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In this volume, biblical scholars from seven countries in Africa, Scandinavia, and the United States of America focus on epistemologies and comparative approaches in African biblical hermeneutics for engaging such themes as the vulnerable, leadership, and sacraments and purity in African contexts. Africa is home to one-third of the world’s Christians, so engaging how African communities see the Bible differently can build bridges of understanding critical for flourishing in today’s multicultural world. Contributors include Tarekegn Abate Chamisso, Ntozakhe Simon Cezula, Zorodzai Dube, Beth E. Elness-Hanson, Knut Holter, Lechion Peter Kimilike, Hoyce Jacob Lyimo-Mbowe, Elia Shabani Mligo, Tina Dykesteen Nilsen, Helen Nambalirwa Nkabala, Jean de Dieu Rafalimanana, Olivier Randrianjaka, Anna Rebecca Solevåg, Kjersti Wee, and Medhat Nady Youssef.

Beth E. Elness-Hanson is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow with a biblical-ecotheology project on creation care in Maasailand, Tanzania, East Africa. She is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa and author of Generational Curses in the Pentateuch: An American and Maasai Intercultural Analysis (2017).

Knut Holter is Dean of the Faculty of Teacher Education at NLA University College, Bergen and Oslo, Norway. He is Professor of Old Testament Studies at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is coeditor of Global Hermeneutics? Reflections and Consequences (2010).

Helen Nambalirwa Nkabala is an Associate Professor at Makerere University, Uganda, serving as the Principal of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS). She is author of Kony as Moses: Old Testament Texts and Motifs in the Early Years of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Uganda (2021).

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