Let my people stay! : researching the Old Testament in Africa - Holter, Knut, 1958- (Nairobi, Kenya : Acton, 2006)
Let my people stay! : introduction to a research project on Africanization of Old Testament studies / Knut Holter -- Challenging poverty through proverbs : an African transformational hermeneutic / Madipoane Masenya (ngwana' Mphahlele) -- Using African proverbial folklore to understand the holistic poverty eradication framework in the Book of Proverbs / Lechion Peter Kimilike -- The poor are not us! : an exploration into the transforming possibilities of Old Testament and African proverbs on poverty / Lechion Peter Kimilike -- It's on the old mat that one weaves a new one : the dialogue between African proverbs and biblical texts / Willie van Heerden -- Using the Old Testament to interpret Africa : the Malagasy religious context / Magdel Le Roux -- The Old Testament outside the realm of the Church : a case from Madagascar / Georges Razafindrakoto -- The Malagasy famadihana ritual and the Old Testament / Georges Razafindrakoto -- Killed by Aids and buried by religion : African female bodies in crisis / Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a [i.e. ngwana'] Mphahlele) -- Finding Africa in the Old Testament : some hermeneutical and methodological considerations / Willie van Heerden -- Previously unstoried lives : the case of Old Testament Cush and its relevance to Africa / Philip Lokel -- Moses and his Cushite wife : reading Numbers 12:1 with undergraduate students of Makerere University / Philip Lokel -- The Lemba : the "People of the Book" in Southern Africa / Magdel Le Roux.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. -- Black interpretations; Bible -- Study and teaching -- Africa; Christianity and culture -- Africa; Africa in the Bible