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Four-Legged Stool or Three-Stone Cooking Stove? : Reconsidering Methodology for African Biblical Hermeneutics
Manomi, Dogara I. (2024): Four-Legged Stool or Three-Stone Cooking Stove? : Reconsidering Methodology for African Biblical Hermeneutics, in: Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, Kathrin Gies, Ezra Chitando, u. a. (Hrsg.), Going the Extra Mile : Reflections on Biblical Studies in Africa and the Contributions of Joachim Kügler, Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, S. 67–96, doi: 10.20378/irb-96489.
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Going the Extra Mile : Reflections on Biblical Studies in Africa and the Contributions of Joachim Kügler
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2024
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978-3-98989-012-1
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English
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The search for an African Biblical Hermeneutic (ABH) has come a long way and has grown into an established discipline. In the enterprise, several methodologies and African resources have been employed and deployed to develop an ABH that is adequately African. While acknowledging the contributions of other scholars to ABH, e.g. E. Mburu’s African Hermeneutics using the imagery of a four-legged stool, this paper, however, approaches ABH significantly differently. Using a “new” imagery of a threestone cooking stove to describe the form and function as well as the tasks involved in ABH, the present study proposes an alternative methodology that involves three broad tasks and eight specific tasks of ABH. In this analogy, stone 1 is the analytical tasks of ABH; stone 2 is the performative tasks; and stone 3 is the transformative tasks. In this way, this paper contributes, methodologically, in the conversation towards finding an ABH that is truly African and truly biblical.
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Subsaharisches Afrika
Biblische Hermeneutik
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Africa
Hermeneutics
Bible
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Transformation
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Contribution to an Articlecollection
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August 19, 2024
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