Let my people stay! : researching the Old Testament in Africa /

Let my people stay! : researching the Old Testament in Africa / edited by Knut Holter. - Nairobi, Kenya : Acton, 2006. - 218 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Let my people stay! : introduction to a research project on Africanization of Old Testament studies / Challenging poverty through proverbs : an African transformational hermeneutic / The poor are not us! : an exploration into the transforming possibilities of Old Testament and African proverbs on poverty / It's on the old mat that one weaves a new one : the dialogue between African proverbs and biblical texts / Using the Old Testament to interpret Africa : the Malagasy religious context / The Old Testament outside the realm of the Church : a case from Madagascar / The Malagasy famadihana ritual and the Old Testament / Killed by Aids and buried by religion : African female bodies in crisis / Finding Africa in the Old Testament : some hermeneutical and methodological considerations / Previously unstoried lives : the case of Old Testament Cush and its relevance to Africa / Moses and his Cushite wife : reading Numbers 12:1 with undergraduate students of Makerere University / The Lemba : the "People of the Book" in Southern Africa / Knut Holter -- Madipoane Masenya (ngwana' Mphahlele) -- Using African proverbial folklore to understand the holistic poverty eradication framework in the Book of Proverbs / Lechion Peter Kimilike -- Lechion Peter Kimilike -- Willie van Heerden -- Magdel Le Roux -- Georges Razafindrakoto -- Georges Razafindrakoto -- Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a [i.e. ngwana'] Mphahlele) -- Willie van Heerden -- Philip Lokel -- Philip Lokel -- Magdel Le Roux.

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Bible.--O.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--O.T.--Black interpretations.
Bible--Study and teaching--Africa.


Christianity and culture--Africa.
Africa in the Bible.

BS586.A35 / L48 2006

AFR 221.6 Let 2006