Reading the Bible in the Global Village

by Ukpong, Justin S.; Dube Shomanah, Musa W.; West, Gerald O.; Masoga, Alpheus; Gottwald, Norman K.

• ISBN13: 9781589830257
• ISBN10: 1589830253
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature

Summary

This volume, which derives from the 2000 SBL International Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, presents essays by eight scholars who all either come from Africa or have very strong interests in and commitments to African biblical scholarship. Taken together, their work provides a good overview of and introduction to some of the key issues, themes, theories, and practices that are characteristic of the best contemporary biblical study in Africa. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Author Biography

Justin S. Ukpong (Professor of New Testament at the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, Nigeria) Musa W. Dube (Senior Lecturer on the New Testament in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Botswana, Gaborone) Gerald O. West (Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the School of Theology, University of Natal, South Africa) Alpheus Masoga (Lecturer on Theology, African Orature, and Moral and Cultural Studies at the University of the North, Qwa Qwa Campus, South Africa) Norman K. Gottwald (Adjunct Professor of Old Testament at the Pacific School of Religion and Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at New York Theological Seminary, and a past President of the Society of Biblical Literature) Jeremy Punt (Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa) Tinyiko S. Maluleke (Professor of African Theology and of Missiology in the Departments of Missiology and Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria) Vincent L. Wimbush (Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Union Theological Seminary, New York)

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Kent Harold Richards
Reading the Bible in a Global Village: Issues and Challenges from African Readings	9	(32)
Justin S. Ukpong
Villagizing, Globalizing, and Biblical Studies	41	(24)
Musa W. Dube
Unpacking the Package That Is the Bible in African Biblical Scholarship	65	(30)
Gerald O. West
Redefining Power: Reading the Bible in Africa from the Peripheral and Central Positions	95	(16)
Alpheus Masoga
The Role of Biblical Politics in Contextual Theologies	111	(14)
Norman K. Gottwald
Towards a Postcolonial Reading of Freedom in Paul	125	(26)
Jeremy Punt
What If We Are Mistaken about Bible and Christianity in Africa?	151	(22)
Tinyiko S. Maluleke
Response	173	(6)
Vincent L. Wimbush
Notes	179	(20)
References	199	(20)
Contributors	219