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Semeia 73: Reading With: An Exploration of the Interface between Critical and Ordinary Readings of the Bible
; Gerald O. West, Musa W. Dube, Musa W. Dube, editors
ISBN
0095571X
Status
Not yet published
Price
$24.95
Publication Date
January 1998
Paperback

$24.95

Semeia 73 TOC


"READING WITH": AN EXPLORATION OF THE INTERFACE BETWEEN CRITICAL AND ORDINARY READINGS OF THE BIBLE
African Overtures

Guest Editors: Gerald West and Musa W. Dube
Board Editor: Phyllis A. Bird


TABLE OF CONTENTS

An Introduction: How We Have Come to "Read With" Gerald West and Musa W. Dube


I. "READING WITH": THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS

1.Reading the Bible Differently: Giving Shape to the Discourse of the Dominated Gerald West
2.Race, Class, and Gender as Herrneneutical Factors in the African Independent Churches' Appropriation of the Bible Itumeleng J. Mosala

II. "READING WITH" SOUTH AFRICAN READERS

3.Confessional Western Text-Centered Biblical Interpretation and an Oral Residual Context Jonathon A. Draper
4. A Real Reader Reading Revelation Tim Long

III. "READING WITH" WOMEN

5.Readings of Semoya: Batswana Women's Interpretations of Matt. 15:21-28 Musa W. Dube
6.Engaging Popular Religion: A Hermeneutical Investigation of Marian Devotion in the Township of Mphophomeni Megan Walker

IV. "READING WITH": INCULTURATION READERS
7.Bible Study in Africa, A Passover of Language John S. Pobee
8. Interpreting the Bible in African Contexts: Glasgo Consultation John Riches

9. The Parable or the Shrewd Manager (Luke 16:1-13). An Essay in the Inculturation Biblical Hermeneutic Justin S. Ukpong


V. DOING THEOLOGY WITH ORDINARY READERS

10. Work, the Bible, Workers, and Theologians : Elements of a Workers' Theology Albert Nolan
11. Old Testament Theology, for Whom? Gunther H. Wittenburg


VI. RESPONDENTS

Secular and Ordinary Reader— More than a Simple Interface Bernard C. Lategan
Response to "Reading With..." Renita J. Weems
Biblical Scholars at the Interface Between Critical and Ordinary Readings: A Response Daniel Patte
A Response to 'ReadingWith...':" Critical " and "Ordinary" Readings Teresia M. Hinga