The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends

by Gerald O. West

Book Overview

This first academic glimpse of the Bible as it is read in Africa and what African biblical scholars are up to explores the myriad ways Africans have made the Bible their own. Replete with diversity and complexity, the essays allow an intertextual conversation within the book to take place. Divided into five main sections, the book includes essays on, among other topics, the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0391041118
• ISBN13: 9780391041110
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 846 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"