Addressing ethnicity via biblical studies: a task of African biblical scholarship

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Date
2010
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Neotestamentica
Abstract
In view of the ethnic crisis in Africa and the complexities of the discipline of Biblical Studies, one wonders how African biblical scholarship could address ethnic issues in Africa through its study of the Bible and its Biblical Studies curriculum. I identify three ways of addressing ethnicity through Biblical Studies which I argue for, make sense of, and distinguish by means of methodology (broadly conceived), and the goals of African biblical
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This paper discusses how African biblical scholarship could address ethnic issues in Africa through its study of the Bible and its Biblical Studies curriculum
Keywords
State - Biblical Studies, Addressing Ethnicity - Biblical Studies, Discipline - Biblical Studies
Citation
Nyende Peter. Addressing ethnicity via biblical studies: a task of African biblical scholarship Neotestamentica, New Testament Society of Southern Africa Vol. 44, No. 1 (2010), pp. 122-139