African and European readers of the Bible in dialogue in quest of a shared meaning

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Brill 2008
Schriftenreihe:Studies on religion in Africa 32
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Online-Zugang:DE-355
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Beschreibung:Result of a conference held in Stellenbosch, South Africa in January 2006
Includes bibliographical references and index
pt. 1. The debate : an hermeneutical overview -- pt. 2. Methodological insights -- pt. 3. Exegesis and context -- pt. 4. Hermeneutics and context
Far too long, the relationship between European and African biblical scholarship has been a non-relationship. Divergent insights into how biblical texts should be interpreted and made fruitful for the current context, cultural differences, colonial past and post-colonial future, radically different social situations - this all made companionship and real interaction difficult. This rich and multilayered volume (result of a Stellenbosch conference 2006) attempts to disclose new modes of dialogue between readers of the Bible from those two worlds. More than twenty theologians from Africa and Euro
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 433 pages)
ISBN:9789047442400
9047442407
9789004166561
9004166564
DOI:10.1163/ej.9789004166561.i-434