bible, workers, and theologians : elements of a workers' theology / Albert Nolan -- Old Testament theology, for whom? / Gunther H. Wittenburg.

Scholar and ordinary reader : more than a simple interface / Bernard C. Lategan -- Response to "Reading with..." / Renita J. Weems -- Biblical scholars at the interface between critical and ordinary readings : a response / Daniel Patte -- A response to "Reading with ..." : "Critical" and "Ordinary" readings / Teresia M. Hinga.

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