Link Download ebook Free: https://ouo.io/aiU2Lum Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999 By: Mary Getui Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers Print ISBN: 9780820449784, 0820449784 eText ISBN: 9781453910108, 1453910107 Edition: 1st Format: PDF Available from $ 64.95 USD SKU 9781453910108 This book is a collection of papers read at the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999. Thirty biblical scholars and theologians – mainly from Eastern Africa, but some also from South Africa and Europe – came together to discuss what it means to interpret the Old Testament in Africa today. Their contributions fall in five parts: (i) a mapping of the social, historical, and academic context of Old Testament studies in Africa; (ii) exegetical studies of how Africa is portrayed by the Old Testament; (iii) examples of how the African socio-religious experience can serve as comparative material for interpretation of the Old Testament; (iv) examples of how Old Testament texts are experienced as relevant to contemporary African readers; and (v) various aspects of the efforts of translating the Old Testament in Africa today.
