Th ere is a long history of collaboration between" popular" or" contextual" forms of biblical
interpretation between Brazil and South Africa, going back into the early 1980's. Though …

The Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering
and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure …

The three key elements of African biblical interpretation are the biblical text, the African
context, and the act of appropriation through which they are linked. The biblical text and …

The church is a fertile ground for nurturing and protecting patriarchy. Within the Christian
church, gender equality remains a theoretical notion, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church …

Contemporary biblical scholarship has witnessed a variety of interpretative methods, and the
aim of the present volume is to outline some of the fundamental principles which undergird …

LGBT and queer interpretive approaches have moved beyond the identitarian and
apologetic stances of the 1970s–90s, when the first order of business was to respond to anti …

African biblical scholarship is historically post-colonial, theoretically tri-polar, and
ideologically a site-of-struggle. In this essay, I reflect on nearly 90 years of African biblical …

The realities of the current ecological crisis require us to develop a biblical hermeneutics
that is life giving to both women and non-human nature. This paper does so by offering an …

In recent decades, research in the field of biblical studies has expanded rapidly because of
the emergence of new methodological paradigms to research in biblical studies. The new …

Theology has a rich tradition across the African continent, and has taken myriad directions
since Christianity first arrived on its shores. This handbook charts both historical …