Biblical interpretation and African traditional religion : cross-cultural and community readings in Owamboland, Namibia /
In Biblical Interpretation and African Traditional Religion , Helen C. John juxtaposes grassroots biblical interpretations from Owamboland, Namibia, with professional interpretations of selected New Testament texts, effectively demonstrating the capacity of grassroots interpretations to destabilise,...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2019.
Series:
Biblical Interpretation Series
176.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390805.
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Call Number: BS511.3
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Abbreviations
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Methodology
- Cross-Cultural Biblical Interpretation Groups: Contextual Voices and Contextual Realities as Sites of Interpretative Expertise
- Cross-Cultural Biblical Interpretation Groups: the Approach in Practice
- Cross-Cultural Biblical Interpretation Groups in Ondonga, Namibia
- Material Interpretations of Wedding Parables (Matthew 22:1-14 and Luke 14:7-11)
- Blood, Clothing, and Shadows: Extending Notions of the Person in the Stories of Jairus and the Haemorrhaging Woman (Mark 5:21-43)
- The Graves and Groves of Restless Spirits: Noctambulant Legion and the Living Landscape (Luke 8:26-39)
- Commanding the Whirlwinds, Calming the Storm: Interactions with Nature 'in Culture' and 'in Christianity' (Mark 4:35-41 and 6:45-52)
- Jesus as Spirit, Jesus in the Spirit: Interpreting the Risen Jesus with Restless Spirits and Ancestors (Luke 24:1-49)
- Conclusions
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index of Authors
- Index of Biblical, Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Passages
- Index of Subjects.