Bible, Interpretation, and Context

Reading Meaning from an African Perspective
Herausgeber: Okorie, Ferdinand; Enemali, Mark

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an interpretation of biblical narratives from an African context and insists that meaning is found in the context of the African reader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fortress Academic
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781978715394
• ISBN-10: 1978715390
• Artikelnr.: 67991160

Autorenporträt

Ferdinand Okorie is the vice president and academic dean at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. Mark Enemali teaches biblical studies at the Spiritan International School of Theology in Enugu, Nigeria.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Exploring the Prospect of Biblical Hermeneutics
Chapter One:
Catholic Interpretation of Scripture: An Accumulated Wisdom
Donald Senior, CP
Chapter Two:
Where Shall Wisdom be Found? (Job 28:12)
Dianne Bergant, CSA
Chapter Three:
Paul and Early Christianity in Teaching and Ministry.
Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ
Part II: Context and Biblical Hermeneutics
Chapter Four:
African Feminist Approaches to the Bible: A New Oil with Which to Eat Words
Barbara E. Reid, OP
Chapter Five:
God, Women, and Point of View in the Abraham and Jacob Narratives
MarySylvia Nwachukwu, DDL
Chapter Six:
Reading Pentateuchal Ancestral Narratives in the Context of Community
Identity in Africa
Luke Emehiele Ijezie
Chapter Seven:
Hearing and Reading the "Rebuilding" Voice of the Prophet Haggai 1:1-11 in
the Context of African Christianity
Michael Ufok Udoekpo.
Chapter Eight:
Tobit's Almsgiving as a Model of Missionary Availability
Mark Enemali, CSSp
Chapter Nine:
Earth, Cosmology, and Contex