| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 433 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies of religion in Africa, 0169-9814 ; v. 32 |
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Studies on religion in Africa ; 32.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. The debate : an hermeneutical overview -- pt. 2. Methodological insights -- pt. 3. Exegesis and context -- pt. 4. Hermeneutics and context |
| Summary |
Far too long, the relationship between European and African biblical scholarship has been a non-relationship. Divergent insights into how biblical texts should be interpreted and made fruitful for the current context, cultural differences, colonial past and post-colonial future, radically different social situations - this all made companionship and real interaction difficult. This rich and multilayered volume (result of a Stellenbosch conference 2006) attempts to disclose new modes of dialogue between readers of the Bible from those two worlds. More than twenty theologians from Africa and Euro |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Africa -- Congresses
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Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Europe -- Congresses
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Bible fast |
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Bibel gnd |
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Europa gnd |
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Theology -- Africa -- Congresses
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Theology -- Europe -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Quotations.
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Theology
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Hermeneutik
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Bibelhermeneutik.
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Africa
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Europe
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Afrika
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Europa
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Stellenbosch <2006>
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wit, Hans de, 1949- author.
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West, Gerald O., author.
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| ISBN |
9789047442400 |
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9047442407 |
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1283060868 |
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9781283060868 |
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9786613060860 |
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6613060860 |
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