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Contending with a Disabled Bible : From Retribution to Redemption
West, Gerald O. (2024): Contending with a Disabled Bible : From Retribution to Redemption, 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. 373–388, doi: 10.20378/irb-96603.
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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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In honouring both Joachim Kügler’s commitment to biblical scholarship and to African contexts, this essay reflects on the Ujamaa Centre’s work over more than twenty-five years with organised communities of those living with disability. The essay follows the See-Judge-Act process, so familiar to Kügler, beginning with See: the reality of those living with disability in South Africa (and further north in the continent). The essay then turns to actual biblical text (Judge), from three different perspectives. First, I reflect on texts used against those living with disability, recognising a pervasive voice in scripture which discriminates against and stigmatises those living with disability. Second, I reflect on texts selected by those living with disability as potentially useful resources in their struggle for a full and dignified life. Third, I reflect on the kind of Bible that these two trajectories evidence, a Bible that is inherently a site of struggle with respect to disability – a disabled Bible. Fourth, the essay also reflects on the pervasive interlocking theological system of retribution that stigmatises, discriminates, and condemns those living with disability, alongside their HIV-positive, unemployed, and queer compatriots. Finally, the Act component of the essay reflects on the ongoing work of the Ujamaa Centre in this area and the kinds of actions particular organised groups of people living with disability take up.
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Südafrika
Behinderung
Bibel. Richter
Theologie
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Disability
Retribution
Redemption
Theology
Exclusion
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Contribution to an Articlecollection
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August 19, 2024
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