Afropean biblical studies : constructing a Nigerian/British women's hermeneutic / Olabisi Obamakin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Obamakin, Olabisi, author.

Series:

Biblical interpretation series

Biblical interpretation series ; 240

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Women in the Bible.

Women, Black, in the Bible.

Physical Description:

x, 258 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2026.

Summary:

This book pioneers Afropean Biblical Studies, constructing a Nigerian/British women's hermeneutic that reshapes New Testament interpretation through feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial methodologies, offering an original framework for reading biblical texts from a Nigerian/British (Afropean) perspective.

Contents:

Introduction

Locating the 'field' between Africa and Europe

Constructing an Afropean women's hermeneutic

Don't touch my hair : a Nigerian/British women's reading of the woman who washed Jesus' feet with her hair in Luke 7:36-50

Yinka, where is your husband? a Nigerian/British women's reading of the Samaritan woman in John 4:1-42

Girl, woman, other : a Nigerian/British women's reading of the daughter and her Canaanite mother in Matthew 15:21-28

Butterfly fish : a Nigerian/British women's reading of the Pythian slave-woman in Acts 16:16-21

Yoruba girl dancing : a Nigerian/British women's reading of Herodias' daighter in Mark 6:17-28 and Matthew 14:3-12

Conclusion : the emergence of Afropean biblical studies.

Notes:

Revision of author's doctoral thesis (University of Exeter).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9789004754522

9004754520

OCLC:

1574360712

Publisher Number:

CIPO000383791