Nuer Messianic Judaism : truth and mediation in the Ethiopia-South Sudan borderlands / Yotam Gidron

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gidron, Yotam, author.

Series:

The international African library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian Zionism--Ethiopia--Gambēla Āstedader Ākababī--History.

Christian Zionism.

Messianic Judaism--Ethiopia--Gambēla Āstedader Ākababī--History.

Messianic Judaism.

Nuer (African people)--Religion.

Nuer (African people).

Gambēla Āstedader Ākababī (Ethiopia)--Religion.

Gambēla Āstedader Ākababī (Ethiopia).

Religion.

Ethiopia--Gambēla Āstedader Ākababī.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"The Messianic Jews of Ethiopia's Gambella region are Evangelical Christian Zionists who adhere to various Jewish practices and understand their faith as authentically emulating the faith of the first followers of Jesus Christ. Drawing on over a year of ethnographic research in this region, Yotam Gidron traces here the rise and evolution of Christian Zionist and Messianic Jewish faiths amongst Nuer communities in the Ethiopia-South Sudan borderlands. This study approaches processes of religious change from the perspective of believers, examining their pursuits of knowledge and transnational connectivity. In doing so, Gidron considers everyday dilemmas concerning spiritual mediation and truth, as they emerged in relation to church genealogies, Christian literacy, modes of prayer and praise, bloodlines, cattle, and the constitution of various human and divine relationships. As a result, he offers timely insights on spiritual and political life at the global margins, and on contemporary African attitudes towards Israel and the Middle East"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

On encounters

Urban edges

Church genealogies

Words of God

Aesthetic provocations

Biblical bloodlines

Tradition reinvented

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 20, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Gidron, Yotam Nuer messianic Judaism

ISBN:

9781009689816

1009689819

OCLC:

1553846512

Publisher Number:

CIPO000308139

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license