Other ways of reading : African women and the Bible / Musa W. Dube, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dube, Musa Wenkosi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Bible.

Bible--Feminist criticism--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Feminist criticism.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Physical Description:

viii, 254 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Atlanta [Ga.] : Society of Biblical Literature ; Geneva : WCC Publications, [2001]

Contents:

Storytelling Methods and Interpretations

1. I Am the Woman / Rose Teteki Abbey 23

2. Esther and Northern Sotho Stories: An African-South African Woman's Commentary / Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele) Masenya 27

3. Fifty Years of Bleeding: A Storytelling Feminist Reading of Mark 5:24-43 / Musa W. Dube 50

Patriarchal and Colonizing Translations

4. How Local Divine Powers Were Suppressed: A Case of Mwari of the Shona / Dora R. Mbuwayesango 63

5. Translating the Divine: The Case of Modimo in the Setswana Bible / Gomang Seratwa Ntloedibe-Kuswani 78

Reading with and from Non-Academic Readers

6. Cultural Hermeneutics: An African Contribution / Musimbi R. A. Kanyoro 101

7. Toward a Post-apartheid Black Feminist Reading of the Bible: A Case of Luke 2:36-38 / Gloria Kehilwe Plaatjie 114

Womanhood and Womanist Methods

8. A Bosadi (Womanhood) Reading of Proverbs 31:10-31 / Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele) Masenya 145

9. A South African Indian Womanist Reading of the Character of Ruth / Sarojini Nadar 159

The Divination Method of Interpretation

10. Divining Ruth for International Relations / Musa W. Dube 179

In Response

11. A North American Feminist Response / Phyllis A. Bird 199

12. The Bible and African Christianity: A Curse or a Blessing? / Nyambura J. Njoroge 207

13. African "Ruths," Ruthless Africas: Reflections of an African Mordecai / Tinyiko S. Maluleke 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1589830091

2825413402

OCLC:

46393993