Bible Translation and Reconstruction Hermeneutics

Loba-Mkole, Jean-Claude

doi:10.1080/10226486.2009.11879095

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“…5.Cf. Loba-Mkole (2004:37-58, 2008b, 2009a:76-115, 2009b:25-43, 2011:74-84, 2013a: 96-119, 2013b:508-522, 2020b, 2020c: forthcoming). (Loba-Mkole 2016:254), involving three frames of reference (a contemporary culture, a past church culture and an original biblical culture):…”

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Intercultural constructions of the New Testament: Epistemological foundations

Loba-Mkole

2021

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

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The present study discusses epistemological foundations of intercultural constructions of the New Testament in Africa. Before embarking on this discussion, it documents the history and procedures of this interpretive tool. In Africa, the intercultural method emanates from the paradigm of inculturation coupled with reconstruction. It has already embraced biblical exegesis, translation studies, canonical criticism and ecological hermeneutics.Contribution: The insights of the article ‘Intercultural constructions of the New Testament: Epistemological foundations’ pertain firstly to the description of the method of intercultural constructions, taking stock of its emergence, development, procedures, and epistemological foundations in both African and international theological circles. Secondly, the study has specifically established the following epistemological foundations of the intercultural method: interculturality as the cradle of the New Testament corpus, an existential mode, an interpretive paradigm, and interaction with a triple hexagonal dimension. The latter includes a triple pitfall (to avoid), a triple frame of reference, a triple epistemological privilege, a triple epistemological value, a triple ethical value, and a triple cultural position.

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Intercultural constructions of the New Testament: Epistemological foundations

Loba-Mkole

2021

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“…Overall, then, ABS refuses to deal with the Bible simply as an ancient text and demands that it be engaged to deal with present concerns, addressing issues that resonate with African (and world) realities. Accordingly, ABS embraces more than just exegetical interests but privileges hermeneutical concerns (Villa-Vicencio 1992; Loba-Mkole 2009). For example, Musa Dube’s (2000) groundbreaking study, Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible , while classified as biblical studies, draws from a wide array of disciplines including African philosophy, African literary studies, and study of African religions, and unapologetically incorporates them under the rubric of a new discipline, Postcolonial Feminist Biblical Studies.…”

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African Biblical Studies: An Introduction to an Emerging Discipline

Mbuvi

2017

Currents in Biblical Research

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African Biblical Studies (ABS) can be characterized both as innovative and reactionary: Innovative, because it refuses to be confined by the methodologies, ancient concerns, and principles that govern biblical studies in the 'west' (used throughout this article to refer to the majority Euro-American scholars while recognizing the presence of other groups), and instead charts a course that is more interested in making biblical interpretation relevant to present realities. Reactionary, because its driving force is partly a critique of the inadequacy of western biblical studies in providing meaningful responses to concerns that are pertinent to African communities. A genuine ABS is therefore an amalgamation of multiple interpretive methods, approaches and foci that reflect a creative engagement of the African cosmological reality and the Bible.

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“…Loba-Mkole 2004a:37-58, 2004b:79-115, 2005a:58-80, 2005b:291-326, 2007:39-68, 2008:253-266, 2010, 2013a, 2013b will provide pertinent insights on prayer and work. Here culture refers to the totality of human experience in a given time and space, though this totality is accessible only through some channels, such as language and different kinds of knowledge.…”

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Ethics of prayer and work in 1 and 2 Thessalonians

Loba-Mkole

2013

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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This article raises the question of the balance between prayer and work. This topic is discussed through an intercultural approach of Paul’s recommendation about praying and working without ceasing (1 Th 1:9; 3:10). The main hypothesis postulates that constant prayer and work are associated with the concepts of thanksgiving (words of the εὐχαριστ-lemma) and exemplarity. It is argued that Pauline recommendations about praying and working without ceasing prove to be supported not only by an original biblical culture, but also by a church culture as well as a currently emerging African culture

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Bible Translation and Reconstruction Hermeneutics

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Intercultural constructions of the New Testament: Epistemological foundations

Intercultural constructions of the New Testament: Epistemological foundations

African Biblical Studies: An Introduction to an Emerging Discipline

Ethics of prayer and work in 1 and 2 Thessalonians

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