The relevance of Old Testament science in / for Africa : two false pieties and focussed scholarship
The innumerable calls for Old Testament scholarship to be (more) relevant to the African continent have fallen into a number of traps, or 'false pieties'. Two of these are the preference for hermeneutics to exegesis, and the conviction that the discipline must, and can, be inherently Afric...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2006, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 144-155 |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | The innumerable calls for Old Testament scholarship to be (more) relevant to the African continent have fallen into a number of traps, or 'false pieties'. Two of these are the preference for hermeneutics to exegesis, and the conviction that the discipline must, and can, be inherently African / contextual / relevant. The constituencies of the academic pursuit of the Old Testament - university, church and society - cannot be better served, though, than by studies of the highest academic quality in the field. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC85765 |