The last thirty years have witnessed increasing diversity in methodology and perspectives
within biblical studies. One of the most dynamic and continually expanding contributions to …

One of the lessons of history is that empires rarely disappear completely. They rise and fall
but often resurface in different forms. The current military interventions and territorial …

This volume has been made possible due to the assistance and support of a good number
of people, to whom we are deeply indebted and most thankful. First and foremost, to all …

" Text and Interpretation" gives an insight into the many different approaches that more
recent South African scholarship has adopted in the interpretation of the New Testament …

Based on the observation that the historical-critical methodology used in mainstream biblical
studies reflects 18th to 20th century western epistemology and hermeneutics, the article …

This piece represents a counter-response to the responses offered to the Post colonial Bible
in the last issue of the Journal. It pursues the three main points raised by the respondents to …

The innumerable calls for Old Testament scholarship to be (more) relevant to the African
continent have fallen into a number of traps, or'false pieties'. Two of these are the preference …

A brief review of the methods employed in postcolonial biblical criticism shows that there are
many ways to approach a postcolonial critique of the New Testament writings. In defining my …

This book aims to provide advanced students of biblical studies, seminarians, and
academicians with a variety of intertextual strategies to New Testament interpretation. Each …

Dating back to the Biblical period, Africans have interpreted the Bible. Yehudi, an Israelite of
African descent (Jr 36: 1-23) read and interpreted the letter of Jeremiah to the princes and …