Reading Other-wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local CommunitiesGerald O. West Ye ma wo mo! African hermeneuts, you have spoken at last: reflections on Semeia 73 (1996) / Eric Anum -- "Dear God! give us our daily leftovers and we will be able to forgive those who trouble our souls": some perspectives on conversational biblical hermeneutics and theologies / Mogomme Alpheus Masoga -- (Ac)claiming the (extra)ordinary African "reader" of the Bible / Gerald O. West -- "Ordinary" reading in "extraordinary" times: a Jamaican love story / Stephen C.A. Jennings -- Who was Hagar? mistress, divorcee, exile, or exploited worker: an analysis of contemporary grassroots readings of Genesis 16 by Caucasian, Latina, and Black South African women / Nicole M. Simopoulos -- Remembering the Bible as a critical "pedagogy of the oppressed" / Janet Lees -- Journeying with Moses toward true solidarity: shifting social and narrative locations of the oppressed and their liberators in Exodus 2-3 / Bob Ekblad -- "How could he ever do that to her?!" or, How the woman who anointed Jesus became a victim of Luke's redactional and theological principles / Monika Ottermann -- Bible and citizenship / Valmor da Silva -- The Bible in British urban theology: an analysis by a Finnish companion / Kari Latvus -- Responses. Reading other-wise / Naveen Rao -- Growing together: challenges and chances in the encounter of critical and intuitive interpreters of the Bible / Werner Kahl. |
Contents
19 | |
29 | |
a Jamaican Love story | 49 |
Remembering the Bible as a Critical Pedagogy of the oppressed | 73 |
shifting social | 87 |
how Could he ever do that to her? or how the woman | 103 |
Bible and Citizenship | 117 |
an analysis by a Finnish Companion | 133 |
Reading otherwise | 140 |
Challenges and Chances in the encounter | 147 |
works Cited | 159 |
Contributors | 169 |
Other editions - View all
Reading Other-wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their ... Gerald O. West No preview available - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
academic African biblical analysis androcentric anointing argues Batswana Bible reading Bible study biblical hermeneutics biblical interpretation biblical scholars biblical scholarship biblical texts bibliodrama black South African Christian church Comaroff critical culture dominant Dube Egypt engage essay example Exod experience FITC Garveyism god’s gospel grassroots Gunner Hagar identified immigrant indigenous inmates interpretive community intuitive interpreters Isaiah Shembe Israelites jail Jamaica Jesus John land Lategan Latin liberation theology living Luke Luke's Makhoba marginalized Mark Mary Mary of Bethany Masoga missionaries Mmahutu Moholo Moses mukhukhu narrative oppression ordinary and scholarly ordinary readers participants pericope perspective Pharaoh Pharisees political prophetic Rastafari read the Bible reality reflect religion remembered versions says scholarly readers Scripture Shembe Shembe's Simopoulos sinners situation Skagit County slaves social location sociocultural context South Africa story taskmasters Testament textual theologians tion traditional Tsotsi urban theology voice volume West woman women words
Popular passages
Page 131 - And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Page 33 - The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Page 100 - God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
Page 22 - Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. "Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ
Page 127 - Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Page 18 - Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Page 98 - I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Page 40 - If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Page 22 - The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
Page 51 - Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.