The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends

Herausgeber: West, Gerald; Dube, Musa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Africa has made the Bible its own. This comprehensive volume explores the many ways in which this took place. Essays by a range of African scholars provide access to resources not readily available outside of the African continent. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill / Brill NV
• Seitenzahl: 848
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 164mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 1588g
• ISBN-13: 9789004106277
• ISBN-10: 9004106278
• Artikelnr.: 21976572

Autorenporträt

Gerald O. West, Ph.D. (1990) in Biblical Studies, Sheffield University, is Professor of Biblical Studies in the School of Theology at the University of Natal, South Africa, and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Bible, a joint project between socially engaged biblical scholars and readers of the Bible in poor and marginalised communities. He has published extensively on liberation hermeneutics and African biblical interpretation including, most recently, The Academy of the Poor: Towards a Dialogical Reading of the Bible (Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). Musa W. Dube, Ph.D. (1997) in New Testament Studies, Vanderbilt University, is a New Testament Lecturer in the University of Botswana. She is actively involved in the Circle for Concerned African Women Theologians, where she heads African women biblical research. Her research interests include reading the Bible using post-colonial, feminist, divination and story-telling methods. Her book Towards a Post-Colonial Interpretation of the Bible (Chalice Press, 2000).