Cover
Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Evaluations
Talitha Cum Hermeneutics of Liberation
Bosadi
Hanging Out with Rahab
2. Biblical Interpretation in and through Creative Writing
Race, Scripture, and Colonialism
Indigenous Biblical Hermeneutics
Uncelebrated Readers of the Bible
Beyond Ecclesial Confines
God in Africa, Lost and Found, Lost Again, and Found Anew
3. Colonized Bibles
Bible Translation in Africa
The Politics of Bible Translation in Africa
The Shona Bible and the Politics of Bible Translation
Ideology, History, and Translation Theories
4. Scrambling for the Land
“The Land Is Mine!”
Land Concept and Tenure in Israel and African Tradition
“I Am What You Are Not!”
5. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretations
The African Origin of Jesus
Her Appropriation of Job’s Lament?
Decolonizing the Psalter in Africa
Interpreting τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον in the Context of Ghanaian Mother-Tongue Hermeneutics
6. Biblical Interpretations for Reconstruction
The Ideologically Biased Use of Ezra-Nehemiah
In Quest of Survival
Collective Memory and Coloniality of Being,and Power as a Hermeneutical Framework
7. Social Engagement and Biblical Interpretations
“Hermeneutics of Transformation?”
Embodied and Embodying Hermeneutics of Life in the Academy
The Liberative Power of Silent Agency
8. Embodiment and Biblical Interpretation in the HIV/AIDS Context
A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Mark 14–16
Pauline Bodies and South African Bodies
Go Tla Siama, O Tla Fola
Contributors
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors