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Other ways of reading : African women and the Bible / Musa W. Dube, editor.

Contributor(s): Dube Shomanah, Musa W, 1964-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Atlanta [Ga.] : Society of Biblical Literature ; Geneva : WCC Publications, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: viii, 254 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1589830091 (pbk. : alk. paper); 2825413402 (WCC)Subject(s): Bible -- Feminist criticism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan | Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Africa, Sub-Saharan | PostcolonialismDDC classification: 220.6/082/096 LOC classification: BS521.4 | .O84 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
I am the woman / Rose Teteki Abbey -- Esther and Northern Sotho stories: an African-South African woman's commentary / Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele) Masenya -- Fifty years of bleeding: a storytelling feminist reading of Mark 5:24-43 / Musa W. Dube -- How local divine powers were suppressed: a case of Mwari of the Shona / Dora Mbuwayesango -- Translating the Divine: the case of Modimo in the Setswana Bible / Gomang Seratwa Ntloedibe-Kuswani -- Cultural hermeneutics: an African contribution / Musimbi R. A. Kanyoro -- Toward a post-apartheid Black feminist reading of the Bible: a case for Luke 2:36-38 / Gloria Kehilwe Plaatjie -- A Bosadi (womanhood) reading of Proverbs 31:10-31 / Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele) Masenya -- A South African Indian womanist reading of the character of Ruth / Sarojini Nadar -- Divining Ruth for international relations / Musa W. Dube -- A North American feminist response / Phyllis A. Bird -- The Bible and African Christianity: a curse or a blessing? Nyambura J. Njoroge -- African "Ruths," ruthless Africas: reflections of an African Mordecai / Tinyiko S. Maluleke.

Includes bibliographical references.

I am the woman / Rose Teteki Abbey -- Esther and Northern Sotho stories: an African-South African woman's commentary / Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele) Masenya -- Fifty years of bleeding: a storytelling feminist reading of Mark 5:24-43 / Musa W. Dube -- How local divine powers were suppressed: a case of Mwari of the Shona / Dora Mbuwayesango -- Translating the Divine: the case of Modimo in the Setswana Bible / Gomang Seratwa Ntloedibe-Kuswani -- Cultural hermeneutics: an African contribution / Musimbi R. A. Kanyoro -- Toward a post-apartheid Black feminist reading of the Bible: a case for Luke 2:36-38 / Gloria Kehilwe Plaatjie -- A Bosadi (womanhood) reading of Proverbs 31:10-31 / Mmadipoane (Ngwana 'Mphahlele) Masenya -- A South African Indian womanist reading of the character of Ruth / Sarojini Nadar -- Divining Ruth for international relations / Musa W. Dube -- A North American feminist response / Phyllis A. Bird -- The Bible and African Christianity: a curse or a blessing? Nyambura J. Njoroge -- African "Ruths," ruthless Africas: reflections of an African Mordecai / Tinyiko S. Maluleke.

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